What was the funniest thing you discovered about weight loss and cc?

Hi

starting this post for fun:

The funniest thing I've had after losing just some inches is that my underwear needs to be hitched up every now and then.

Yes, I do need to go shopping.

The bulk of my weight went about 4 or 5 years ago so it's rather ancient history. However, I do remember one funny incident.  I have to travel overseas as part of my job and some colleagues I only see every two or three months.  So three months into weight-loss and about 25lbs down, I arrived early at the meeting venue and was enjoying a cup of coffee waiting for the others to arrive.  Three of them walked straight past me because they hadn't recognised me.......

I experienced the loose underwear as well. Looks awful thank God no one can see it.

Another was as gi-jane...I went to a company meeting where a coworker attended I hadn't seen in about a year. I had also shaved off my beard in that time. I started talking to him like an old friend and he asked. "have we met before"! He looked like he saw a ghost when he found out who I was.

With weight loss, the funniest and greatest thing was when I couldn't find the hole in my belt, what happenned was I was already on the last hole before I started losing weight and the belt was now too big. I just smiled to myself chuckeled and thats when I actually realized I had lost my weight.

The funniest CC thing was when I looked back at my original posts and realized I was on a 100- calorie diet because "it sounded like a good number" and I came here and realized the err of my ways lol

Something like that has been happening in the last two days or so. My clothes don't fit (yay!) but that means I have to start retiring some favourite pieces (not so yay!)

On the one hand I'm ecstatic that my clothes are loose, on the other hand I'm silly but sad at not being able to wear some of my favourite pieces, not without the aforementioned socially awkward hitching up.

I know that's not funny haha. Maybe just funny peculiar that I want to hold on to my fat clothes.

What I've realized about weight loss, etc... is that POOP is the topic of most conversations because it really... decides your weight! Ah ha ha ha!

My shoes are feeling looser o_O

I work outside, so wear shorts in the summer and jeans in the winter.  All my shorts are getting too loose, but I can keep them up with a belt, and I don't want to buy more because it is almost the end of shorts season and I hope to be thinner next spring when I start wearing shorts again.  But they are slowly wearing out, one pair has a hole that I have to cover up with my shirt, another zipper broke (fortunately in the up position), but they are now loose enough I can get them on and off without the zipper, another pair fits pretty well (I couldn't wear them at the beginning of summer) but are so old they are paper thin, and I live in fear they will split sometime in public.  None of them will be in good enough condition to donate, so will have to go straight to the garbage come November.

And don't even mention my underwear.  My mother would be mortified if she saw them, she used to say what if you have an accident, what will they think at the hospital if they saw that underwear?

The funniest thing I discovered on my weight loss journey is that you can change the amount of fat on you but you can't change genetics. 

My friend got married in July (I was down about 20 lbs and 2 dress sizes) and I needed to buy a dress for the wedding.  I was a size 8 but I found this really cute bubble gum pink dress that was a size 4 but a larger 4.  I figured, "Hey, it's my color let's try it for the heck of it."  Well it fit around the hips, around the butt, around the waist as my mom zipped it up, but as soon as it hit my rib cage it was no go.  LOL I lost the fat and had passable  size for hips, butt and waist, but my bone structure was a solid size 8!  My mom had a laugh at that.  I am of German and eastern European descent...my motto about my body structure is, "I am Svetlana, built like ox!"

Topic winner #1: UNDERWEAR!

I guess it makes sense, it's what's closest to our bodies, so it's the first to stop fitting.

Healthisinplease: I've never thought about fat being deposited in feet before, but of course it is logical!

Dken: thank God I don't have seasons here to contend with as well. But yeah, my DH was just commenting today, when I had to change (again) because the skirt was riding on the wrong part of the hips, that "You've got a fun-to-solve problem!"

The thing is... I think I'm scared to jinx the weight loss by going out and buying smaller clothes. And... and... what if it's too early (I'm about 30% down on a 28 pound weight loss goal), and even what I buy now is going to be too loose eventually? What do other people do? Wait? See if the weight loss will 'stick'? Or just do what has to be done and keep buying to fit?

Prinzessin: LOL!

-gaping bras!!!
-and finally being able to get some air between my thighs! i seriously can't remember them ever feeling like that, and the first week it happened i was just amazed at the sensation!

Original Post by oseya:

-and finally being able to get some air between my thighs! i seriously can't remember them ever feeling like that, and the first week it happened i was just amazed at the sensation!

I AM SO JEALOUS! I am waiting for that "signal" but I don't know if it will ever happen to me... I've never been slim enough for that, my thighs tend to be muscly and heavy and my goal weight is below what I've been for most of my adult life... so we'll see. I'm hopeful but not yet counting on this happening yet! Oooh tell me what it's like!

I've lost about 25 pounds and I'm almost at the half-way-point.  My husband, very sweet man that he is, has been trying to point out to me all the things that he sees that are different. 

So he says things like: "Your face is thinner," or "those pants are falling off you". 

Funniest comments so far: "Is this blanket getting wider?  I'm not cold at night anymore. Are you cold?"

This one he said while he was hugging me, "My arms are too long.  Help my wife's disappearing!"

Original Post by shanasedai:

Funniest comments so far: "Is this blanket getting wider?  I'm not cold at night anymore. Are you cold?"

 

Lol!  He sounds like a dear.

Original Post by tealparadise:

Original Post by shanasedai:

Funniest comments so far: "Is this blanket getting wider?  I'm not cold at night anymore. Are you cold?"

 

Lol!  He sounds like a dear.

He's wonderful I'm very lucky. 

I had the big underwear problem too .

When my hubby first notice he was like why are you wear such big underwear lol, I told him that I have so many of the old size that I just thought I would try to get away with it as long as I could (I have bought smaller underwear since then).

I’m on the tightest closure for my bras so that’s ok, at least the cups still fit the same. But that too I will have to update probably after another 10 lbs.

But what I find funny is how I look in my bottoms. I don’t want to buy any in between sizes, so again I’m trying to get away with it as long as I can. I think I will have to buy some clothes soon thou, I’m waiting for my half way mark, about 12 more lbs.

Original Post by oseya:

-gaping bras!!!
-and finally being able to get some air between my thighs! i seriously can't remember them ever feeling like that, and the first week it happened i was just amazed at the sensation!

Me too.  I lost a cup size :(   Next pay check I go out to buy new bras!

That when I strictly recorded all my food and activity in cc, at the end of the week I could say "my calorie deficit for the week was X, and thus I should lose Y pounds".  Sure enough, at the end of the week when I stepped on the scale, more often than not I had lost Y pounds!