Hey, I am experiencing times when I get unbalanced with my new weight. I just got out of the car, and felted really unbalanced. Just a little adjusting. Can this be due to the weigh I've lost? Has anyone experienced the also?

Oh, Dorrie, LMAO here! Thank goodness my best friend has lost a significant amount of weight before and warned me about this one!! Yes, it's VERY common. I run into walls all the time. My theory is that I used to take up so much more space that it's taking my mind a while to adjust to being so much smaller now. I can literally trip walking across flat ground!

I have a spring to my step now that makes me think I can just walk and do anything I want, then gravity and my own messed up balance will make me trip. I laugh at myself a lot because I think I look like a drunk some days.

Wow, I've experieced exatly the opposite. I am far more balanced now then I have been my whole adult life. I was amazed yet this morning how I can put my pants on while standing up, I used to have to sit or I'd topple over.

Maybe you're right and the sudden weight loss has thrown off your coordination, you were so used to applying forces in a certain way to counteract a certain high weight that you are now over compensating.

I think all of our CG's (center of gravity) has changed!! :biggrin:

Yep. That makes alot of sense. It is just so strange when I got out of the car and I felt my body sway forward and then I over corrected and my body swayed backwards. Thanks for all your feedback. I feel more normal now.

I have had to readjust my balance, gait, and posture. I'm naturally pretty uncoordinated so maybe it affected me more than others.

The first few months when weight loss was fastest, I wobbled around like a drunk.

I'm still learning to walk a little differently now that I'm not lugging around an extra 100+ lbs. I used to walk a little hunched over and I have to concentrate on standing straight, shoulders, hips. and knees aligned.

And had to relearn how to sit and stand. I used to need to use something for support to get off the sofa or a chair instead of just leaning forward a bit and straightening my legs as I do now.

It took a while to realize that I could bend over to do something on the ground like tie my shoe or pick something up instead of getting down on one knee.

And it took a while to realize I could fit through a space. I would be standing there like I was blocked before realizing, "hey, I can fit through there now!"

Haha. What great problems to have!!

Lynda

Just another note, my wife says I do not waddle any more when I walk - so YES losing the weight helps your posture, gait and balance so it seems there WOULD be a re-learning period, especially when the weight comes off so fast.