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15 People Reveal The Weirdest Encounter They've Had That Actually Led To Sex.

We've all been caught in strange situations all of a sudden, but sometimes they have happy endings.

Here are fifteen times people had a weird encounter that led to sex.

Enjoy...

Many thanks to Reddit user for posing this question. You can check out more answers from the source at the end of this article!


1/15. I lost my virginity playing Madden 2005. It was my first weekend back from college and this high school girl Alex, who'd been with 3-4 of my friends prior, wanted to hang out. She was pretty, blonde, and I was still a virgin in college, so I agreed.

Fifteen minutes later, I get a call on my cell phone that she was outside. I come out and her dad is standing there. He looks at me and says, 'I like to know who my daughter is hanging out with.' We exchange (un)pleasantries, and Alex comes upstairs. Being an awkward guy, I suggest we play video games. For some inexplicable reason, she wants to play Madden, which she informs me she has never played before. Thinking on my toes, I tell her we should 'put some stakes on it.' We agree that for everyday touchdown I score, she takes a piece of clothing off. For every touchdown she scores, I do the same.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that I was going to beat her soundly. She would 'Ask Madden' every play. When she would do so, a cursor would blink on the screen for which play Madden suggested. Alex would then hit the corresponding button. Since I could see this too, I knew exactly what plays she would be running and call the perfect offense or defense to counter it. It was like the real life Packers playing a ragtag group of children.

I was up around 28-0, she was naked as the day she was born, and I realized how stupid I'd been. I was fully clothed with a naked girl next to me. I called a punt formation while she had the ball and let her complete a pass. She ran it up the sideline for a touchdown. I let her do this about three more times. I don't know if she knew I was letting her score, but it didn't matter. We were literally both naked and playing the game (yes, I was STILL that scared to make a move) when she looked me dead in the eyes and asked, 'Wanna have sex?' Nonchalantly, I said 'Sure.'

Best five seconds of sex ever.

WriteOnSC

2/15. I've hooked up at weddings and even at funerals, yes, funerals. But last weekend I was driving along a double two-lane street (two lanes in each direction) past a park near sunset. I am driving in the far left (middle of the road) and a dog comes bolting full blast from the park from the right and runs full on into the street so fast I had barely enough time to swerve left (causing me to swerve into what would be oncoming traffic). Luckily no cars in either direction but I unfortunately still hit the dog.

The dog wasn't looking good. Owner came running out who just happened to be extremely good looking. She was obviously crying. She knew her dog ran into the street and basically HIT ME and wasn't upset directly at me but still she was crying. Someone from park knew name of a 24 emergency room for pets and I googled it on phone and offered to drive her and the dog...


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It was only a few miles down. I went in with them. I gave her my name number and my apologies. I also left my name and number and told the vet tech that I would pay for any diagnostics, blood, x-rays, treatments for the dog because basically I felt like total sh*t in this situation.

Few days later she calls me and tells me they had to put her dog down. I gave my sincerest apologies and she declined for me to pay any of the bills. She says she didn't know why her dog bolted into the middle of the street and didn't blame me. We somehow just kept on talking and talking. She accepted my offer to grab a drink a couple days later. One thing led to another and well, surprise sex. So there you have it.

redditluv

3/15. When I was about 25-26 I was at the local bar I hung out at. There was an unfamiliar group of girls to which I chatted to for about 5 mins top, earlier in the evening. I noticed all but one of the girls left and the one that stayed came up to the bar where I was. Bartender calls last call, and, being quite buzzed, I turn to her and say, kind of jokingly but not really, "How 'bout you and I head back to my place for some sex?"

Everyone at the bar heard it and kind of chuckled.

Until she says, "Sure, I 've never done this before but let's go". You could have heard a pin drop. Next time I went there I got a standing ovation from the regulars that were there, everyone that wasn't asked what was going on, so the word spread which led to another strange girl approach me with a score. I actually rode that wave about 3 more times.

Shameless.

pookinponub

4/15. Back in the day I was hanging out with friends at a dance club. Dancing, drinking, having a good time. Suddenly I'm being pursued on the dance floor by a guy. Grinding, groping. I let him know that I'm not homosexual and he laughs, apologizes, and backs off.

About twenty minutes later, at the bar, I'm getting a drink and the same guy comes over to me with a gorgeous brunette girl on his arm. He introduces me to the lady and buys a drink for myself and her. Then he smiles and leaves us. Ended up going on a few dates with her, and then having freaky porno-sex in her living room, bedroom, car, bathroom, etc. Didn't last long though. Maybe eight weeks?

jonuggs

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5/15. A few summers ago I painted houses. I was a skinny 20 year old and needed a summer job. Well, come July my buddy and I started to paint this huge, beautiful house, complete with hot tub, pool and full-sized basketball court. The owners were super nice and let us swim in the pool after work. They also had a super hot daughter that was 23.

Well, one day, the owners left for vacation and I'm up on a 20+ feet ladder, painting the dormer of the hot girls bedroom. She comes in her room, sees me and proceeds to walk over to the window to tell me something (the windows were the kind that you crank and they open up away from you). She starts cranking the window, but doesn't see that it's going to hit my ladder. Que Murphy's Law, the window hits my ladder, makes it unsteady and I proceed to slide down the side of her house, two floors up, holding on for dear life to this ladder. The ladder stops and I'm flung off and land on my back and nail my head on the concrete.

I was knocked out for awhile and next thing I remember, I wake up in the hospital with a broken back and a major concussion. Needless to say, she felt bad and stayed by my bed until I could leave (stayed there for 4 days until I could go home). My buddy finished painting the house and I was bed-ridden for almost a month. The girl always brought me flowers and gifts and we ended up dating and having great apology sex. Her parents even gave me an extra $500 for painting.

Renegade_Journo

6/15. Brought a bucket of legos to a house party (who doesn't love to play drunk legos?). So I'm laying on the floor sh*tfaced building a boat, and this girl comes sits next to me, and starts building a spaceship.

We now live together.

Anonymous

7/15. I spent a night at hotel with a girl. Woke up hung over a little so I went to 7-11 to buy some stuff. Met a girl in line at 7-11 and took her to a different hotel a block down from the original hotel. I high-fived myself.

yousername


8/15. Walking around Montreal trying to find nutmeg. I didn't speak french well--she didn't speak english well. We spent an hour or so walking around the city trying to find fresh nutmeg. Eventually we gave up and went for coffee.

Over coffee we made the sexy-eyes and tried to figure out that the other was saying. She invited me back to her place. We had sex, repeatedly. We took a shower, I got dressed and left.

I ultimately made it back to my friends apartment six hours later, still with no nutmeg.

iamsnicker

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9/15. I opened a beer can, turned the tag around 180 degrees, flicked it away and it landed squared down in the cleavage of a hot girl sitting a few meters away. Got talking. Had sex.

AlwaysAppropriate

10/15. One time I struck up a conversation with a cute girl in a bar. The conversation went pretty well, and I ended up taking her back to her place.

Such a thing has never happened before or since. Was it weird? IT WAS FOR ME.

shanedoth


11/15. Absolutely true story; 1986, I was six years old, stealing sampling candy out of a bin at the Sunnymount Produce market in Sunnyvale, CA. 10 feet away, I notice a cute blonde girl about my age watching me, and I shot her a smile. Her mother came flying around the corner and very loudly scolded me so that the whole store could hear. Fortunately my oft-absentee father was too busy checking out artichokes to notice.

Flash forward 10 years, and this girl and I go to the same high school and have become friends. During one of our marathon conversations, we stumbled onto the candy bin story somehow and connected the dots, realizing we met so long ago! She said she remembered thinking I was kinda cute. As soon as I got my driver's license we were off to my Mom's house every day for lunch (we coordinated our free class periods before and after and had epic 3 hour lunches), and we went at it like rabbits.

Our 10 year wedding anniversary is next month.

e39dinan

12/15. In highschool, I was frequently at my good friend's house because his parents were cool and gave us a fair amount of freedom.

One night we're all hanging out and it's him, his girlfriend, my friend, and I. My friend was this girl who I met while on the swim team, and she swam for a different school. I met her sophomore year and she was introduced to me as a lesbian, but that mattered not to me. She kissed me junior year, which was awesome but not really all that sexual, just a good kiss.

Well senior year arrives and we're hanging out at my friend's house. We decide to go in a hot tub and my friend and his girlfriend take up his bedroom getting changed into their bathing suits. The girl and I figure we can take the bathroom, all we're doing is getting changed, surely adults like us can handle that.


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We get naked, and then BAM I was inside of her and we were violating every square foot of floor and counter space in my friend's bathroom. The sex was welcomed, but completely unexpected.

pseudorealism

13/15. When I was 16, my best friend was having a party because her parents were out of town. She had gone to a concert the weekend prior, met the band, Rufio, and she and the singer kind of hit it off. The whole band came to our party.

So a few of us are drinking Smirnoff Ice in her bedroom and the rest of the band is going on and on about how they don't know how to talk to chicks. My friend Dan pipes up and says, "All you have to do is dare them, man. Watch this. Jackie, I dare you to go have sex with Mike." Mike was gorgeous, so I thought about it..

Challenge accepted.

I went downstairs to where Mike was playing pool and said something like, "I just got dared to f*ck you. Let's go."

So we went into the bathroom and had sex with 30 people outside trying to break down the door. Someone found the bathroom key, they opened it up, there are pictures.

Anonymous


14/15. I was at a house party with this guy I had been seeing. At least I thought we had been seeing each other. Turns out he has a girlfriend and she shows up to this same party. She finds out about me, she wants to fight me, I apologize over and over to her (even though her d-bag boyfriend told me he was single).

She's crying, I'm crying and apologizing.

I go into the other room to get away from the situation where this guy comes up to me and starts trying to calm me down. I had talked to him previously in the evening but couldn't remember for the life of me what his name was. He and I end up leaving and going back to his place. Sexytime ensues, afterward I try and duck out without him waking up. He wakes up and asks if I want breakfast.

We dated for two months.

probablynotbutstill

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15/15. The night before my eighteenth birthday I was at a party in the woods of a nearby development (common place to have bonfire parties at the time). Someone sees lights at the entrance of the trail, and it turns out the cops had found out about the party and were coming to bust it up.

Everyone scatters off in different directions through the woods. As I had drank quite a bit I didn't want to drive. I then tried calling a few of my friends, but everyone was either drunk or asleep. I then received a text from a girl that said she and Tori wanted to see me for my birthday.

I told them that if they really wanted to see me they could come rescue me as I was hiding in the bushes waiting for the cops to go away. They said yes.

About a half an hour later (they live far away) they come pick me up (ancillary details omitted). We then drive around for a bit, talking about nothing important, and then they drive to the park.

We end up getting out and walking around, and they give me a card that was one of those silly poems. On the last line, however, it said something about "Now we can hook up with you!" So with having at least a sixpack of confidence in my belly, I say so is it gonna be just one or both of you tonight then?

They laughed but then as we got back in the car, they asked me to go outside for a bit. I obliged, and when I got back in they asked me if I had a place to go. I couldn't go home because my parents were home, but I said we could go to my friend, Frank's, house. Frank doesn't have a cell phone, so I went there on faith, but he also has a mom that doesn't care what he does, so it wasn't that much of a leap. When I get there, I go in by myself at first to find that he is asleep.

I wake him up, and say "Frank, I have two girls in the car that want to have sex. I need your bed. PLEASE." Frank pulled one of the greatest wing man moves ever for me that night. He got up, went to his garage, and slept in his car. I proceeded to have the best welcoming to adulthood a person could ask for by having a threesome on his bed. It was good.

thatWASdelicious


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People Reveal The Weirdest Thing About Themselves

Reddit user Isitjustmedownhere asked: 'Give an example; how weird are you really?'

Let's get one thing straight: no one is normal. We're all weird in our own ways, and that is actually normal.

Of course, that doesn't mean we don't all have that one strange trait or quirk that outweighs all the other weirdness we possess.

For me, it's the fact that I'm almost 30 years old, and I still have an imaginary friend. Her name is Sarah, she has red hair and green eyes, and I strongly believe that, since I lived in India when I created her and there were no actual people with red hair around, she was based on Daphne Blake from Scooby-Doo.

I also didn't know the name Sarah when I created her, so that came later. I know she's not really there, hence the term 'imaginary friend,' but she's kind of always been around. We all have conversations in our heads; mine are with Sarah. She keeps me on task and efficient.

My mom thinks I'm crazy that I still have an imaginary friend, and writing about her like this makes me think I may actually be crazy, but I don't mind. As I said, we're all weird, and we all have that one trait that outweighs all the other weirdness.

Redditors know this all too well and are eager to share their weird traits.

It all started when Redditor Isitjustmedownhere asked:

"Give an example; how weird are you really?"

Monsters Under My Bed

"My bed doesn't touch any wall."

"Edit: I guess i should clarify im not rich."

– Practical_Eye_3600

"Gosh the monsters can get you from any angle then."

– bikergirlr7

"At first I thought this was a flex on how big your bedroom is, but then I realized you're just a psycho 😁"

– zenOFiniquity8

Can You See Why?

"I bought one of those super-powerful fans to dry a basement carpet. Afterwards, I realized that it can point straight up and that it would be amazing to use on myself post-shower. Now I squeegee my body with my hands, step out of the shower and get blasted by a wide jet of room-temp air. I barely use my towel at all. Wife thinks I'm weird."

– KingBooRadley

Remember

"In 1990 when I was 8 years old and bored on a field trip, I saw a black Oldsmobile Cutlass driving down the street on a hot day to where you could see that mirage like distortion from the heat on the road. I took a “snapshot” by blinking my eyes and told myself “I wonder how long I can remember this image” ….well."

– AquamarineCheetah

"Even before smartphones, I always take "snapshots" by blinking my eyes hoping I'll remember every detail so I can draw it when I get home. Unfortunately, I may have taken so much snapshots that I can no longer remember every detail I want to draw."

"Makes me think my "memory is full.""

– Reasonable-Pirate902

Same, Same

"I have eaten the same lunch every day for the past 4 years and I'm not bored yet."

– OhhGoood

"How f**king big was this lunch when you started?"

– notmyrealnam3

Not Sure Who Was Weirder

"Had a line cook that worked for us for 6 months never said much. My sous chef once told him with no context, "Baw wit da baw daw bang daw bang diggy diggy." The guy smiled, left, and never came back."

– Frostygrunt

Imagination

"I pace around my house for hours listening to music imagining that I have done all the things I simply lack the brain capacity to do, or in some really bizarre scenarios, I can really get immersed in these imaginations sometimes I don't know if this is some form of schizophrenia or what."

– RandomSharinganUser

"I do the same exact thing, sometimes for hours. When I was young it would be a ridiculous amount of time and many years later it’s sort of trickled off into almost nothing (almost). It’s weird but I just thought it’s how my brain processes sh*t."

– Kolkeia

If Only

"Even as an adult I still think that if you are in a car that goes over a cliff; and right as you are about to hit the ground if you jump up you can avoid the damage and will land safely. I know I'm wrong. You shut up. I'm not crying."

– ShotCompetition2593

Pet Food

"As a kid I would snack on my dog's Milkbones."

– drummerskillit

"Haha, I have a clear memory of myself doing this as well. I was around 3 y/o. Needless to say no one was supervising me."

– Isitjustmedownhere

"When I was younger, one of my responsibilities was to feed the pet fish every day. Instead, I would hide under the futon in the spare bedroom and eat the fish food."

– -GateKeep-

My Favorite Subject

"I'm autistic and have always had a thing for insects. My neurotypical best friend and I used to hang out at this local bar to talk to girls, back in the late 90s. One time he claimed that my tendency to circle conversations back to insects was hurting my game. The next time we went to that bar (with a few other friends), he turned and said sternly "No talking about bugs. Or space, or statistics or other bullsh*t but mainly no bugs." I felt like he was losing his mind over nothing."

"It was summer, the bar had its windows open. Our group hit it off with a group of young ladies, We were all chatting and having a good time. I was talking to one of these girls, my buddy was behind her facing away from me talking to a few other people."

"A cloudless sulphur flies in and lands on little thing that holds coasters."

"Cue Jordan Peele sweating gif."

"The girl notices my tension, and asks if I am looking at the leaf. "Actually, that's a lepidoptera called..." I looked at the back of my friend's head, he wasn't looking, "I mean a butterfly..." I poked it and it spread its wings the girl says "oh that's a BUG?!" and I still remember my friend turning around slowly to look at me with chastisement. The ONE thing he told me not to do."

"I was 21, and was completely not aware that I already had a rep for being an oddball. It got worse from there."

– Phormicidae

*Teeth Chatter*

"I bite ice cream sometimes."

RedditbOiiiiiiiiii

"That's how I am with popsicles. My wife shudders every single time."

monobarreller

Never Speak Of This

"I put ice in my milk."

– GTFOakaFOD

"You should keep that kind of thing to yourself. Even when asked."

– We-R-Doomed

"There's some disturbing sh*t in this thread, but this one takes the cake."

– RatonaMuffin

More Than Super Hearing

"I can hear the television while it's on mute."

– Tira13e

"What does it say to you, child?"

– Mama_Skip

Yikes!

"I put mustard on my omelettes."

– Deleted User

"Oh."

– NotCrustOr-filling

Evened Up

"Whenever I say a word and feel like I used a half of my mouth more than the other half, I have to even it out by saying the word again using the other half of my mouth more. If I don't do it correctly, that can go on forever until I feel it's ok."

"I do it silently so I don't creep people out."

– LesPaltaX

"That sounds like a symptom of OCD (I have it myself). Some people with OCD feel like certain actions have to be balanced (like counting or making sure physical movements are even). You should find a therapist who specializes in OCD, because they can help you."

– MoonlightKayla

I totally have the same need for things to be balanced! Guess I'm weird and a little OCD!

Close up face of a woman in bed, staring into the camera
Photo by Jen Theodore

Experiencing death is a fascinating and frightening idea.

Who doesn't want to know what is waiting for us on the other side?

But so many of us want to know and then come back and live a little longer.

It would be so great to be sure there is something else.

But the whole dying part is not that great, so we'll have to rely on other people's accounts.

Redditor AlaskaStiletto wanted to hear from everyone who has returned to life, so they asked:

"Redditors who have 'died' and come back to life, what did you see?"

Sensations

Happy Good Vibes GIF by Major League SoccerGiphy

"My dad's heart stopped when he had a heart attack and he had to be brought back to life. He kept the paper copy of the heart monitor which shows he flatlined. He said he felt an overwhelming sensation of peace, like nothing he had felt before."

PeachesnPain

Recovery

"I had surgical complications in 2010 that caused a great deal of blood loss. As a result, I had extremely low blood pressure and could barely stay awake. I remember feeling like I was surrounded by loved ones who had passed. They were in a circle around me and I knew they were there to guide me onwards. I told them I was not ready to go because my kids needed me and I came back."

"My nurse later said she was afraid she’d find me dead every time she came into the room."

"It took months, and blood transfusions, but I recovered."

good_golly99

Take Me Back

"Overwhelming peace and happiness. A bright airy and floating feeling. I live a very stressful life. Imagine finding out the person you have had a crush on reveals they have the same feelings for you and then you win the lotto later that day - that was the feeling I had."

"I never feared death afterward and am relieved when I hear of people dying after suffering from an illness."

rayrayrayray

Free

The Light Minnie GIF by (G)I-DLEGiphy

"I had a heart surgery with near-death experience, for me at least (well the possibility that those effects are caused by morphine is also there) I just saw black and nothing else but it was warm and I had such inner peace, its weird as I sometimes still think about it and wish this feeling of being so light and free again."

TooReDTooHigh

This is why I hate surgery.

You just never know.

Shocked

Giphy

"More of a near-death experience. I was electrocuted. I felt like I was in a deep hole looking straight up in the sky. My life flashed before me. Felt sad for my family, but I had a deep sense of peace."

Admirable_Buyer6528

The SOB

"Nursing in the ICU, we’ve had people try to die on us many times during the years, some successfully. One guy stood out to me. His heart stopped. We called a code, are working on him, and suddenly he comes to. We hadn’t vented him yet, so he was able to talk, and he started screaming, 'Don’t let them take me, don’t let them take me, they are coming,' he was scared and yelling."

"Then he yelled a little more, as we tried to calm him down, he screamed, 'No, No,' and gestured towards the end of the bed, and died again. We didn’t get him back. It was seriously creepy. We called his son to tell him the news, and the son said basically, 'Good, he was an SOB.'”

1-cupcake-at-a-time

Colors

"My sister died and said it was extremely peaceful. She said it was very loud like a train station and lots of talking and she was stuck in this area that was like a curtain with lots of beautiful colors (colors that you don’t see in real life according to her) a man told her 'He was sorry, but she had to go back as it wasn’t her time.'"

Hannah_LL7

"I had a really similar experience except I was in an endless garden with flowers that were colors I had never seen before. It was quiet and peaceful and a woman in a dress looked at me, shook her head, and just said 'Not yet.' As I was coming back, it was extremely loud, like everyone in the world was trying to talk all at once. It was all very disorienting but it changed my perspective on life!"

huntokarrr

The Fog

"I was in a gray fog with a girl who looked a lot like a young version of my grandmother (who was still alive) but dressed like a pioneer in the 1800s she didn't say anything but kept pulling me towards an opening in the wall. I kept refusing to go because I was so tired."

"I finally got tired of her nagging and went and that's when I came to. I had bled out during a c-section and my heart could not beat without blood. They had to deliver the baby and sew up the bleeders. refill me with blood before they could restart my heart so, like, at least 12 minutes gone."

Fluffy-Hotel-5184

Through the Walls

"My spouse was dead for a couple of minutes one miserable night. She maintains that she saw nothing, but only heard people talking about her like through a wall. The only thing she remembers for absolute certain was begging an ER nurse that she didn't want to die."

"She's quite alive and well today."

Hot-Refrigerator6583

Well let's all be happy to be alive.

It seems to be all we have.

Man's waist line
Santhosh Vaithiyanathan/Unsplash

Trying to lose weight is a struggle understood by many people regardless of size.

The goal of reaching a healthy weight may seem unattainable, but with diet and exercise, it can pay off through persistence and discipline.

Seeing the pounds gradually drop off can also be a great motivator and incentivize people to stay the course.

Those who've achieved their respective weight goals shared their experiences when Redditor apprenti8455 asked:

"People who lost a lot of weight, what surprises you the most now?"

Redditors didn't see these coming.

Shiver Me Timbers

"I’m always cold now!"

– Telrom_1

"I had a coworker lose over 130 pounds five or six years ago. I’ve never seen him without a jacket on since."

– r7ndom

"140 lbs lost here starting just before COVID, I feel like that little old lady that's always cold, damn this top comment was on point lmao."

– mr_remy

Drawing Concern

"I lost 100 pounds over a year and a half but since I’m old(70’s) it seems few people comment on it because (I think) they think I’m wasting away from some terminal illness."

– dee-fondy

"Congrats on the weight loss! It’s honestly a real accomplishment 🙂"

"Working in oncology, I can never comment on someone’s weight loss unless I specifically know it was on purpose, regardless of their age. I think it kind of ruffles feathers at times, but like I don’t want to congratulate someone for having cancer or something. It’s a weird place to be in."

– LizardofDeath

Unleashing Insults

"I remember when I lost the first big chunk of weight (around 50 lbs) it was like it gave some people license to talk sh*t about the 'old' me. Old coworkers, friends, made a lot of not just negative, but harsh comments about what I used to look like. One person I met after the big loss saw a picture of me prior and said, 'Wow, we wouldn’t even be friends!'”

"It wasn’t extremely common, but I was a little alarmed by some of the attention. My weight has been up and down since then, but every time I gain a little it gets me a little down thinking about those things people said."

– alanamablamaspama

Not Everything Goes After Losing Weight

"The loose skin is a bit unexpected."

– KeltarCentauri

"I haven’t experienced it myself, but surgery to remove skin takes a long time to recover. Longer than bariatric surgery and usually isn’t covered by insurance unless you have both."

– KatMagic1977

"It definitely does take a long time to recover. My Dad dropped a little over 200 pounds a few years back and decided to go through with skin removal surgery to deal with the excess. His procedure was extensive, as in he had skin taken from just about every part of his body excluding his head, and he went through hell for weeks in recovery, and he was bedridden for a lot of it."

– Jaew96

These Redditors shared their pleasantly surprising experiences.

Shopping

"I can buy clothes in any store I want."

– WaySavvyD

"When I lost weight I was dying to go find cute, smaller clothes and I really struggled. As someone who had always been restricted to one or two stores that catered to plus-sized clothing, a full mall of shops with items in my size was daunting. Too many options and not enough knowledge of brands that were good vs cheap. I usually went home pretty frustrated."

– ganache98012

No More Symptoms

"Lost about 80 pounds in the past year and a half, biggest thing that I’ve noticed that I haven’t seen mentioned on here yet is my acid reflux and heartburn are basically gone. I used to be popping tums every couple hours and now they just sit in the medicine cabinet collecting dust."

– colleennicole93

Expanding Capabilities

"I'm all for not judging people by their appearance and I recognise that there are unhealthy, unachievable beauty standards, but one thing that is undeniable is that I can just do stuff now. Just stamina and flexibility alone are worth it, appearance is tertiary at best."

– Ramblonius

People Change Their Tune

"How much nicer people are to you."

"My feet weren't 'wide' they were 'fat.'"

– LiZZygsu

"Have to agree. Lost 220 lbs, people make eye contact and hold open doors and stuff"

"And on the foot thing, I also lost a full shoe size numerically and also wear regular width now 😅"

– awholedamngarden

It's gonna take some getting used to.

Bones Everywhere

"Having bones. Collarbones, wrist bones, knee bones, hip bones, ribs. I have so many bones sticking out everywhere and it’s weird as hell."

– Princess-Pancake-97

"I noticed the shadow of my ribs the other day and it threw me, there’s a whole skeleton in here."

– bekastrange

Knee Pillow

"Right?! And they’re so … pointy! Now I get why people sleep with pillows between their legs - the knee bones laying on top of each other (side sleeper here) is weird and jarring."

– snic2030

"I lost only 40 pounds within the last year or so. I’m struggling to relate to most of these comments as I feel like I just 'slimmed down' rather than dropped a ton. But wow, the pillow between the knees at night. YES! I can relate to this. I think a lot of my weight was in my thighs. I never needed to do this up until recently."

– Strongbad23

More Mobility

"I’ve lost 100 lbs since 2020. It’s a collection of little things that surprise me. For at least 10 years I couldn’t put on socks, or tie my shoes. I couldn’t bend over and pick something up. I couldn’t climb a ladder to fix something. Simple things like that I can do now that fascinate me."

"Edit: Some additional little things are sitting in a chair with arms, sitting in a booth in a restaurant, being able to shop in a normal store AND not needing to buy the biggest size there, being able to easily wipe my butt, and looking down and being able to see my penis."

– dma1965

People making significant changes, whether for mental or physical health, can surely find a newfound perspective on life.

But they can also discover different issues they never saw coming.

That being said, overcoming any challenge in life is laudable, especially if it leads to gaining confidence and ditching insecurities.