I appear to be one of the only overweight people capable of looking worse after losing some weight. I don't know why I expected otherwise
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Okay, before I make my comment of commiseration, I just have to laugh at your icon.
Anyway... I know how you feel. I usually start losing from my chest first. This is troublesome because my huge rack has a tendency to hide the fact that my belly and thighs are also quite flabulous.
You must be correct that your rack has the powr to distract and mesmerize, because in any pic I've seen of you, you're the cutest little thing--fabulous, not flabulous!
I have the same problem as K20. I tend to look more proportional when I've got some extra weight on me, because a lot of it goes to the chest. I have to lose a reasonable amount of weight before I start getting thinner around the waist (which is where I want to be thinner).
And your choice of icons is indeed hilarious. I'd forgotten you had that one.
I remember my body losing in weird ways at first two. For me, the *last* thing to go were the boobs. My boob/waist ratio was comic-book scary there for a while. It all settled eventually. Maybe you'll come out of this more proportioned!
Yeah...I'm having trouble sympathizing with your bodacious comic-book bod. I mean, I understand that it wasn't ideal and that you felt self-conscious, but I'd kind of love to experience, just once in my life, the self-consciousness of looking too good rather than too not good.
If I were losing weight off the body I used to have, I'd be hoping for better proportions at the end, but the truth is, over the years my waist has thickened a lot, so my bottom half hasn't been as disproportionately humongous as it used to be. The way I'm losing weight (albeit very, very, very slowly) has my body looking kind of like an old lady. You know how they often shrink all over but carry all their excess weight in front? Yeah, that's what I feel like I'm turning into if I keep losing weight in this pattern.
Lots of people lose weight in somewhat awkward ways. Eventually you'll lose fat from other places and become more familiar with your new shape (perception is huge). Nothing to be done about the clothes though. :)
Thanks. Not sure Goodjobulations are in order, since the scale tells me that in the last 7 weeks I've lost only around 8 pounds. That would be fine if I weren't so overweight to begin with or if I'd been on a diet for a long time. But I should have lost more in the first couple of weeks, considering what a dramatic change I've made in both my eating and my activity level. Whatever. I guess technically I do deserve a "good job," since whether or not it's working, I am doing a very good job of controlling my eating and exercising more than I'd like to.
I really hope my clothes situation improves, because I'm getting worried. I have very few shabbos-type of outfits left that I can wear, but I don't want to buy new things while I'm still trying to lose weight.
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Anyway... I know how you feel. I usually start losing from my chest first. This is troublesome because my huge rack has a tendency to hide the fact that my belly and thighs are also quite flabulous.
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You must be correct that your rack has the powr to distract and mesmerize, because in any pic I've seen of you, you're the cutest little thing--fabulous, not flabulous!
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And your choice of icons is indeed hilarious. I'd forgotten you had that one.
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If I were losing weight off the body I used to have, I'd be hoping for better proportions at the end, but the truth is, over the years my waist has thickened a lot, so my bottom half hasn't been as disproportionately humongous as it used to be. The way I'm losing weight (albeit very, very, very slowly) has my body looking kind of like an old lady. You know how they often shrink all over but carry all their excess weight in front? Yeah, that's what I feel like I'm turning into if I keep losing weight in this pattern.
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The patterns will change over time. It's just how it happens.
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Lots of people lose weight in somewhat awkward ways. Eventually you'll lose fat from other places and become more familiar with your new shape (perception is huge). Nothing to be done about the clothes though. :)
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I really hope my clothes situation improves, because I'm getting worried. I have very few shabbos-type of outfits left that I can wear, but I don't want to buy new things while I'm still trying to lose weight.
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