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    I lost a bowling ball!

    Posts: 17 Member
    edited November 2024 in Success Stories
    I told my wife this morning that I lost my bowling ball. She looked at me like I was crazy and I told her that I had lost 16 pounds, my bowling ball weighs 15 pounds. It's crazy to imagine that I lost a bowling ball.

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    • Posts: 22
      Congrats! <3 Just think, you've been carrying around a bowling ball all of this time!
    • Posts: 268 Member
      I like thinking of things like that but I'd never put a bowling ball into the mix. LOL Congrats!!
    • Posts: 69 Member
      That's great! It's great motivation when you picture like that.
    • Posts: 300 Member
      I like that analogy! I have lost 15.2 so I say I have lost 3 bags of sugar :)


      Edited to say CONGRATS!!
    • Posts: 641 Member
      Whoo Hoo! Kudos to you!:bigsmile:
    • Posts: 641 Member
      Whoo Hoo! Kudos to you!:bigsmile: Mine is an 8 pounder, so I guess I lost (2) balls, a pair of shoes and maybe towel............lol!
    • Posts: 801 Member
      I told my wife this morning that I lost my bowling ball. She looked at me like I was crazy and I told her that I had lost 16 pounds, my bowling ball weighs 15 pounds. It's crazy to imagine that I lost a bowling ball.

      there's a post on mfp that equates what you've lost - i.e. 80 lbs small child etc...
    • Posts: 525
      That is terrific!!!

      Congrats!

      Keep pushing forward.
    • Posts: 838 Member
      Congrats on the weight loss!!

      Hopefully it offsets the whole lost bowling ball thing. That's got to be a bummer. :(
    • Posts: 382
      You have no balls!!! :laugh:
    • Posts: 39
      I tell my husband I've lost a toddler. My 15 month old is 24 pounds and I've lost 23. :)
    • Posts: 99 Member
      Well done...16lbs is a brilliant achievement!

      I find visualising my weightloss really helps, especially when I have a small loss in a week. Packs of butter weigh about 1/2 lbs so even the smallest loss can been seen. And butter is fat.

      I've lost 29 lbs so far so that makes 58 packs of butter. I don't think I could carry around that many packs of butter even if I tried!
    • Posts: 48 Member
      Wow! That's a great way to think of it :-) Now what weighs 12lbs...?
    • Posts: 300 Member
      Wow! That's a great way to think of it :-) Now what weighs 12lbs...?

      A 2 month old baby!
    • Posts: 48 Member
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      A 2 month old baby!

      True, but telling folk "I've lost a baby!" with a big grin on my face is going to get my some veeeery strange looks...

      My vacuum cleaner weighs 5.5kg = 12lb so think I'll go for "I've lost a Dyson!"
    • Posts: 347 Member
      HAHA - At Thanksgiving, my Uncle asked me how much I had lost - when I told him he said - that's the size of the turkey we are eating today. Needless to say - I enjoyed destrying that turkey :)
    • Posts: 615
      That's so funny! I liken weight loss in pounds to ground beef by the pound. How gross is ground beef?...all fatty and pink. Ugh...and when you lose 90 pounds of it (like I did 7 years ago - and kept all but 15 of it off) that stuff really adds up! That's how I view fat anyway. It works for me in the grocery store...just looking at the packaged meat makes me not buy cookies. :)
    • Posts: 219 Member
      Congrats!
    • Posts: 300 Member
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      True, but telling folk "I've lost a baby!" with a big grin on my face is going to get my some veeeery strange looks...

      My vacuum cleaner weighs 5.5kg = 12lb so think I'll go for "I've lost a Dyson!"

      haha - that is very true! The Dyson sounds like a good plan. You can always use mine too which for you would be 2.5 bags of sugar or flour. It is amazing when you look at it in that sense. Congrats on losing the Dyson :)
    • Posts: 99 Member
      That's so funny! I liken weight loss in pounds to ground beef by the pound. How gross is ground beef?...all fatty and pink. Ugh...and when you lose 90 pounds of it (like I did 7 years ago - and kept all but 15 of it off) that stuff really adds up! That's how I view fat anyway. It works for me in the grocery store...just looking at the packaged meat makes me not buy cookies. :)

      That's such a good idea! That would be a visual reminder every time I go shopping. Can't think of anything that would put me off buying junk as much as a raw meat!
    • Posts: 276 Member
      Amazing never thought of it like that!!!
    • Posts: 377 Member
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      there's a post on mfp that equates what you've lost - i.e. 80 lbs small child etc...

      LOL. I never thought of that! I have lost 73 pounds.... that's more than my 6 year old son weighs!
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