As I continue to lose weight there have been some less pleasant side effects that I had not been completely prepared for. I have always had a rather generous bottom and although that has not changed much, it has indeed changed. Several years ago I was walking down icy stairs at my house, I slipped and landed several steps below where I had started and landed on concrete. This accident resulted in a fractured coccyx, which essentially means that I broke my butt. Breaking your butt hurts!!! You may think it is soft and padded and of no consequence, but believe me if you break it you will know it and you will know it for months, years or possibly the rest of your life. I knew that I was still suffering some of the consequences of this injury. When I was in labor with my last two children I felt the contractions primarily in my bottom. What I didn't realize would happen was that as I have lost weight and have less padding, I now have a difficult time sitting down for more than thirty minutes without some pain and discomfort. As a rule I tend to relax on the couch on my hip with my legs to the side, but when at work I don't have that luxury and standing up from a seated position becomes very uncomfortable. If I am not being mindful when I am sitting in the car I will run into the same predicament as well.
Something else has happened that I can not in memory ever remember, while sleeping on my stomach sometimes my rib cage begins to bother me as it settles uncomfortably into the mattress. I'll have to squirm and wiggle in to just the right position to stay on my stomach for an extended period of time. Protruding bones have never been a problem of mine, in fact I have still yet to see my collar bones.
I've developed a strange click that appears to be coming from my sternum, when I take deep breaths I feel an uncomfortable pop and hear a sound. I'm not sure what it is, besides weird.
I have a different kind of love/hate relationship with shopping now. I used to hate to go shopping and try on clothes. Now I love to shop and I want to try on clothes, but there are new frustrations that come along with it. Who knew that every woman on the Central Coast was a 10P? It feels nearly impossible to find my new size. Forget about being able to buy clearance, it's hard to find my size on the regular racks. Now, I'm not done losing weight and my ideal size is probably a 6P, but I don't see a lot of that size hanging around on the racks either. When I was bigger it was much easier to find my size.
I wouldn't trade any of these slight unpleasanteries for having my weight back. I just didn't expect to have negative side effects to my weight loss.
