So YoU HaVe Lost a lot of weight??WHaT don't you Like??
Ok, Folks i think this should stir us up some. Yep this is a vent session!!
So here is this scoop, You have lost a lot of weight now what one thing physically are you not happy about that you will have to live with. Example
saggy skin, bones sticking out, not used to looking at that face in the mirror? yep who is that skinny person staring back at me in the mirror.
Ok here is mine not used to looking at bones. or feeling them and I am totally weirded out. My biggest is i can constantly feel my tail bone while laying in bed, sitting in a chair, it just feels to weird like there is nothing there protecting it.
now you people take over. My stats 5'2 119-121 lbs. 32 yrs young
two words: loose skin. I hate wearing short sleeves, but it's getting to the point where it't too hot to work in long sleeves anymore.
I didn't have the guts to start this thread on my own!
Um, yep, check on the flat ass, and yep, some loose skin also, although it's not too bad. And, yes, my ass is now bony enough that sitting on my piano bench hurts after like 30 minutes.
But my number one thing is...I had been kind of hoping my legs would get smaller. They did, but they are still large in proportion to the rest of my body. There's practically no fat there, it's alllll muscle (haha *flex*). But yeah it has gotten to the point where pants are tight in the calves! The calves!
Loose skin on upper arms
Loose skin on thighs
Loose skin on lower tummy
flat butt
and being cold.... all the time... guess the cave men and hibernating bears know what they are doing... much warmer with extra padding
1. people constantly commenting on my weight even if it is nice things they are saying
2. feeling my bone(especially when laying on my side in bed, ouch)
3. always being cold:(
4. sagging skin
5. boobs are smaller(anyone else loose a little weight there?)
But I can get over all these things. I definitely would not go back!
Original Post by elaine911:
Ok, Folks i think this should stir us up some. Yep this is a vent session!!
So here is this scoop, You have lost a lot of weight now what one thing physically are you not happy about that you will have to live with. Example
saggy skin, bones sticking out, not used to looking at that face in the mirror? yep who is that skinny person staring back at me in the mirror.
Ok here is mine not used to looking at bones. or feeling them and I am totally weirded out. My biggest is i can constantly feel my tail bone while laying in bed, sitting in a chair, it just feels to weird like there is nothing there protecting it.
now you people take over. My stats 5'2 119-121 lbs. 32 yrs young
Loose skin, and by the looks of it, only a tummy tuck, which scares me to death would help. Exercise is doing nothing for the skin.
Skinny arms, which in a guy don't look that nice either.
But I used to be 275lbs 5 years ago, and I'm 143 now, so still, no doubt, I'm better off this way.
I guess comfort is why so many of us stay *chubby* for so long. I don't ever remember seeing my ribs growing up, a collarbone yeah that would pop up occasionally when i would break up with a guy and be depressed and not eat. On the saggy boobs, yep check that one--went from a large D 36-38 to a 34-c. uhhmm i guess i can live with that. Legs and thighs not shrinking as much as the rest of my body. I run 3-5mi 5-7 days a week so why aren't they leaner. Very muscular though i might add. Being cold all the time absolutely, even when the temp is 74. Well at least I am not alone in this fight. Thanks for chiming in people. But not I am not risk for diabetes and heart disease which runs in my family, so it sounds like a great exchange. One of these days i'll stop smoking.
Shrunken boobs.
Stretched out skin on lower abdomen (but's that's a combination of weight and two pregnancies - I would probably have that anyway)
Very resistant thighs - although my hubby says he's seen a significant improvement, they just haven't caught up with the progress the rest of me has made.
I don't know about the colder thing, though. Even when I was overweight I was always cold, even in a 70 degree house, but it's just stayed the same and not gotten worse or anything.
Always being cold
Saggy skin upper thighs
Saggy lower tummy
Sometimes I am startled when I pass a mirror or window and see my reflection - I don't recognize myself this way yet.
Having people say things like "you are getting too skinny" or "don't disappear now" or just constantly commenting in general about my weight loss. First couple times is fine after that - - not sure I like it.
After being overweight for 10 years and finally losing 90 pounds even with all the above I would NEVER go back. I will take all these things many times over before I do that.
AZZ CRACK! Man, my butt has been lost and I always had a big ol' butt, now I sit, crack, bend over, crack, walking minding my freaking business crack! My sister stuck a marker in it today laughing about thats what happens when you lose that ass.
some loose skin on my arms.
an entirely too flat ass. i used to have one.
bones hurt. sitting hurts.
i am so not used to seeing myself in the mirror like this, i don't even recognize myself!
constant comments from my family telling me i am too thin now but that is just cause they are all used to me being so big.
small boobies.
even with all these things i would definately not go back just for comforts sake. i like being able to find clothes that fit and feel confident in them.
i don't even care :) to weigh less is the most important! i'm 152 today!!! i was 218 on 9/4 AND that's a huge difference :D
i love the new me... even though i'm not here yet :D
I think that all the people´s comments about your weight, I hate that now that I feel healthier, more comfortable and agile than ever before, people start saying that I looked better before and that I shouldn´t continue losing weight. But I don´t mind, I just want to reach my weight goal and then just maintain.
My number 1 would be all the comments... I am not an attention seeker and as soon as people start talking about my weight, I turn bright red, and just mumble something about eating healthy and working out. And a lot of my (well meaning?) friends and family like to bring up how I must not lose anymore weight, how I need to eat more/exercise less and that suddenly they are my personal food consultants... my sister even implied to my mom that I must be on drugs to lose weight (I'm not, no way).
The rest are nothing compared to that : being cold all the time and I am so flat chested now, I don't think I'll even be able to keep a bathing suit up =)
what i miss most is sorta mental, more than physical. i miss feeling proud to be a big beautiful woman. i know it was unhealthy, but 120 pounds later, i have a much worse self-image because now after losing the weight, i realize there are things i just CANNOT change. before i always imagined a very sexy, healthy lean body "once i lost weight." but there is no more guess work.
hangy skin. deflated breasts. freezing feet and hands. and the guilt of eating things which i never felt before. emotionally i was depressive, sure, but any more i feel bad for having twenty calories over.
sometimes i regret getting on the train, then i look at that before picture and i know i did the right thing for me and my daughter.
Ha, this is an interesting topic. There is one thing that bothers me and it was totally unexpected.
I went shopping a couple of weeks ago and got really excited about trying on shorts (haven't worn shorts in YEARS). But as soon as I looked in the mirror, I noticed excess skin over my knees. Yuck!
However, my plan is to tone up that area and it will hopefully look a lot better by the time it's warm enough to wear shorts.
I have no boobies...I had very little to begin with...and now I want implants!
Ugh! Stretch marks! I was lucky enough to lose my weight at a young age, so the loose skin (while present) is hardly noticeable. The purple-striped portions of my body, however, are not so easy to hide. My girlfriend was commenting on how "painful" my arms must be due to some especially-deep-looking ones the other day. I've learned to accept that they'll always be there, and sort of look at them as battle scars from my tussle with obesity. I'm at the point now that I'll show them off to people that don't believe I've lost 130 lbs.
