The Negative Side of WLS - Page 10 - ThinnerTimes

Dyann · 08-17-2007, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by LisaM

weakness from being a much smaller, less physically imposing person. .

I have a minivan that has a third row that folds into the floor. I used to be able to pull on the attachment and lean back with my body weight to put the seat up. Now I can't even lift it by myself. I don't like being a weakling.

I_love_Hello Kitty · 08-17-2007, 07:37 PM

I just had surgery..so I haven't even started working out yet...but I wonder for those who feel weaker...have you done any regular weight training, and has that helped? I guess I just figured I would need to lift weights, and that would take care of it...but maybe not? Any thoughts?

LisaM · 08-17-2007, 08:09 PM

mmm, not talking about, for me, the actually being weaker... though I don't think weightlifting's going to help me push a truck...

A 1600 pound truck vs. a 140-something pound woman... who wins? I'm less than ten percent of the truck's mass. At 300 pounds, I was closer to 20 percent of the truck's mass, and could actually move it.

And I do lift weights.

What I'm talking about, though, is the perception of weakness, it's the physicality of actually being smaller, thinner, less of a person physically... don't know that I can explain it any better than that.

Dyann · 08-18-2007, 10:30 AM

We are just less physically imposing to others so we can be seen as a meak and helpless target. Sorry Lisa...I took your post a different direction, but I get ya'.

I did weight training, but that extra 167 pounds of leverage and fulcrum went a long way. I have more muscles and am strong for my size, but I am half the physical mass. It is just science that I can't lift as much.

Even stupid stuff like hand grip is weaker.

LisaM · 08-18-2007, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyann

We are just less physically imposing to others so we can be seen as a meak and helpless target. Sorry Lisa...I took your post a different direction, but I get ya'.

I did weight training, but that extra 167 pounds of leverage and fulcrum went a long way. I have more muscles and am strong for my size, but I am half the physical mass. It is just science that I can't lift as much.

Even stupid stuff like hand grip is weaker.

Yup... I have to have my husband open my bottles of water, or use a tool to do it. Weird. Yeah, it's the target thing more than the actually physically weaker that actually bothers me. Plus, how is it that more than half of me can disappear, yet people can see me now, when they couldn't before. At a certain level, I kind of miss the invisibility.

Not saying I'd go back, even if I could... this is just the subject of this thread.

sdgrrl · 08-19-2007, 11:44 AM

There's another piece to the equation as well, at least for some of us. When we lose a lot of weight quickly we can also end up losing a great deal of muscle mass. I know my illness last fall munched up a lot of muscles. Just a compelling reason for weight training while losing and making sure we take the supplements that are helpful in retaining/manufacturing muscle mass. Protein insufficiency will cause a raid on the muscle tissue!