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What nobody tells you about losing weight
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Significant blood pressure drop and reducing medications.
Becoming easier to reach around to wipe your butt.
The many daily aches and pains that go away.
How aches and pains of exercise can bring a feeling of accomplishment.
Much easier to climb stairs, now even two at a time.
Getting up spontaneously to go do small tasks with much less thought.
Trying many more new foods and recipes - I love Chicken Penang Curry.
More desire to grocery shop, cook, and experiment with foods.
Good foods taste better and more foods taste good.
Save on food - smaller portions, eating out less often, eliminating snacks and drinks (especially alcohol).
Not hurting yourself trying to finish supersized fast food meals you really want or need.
-Male age 66, after losing 40lb.
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Significant blood pressure drop and reducing medications.
Becoming easier to reach around to wipe your butt.
The many daily aches and pains that go away.
How aches and pains of exercise can bring a feeling of accomplishment.
Much easier to climb stairs, now even two at a time.
Getting up spontaneously to go do small tasks with much less thought.
Trying many more new foods and recipes - I love Chicken Penang Curry.
More desire to grocery shop, cook, and experiment with foods.
Good foods taste better and more foods taste good.
Save on food - smaller portions, eating out less often, eliminating snacks and drinks (especially alcohol).
Not hurting yourself trying to finish supersized fast food meals you really want or need.
-Male age 66, after losing 40lb.
What an awesome winner of a FIRST POST!!!!!!15 -
That my achey feet and ankles weren’t just from working on my feet all day or that I’m almost 40 …20lbs down and I already have much less pain and soreness in my feet and ankles! Excited to see what another 20lbs does:)20
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How getting physically smaller makes everyone else seem like they are getting larger, if that makes sense. My older kids…they are just huge, towering giants (my 17 year old is about 6’3” so he really does have almost a foot on me in height). My husband, just wrapping my arms around him, he’s so much bigger than he was? We have a 165 pound Great Pyrenees… who can suddenly almost take me off my feet trying to herd me. It is such a strange phenomenon that I’m trying to wrap my head around.18
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There are times when I look in a mirror and feel a stranger is staring back at me. I've lost over 90 pounds during this current effort and it's made significant changes to the shape of my face. I've probably spent more time during the last couple of months looking at myself in the mirror than at any time in the last 30 years. It's not vanity per se, it's really more curiosity about how I look.26
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Ghostofachance wrote: »There are times when I look in a mirror and feel a stranger is staring back at me. I've lost over 90 pounds during this current effort and it's made significant changes to the shape of my face. I've probably spent more time during the last couple of months looking at myself in the mirror than at any time in the last 30 years. It's not vanity per se, it's really more curiosity about how I look.
It's been about six months since I have lost 85 pounds. I am still trying to get use to the guy looking back at me in the mirror! The weirdest is walking through the Mall or a store and catching a side glance in a mirror and freaky out after not recognizing myself!19 -
Thewonderofitall wrote: »Ghostofachance wrote: »There are times when I look in a mirror and feel a stranger is staring back at me. I've lost over 90 pounds during this current effort and it's made significant changes to the shape of my face. I've probably spent more time during the last couple of months looking at myself in the mirror than at any time in the last 30 years. It's not vanity per se, it's really more curiosity about how I look.
It's been about six months since I have lost 85 pounds. I am still trying to get use to the guy looking back at me in the mirror! The weirdest is walking through the Mall or a store and catching a side glance in a mirror and freaky out after not recognizing myself!
I thought I was the only one, thank you for sharing!7 -
Roommate and I are close friends. She is over half a foot shorter than me. She made a comment the other day about how it was easier to hug me because she could wrap her arms all the way around me, not just link her hands together. My limbs are pretty long, so I haven't had that issue even hugging my more obese loved ones. It never crossed my mind that this could be an issue for short-limbed individuals, and I never imagined I'd be more huggable after weight loss, not less.18
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That sometimes you can do all the right things and your body just isn’t quite ready to drop more weight. Keep calm and CICO on!28
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If you lose too much weight too quickly, you can lose your hair.
If you exercise to your energy level but you haven't exercised in years that you will hinder your health plan by...
...tearing your calf muscles...you get that planter thing in the heal of your foot...you tie up your stomach muscles so that you end up in a hospital from doing sit ups the wrong way...that fruit is not a sin especially that apple a day...that your blood sugar can plummet when you are taking metformin...16 -
Your body odor from exercise is a different kind of STINK!7
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fatty2begone wrote: »Your body odor from exercise is a different kind of STINK!
This is so true, my gym kit stinks like nothing else!0 -
How loose skin on the belly can feel. My kid was sitting on my lap and I had to have her scoot over a smidge since her weight was pinching my lower abdominal skin. Sometimes I feel a weird pulling sensation when I lay on my side. Hopefully it'll go away with time.6
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ladycbmech wrote: »If you lose too much weight too quickly, you can lose your hair.
If you exercise to your energy level but you haven't exercised in years that you will hinder your health plan by...
...tearing your calf muscles...you get that planter thing in the heal of your foot...you tie up your stomach muscles so that you end up in a hospital from doing sit ups the wrong way...that fruit is not a sin especially that apple a day...that your blood sugar can plummet when you are taking metformin...
Oh dear! Let's hope not all those examples were from personal experiences. While it is a cliché, slow and steady really does wins the race. I figured out a while ago that to be successful in the long run, that I had to stop trying to lose weight as fast as possible. Rather, I needed to learn to make losing weight as easy as possible, which for me meant slow incremental changes that I could live with for the rest of my life.16 -
Body dysmorphia!
How even after losing weight, you still feel and think you look as large as you did. How after gaining some weight back, you don't think you're as big as you are.
I've struggled with both of these!!27 -
Me too! :-( Now doing my best to get back down sooner than later! Will soon be to a normal BMI and then not many to lose to get back to where I was and back into ALL the clothes in my closet.8
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How there is a stage where after you start you somehow look worse than before. There isn’t really much you can do either except keep eating at a deficit and working out and waiting for your body to sort itself out9
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For some, the weight just slips right off and within the first 20 pounds their pants are falling off. For some like me, you can lose forty pounds and not even lose a pant size. (P.S, if there is a reason that I'm not losing pant sizes, do tell! I feel like I'm doing something wrong lol.)10
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@agarcia6263 Keep going! I did lose out of my first size of pants in about twenty pounds but it's taken way more weight loss and time to get down further. Swimming has helped a lot in reconfiguring my body, especially my bum which was always one of my largest areas of concern.
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Am down 111 lbs from my start weight (357), with a plan to lose 65 more or so. I was lucky enough to start WW with my bestie in TX on 12/2020. (She has lost 97 lbs and was able to stop injecting insulin.) She was smaller than me, so sent me all of the clothese she "ungrew". Things thats shocked me: 1) the amount of spare skin; 2) how small my underwear look to me; 3) all of my shoes became too big; and 4) that I blow through some sizes, barely touching new items hanging in my closet.16
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Agarcia6263 wrote: »For some, the weight just slips right off and within the first 20 pounds their pants are falling off. For some like me, you can lose forty pounds and not even lose a pant size. (P.S, if there is a reason that I'm not losing pant sizes, do tell! I feel like I'm doing something wrong lol.)
I'm right there with you. I've lost 28 lbs and I'm still wearing the same size pants, but they fit better. I went down a belt size tho. I'm excited to get my summer clothes out because last summer I had a lot that were too tight and I'm hoping I can wear them this year.10 -
Agarcia6263 wrote: »For some, the weight just slips right off and within the first 20 pounds their pants are falling off. For some like me, you can lose forty pounds and not even lose a pant size. (P.S, if there is a reason that I'm not losing pant sizes, do tell! I feel like I'm doing something wrong lol.)
For me it was shirt sizes, I think I lost 50 lbs before my top half was like, "huh, maybe we should take some weight from this area now?" But it has been, lower half losing sizes x4 then top half - then back to lower half losing sizes. I have been in mediums on the lower half for a month, and I am still in larges on top (but they are fitting very nicely with a little room, not too much room). I guess at least it isn't, left arm... right leg... etc. lols18 -
[quote="justanotherloser007;c I guess at least it isn't, left arm... right leg... etc. lols [/quote]
UMMM please dont say that happens! I have two chubby arms at the moment that gosh gee I sure hope one doesnt get tiny and the other no so much. Oh well, I guess if it happens, I really will have a good side to pose for pictures.
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Am down 111 lbs from my start weight (357), with a plan to lose 65 more or so. I was lucky enough to start WW with my bestie in TX on 12/2020. (She has lost 97 lbs and was able to stop injecting insulin.) She was smaller than me, so sent me all of the clothese she "ungrew". Things thats shocked me: 1) the amount of spare skin; 2) how small my underwear look to me; 3) all of my shoes became too big; and 4) that I blow through some sizes, barely touching new items hanging in my closet.
Even at 60 pounds down, I keep looking at my clothes when I'm doing laundry and going "OMG, that can't fit, it's so small!" but I know I wore it and it fit yesterday. I suppose I'll get used to it soon.15 -
The toughest thing to deal with is all the sagging skin- my upper arms, legs and tummy area. I lift weights but no improvement (at age 65)... Has anyone had any "tuck" surgeries and has it helped?11
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Veins on the forehead! Didnt know that was a thing3
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All the touching from the opposite sex. As my body fat gets low, muscles are popping everywhere and some women like to cop a feel lol. Casually grabbing my bicep when saying something in my ear, or running their hands across my back as they walk past behind me...I am not used to this at all.7
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JessiBelleW wrote: »How there is a stage where after you start you somehow look worse than before. There isn’t really much you can do either except keep eating at a deficit and working out and waiting for your body to sort itself out
Yes! I was just looking at my saddlebags (the outside of my thighs just below my hips) and they’re sticking out so weird…it seems like I’ve lost size above and below them making them stand out rather oddly🙈 Can’t wait for them to catch up so my legs aren’t shaped weird LOL11 -
Nobody told me how much I would end up liking my FEET. Seriously, I have a weird fascination with my newly thin feet. I never even NOTICED my feet before, but now I stare at them all the time when I'm in the bathtub, and I'm actually looking forward to sandal weather. Who knew my feet could look graceful instead of blah...Weight loss makes you notice the oddest things...18
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- That you have to move your car seat forward because you sit further back in the seat
- How much people pay attention, even those you don't know. I have had several people that I see in passing on a regular basis but don't know or had never spoken to that have commented about my weightloss and how proud they are of me. One now comes up to me on a regular basis and hugs me and tells me how proud they are and inspired they are.
- How sick of thinking about food you can get.18
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