Question for Post-ops- carrying the weight

Do you ever wonder how you carried the weight you have lost? I know we did it .. but looking back I wonder how I carried 353lbs around.. or even 300lbs

I guess we just dont realize it! It kind of all adds up and that all we knew you know? it is weird looking back but THANK god its over LOL

Yes!  All the time!  In fact just yesterday, I bought a 40 pound bag of dog food from Sam's.  I lugged that thing from the car to the garage and into the house and about died!  And that was only 40 pounds!!!  How the HECK did I lug around an extra 126 POUNDS??!!!!  How DID we do it??!!!!  I also put it into perspective this way.  My youngest daughter weighs 126 pounds - back in "the day" - I carried an adult woman around on my body continuously!  Wow!  It amazes me to think about it!

I think about that a lot.  It is amazing to me the extra weight I carried day in and day out for so many years.  No wonder I was tired and took naps whenever I could. I'm grateful every day that I had the surgery and for the life I have today. Your post is meaningful and really made me think about it again. Thanks, Cathy

I am always amazed how I managed to carry the weight around.  When I lift something heavy I look to see how much it weighs and it is no-where near how much weight I have lost. No wonder we feel so different now...

I know what you mean! It is amazing that we were able to actually carry it around!  People say that I walk much faster now and I tell them this is the pace that I always thought I walked- it just took a lot longer for the signal to get to my legs!  Shelly

We have animals and I buy about 400 pounds of feed a week and it has to be hauled up 5 steps to the storage area.  When I start up those steps toting ONE of the 50 pound feed sacks, I sometimes remind myself that I should be able to carry FOUR at one time as I've lost 212 pounds...  Ain't NO way I could do it though!  How I did it then, I will never know and don't want to go back there to do any "studies" either!  LOL Lea

I remember seeing a "biggest loser" show once when they made the contestants wear "fat" suits, that weighed as much as each of them had lost.  They had to wear them in a race around a track.  They couldn't believe how difficult it was!  When I am at the gym, I find that my legs are proportionately stronger than my arms.  Well no wonder!  My legs have been doing weigh training for years!  My feet and my knees are becoming less and less pissed off at me.  I think that any "never been fat" people that have unkind thoughts when they watch an MO person walk around, ought to wear a fat suit for a day.  Perhaps they will then have a bit more empathy for what we  (used to) have to carry around.

Well, I know that pre-op, I was always in pain and always tired...  makes sense!   I sometimes carry my 40-pound nephew around, and my daughter tells me - "he's too heavy for you!", but I don't feel it.  I'm much stronger than I look, and I attribute that to having carried around the extra 185 pounds for so many years! 

Yeah, my 336 was a lot to carry and I wonder why I never thought of it that way then.  I just talked down to myself at the time for being too tired to walk through the parking lot and too tired to climb the stairs or not wanting to do any sports or excercise.  It was too much effort with all the extra baggage.  Now I am amazed at how much energy I have.  The fact that I sometimes prefer the steps to the elevator would be absurd to the old me...We have come into a land of feeling free...