What is it like being thin?

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After a visit to the GP today I think I’ve started to accept I need to lose weight to help a chronic condition.

I’m in my mid 40s and have always been bigger (size 14 at my smallest and size 18 right now) and I’m tall, 5’9”.

I have a BMI of 30 so technically obese.

I am fairly active but do eat too much and don’t always make the healthiest choices (though I am not eating junk).

The problem is really I’ve always just been a bit fat and I’ve just kind of accepted that’s me. I don’t really feel it affects me at all and I have high self confidence etc.

Can anyone who is similar to me please tell me what it felt like to lose weight? Give me the sell! I’m genuinely not sure it’s worth it.

I’m 5’11” at my peak but 5’10” now in my 60s. My goal weight is 75kg. I was 69kg (10 stone 10) in my 30s and a size 10-12. At 75kg I’d just be over into the overweight category but frankly if I’m a size 12-14 then that’s absolutely fine.,
What I loved about being slimmer was being able to buy any clothes I wanted. To not feel I was taking up more space than a person should. To not feel frumpy. To feel attractive. I still want those things in my 60s.

Yes! That's exactly what I was trying to say earlier, but you've summed it up so well.

I have never been big (whatever people class that as being) but when I was 71kg I decided I wanted to lose some weight (about 1.5 stone) and I reduced my calorie intake to 1200 a day and did about an hours walking a day.

By the time I had lost a stone I looked noticeably slimmer and I felt amazing for it. I noticed it most in my face at first as my cheekbone contours became more pronounced and my jaw line was trimmer and it gave me so much more confidence - especially because I knew whenever I was face to face with people they’d be noticing it too. Im giving you the vanity reasons you asked for 🤣

Then people started making general comments about how well I was looking….. they’d never make reference to the weight loss but I knew that’s what they meant so that spurred me on too.

Then as the weight loss continued people would start saying, “You’ve lost some weight haven’t you!” and make really positive comments about it so that made me feel good too.

One person told me they could tell I’d lost weight because of how much more slender my arms looked 🤣 It was very random but I lapped it up 🤣

Before you know it you’re buying smaller clothes that show off your trimmed figure more…. You feel better for it, you start smiling when you see your reflection, the compliments keep coming and it all just gives uou te motivation to keep going!!!

It may take a while to see the changes in your appearance but when you do, you’ll geel great and then when others start noticing you’ll feel on top of the world!!!!

I was about a size 14. Was fit, running and exercising, no health issues. and also thought I looked good. Started working on weightloss because with peri, suddenly lost my waistline and grew a belly, so nothing fit and I looked like a barrel. Though I will just lose a few kilos, will be fine.
I'm now size 6 and it's amazing! First went a bit mad buying clothes as everything was just sooooo flattering. Took me a while to figure out that it's not amazingly cut clothes, i'm just slim and everything looks good.
I am no longer deleting all the 'unflattering' (read: realistic) photos showing my moonface and double chin.
I have about 2 billion bikinis (high street, no need for special big boob boulder holders any more) and it's such a lovely feeling to walk around in them knowing that I don't look meh or 'mid' as the youngsters say, but I actually love how I look.

And sports - so much easier! I did my first pull up in my life at the age of 47 and now repping them out. Running - like the wind.

Had to have surgery last year and the surgeon commented that of course, this surgery is a lot easier with fewer complications on slim people like me.

Pros:
You are generally healthier and if you get sick, doctors take you more seriously
You are generally fitter, and exercise takes less out of you
Every time you catch sight of yourself in a shop window, you think ‘gosh, is that me?’
You don’t have to dress to disguise your weight
You can buy cheap clothes and still look good

Cons;
You feel the cold a lot more
Your bum hurts sitting on hard surfaces
People who haven’t seen you for a while don’t immediately recognise you
People wonder (to themselves or out loud) whether you have cancer
You end up with much more skin than you need.

You will have too many wardrobe choices and subsequently over pack suitcases and be late for thing because of all the lovely options.

I’ve lost 3 stone. I’m shorter than you so was BMI 30 at just over 12 stone. I was size 16/18.
I didn’t think of myself as ‘fat’; but I dressed to hide bits I didn’t like. Long tops to cover tummy / bum etc.
Now I wear fitted clothes. DD says I dress like I like myself again.