Saturday, August 31, 2019

[rant] Had my wedding dress fitting today

I had my dress fitting today. I am down a few pants sizes, and many inches on my bust, waist, and hips.

I started IF+ walking and decided to not weigh myself due to my previous obsession with the scale. My pants began to get so loose and baggy my friends took notice. I then got the flu and unintentionally lost even more weight.

I suddenly fit back into the pants I never thought I’d fit into again. I am so dang happy. I’m feeling physically more capable!

Anyway, my dress is a stunningly beautiful dress. I picked it out months ago and I love it! Today was the first fitting. As this is a plus size dress boutique when they order it they measure every little part of you so it comes and fits likes a glove.

But today, it slid RIGHT off of me. The seamstress kept making snide comments to me about the weight loss.

“Why lose the weight?” “You were fine the way you were” “now I have to change the bones of the dress completely to fit you” “Why didn’t you like yourself before?”

I causally mentioned to my mother that I’m going to work out to tone my arms for the wedding as it’s a sleeveless gown and my mom knew it was because my arms are an insecurity. The woman didn’t like that either and added more comments.

At the time I laughed it all off, but now it’s 1am and I’m thinking about how crappy it made me feel for being judged for losing weight. I have noticed in those types of stores (plus size) it can be viewed down upon and not seen as being “body positive.”

I love myself , I love my body. I love my body enough to lose the weight that is adding stress to it. I love it enough to let it be as capable as it can be and work the best it can. I loved myself at 257 lbs, and I love myself now at 230.

before and after in dress

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In a slump

I have been a member of this community for a while but this is my 1st post. I started my weight loss journey last August. I weighed a 139.5 kg(307.5 lbs) and I lost about 19 kg up until Jan 2019. After January I Started College and to this date, I haven't lost any weight. I have actually gained 6 kgs back and its getting really tiring to Motivate myself back up only to crash in a few days. I do go to the gym regularly but I'm having trouble maintaining my diet. The Drive that I had is hidden somewhere and im desperately trying to get it back. Do you guys have any tips on getting back to weight loss? I'm sick and tired of staying fat but With College and everything, it's hard to maintain a diet and go to the gym and stay on top of your classes.

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Started doing what I love again and weight is dropping

2 years ago I suffered a radial head fracture in my left elbow and soft tissue damage from an accident riding my bicycle. Mentally and physically I wasn't the same having only gone on about 6 rides in those 2 years. In late June I noticed my weight was up at 363 lbs and felt a need to get riding again. I started riding my bicycle again, eating less at meals, cutting out snacks and choosing higher protein/fibre with less sugar foods. I've been doing good with 26-40 km rides almost every other day and my weight this morning was down to 327 lbs. I had to make a new hole in my large belt for work pants and after a while they were still slipping down. I've never been happier to be riding my bicycle again. If you find something you love to do then it makes the weight loss journey that much easier!

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Down 100 Pounds in one year and it's kinda rough

Major milestone in my journey, and it's been so hard to keep going sometimes but I'm finally getting there. Current weight is 350, and I'm somewhere around 20% bodyfat (need to go to a few places and get measured), which should give you a sense of how large my frame is. I feel...weird about it. I'm sort of at a good stopping point where I can maintain my current weight, but I'm also not at a place yet where I feel I look "good" for lack of a better word.

So now I have no idea where to go from here. I mean, sure, I have some vague notions. I wanna get back to lifting heavy, regain the strength I lost during the weight loss, keep trending in the right general direction. But my motivation is just DONE. I'm sapped, drained dry, and it's gonna take everything I can muster just to keep my weight steady and let my body adjust.

I ought to be on cloud 9 after hitting the big 100 but more than anything what I'm feeling is the stress of it all. Need new clothes, new everything really. Nothing fits, everything is baggy but I'm having a hard time finding things in the right size now (between sizes?). Anyone else have any experience getting to a place like this, where you've sort of made it, but not quite?

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23 Dishes to Bring to the BBQ

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TDEE for those that have lost and maintained rapid weight loss.

Hello everyone. First post to this sub. Just a general question, looking for thoughts, ideas, comments. I'm having the gastric bypass surgery the end of September. I made this decision after a decade of losing a good amount of weight and then putting it back on. I'm on the "smaller" end of obese with a BMI of 37.

Anyways, one of the requirements is to meet with a dietician. She brought up something that I didn't realize could happen. She said if you get to your goal weight of 150-160, you'll have to eat far fewer calories than a person who's always weighed that much and was never obese.

I figured we were talking 200-300 calorie difference and that gap would close after years of maintaining the same weight. I thought the body would accept this as it's new weight and change the set point. (Side note: I've always thought of set point as a pseudo science but both the dietician and surgeons talk about it as absolute fact)

However, my dietician said most of her patients even five years out eat only 800-1100 calories a day to maintain! Is that biggest loser study right after all? The only difference I can see with biggest loser and weight loss surgery patients is the weight comes off rapidly compared to someone that lost 1 lb a week. But my surgeon also says the weight loss surgery patient and those that lose weight the traditional way will still have to maintain weight at a much lower calorie deficit.

So I'm just curious what you all think about this. It's definitely new news to me and I'm trying to wrap my head around it. It won't be a deal breaker because at the end of the day I've talked to so many post op people and they all say it doesn't matter, you don't feel like eating anyway and eating becomes a chore. They're mindframe is it doesn't matter if it's 800 or 2000 calories to consume it's all a chore just the same.

Thank you

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