In weight loss you make tradeoffs. You trade one thing for another constantly. You trade a sedentary lifestyle for an active one. Unhealthy food for balanced nutrition. Negative eating habits for positive ones. These are all positive changes but what about the tradeoffs we make in dramatic weight loss that aren't happy? Are not as overall shiny?
I have stretch marks. When I was at my absolute heaviest I had a few but not many at all. Really very few. Now 110lbs lighter I am streaked with them. My sides, my breasts, the tops of my shoulders, my stomach, my arms, my hips and thighs.
I don't mean to brag but at my heaviest, I had awesome boobs, I know it wasn't healthy and just fat but boy were they nice. The chest that carried them was too big around but at a DD cup, they made me feel womanly and sexy. 110Lbs lighter I have a deflated C cup and I am moving swiftly into a B cup. On a very tall big girl, these make me feel considerably less womanly.
Lastly, I have excess skin. I should say savage excess skin. When I was starting to lose weight everyone told me not to worry about extra skin because I was so young the elasticity in my skin would prevail. Cute people, I totally believed you. Until the bat wings emerged.
I have been overweight since I was in kindergarten. I have never been a normal weight. I needed plus size clothes before middle school. I was the fat kid who grew into the the fat girl who grew into the fat young woman. Because I have been fat so long my skin is not about to bounce back anytime soon. I have fairly severe excess skin around my breasts and sides. My arms are probably the worst though, the skin didn't reduce at all, I have the skin of a 340lb person on the body of a 228lb person.
It sucks that these things are true, it does. It would however suck a lot worse to have high blood pressure, a heart that's in danger or be winded by walking up a hill. Not all the tradeoffs are easy, but almost always they are worth it.
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