Nobody is perfect. We all have things about ourselves we'd love to change.
Now the body is a beautiful mastery to behold, but sometimes a few upgrades or changes couldn't hurt.
You can still love yourself and and want to change or eradicate a thing or two.
Just don't be obsessive it let it define you.
RedditorIt_was_I_who_fartedwanted to hear about what physical parts of ourselves rub us the wrong way.
They asked:
"What's the most annoying thing about your body?"
My hair.
I want my old hair back.
The gray is not working for me.
And my fingers, I wish they were longer.
Don't ask.
Colors of the Wind
"I have three natural hair colours, blonde hair on my head, black eyebrows, and a beard ranging from blonde to light red to brownish. body hair is black too." ~ Naberius_Bune
Giphyhate needing meds...
"Epilepsy. As long as I need medication to keep functioning, I need to have a job with medical insurance. And if I change jobs, I lose insurance for a while." ~ whywouldistop1913
"I grew up on Medicaid/Medicare because my mom had epilepsy. Once they thought she had it under control, she got a job, car and started working. She died in a car crash because she had a seizure going to work early one morning. Yes, it sucks." ~ JackOfAllDevs
Go ask your doctor
"How much I sweat. I can grab a controller and just play whatever and two minutes later it's like someone was mouth breathing on it." ~ kaseadios
"Seriously, I went years just living with it and I know it did a number on my self-esteem and mental health."
"Then I asked my doctor and she was like, oh yeah, that's a medical condition, here's a pill for that. I cannot express how dumb I felt putting myself through all that. Go ask your doctor. Glycopyrrolate is the medicine I was prescribed, it works very well with minimal side effects (for me, at least)." ~ MisterMasterCylinder
A Close Shave
"The fact that the hair that my dad lost from his head seemed to magically appear on my butt." ~ benthebear3
"I'm 42 and have been shaving my head for close to 15 years because I was starting to get the horseshoe shaped hair of my grandpa on my mom's side (hair around the sides and back and bald on top). Meanwhile, my dad at 75 has full head of hair." ~ lipp79
I hate cancer.
I'm so sorry.
Good vibes all over.
Struck Down
"I get random freaking allergies out of nowhere." ~ Bruce-Led
"I developed 5 new allergies in my 20’s. As I grow older, my body is beginning to reject the world." ~ Itsafinelife
GiphyConnected to this bone...
"I have developed a hip problem that keeps me from running for exercise. Was my favorite pastime for 20 years." ~ DontShootTheFood
"This was a major issue of mine until I strengthened my glutes by laying on my side and writing the alphabet with my foot. I also started squatting with the bands which forces me to activate my outer glute. Sometimes stretching isn't the answer. Sometimes it's a strength imbalance." ~ jnickpeters
Gassy
"Anything and I mean anything I eat causes bloating and gas. I've tried the enzymes before eating, keeping a food journal etc and nothing. I'm to the point of not wanting to eat at all. It's just not worth the pain and discomfort. And unlike guys who think it's funny to be gassy, it's not so funny when you're a girl. 😥". ~ SkyRain1
I had no idea...
"Lack of a working pancreas." ~ MrPhoen1xx
"Same for me. Then my immune system took out my thyroid. Been this way since I was 2. Then blood clots caused a stroke. Went to the doc they said my hand quit working because of carpel tunnel 8 days later another blood clot stopped my heart for 5 minutes. Said type 1 was the cause. So anyway be vigilant and if your hand goes numb demand proper tests. I had no idea." ~ Mycatlovesbiscuits
Explosions
"I sneeze whenever I see a bright light. So any time I go outside. And I have a really explosive sneeze." ~ BloodieOllie
GiphyBowels
"Endometriosis. Basically my organs are fusing together."
CapaxInfini
"I had all of my female organs ( except 1 ovary) removed in 2017 due to stage 4 endometriosis and I had no idea it was even there. It was so bad that some of the tissue was attached to my bowels. I now have an area of bowel that cramps so bad when I have to poop that I can't hold it very well."
GuaranteeComfortable
Sucks
"It's a toss up between my knees that sound like twisting bubble wrap when i bend them, or the fact that i just recently was diagnosed with a sliding hiatal hernia. Im in constant pain and i shit 5 times a day, so probably that."
Ghost_on_Toast
"Hiatal hernia sufferer here, I feel you... I can't swallow fish oil pills without suffering massive pain and having to throw them back up because they won't fit through the hole to my stomach. Gummy vitamins only 😞. Sucks."
lexistripes
stretch marks forever...
"Used to be fat, stuck with stretch marks forever."
aRustyOldCan
"I got stretch marks from just hitting puberty. Thighs grow… stretch marks. Butt comes out… stretch marks. Hips widen… stretch marks. Boobs grow… stretch marks."
"They freaking SUCK! And there’s no way to get rid of them. But sometimes I look at them and they look like thin little rivers. Rivers that helped water our bodies to grow and become the body we have today."
notafoetoallenpoe
"safe"
"I have IBS, and my food triggers are very inconsistent. I will eat a 'safe' food for a few months and be fine, then out of nowhere it suddenly starts triggering my IBS. Doctors keep telling me I'm not trying hard enough to control my flares and symptoms with my diet. It's very frustrating."
Kindly-Mango1655
Spite
"My reproductive system. It's diseased and it's the bane of my existence. I know for a fact that it's out to spite me because I'll bleed for weeks, stop bleeding, then as soon as I decide it's safe enough to wear my pretty underwear, it starts again. It does it on purpose."
TheCounsellingGamer
Inhale
"Bad lungs. I use to be forced to carry Charcoal dust off the flatbed trucks delivering cheap coal in England 1978, I had to use a paper log rolling machine and fill them with the coal dust and make paper logs for our fire place. After a year I developed really bad asthma and am now 51 and carry oximeter, inhalers etc."
MarcoMontana
Godawful
"My freaking godawful eyesight that just keeps getting worse. Glasses cost so f**king much, and I need them for everything. Getting up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom? Glasses. Swimming? Prescription goggles. Sunny day? Prescription sunglasses. Cost? You don't even want to f**king know. And I'm only in my 20s so I don't even want to think how bad it's gonna be in 30 or 40 years."
Astrophysicist42
S
"I have scoliosis expect I’ve got the rare version of it that causes back pain. How does this happen? Instead of curving like an S like scoliosis normally does my spine curves the other way which is the only way scoliosis can cause pain!"
noobboi645
rare...
"I have a rare mutation of colorectal cancer spread to my liver, lungs and in my whole blood stream basically. BRAF G469R and KRAS E63K are my tumor mutations. 22 chemos and several surgeries later, my only option is to find a clinical trial that will stop (or slow down) cancer cells from spreading and growing. 32 years old."
coobek
Like come on?!?
"My boobs are annoyingly big. A 5' 4" girl should not have 36G (USA) boobs. I lost weight before Covid, from 177lbs to 155lbs (I now gained everything back sadly) and my boobs stayed the same. Like come on?!?! My best friend got a boob job recently, I really wish I could've just given her my tits cause I don't want them anymore!!!"
FugginCandle
big tits GIFGiphyDamn colds and allergies. That is clearly only the tip of the iceberg.
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.
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.
