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Losing Weight

Your Greatest Moment After Weight Loss

Your Greatest Moment After Weight Loss

  • September 26, 2013 5:31 pm
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Losing weight isn’t exactly easy. It takes time, determination and self-control. What was the greatest thing that made it all worth to you?

The Rational Reasons For Weight Loss

We all know the sensible, the good reasons why we lost weight: less risk of a heart attack and diabetes, lower blood pressure, not getting a fatty liver etc.

All of them are valid, and our rational selves probably acknowledge these reasons.

But having lowered my blood pressure didn’t exactly give me much of an aha moment that connected with me deep down emotionally. One that gave me that feeling of “is this cool or what?” You know, the moment where you really realize you made a good and worthwhile change.

A Manly Moment

For me that came when my girlfriend had fallen asleep on the couch. She does from time to time, after a long and busy day. Back when I was overweight, my routine of getting her to go to bed (and avoid a stiff back from hell) was to gently wake her up.

About one year after my weight loss and strength training journey started, I thought I’d try something different. Something really manly: I wanted to carry her to bed.

I opened all doors between living room and bedroom as wide as I could, gently pulled away the blanket she was covered with, held her under her knees and back and did my best deadlift ever. Carrying her in my arms I brought her to her bed and slowly laid her into it. At that point my arms felt like the Titanic’s welding lines after impact with the iceberg. But, golly, I made it. And she didn’t even wake up.

I felt like this guy:

Yes, it really felt like that. Because for overweight me it would have been impossible to do it.

I still remember that three years before I had bought loudspeakers, each weighing about 50 lbs, and couldn’t carry them to the second floor. I had to ask a construction worker from next door to help me and he said he could carry them by himself. And he did, despite being one head shorter than me and probably weighing no more than 140 lbs.

Did You Have A Moment Like That?

Did you have a moment like that? Maybe it was being able to cross your legs again. Or playing with your dog in the park. Or something as simple as your socks staying over your calves.

I think these can go from totally trivial (like mine) to really life-changing – they all define what weight loss made good for us as individuals.

Picture courtesy of Leszek Leszczynski.

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9 Comments

  1. Greg Baumbach says:
    September 26, 2013 at 5:35 pm

    Having my pants fall down while mowing the lawn. Lame, but a terrific physical sign that my gut was indeed shrinking.

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    • evilcyber says:
      September 26, 2013 at 6:09 pm

      Not lame at all! I bet losing your pants had never felt that good! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Lisa says:
    September 26, 2013 at 5:53 pm

    Interesting…I had a similar moment….when my boyfriend picked me up I had an “oh yeah I don’t weigh 200 pounds anymore” thought. Usually I was too freaked out for guys to do that because it might hurt them or I’d be embarrassed.

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    • evilcyber says:
      September 26, 2013 at 6:11 pm

      There goes me only viewing it from my point of view! I never thought about the being picked up perspective! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Dr. J says:
    September 26, 2013 at 11:51 pm

    That’s a sweet story, EC! You are a special guy!

    The day I was locked out of the house, and I did a pull up up the second floor balcony was pretty cool! Now all the neighbors have put in security systems, lol!

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    • evilcyber says:
      September 27, 2013 at 8:46 pm

      Hahaha! Although I have a hard time imagining you anything but fit! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Spooky Drunk Bard says:
    October 2, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    My moment of triumph came when, after more than a year of physical conditioning,I was finally able to skip rope for a half an hour, non stop with all of the pro boxing shuffle repertoire. Man, I felt like Sly Stallone in Rocky (which is quite infantile, I know!). Now its my regular cardio, and although I am not very disciplined in my eating habits, I kept my new weight. Btw.I skip rope barefooted.

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    • evilcyber says:
      October 2, 2013 at 2:00 pm

      Excellent! Anyone who tried to skip rope knows how challenging half an hour is! Talk about high intensity! 🙂

      Reply
      • Spooky Drunk Bard says:
        October 2, 2013 at 2:42 pm

        Thanks for your kind words!

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