I don't know what it feels like to be thin.

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Being able to FEEL your ribs is a normal thing for people who are´t very overweight; seeing them would be another matter :)
 
I worded that a bit strangely. I know it's very normal to feel the ribs by touch, but seeing as I've been chubby or overweight since I was little, it was such a foreign feeling to me.
 
I "accidentally" touched my chin yesterday and I was shocked. I could feel a huuuuge difference. I'm now at 85.9kg / 189.5 pounds, which means I'm 15kg / 33 pounds down since I started this thread. It feels great!

Wish I was a bit better at updating here though, but I'm having a hard time knowing what I can actually write about. Barely any people notice, or at least comment on my changes. That doesn't bother me but It'd be nice just to have something to come here and write about. I recently did deliver back my work clothes cause they got too big, and I changed to a couple sizes down.

Oh and I also mentioned in my last big post that I aim for 1kg/week until week 30, which is when i will take a vacation to my family. The goal for tomorrow is 87kg and I'm at 86kg so I'm digging this!
 
Congratulations on getting to exchange your work clothes! How do the new ones feel? Looking "new" in a familiar environment always makes me feel a bit giddy :)
I think getting more reactions to your posts works by reacting to other people´s posts more. But mainly you should be writing for yourself because there´s never a guarantee anyone will have the time read or the energy to react.
 
Agh, I worded that a bit badly. What I meant was people commenting on my changes in real life, so I could come here and write about it. And writing for myself is mainly what I'm doing as you pointed out, already super fun to check my initial post and how much I've lost since then. :)
 
In that case you´re doing this exactly right :) People irl can get a bit sick of our weightloss stories (and sometimes even jealous) and the forum´s really helpful as a pressure valve :)
 
I know it can feel good when someone notices that you have lost weight, especially when you are at the start, but beware what you wish for. I got really embarrassed when people commented too much or made too much fuss. The more they made a fuss the worse I felt about how I must have looked before. Then they started telling me I had lost enough when I still had quite a way to go!
Be very proud of what you have achieved larek & are still achieving. I think it's wonderful & it is all down to you. What we feel about ourselves is what matters most xo Cate
 
Thank you both for the replies, and I can certainly see how being too hung up in comments can get to our heads. I'm just gonna keep it slow and steady and feel happy about the progress I'm making. :)
 
I'm now at 82kg / 180.7 pounds.. I've had some ups and downs, but I'm still clinging to 1kg a week on average. It's unbelievable to me that I'm actually reaching my goal (being 80kg by the end of week 29). I feel better, I can jog around with no problems, jeans are starting to get a lot harder to keep on even with a tight belt, and yeah...

I see a lot of people who lost a lot of weight say they still feel fat and they get shocked when they see themselves in a mirror, and for me it is the opposite. I'm gradually seeing what I feel like, and I get more and more in sync with my mentality as I lose the pounds. I know BMI calculators are kind of bad to follow cause of muscle and all that, but healthy BMI according to my height is 72kg / 158 pounds, and that does sound reasonable seeing as my brother is the same height as me, and he is a couple pounds under that. It's surreal that I'm very, very soon under 10kg from what is considered healthy. I lack words.
 
Thank you so much cate!
I've been so bad at writing here, I kind of just forget and then randomly remember in intervals.
I'm down 4kg / 8.8 pounds since my last post, placing me at 78kg / 172 pounds. I'm actually "only" 8kg from my goal. I'm starting to look a whole lot slimmer, especially when I look at older pictures...

I think it's time to drop an image comparison.

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larek said:
Thank you so much cate!
I've been so bad at writing here, I kind of just forget and then randomly remember in intervals.
I'm down 4kg / 8.8 pounds since my last post, placing me at 78kg / 172 pounds. I'm actually "only" 8kg from my goal. I'm starting to look a whole lot slimmer, especially when I look at older pictures...

I think it's time to drop an image comparison.

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Congrats larek! You look awesome here! Keep going! :D
 
And the weight sort of just keeps dropping. I'm at 74kg / 163 pounds. I'm basically just 2 pounds away from not being categorized as overweight (according to BMI at least) anymore. I have more energy, everything flows better both mentally and physically, but it's not until I look in the mirror and move my arms and upper body in general around. I actually look quite decent now. My current fat percentage is something I could be quite happy with, but I do thing I need to cut the last 4 kg and see how that changes my stomach (it does have a decent amount of fat left).

All in all, I just... I've struggled with my weight for so long and somehow it just clicked and now I don't have a problem losing weight at all. It was literally my biggest hurdle in life, I was mentally burried beneath my physical body and I saw no light whatsoever, but now somehow I'm just on top of it with no problem whatsoever. I'm not even really trying, I relax with a beer or a glass of whisky even in some weekdays, ate like 4000 calories yesterday (I rarely eat that much of course) and everything just works out.

I have to thank OMAD for getting me here, while calories in calories out would have worked just as well I think, OMAD helped me recognize the difference between wanting food and needing food. I could probably go back to several meals a day now and eat like a healthy person, but I'm sticking with OMAD for a while.

So here goes the last stretch, the 4kg to send me down to what I believe will be the perfect weight. We'll see.
 
2kg / 4 pounds down from my previous post. Just 1.8kg more and I dip below 70kg. Some evenings I still have a drink, some nights I snack but overall it just works, I couldn't be happier regarding this journey.
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