I am finding some things strange and some even a bit uncomfortable.

Sensations from dropping 82 pounds.

• "Hey, I have bones!"
  
• When I lay on my side in bed, my knees knock, it's actually somewhat uncomfortable without those thighs cushioning the knees.
  
• I am not sweating and hot all the time. In fact, sometimes I am downright chilly.
  
• I love that my waistbands no longer dig into my stomach.
  
• and once again.....HEY, I HAVE BONES!

I wonder what new strange sensations will come as I drop the last 30 pounds. Whatever they are, I am ready.

Do you have any strange sensations?

Lately, probably as a result of the weights I have been doing, my body feels so firm! I am at a healthy weight, but still have a reasonable cushion of fat on my lower half and the normal flab you'd associate with being almost 40 and having had 3 babies. So I'm not supermodel. But I can feel Iron hard muscles in there, I can feel a strength in my torso beneath the skin in the same way you can feel that springy strenght in a young child's body, its just weird, have never felt it before.

My wrists and forearms if I touch them are so bony, they look so fragile to me, lol. My rings swing round my fingers. My shoulders, collarbones are so elegant and I can see a hint of ribs on my chese (note to self, instruct body to only lose from below the waist now!).

I just feel "different" all over, even different to when I was this weight in my 20's, I'm sure I have a lower body fat/higher muscle ratio than I did back then becuase my body is entirely different and smaller than last time I was 78kg.

"Hey, I have bones!" is on of my favorites. The fact that my collar bones are in my wedding pictures is one of my favorite things about them LOL.

I also like my wrists and my ankles. I can see the bones and the muscle movement under the skin n' stuff.

Honestly, the weirdest one is thinking I look pretty. I say weirdest, just because it's not like I was ugly before, just fat.

I TOTALLY understand the "I have bones" thing. I find myself rubbing over them because it's such a weird sensation.

I feel weird shopping in "normal" sized clothing stores. I feel like I don't belong, but I DO!

I look down at my hands and wrists and feel like someone has transplanted someone else's for mine. Where did these fragile-looking things come from?

I see my former "cankles" and think "wow, I have ankles now."

Yes, picking up jeans from the rack and just buying them without trying them on is so weird.

Buying a dress for a formal event we have coming up, I saw it in the window, walked in, tried it on. I was expecting that horrible moment where you cant get it over your hips, where you struggle, almost ripping the dress only to squeeze yourself into it, feel crap and buy it anyway becuase you dont want to admit to the sales lady that it didnt fit you and vowing to diet like mad for six weeks to get into it, only having to go out and buy something ugly and huge anyway. Buying that dress was probably my sweetest victory yet, since the only time I really had crises of desperation about my weight was when I had to buy something like that.

The I have bones one rules :scalesno:, the one about the knees it's also true. I would add "Hey, I have muscles!", after some weeks of weight lifting in the gym <img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/happy.gif" border="0" alt="" title="" smilieid="60" class="inlineimg" />

Ditto here,

After 2 yaers and three months and 220 pounds lost,

lots of those sensations. The biggest to me is since I work

in and around thr criminal justice system, sitting on those

damn courthouse wooden benched. My butt is actually bony

now. However, its a trade off I am totally willing to make.

...another thing I find interesting....I wanted to make a comment to another overweight person about 'my fat ass'. I thought better of it since my ass is not so fat anymore, I would have just looked like an ass saying it. lol!

But I thought it interesting that a making a self-degrading comment would have kept me in the 'group' feeling. A place I felt comfortable for many, many years.

Now I will have to think of new ways to feel included. Positive ways.