The best bits about losing weight?

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If you’ve lost weight with WLI, what’s been some of the best bits of feeling better about your own body?

I’m only on W2 so nothing to report yet. But for me, I avoid looking in full length mirrors (even avoid my reflection in shop windows) and I hate having my photo taken. It’s actually caused upset among my friends/family because they have very few photos of me in group shots.

I’m looking forward to not disliking what I see in full length mirrors and be very chilled and happy to oblige when people ask for group photos.

My clothes fitting again, having more energy, sleeping better, enjoying healthier food.

I didn't use injections but:

I feel better when I look in a mirror
I can walk further and faster
My mental health is better
I'm no longer worrying about becoming diabetic
My DM doesn't keep mentioning my weight in a concerned way

I feel so much lighter on my feet, more energy, more able to be active.
I love not feeling like a sweaty chafing mess on a warm day......I can wear skirts and shorts to keep cool and no chub rub which has been wonderful.

Clothes being enjoyable again is a big one for me (although proving an expensive hobby!). No aches and pains getting out of bed in the morning, no chub rub on hot days, able to climb up soft play and outdoor play stuff easily with DC, being able to be active and do exercise classes, not get the fear about photos being posted online. I still do a double take when I walk past a shop window now, like ‘dayum girl!’

You’ve got this!

No acid reflux and sleep apnea. I can finally sleep on a flat bed again. It has also improved my hyperpigmentation due to insulin resistance.

I absolutely love my legs these days. I've always hated them but they're suddenly looking great (except at the very top) so I'm loving new dresses and knee high boots. I don't care if they're fashionable. I'm too old to please others!

I am 3 months in and just over 2 stone down. I went shopping with my sister at the weekend. We always have fun but this time, for the first time in a long time, I was happy to catch my reflection in shop mirrors and i didnt automatically avert my eyes or feel disgusted. I was thrilled to be looking at clothes without worrying if they would fit or look good or cover my 'bad' bits. I felt lighter (both physically and metaphorically!).

I have a holiday coming up in the summer and I'm not thinking/fretting about how I'm going to cover up in the warm weather. I'm not worrying about being self-conscious in photos and then looking back at the holiday photos and wishing I'd lost weight.

I still have about 1.5 stone to go, but I already feel miles happier and healthier.

These are some of my best bits. Also, the joy of fitting into the old clothes i clung onto in hope of fitting into them again - not all of them yet, but I'm getting there.

Oh and another is being on this weightloss 'journey' without any fears that I'm going to fail or fall off the wagon. I'm fully confident I will get to my goal weight, because nothing has ever worked like this before in 20 years of yo-yoing.

Good luck OP and I hope you soon start to experience the same

I’m 20kg down- have done it very slowly. I have an abundance of clothes in my wardrobe that fit again. My knees don’t hurt when I run and I feel light on my feet. Not a day goes past when someone doesn’t say “you look well”! Always makes me laugh.

One that might be less obvious and I was very overweight before, BMI in the 40s, now 23. If my shoe comes untied I just bend over and tie it up. I'm not looking for a bench or something to put my foot on to make it easier to reach. It doesn't make me out of breath. I don't even think about it anymore. It's small things like that which make me realise how much my weight was impacting me, even though I was active before, walked lots, and would have said being overweight wasn't holding me back.

The best bits for me are nothing to do with mirrors or clothes sizes but to do with what my body can DO!!

Such as the fact that I can EASILY walk up and down stairs, I can keep up with other people when walking anywhere, I don't struggle with my breathing, my blood pressure is stable, I can sit on a plane without a seatbelt extender, I can exercise, I can do a downward dog without suffocating in my boobs, I can cross my legs, I can walk my dogs comfortably. So many things I was unable to do at my previous weight/size.

I feel as if I've been given a second chance at life!

Crossing my legs comfortably has been a huge one for me. I could never look at myself in mirrors or photos. Now I take a selfie every day to see the progress! I wish I had taken more photos at the start of it all. Today I moved up to the last belt buckle hole on my belt - need to buy some medium ones for the first time since I was a teenager.

another one for clothes. I’ve lost 7 stone in a year on mounjaro and am enjoying buying clothes again and wearing things that were once too tight. I don’t feel or look like a frump anymore and feel stylish. Have another 3 stone to go so it’s going to be even better soon.

I can tie my shoelaces

I can bend down to play with d d

I can look in a mirror now

This is after 7 years of trauma binge eating

Bending down, painting toenails, etc

Sitting comfortably in a plane without worrying about impinging on someone's space

Walking upstairs/uphill without being breathless

Clothes - fitting and looking good

Thinner face, no double chin

Less bulky in pictures - and not feeling the dread of being in pictures

Shoes fitting - no need for wide fit or longer ankle straps

Tights are a joy

Being less worried if I had to buy an emergency pair of tights, clothing - I could find something that fits from a regular clothing section

Not having to cover up and be melting in hot weather

Eating in public without the fear of judgement

Have lost 61 pounds, still 55 to go

good luck on your weight loss journey!!

I started at the end of August last year and reached my goal weight a few months ago now. Started at a bmi of 35.6 and now I’m at 23.1.

as previous posters have said there have been lots of positive mental and physical changes. Much happier to have photos taken/catch sight of myself in the mirror. (Sometimes I still have a slight jump scare (a positive one!) when I glance in a shop window etc.

much easier to exercise now. Knees no longer hurt all the time like they used to.. and so much more!

Not hating every photo of me!
And realising that I CAN run… now I’ve got 3 stones less to lug around.

No more sweating trying to cover up in layers the whole summer hiding in big tops and jumpers.
Now I just put on some capri trousers or jeans and a fitted teeshirt and off I skip down the road.
It's so liberating.
So trying on a favourite dress or sweat shirt you think still fits and being absolutely swamped by it.
😁

Smaller knickers! Obviously clothes in general but just having normal small knickers not huge ones makes me happy whenever I’m doing laundry.

47 pounds down and just put on my summer coat for the first time this year to find I looked like a child that had gone into a dressing up box and come out with something for a large adult.

Ah wow, these are great and so motivating - thank you!

I did some spring cleaning today and realised how I avoid getting on the floor simply because getting up requires so much effort. I don’t want to be that person! So I’m looking forward to changing that.

you’ve got this! Have you joined your month’s thread? I joined the August one (back in August last year) and it’s been so helpful and supportive and also nice to see so many of us now at goal/nearing it!

Clothes flapping about! I'm wearing a pair of size 16 skinny jeans and they are baggy all over.

Being able to swing my legs easily over the groynes on the beach at the weekend.

Bending down to do up my laces not causing my body to feel crushed.

I think for me it was fitting into my old clothes again, literally everything even the tighter fits/smallest sizes.

It was just like looking in the mirror and feeling like myself again and actually seeing my old self back too.

Whilst I've mostly been lucky with my health I thought everything was getting a bit achey because I was getting older. Turns out it was just getting tired of carrying all that weight. Nothing aches at all now.

When I try clothes on to see what suits me, the 'suits me' bit is often more about quality and colour. It's never now because I look like a sack of spuds in it (which was so often the case before).

My car seatbelt no longer rides up to strangle me. I always thought it was the big boobs that did that but now I am slimmer (boobs have not gone down so much) it never happens the belt just sits across me normally.

But the nicest thing of all is that I am no longer ashamed to exist. I no longer just hope not to be seen or noticed in public.