BTW, low carb, small portions. That's all I did.
Anyway.
I had to learn a whole new bodyspace. Never Nijinsky, for awhile there I was a real hazard to navigation. Went through an entire set of glasses and coffee cups, several large glass jars with and without contents, inadvertantly cracked off pieces of the interior trim of my car, tripped going up stairs because I was able to actually, you know, go up stairs again; it was JOLLY.
I trip over my own feet still, because my feet are a. no longer held so far apart by my chub rub, b. smaller by half a size, and c. now able to face straight ahead instead of out to the side like a duck so I could sling the heft with each step. The Kremlin has receded and I no longer have to look waaaay over to see things down in Volgograd which threw my neck totally out of whack...that, and the fact that I lost the turtleneck sweater of flub around my upper chest, face and neck that was helping prop everything up. I jiggle a lot more, just in general. It is not a good jiggle either. It is a 'crap I hope my skin stretches back into shape eventually' jiggle.
Yes, I know I'm making myself sound like one of those Dorito-breath Jabba the Hut hoarder broads. It's not that I was horrendously obese, it's that it all dropped off so fast that when I remember how it felt to be me a year ago I remember MASS. And then there I am in that last paragraph making myself sound like a dead cat melting off a hot engine block. I am neither. I am a pretty normal looking woman for my age, in fact, aside from the ear plugs, tattoos and dark purple Ellen DeGeneris hair.
The other half of the total mindfuck part of it is that I genuinely did absolutely nothing to lose all this weight. It really didn't take any effort on my part, and people really want to hear that you were brave and went to meetings and cried and ate grapefruit and shit like that, and everything else sounds like bragging. Particularly 'nothing'. People really want to talk about it, too. I can't get by with a smile and a 'Thank you'. People want to hear a secret tip or a horror story. Something. This shit is supposed to be hard. But it wasn't.
Now did you ever wonder if all that hype about how hard it is to lose weight might be more hype than you've been lead to believe? That it just might not be quite such an ordeal for normal average everyday people? That maybe it's hard because you've been conditioned to believe so by a constant line of paid-for bullshit designed to sell diet products over the years? Because this simply was not hard. Annoying, yes. Sometimes. Not hard. And we all know that I'm not Ubermensch-ette (like Smurfette only with butt hair) particularly when regarded by my relative mental health. I just....sort of...did this thing and now here I am in a 36c wearing skinny jeans that I have to cinch up like a noose so my shortcomings don't hang out. It's not convenient. It's been expensive. I had to go to physical therapy to learn how to move all over again. I don't look 18 either, I look what I am, which is 53 - and showing the miles. But there ya go.
Now I know that it's occurred to anyone reading this to think 'Oh cry me a river, skinny bitch' and so forth. Now, isn't that strange? I don't look any better, just different. I'm only slightly healthier than I was a number of pounds ago, but what people are going to focus on is 'well, you're just using this as an excuse to brag'. And seriously, I'm not bragging. I'm just saying this is not what you OR I expected things to be like, kids. I never realized there were going to be problems. I was in serious pain, pinched nerves, you name it, and it put me in 10 months of physical therapy to re-learn how to do what most 2-year-old kids know how to do. I lost the sense of my own mass in space and I have the bruises to prove it. My goddamn FEET lost weight and now none of my shoes fits correctly and the ones I have are all worn weird because I walk differently now. This is just a view from the other side of the weight-loss subject that you never hear told about. And it isn't all peaches and cream either.
But will I go back to being 235 lbs.? Oh FUCK no Paco!
Now I know that it's occurred to anyone reading this to think 'Oh cry me a river, skinny bitch' and so forth. Now, isn't that strange? I don't look any better, just different. I'm only slightly healthier than I was a number of pounds ago, but what people are going to focus on is 'well, you're just using this as an excuse to brag'. And seriously, I'm not bragging. I'm just saying this is not what you OR I expected things to be like, kids. I never realized there were going to be problems. I was in serious pain, pinched nerves, you name it, and it put me in 10 months of physical therapy to re-learn how to do what most 2-year-old kids know how to do. I lost the sense of my own mass in space and I have the bruises to prove it. My goddamn FEET lost weight and now none of my shoes fits correctly and the ones I have are all worn weird because I walk differently now. This is just a view from the other side of the weight-loss subject that you never hear told about. And it isn't all peaches and cream either.
But will I go back to being 235 lbs.? Oh FUCK no Paco!
