Is losing weight scary?(Not diet talk)

Paul · 04-11-2009, 05:45 PM

I was browsing the Dimensions achieves and can across an ancient post were someone made the statement that loosing weight was a very scary experience. This made me think. Can loosing weight (intentional or not) be scary? If loosing weight scares you, why does it?

goodthings · 04-12-2009, 12:13 AM

it scares me because this is all i know and if I were to lose it who would i be? Also I would worry that something was wrong with me. My cousin lost a large amount of weight everyone thought she looked wonderful and healthy but she lost the weight because she has an incurable disease that she was dying from. So ya, losing weight scares me, but so does gaining any more.

Tooz · 04-12-2009, 08:17 AM

It depends.

If I were intentionally losing weight? No problem.

If there was a mysterious reason, I'd be worried.

DeniseW · 04-12-2009, 08:20 AM

I'm losing weight and I know why I'm losing weight so that part doesn't scare me but being smaller does. I've been big all my life and I don't even know if I'd know how to be much smaller. I don't think I'll ever be small enough though to have to worry, I'm pretty sure I'll always be a big girl...

. However, I did once lose a lot of weight without trying and that turned out to be diabetes so yes, that was scary.

Miss Vickie · 04-12-2009, 09:57 AM

Denise, it can definitely take some time to get used to. I'm FINALLY -- four years out from my WLS -- feeling like I "get" what size I am. I used to wildly overestimate, and sometimes even underestimate, how big I was. Picking out clothes was very difficult. But now that I've settled into a certain size, I'm good. I still self identify as a "fat chick" which is probably weird for people who have only known me as a size 14. But since I'm a size 14, according to society I'm practically fat anyway.

I think it could be scary (appropriately so) if you started losing weight for no known reason. That's a sign of diabetes and probably a dozen other possible disease processes.

Keb · 04-12-2009, 11:55 AM

I've never been thin, so losing weight is a scary idea to me. Like goodthings said, it's always been part of my identity, so I don't know what I'd be losing of ME along with the weight. Aside from that, the methods by which weight is lost aren't known to be pleasant. I'm one of the traitor fat girls who would love to be thin if it were as easy as the magazines say.

The thought of losing weight inexplicbly due to disease is a more logical fear, but part of me worries that I'm fat because of some unknown disease anyway. (I feel healthy, for the record.)

I'd never want to be so thin that I wasn't still soft, though. Or that my dimples faded away.

VelvetKiss · 04-12-2009, 09:20 PM

Losing weight isnt the scary part for me, being smaller is what would scare me. It would be the questions of who am I now and dealing with being treated differently for having a smaller body. That is just my opinion.

steely · 04-13-2009, 07:39 AM

Being diagnosed as diabetic back in Februaury has caused me to lose around 30 pounds so far.I expect to lose more.It's very scary because this is who I am.I've always been the fat girl.I know that I use my fat as a shield between myself and the world and I like that just fine.

If I become thinner,who will I be?Will I still be the same or will I be different because of what others perceive me to be?Luckily,I have a long way to go.It will take quite a long time for anyone to really notice.It's looming on the horizon and frankly I am afraid.

04-11-2009, 05:45 PM	#1
Paul Master Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: In the Great White North. Posts: 1,498	Is losing weight scary?(Not diet talk) I was browsing the Dimensions achieves and can across an ancient post were someone made the statement that loosing weight was a very scary experience. This made me think. Can loosing weight (intentional or not) be scary? If loosing weight scares you, why does it? __________________ We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. --Winston Churchill I'm a Canadian.

04-12-2009, 08:17 AM	#3
Tooz sweet chocolate christ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: shoppin' fuh food Posts: 5,616	It depends. If I were intentionally losing weight? No problem. If there was a mysterious reason, I'd be worried. __________________ let's call a spade a spade: it's porn

04-12-2009, 08:20 AM	#4
DeniseW Fat don't crack!! Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: CT Posts: 1,600	I'm losing weight and I know why I'm losing weight so that part doesn't scare me but being smaller does. I've been big all my life and I don't even know if I'd know how to be much smaller. I don't think I'll ever be small enough though to have to worry, I'm pretty sure I'll always be a big girl.... However, I did once lose a lot of weight without trying and that turned out to be diabetes so yes, that was scary.

04-12-2009, 11:55 AM	#6
Keb Princess Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 1,490	I've never been thin, so losing weight is a scary idea to me. Like goodthings said, it's always been part of my identity, so I don't know what I'd be losing of ME along with the weight. Aside from that, the methods by which weight is lost aren't known to be pleasant. I'm one of the traitor fat girls who would love to be thin if it were as easy as the magazines say. The thought of losing weight inexplicbly due to disease is a more logical fear, but part of me worries that I'm fat because of some unknown disease anyway. (I feel healthy, for the record.) I'd never want to be so thin that I wasn't still soft, though. Or that my dimples faded away. __________________ Happiness is making others happy.

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04-12-2009, 12:13 AM	#2
goodthings Banned Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: mostly in my mind Posts: 512	it scares me because this is all i know and if I were to lose it who would i be? Also I would worry that something was wrong with me. My cousin lost a large amount of weight everyone thought she looked wonderful and healthy but she lost the weight because she has an incurable disease that she was dying from. So ya, losing weight scares me, but so does gaining any more.

04-12-2009, 09:57 AM	#5
Miss Vickie Executive Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 8,951	Denise, it can definitely take some time to get used to. I'm FINALLY -- four years out from my WLS -- feeling like I "get" what size I am. I used to wildly overestimate, and sometimes even underestimate, how big I was. Picking out clothes was very difficult. But now that I've settled into a certain size, I'm good. I still self identify as a "fat chick" which is probably weird for people who have only known me as a size 14. But since I'm a size 14, according to society I'm practically fat anyway. I think it could be scary (appropriately so) if you started losing weight for no known reason. That's a sign of diabetes and probably a dozen other possible disease processes.

04-12-2009, 09:20 PM	#7
VelvetKiss Velvet Soft & Kissilicous Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Oregon Posts: 41	Losing weight isnt the scary part for me, being smaller is what would scare me. It would be the questions of who am I now and dealing with being treated differently for having a smaller body. That is just my opinion.

04-13-2009, 07:39 AM	#8
steely Master Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 3,661	Being diagnosed as diabetic back in Februaury has caused me to lose around 30 pounds so far.I expect to lose more.It's very scary because this is who I am.I've always been the fat girl.I know that I use my fat as a shield between myself and the world and I like that just fine. If I become thinner,who will I be?Will I still be the same or will I be different because of what others perceive me to be?Luckily,I have a long way to go.It will take quite a long time for anyone to really notice.It's looming on the horizon and frankly I am afraid.