What nobody tells you about losing weight
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🙈 🤣 This is great, thanks for sharing. I can't wait to (re)discover my tailbone, hopefully later this year!
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One thing that still surprises me is how non-linear weight loss is. Water weight and waste weight can have a material impact.
My diet was 6 years ago (I went from 185-ish pounds to 140-ish, a BMI of 21.0). Since then, I've aimed to maintain between 140 and 147 pounds. (I find a range a lot easier to manage than a single number). I got to 147 a month ago, so I've been cutting since then. I weight daily, as I find the more data helps me focus on the trend and filter out some noise. And the data is noisy: I've had 4 pound daily swings.
The good news is I've reached a 7 day rolling average of 141, so my cut is over.23 -
I've been swimming a lot recently. I'm a lot less bouyant than when I was fat: I need to breathe in to float; previously I needed to exhale to sink. My scuba diving bears this out; I quite often don't need lead to sink (depending on what kit I'm using).
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In the aquarium, I pretty much need twenty pounds to get off the surface. Drysuit. I have a beefy wetsuit, and I need about the same amount with that.
Out in open water, I carry more things that are negatively buoyant, so I can take a little of the lead off. When I was diving in warmer water (upper 50s or low 60s F), I could use fewer undergarments and drop even more lead off. I think I used 12 or 16 pounds with a 3mm suit in water in the 70s the one time I experienced that warm of conditions. I can't imagine using ZERO lead, but if you're diving doubles and they are steel, then I can see needing almost none. Even moreso if you have a heavier light, maybe a camera that is negative, and a knife.
I picked up some library books to improve my swimming. I've tried to incorporate the suggestions, and they help. One is to push your chest down in the water. It makes you more streamlined so you swim through the water rather than "plowing" through it. Your lungs are your buoyancy! The other tip was to roll all the way onto my side when I'm taking a breath. Less surface area pushing through the water when you're rolled all the way on your side.
I know someone else who doesn't float in the pool. It must be a little frustrating.
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I miss my fat round face. Everything sags now, including my face. I think it makes me look older.
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Not the usual demographic to post here, but I'm a bodybuilder who's been shedding the fat layer covering the muscles. Shirtless in the mirror or while actively working out, I look like a lifter. But when wearing the same shirts I used to fill out but now hang looser on me, I sometimes question even myself if I see a reflection, like, "bro, do you even lift?"
Goes to show that self-image perceptions can play tricks with even the "healthy" among us.
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that’s interesting. When I do weights or cardio/weights in the mirrored rooms, I’m like “dayum, would ya look at those muscles!!!”
But when I’m in street clothes, I look (disappointingly) normal.
It can be a total mind kitten.
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I was on the floor doing my ab workout yesterday, and it hurt to sit indian style - could feel my ischial bones on the ground! (some places it's nice to have padding.)
Another one - was in the shower this weekend, and could feel my rib cage - haven't been able to do that for a long time!
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I absolutely love this thread! It reminds me why I started this and motivates me to keep going no matter what. I got lost somewhere along the way and feel like my head is finally back on right. Reading all of these reminds me of how I used to feel and can't wait to get back there again! Especially not having to use the handicap stall becasue all the others feel too small….LOL. (just realized this was from a post from 2015 on this thread) Keep going y'all! 😊
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@nossmf Sounds like it's time to get a couple new shirts that properly fit your slimmer, muscular frame 💪😎 I bet it'll make a world of difference!
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Used to be I could wrap my arm under my wife's head at night, not move til morning, and other than a touch of stiffness be fine. But having dropped weight, now my arm falls asleep due to cut-off blood circulation after only 10 minutes. I'm guessing the extra fat in the past would spread out her weight across my arm and away from the blood vessels, but without the fat my blood vessel is taking a greater percentage of the weight and getting pinched off.
I also realize now why so many times I see bodybuilders wearing long sleeves all the time, instead of showing off their arms. It's because when you get down to 12% BF, you get cold at the drop of a hat! Suddenly I'm not looking forward to the coming winter…
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Feeling my pulse, rather strongly too, in my belly!
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sorta in the realm of @nossmf ’s comment, I’ve lost a lot of visceral fat.
When I do supermans and floor bows, this is TMI, but my (name eludes me here…) “crotch bone” hurts because it has zero padding now and is pressed into the floor. Even the mat doesn’t help.
Every lift and hold is bitter agony.
Ditto for frog, which I used to do with no problem. I have so little fat around my knees that I can’t bear the pressure of knee-side on floor, so usually modify with another position.
If I could figure out a way to move extra skin where it’s needed, for padding, it’d be a perfect workout world.
Same for sleeping. I sleep on my sides, and knee or shin bone on bone is painful. And I don’t know what to do with my shoulder, so always wake up with it complaining.
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I agree. I was never super big, but when I got <14% BF I had a nice six pack, but with a shirt on looked average.
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its been about 8-10 months since i got cold and have yet to get use to it. all summer i was living in pants, its crazy!
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as I lost weight I didn’t buy too many smaller sizes - I altered the clothes.
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Why have all the chairs seemed to get harder? 😛
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This! Came here to say exactly this! Was especially uncomfortable on the stationary bike seat the other day.
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….that you will exquisitely uncomfortable offloading unwanted food to others. Food like Halloween candy, sauces, dressings, unwanted desserts or meals, seasoning packets that disappointed, products that were too high calorie for what they delivered.
I feel tremendous guilt trying to palm food off I wouldn’t eat myself on others, like I’m contributing to their bad choices.
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@springlering62 Yes. So I make myself do the hard thing now, and just throw it out. I think it's basically garbage anyway. I wouldn't hand my kitchen trash to a friend, so why would I hand them this "food" just because it happens to be "edible?" They either have plenty of junk food already, which means they don't need me to add to the pile — or they're trying to avoid it just like I am, so why make their lives harder.
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I'm not actually uncomfortable…. more along the lines of - 'do you want this? I can't eat it because of "X" & I tell them why I won't.'
eg - highly processed, too high sodium, trans fat, etc.
I'm not saying - 'Here's this wonderful food for you' - I'm saying - 'I can't eat this as it's bad for me - can you/do you want it?'
They can say, 'Yum, thanks' or 'Not for me'.5 -
so, what you’re saying is, you, my friend John would walk up to me and say “here! I have this food that I won’t eat because it’s highly processed, too high sodium, trans fat, etc., but you look like you have zero standards and would eat it”?
😂😂😂😂
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seriously, my husband volunteered at the Sheriff’s Department for several years. We figured out he could take unwanted food, sauces, Halloween Candy, yuck protein bars, disliked teas or whatever and leave them in the breakroom.
They would vanish- usually in reverse order of “good for you”. The junk would go first, the low or zero cal stuff might would hang around for a week or two, but ultimately, it all got hoovered up.
No muss, no fuss, no hurt feelings.
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Well, there is a certain, hmmm, here, I thought of you but personally would not eat it, LoL
Geez, thanks!
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How difficult it can be when you are the only one in your friend group on a fitness and health journey of this nature. I am the only one who works out, and prioritizes veggies and fruits and lean proteins. I have lost 38lbs and they are supportive as heck, but do not have the same dietary needs that I have when going out-and I say that from the viewpoint that there are no forbidden foods to my eating plan.
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well now you here and we are here to support you as well!!!
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@mermaidgirle - same here, no one is really interested in changing their traditional foods & ways of eating nor give up the crazymaking fad/crash & trending diets!
Reached a point where I decided I just could not wait for other people, and adapt with my choices when we are together.
Also stopped commenting on what/why I am doing - and when asked why i brought something like the tangerines, I just say something like 'I don't know, they just looked so juicy & delicious!' and turn the topic if I can.
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Realized the reality of the weight loss when I had a picture taken with my dog and saw the results of the last few months. Also, everything is so much easier to do and nothing hurts anymore.
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pictures helped me tremendously and still do. The camera doesn’t lie, but the mirror sure darn will.
Even now. If I’m feeling bloated or off track, I deliberately look at photos to remind myself I haven’t blossomed back into the chonk I was.
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and when asked why i brought something like the tangerines, I just say something like 'I don't know, they just looked so juicy & delicious!'
@yakkystuff They're also conveniently portion sized — and individually packaged. What's not to like 😁
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