I’m pleased with myself as was 102kg then now just under 85. Kg
Managed this by calorie counting and doing more exercise I enjoy walking and this is in my daily routine as relaxes me as have suffered from anxiety and depression in past which actually made me increase weight gradually. I do have days when a can binge eat especially if going out for a meal had a few Boris eat out meals. You have spent the worse when know your meal is around 2500 calories but if carry on eating normal after it just goes back to normal.
I feel so much fitter since the lose I had knee surgery last October Which was the reason I put weight on as wasn’t working for 9 months and was in a job that was very physical.
What I find really annoying now is when people say you have lost too much weight. I’m 6ft 5 tall and weight 85kg with a Bmi of around 22.5. Can’t say to overweight people your looking fat and need to lose weight.
Hope everyone who manages to achieve there goal doesn’t have this problem
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It's an interesting point you raise about weight perceptions.
My own BMI is 22.3, so pretty much as yours (after losing ~49kg).
I've debated with myself whether I've lost too much. I'm still above mid-point BMI (21.75) by a couple of kilos, but according to the science I'm pretty much the 'correct' weight.
But it's easy to look 'thin' when by comparison with the rest of the population, 80% are heavier, 65% are above 'healthy BMI' (overweight or obese) and 29% are obese.
The mild 'annoyance' of such comments seems a small price to pay for health in my view, so I'd shrug it off and enjoy your weight as it is. 😊
That’s exactly what I was just thinking while doing my ironing. When in a pub you notice everyone coming in overweight clothes not fitting but no one one thinks anything. I’m choosing not to drink at the moment as only had one pint since April and if honest I don’t miss it. If you lose weight people think you have issues and need to eat. I can eat well but choose what I eat.
I was 118 kg at my heaviest few years back and look at old holiday pictures and think I was very overweight and not any people said much then.
Congratulations on discarding, and even better maintaining, the lower weight.
It seems to be a “thing” that people feel able to comment on weight loss with many saying xyz has gone too far. Some of it will be envy, some genuine concern. As long as you are happy where you are (and there are no disordered eating issues) just take the compliments when they come and ignore anything you don’t feel to be appropriate. Just smile at the nay sayers and don’t let them bother you.
For my knee and wanna try to gain muscle mass as this has been lost during weight loss. I’m very happy with the way I look I’ve a lot more energy and enjoy tennis and find I can run around for all the game and my overweight opponent struggle to keep up and run around the court so I just think who’s the winner !!!
I had exactly the same when I lost 23 kgs ... I got told I look anorexic etc - now that I’m overweight again, I’m told nah ur not that overweight but I know I am & im very unhappy about it ..
Like you, I injured my knee 2 years ago & that has helped with d weight increase... I do enjoy walking too & the time when I lost weight, I did it gradually & it was calorie counting ... but I can’t seem to get my head round it again & I feel such a failure .... I need to lose about another 23 kgs ...
Your “letter” is an inspiration to me & I hope I can draw on your positive attitude..
Thanks for your reply when I first lost my weight I lost 33 kg Over 7 months and managed to maintain the loss until damaging my knee and not working. Did try to lose the weight while off but was on anti anxiety tablets which I’m sure made me gain weight As was reducing calories and exercise exercise but weight was not coming off as should. I decided to come off the tablets and once able to go gym and walk a distance and calorie count weight came off again. I’m happy with my weight and current weight is 83.5 kg so know can happily gain 1.5 kg and be at my target weight. Gonna start gym again for building up leg muscles and hopefully upper body.
You know if you put your mind to the weight loss you can do it.
I’m very a all of nothing type of person
Let me know when f can help in any way. Out of interest what did you do to your knee.
Hi again & thank you for your reply 😊.. I’m so sorry it’s taken me a bit longer to answer ! I’m so pleased for you as I do remember that feeling when the weight starts coming off & the spur it gives you 👍...
Once it clicks in my head, I know I can do it but it’s not “there” as yet & im finding it so hard to motivate myself...
You’re an inspiration as to how you overcome your problems to get to where you are & im going to strive to do the same ...
I don’t like being & feeling like I am - I’m d biggest I’ve ever been but I don’t want to keep making excuses for myself ...
Re my knee injury , I’d jolted it when I jumped over a barrier ( forgetting I wasn’t 20 any more 🤣!) but that wasn’t the problem ... it was getting better when I slipped walking down a slippery bank & from my knee to my foot buckled under me & I literally “sat” on my bender knee .. I did go to a physio who sent me for an mri which of course I wasn’t given .. I’m still waiting g for the hospital physio before they determine if they’ll give me an mri ... in d meantime , I couldn’t walk or do anything for ages but I’m walking again now ... sorry , I got carried away !!
It's interesting. We have certainly gone askew with our idea of what normal is by what we see around us.
I hopped onto the scale at my doctor's, told him my weight, he plugged it into a formula and said I was fine. I knew I wasn't, that my BMI was 30.x and he'd made an error, but I let it go. Still, I was obese, standing in front of him and he couldn't tell!
A friend who must be around 30BMI just told me she is happy with her weight, because she is normal. Well, yes, but normal is fat. She had previously told me I shouldn't worry about my blood sugar, because it's normal for it to increase with age. Again, it's normal because we are all sick.
Other people react badly because they take your weight as a rebuke; if you are at a healthy weight, then they must be overweight. Therefore, you must be wrong.
The weirdest one I had was running into an acquaintance when I was about 1/2 through my weight loss, no longer obese, but still overweight. She sternly warned me not to lose "too much weight", as if I was somehow at risk of that. It's crazy. Seeing someone losing weight as in danger, but we all ignore the actual danger we are in from our increasing weight.
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