Ribs and bones?

OK, that title sounds a little gruesome, huh?! I was just curious if you all are feeling your bones stick out too much? The last couple of days my ribs are hurting me when I sit down. It's like when I sit down, my rib cage is hanging over and the bones are cutting into my stomach skin. It sounds weird but it hurts! My ribs are literally sticking out and I have never seen them before! My stomach skin is flabby so the lower part of that hangs down. But it's bizarre to see my rib cage and then a hollow sinking spot right around them. It looks kind of freaky! The other part that is bothering me is my spine. The bones on my spine are clearly visible now and on my lower back, they are sticking out A LOT. It hurts to sit in a chair with a hard back or spindles on the back because my back bone is sticking out so much. My husband says that it looks strange that my back bone is so clearly visible and you can feel it when you run your hand down my back. Now, my weight is 166 so it's not that I'm too skinny. Althought I know my body fat percentage is down around 18%. Is anyone else experiencing this? I'm not really complaining because a part of me thinks it's neat to see my bones! But sometimes it feels uncomfortable and I wonder what would happen when I lose more weight? Deanna

Oh goodness yes! I first noticed my hip bones. Then, it started to hurt when I sat down on anything that wasn't padded. I think we are just not used to it. I have often saw tiny people and thought...that's gotta hurt. Beauty is painful!!! hehe

My bones are not my friend.. I just noticed I have a bruise on my chest from working out. I have to sit on a cushion at work to keep from getting a bruise on my butt and I cant cross my arms because my boney arms hurt my boney ribs.. yes it is bad.. I am just bones everywhere I go.. So here is a funny moment I will share.. I go to my doctor a few months back because my butt was hurting.. I thought I was getting a psoriasis rash down there.. so now my doctor is down on her knees looking at.. yes.. my butt.. I tell her it hurts so bad I cant stand to sit on my arse... she starts chuckling and tells me.. well carla.. you dont have a butt.. you bruised yourself.. I say what.. she says.. yeah.. u got a nice bruise here on your butt.. well can we say.. embarrassed.. that was me.. I go to the doctor for a bruised fanny. So yes.. I got bones everywhere.. my hips, my ribs, my chest, my shoulders... and i am hurting myself all the time.. my back as well.. i couldnt lean back on a chair today because it hurt my back to hit the hard back piece. Yes I love it too.. having bones I can see.. it makes me feel good knowing I am thinner now.. but man.. it takes time getting use to it.. Heres another thing I have noticed.. how about you. I am so uncordinated now.. I knock myself over all the time.. things I use to be able to manage without worry now toss me around. I went to pull a weight out at the gym and I flew almost face first into the thing.. yesterday I leaned over on a chair to get something off the floor and I almost fell off cause I had no butt to roll to the side on. I am a comedy every day with in this area... and my family now thinks I am a toy to be carried around during the day.. even my younger kids think its fun to carry me.. save me someone...

Ha ha...I wish I had more bones showing by now. I'll have to settle for my collar bones, but they'll do nicely as I love them and have always got my hand flat on my upper chest feeling them. People must think I'm nervous or weird ( yes I know you lots KNOW i'm weird,!!!) Funny though that you should post this. Just last night I was getting into bed and felt new bones in my side. Feel this I said to hubbie, what is it, is it my hip bone do you think? Of course it is he replies, haven't you ever felt it before? Well uh no actually it's the first ever time (he's a skinny incase you were wondering!)

double goodness yes. my husband who is 10% body fat, no kidding, measured by a professional. thinks that I am JUST RIGHT (he is very warped and twisted) and my daughter who is more like 33% body fat, think that if it were not for my bat wings disguising the fact that I am skin and bones, that I would REALLY look anorexic. she said that from her perspective, that if I were to cut off all the extra skin, she is sure that I would be closer to 100-110 lbs instead of my estimate of 135 lbs. so she is 'concerned' but she has sincerely not said ANYTHING until I asked Tuesday's, about it. I am considering going to a 'professional' to accurately measure my body fat and see if I am right, or my husband is right, or my daughter is right. overall I think that I look okay. I wear the right size clothes and I eat plenty of food each day. I am overall healthy. went to my primary yesterday and she didn't recognize me but she said that I didn't look like 'other previously fat' people that have lost massive amounts of weight and looked all sunken or flappy or whatever. so I am hydrating enough that my skin is tightening nicely. body perception. I swear I really need an objective eye and I do not have one. everyone in my family either thinks that I look fantastic or tells me because we all know that this is better than what it was and that I seriously have no control. I obviously eat enough, that appears to be ALL I do!!! heehee I DO NOT LIKE ALL THE BONES!! btw.. for those that are 'watching me' heehee I dropped down another 2 lbs this month, so I am 'back' to 144 after a 6 week hiatus.

On the 'objective eye' thing: At the wedding this past weekend, most everyone..all but the bride and my husband had never seen me before. I thought it would be a good test to see if I was still considered fat or thin or even too thin. They treated me as if I was skinny. WEIRD feeling. Maybe you could go to a group or meeting or outing where you didn't know anyone and see how you are treated Rachael

so far when I go 'out' with people that do not know me when, they treat me like I am delicate. I swear, you would think that they thought that a good gust of wind will blow me away, and that if I were to lift something heavy, that I would just collapse. it is such a strange feeling. I picked up some teen girls, literally, off the ledge so that they didnt tear their dresses, they freaked, and thought that they were too heavy. it was hysterical to me. I have been picking up my kids for 22 years, so 100 lbs was nothing. heehee

I feel and see mine and my butt and back can hurt... I already have osteoporosis's and ostopina as well as scoliosis... so that does not help. But I am so amazed to see the outline of the bones its kinds weird.

i noticed my sternum sticks way out, and it gives me the heebie jeebies. sometimes i wonder if our bones got kinda out of whack from carrying so much weight around for so long. just a theory.