Hi everyone! I just joined, but I am so excited to share this journey with you all. I've been browsing the forums for the last few days, and I love how supportive everyone is! You guys are the best!
So OK, I am not on maintenance yet, but I am wondering what some maintainers have to say about how much they sweat (yeah, gross, I know). At 271 pounds currently, I sweat quite a bit. Add to the weight the fact that I live in the San Fernando Valley and it's now averaging about 90 degrees each day, and I pretty much drown in sweat if I go without AC for too long! But I also sweat on cooler days, pretty much anytime, sometimes not as much as hot days, but I still do. So I am wondering if anyone noticed that they stopped sweating as much once they reached their goal? I have about 100 or so more pounds to go, so I am really hoping by the time I get down it won't be as bad. Anyone?
I'm not a maintainer yet, but I wanted to answer anyway, lol.
I've actually noticed that I sweat MORE now. It's weird. I sweat a LOT and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the temperature (I'm actually cold most of the time). It's really embarassing to have huge pit stains a few hours into the work day, especially since I work in an office!
I think my sweat issues must not have been weight related.
i've found the same to be true as thinknpretty. since i've started exercising i'm like a furnace and am always sweaty. when i was walking to a friend's house, in a mild 80 temp, i was sweating buckets when i finally arrived. but then again, i've always been a sweaty person.. just not to the current extent.
I am not at maintenance yet, but since losing weight, I personally have found that I sweat less. I can't tell you whether this is down to the physical change in my body, or whether it is because I feel less socially uncomfortable and anxious about my appearance, but in any case, I'm happy about it!
It's not been a really dramatic change (some people just naturally sweat more, regardless of size, and I think I'm one of those people!), but I have definitely noticed a decrease in sweating. It's just little things like, I used to sweat pretty much as soon as I got dressed, but now I only sweat when I do some physical activity or when it's really hot outside. I used to always get what I perceived to be really noticeable sweat in the armpit areas of my clothing, which I found utterly mortifying and humiliating and I didn't allow myself to wear certain coloured clothes that show sweat, but now that is definitely less of a problem. I guess I feel less ashamed about it now too, because I can just go "oooh I'm sweaty today!" rather than think everyone is looking at me because I'm really fat and therefore am sweating because of how fat I am. I know that sounds silly, but I guess it's just one of those paranoid, self-conscious things that you tell yourself when you are unhappy with your appearance and size.
I guess sweating less makes sense when you lose weight, since your body is having to exert less effort to move itself around now that it is lighter, your exertion is less and there is less need to sweat to cool down. But obviously everyone is different!
We started out at nearly the same size and at 300 pounds I sweat so badly that our AC bills in the summer were astronomical! I live in the mid-west were it gets very cold and snowy in the winter and that last winter before I lost weight I never put on a winter coat...and never got cold! I would sweat off any makeup I would apply, it was hopeless.
NOW, at 140 I rarely ever sweat. It's been 95-100 degrees F here for the last few days and the only time I even broke a sweat was when I was hoeing green beans in the mid-day sun on Sunday afternoon. It's great! I don't even wear deodorant any more. Someone was telling me she reead there might be a link between breast cancer and antiperspirants so what the heck, I threw my deo. away. Why use it when I don't sweat anyway!
I need really hot weather (which, by UK standards, isn't like the midwestern HOT I recall so vividly), lots of direct sunlight & fairly heavy clothes to break a sweat now, and even then, it's just a little bit around my hairline. I was loving the heatwave we had earlier this summer. Hot weather actually feels really good to me now. It's one of the pleasant surprises of massive weight loss, because I really wasn't expecting it.
I don't swear nearly as much as when I was at my highest weight. I have lost 100 pounds but still have lots of fat. I live in South Carolina and we have been having 90+ days for over a month. We have had several days that get over 100 degrees. I take the heat much better. Some days I even go outside to warm up because the air conditioning is so cold inside.
Time2lose, I'm in SC too. We've been having 100+ degree days every day and the shade is in short supply.
Not quite at my heaviest still, but I do remember sweating immediately after a shower, before I even dried off. Now I'm still pretty bad, the hairline and face, the pits, you know all the usual suspects if I go outside, but inside I'm much more comfortable. Have even been known to say I'm *gasp* cold inside my house this summer (never happened before) and my electric bill is showing it. . .
Being cold all the time is a sign of slowed metabolism, so sweating a lot may be an indicator of the opposite! You're a fat burning machine!
I really hope that my sweating will at least lessen, if not stop!
I get very self conscious on humid or hot days, especially while working as I do manual labor. My upper lip, eye brows, under boobs, back fat, and under butt sweat horribly! I've found myself wearing spandex and a tank top under my work pants and tees as a wicking layer because I sweat so hard some nights that it looks like I suffer incontinence!
The upper lip and forehead sweat though make me feel most self conscious. I hate it!!!
Does anyone have any ideas on how to lessen it or at least mask it? It seems that no matter what makeup I wear, rub proof, sweat proof etc, still rub off or drip off the moment I feel warm ( all the time actually, but noticeably more so when I sweat!)
Medications can be the cause of excessive sweating. Mny pain medication cause excessive sweating and one of the more common side effects of antidepressants is excessive sweating.
I though my weight/menopause was the cause of my sweating. I am posting this because I struggled for 6 months to get completely off antidepressants due to the side effects, but the effects of NOT taking then was even worse. I am not sweating at all since finally stopping then in February.
Does excessive sweating stop after weight loss?
You're a fat burning machine!
