Oh. The Feels.
 

Anyone remember the song "I Touch Myself" by The Divinyls?

No, this post isn't as raunchy as that song. *wink* But it is what popped into my head when I was thinking about what I'm sharing here.

I've kinna been battling this "Is anything changing?" doubt. The numbers on the scale and the measuring tape are decreasing. The size labels in the clothes are smaller. But when I look in the mirror I just cannot see it.

This morning after my shower I was lathering myself with body oil. (Burt's Bees. So luxurious. So yummy smelling. So good for my dry winter skin. *end commercial*) And as I did so, I discovered something. My hands know that my body feels different. Like, quite a lot different. I'll spare you the details but....definitely less fat and more bone & muscle. It was pretty freakin' awesome!

So, if you're struggling with some doubts about your weight loss, I encourage you to touch yourself (and maybe sing this song. Loudly.) Oh. The Feels!

Loved this post! And I love that song---*hangs head in shame*.

I noticed recently too, I have bones in my hips AND my bum!!! I noticed my collarbone in the mirror too, where'd that come from?! They've been hidden for so long!

Oh the feels! :)

The other night I was lying in bed and noticed my midsection wasn't a hard bubble anymore, it was soft and indented a little...just a little, mind you, haha!

I do this all the time (and I like the song too). The first thing I noticed was my lower belly "squaring off" I can actually reach the bottom of it without having to pull it up, and there's an indentation there where it's pulling up. I also have some definition in my left arm (but none in my right, wth!), and everything is ultra jiggly instead of firm.

Oh.. and to be able to wrap your hand around your wrists! Just seeing that little bump on the outside of the wrist tying to emerge makes me smile!

and feeling my chin bone... not the puffiness that had cushioned it before.. IS awesome too :)

Lol

Haha, I cracked up so hard at this post. Love it!! I still feel "new" things about my body. I FEEL you and your feels!!! heh. ;)

My wobbly bits are more wobbly. And my slacks are definitely looser.

I totally had this moment when I looked in the mirror and saw that my hips were smaller. NO SADDLEBAGS!! I cried... :')

Lol I love that song, I noticed this with my collar bones the other day :)

Oh.my.gosh.
I just about died laughing. I'm going to sing this song in the shower tonight and see what kind of reaction I get out of my husband.

There are my two hip bones. Whenever i get overweight i cannot touch them when i lay on my back without probing hard on my skin. Now that i lost 10 pounds i can touch them again simply by laying my hand softly upon them ;) So i know what you mean.

When I lost weight the first time around I put my hands on my waist after almost 40lbs lost. My arms were like "What, wtf is going on here? This doesn't feel right" because my waist went in too far lol. It didn't feel "normal."

First off, I LOVE that song and love Burt's Bees!! Hahahaha!

I struggle everyday because I can't "see" my weight loss. Other people can see it...just not me. Maybe I need to do this and see if I feel different. I've lost 26 pounds, shouldn't I "feel" different?

Anyway, great post!!!

Raven, Like you, I need to lose nearly 100 lbs and have lost 25 so far. I don't see a difference yet either. I have faith that in another 5-10 lbs I will start noticing!

Amazing post!! So, so true.

And to take it once step further....have your significant other touch you in the shower. Seriously. Take it wherever you want, lol, but it makes me feel soooooooo much more muscular and confident when my hubby washes my back and I know my muscles are popping!

I will say that "the feels" are weirding me out! I have something about touching bones that wigs me out a little bit, and it's only getting worse as I lose more weight.

I have this bone that I suddenly noticed on the top of my both of my feet that has popped up. I mean, it's always been there, but I just noticed it, and I've been obsessing about it. It makes my feet look so weird from the side, though I know it's normal. I find myself looking at my feet on the couch and touching around on it.

Also, I have a ribcage that has always been somewhat noticeable. When I was thinner, but by no means skinny, I hated it because I always had these two humps on the top of my stomach from my ribs. They stick up a little bit now, but I can feel my ribs pretty well already, and it gives me the creeps to be able to feel them as individuals. It's like a sore in the mouth, though. I can't stop placing my hands there.

Okay, so that's enough of my neurosis. I could go on, but I won't. Haha. I just don't know what I'm going to do when I'm actually close to a normal weight. Secretly, I like feeling those bones because it's a signal of my success, but sometimes they give me a nail-on-a-chalkboard type heebie jeebies.

wannaskipandlaugh - I will NEVER be able to put my fingers around my wrist. There's not much extra on my wrists. I can already see the bone sticking out - and there's a massive gap between my fingers. That means I can genuinely call myself big boned.

Maybe I'm more visual, but I think I can see more than I can feel...except for around my collar bones perhaps.

I noticed this morning as I was laying on my side that I no longer have the deep crease on the side of my stomach. I've had that in that position for as long as I can remember, but it's smoothed out now.

Made me think of this thread. ;)

So glad I read this. I've been wondering what those things were in my chest -- besides the boobs -- and now I know that I'm supposed to have bones there. I think my Freshman biology is coming back and we actually have 206 bones in our body. Could have fooled me! This does give new meaning to let your fingers do the walking!:o

I love getting "the feels". In the past, everytime I'd lose a significant amount of weight, the first place I'd see and feel are my wrist bones and ankle bones. And I can't help looking at them over and over and touching them every now and then.

I know that once the fat really starts to melt away and my collar bone shows I'll never be able to keep my hands off of it.

I love everyone's replies! Aren't bones simply wonderful? :lol:

I have been pulling at the skin between my thumb and my forefinger all morning. This is my first official "loose skin". It's such a bizaare little place to have it, but that's definitely what it is!

BUMP!

When I go to yoga class, my instructor always talks about "sit bones". Now I'm very aware of the bones in my butt, that were definitely not there before!

Originally Posted by Radiojane:
BUMP!

When I go to yoga class, my instructor always talks about "sit bones". Now I'm very aware of the bones in my butt, that were definitely not there before!

I completely forgot about butt bones! I haven't felt them in a couple of years when sitting, haha!

I can feel some slight definition emerging from my calves!!!! And my wrists feel smaller too :D

Originally Posted by Radiojane:
BUMP!

When I go to yoga class, my instructor always talks about "sit bones". Now I'm very aware of the bones in my butt, that were definitely not there before!

I'm totally over butt bones. I have flat butt anyway (and super wide hips, unfortunately) that is just now slowly beginning to plump out a bit with some serious squats, and it's starting to hurt to sit on hard chairs. By the time I'm at goal, I'm gonna have to carry around one of those donut things to sit on for the rest of my life in case I encounter a hard butt rest.

Yes! Feeling your fat makes you want to lose it, lol. And when you feel it going away, it makes you want to keep going ;)

All these dips are paying off! I can see a little line separating my delts and triceps!

This thread was even better this time around, thanks for bumping Jane!!!

This might be TMI but.....

I thought I had a bump like an ingrown hair or a pimple or something on my butt the other day. It was actually just a sore bum from sitting outside on my front steps all day. My butt bones were sore!!! I was never so happy to have a sore a$$!

I've been noticing that my neck is getting somewhat slender. Also, I always thought I had a round shaped face but I'm starting to think that might not be true. Sometimes I look in the mirror and I almost don't recognize myself. My thighs seem fatter than ever, though. :p
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Oh, almost forgot! My feet have thinned out so much that I have veins that stick out.

Too funny! I always kind of look forward to waking up in the morning and feeling around on my belly for a minute to see what it's like. And then I jump out of bed and onto the scale. lol Not that I'm obsessed or anything. When you're working hard on something it's fun to see it paying off.

20 lbs down and I can already feel it! I knew I wasn't going to be miraculously tiny in comparison, but I've lost 5 inches from my waist. My shirts are fitting better. My stomach feels firmer, and not as bloated. Loving it!

Armpits in the shower is my thing at the moment.

I absolutely love reading about people discovering their new bodies! :D

I keep being told my neck is longer. But I can see my collar bones now and also the outline of my chin bone on my face. My friends and I went out for our girly dinner the other night and it's always the 4 of us together. We decided to take a photo and I looked so tiny in comparison to the rest of them. They're all size 8s, 10s, and one of them is a 12, but I looked smaller. I'm the different one and I felt so chuffed

Bumping this thread as it popped in my head today!

I was shaving my legs and apparently I never touch my leg when I'm doing it. Somehow my hand brushed the back of my calf and I almost threw up feeling the muscle in there!!

I must be toning muscle in my legs from running/walking and it totally grossed me out! So of course after getting out of the shower I had to go model to myself in the full length mirror to check them out!:hyper::hyper::hyper:

Feeling bones, muscles, everything through my skin now gives me the willies!:yikes::yikes::yikes:

Anytime I am touching my arm, I'm all, "Where did these biceps come from?!?!"

The timing of this tread is perfect. I've been wondering lately if I'm suffering from a form of body dismorphia or something. I'm down nearly 30 pounds in less than 2 months and no fewer than 8 people in the past week have commented that they notice I've lost. When I look in the mirror I look EXACTLY the same. I see absolutely no difference in my image in the mirror today versus the start weight pictures I took 30 pounds ago.

The only place I feel different is in my thighs. I can feel the muscle definition starting there from all the PT exercises I've been doing to strengthen the muscles that support my weak knee. Surprisingly, my calves were pretty well defined already even at 261 pounds, so I'm not really seeing a difference there. Even though measurements show I'm down 2+ inches in upper arms (that was at 1 month), I see and feel no difference.

I know I'm smaller because none of my clothes fit and the tape measure says I'm smaller, I just can't see it (even though others evidently can), and I can't feel it anywhere but my thighs.

Originally Posted by SuperHeroTeacher:
The timing of this tread is perfect. I've been wondering lately if I'm suffering from a form of body dismorphia or something. I'm down nearly 30 pounds in less than 2 months and no fewer than 8 people in the past week have commented that they notice I've lost. When I look in the mirror I look EXACTLY the same. I see absolutely no difference in my image in the mirror today versus the start weight pictures I took 30 pounds ago.

The only place I feel different is in my thighs. I can feel the muscle definition starting there from all the PT exercises I've been doing to strengthen the muscles that support my weak knee. Surprisingly, my calves were pretty well defined already even at 261 pounds, so I'm not really seeing a difference there. Even though measurements show I'm down 2+ inches in upper arms (that was at 1 month), I see and feel no difference.

I know I'm smaller because none of my clothes fit and the tape measure says I'm smaller, I just can't see it (even though others evidently can), and I can't feel it anywhere but my thighs.

Oh wow, that's too bad because you should be celebrating! i hope that you can see the you that others see!

on a completely different side note (don't want to hijack the thread) what PT exercises are you doing? i have bad knees and am overwhelmed at all the info on the net and cannot do squats anymore :(