Feeling REALLY fat...

[QUEEBELL]

OK. First let me say I really am not looking for compliments or even encouragement here. What I am looking for is comments about this subject. I am almost 6 months out and I have lost 100 pounds. Still when I look at myself in pictures and in the mirror all I can see is fat, fat, fat. I'm by no streach of the imagination done losing weight. I'm still 186 lbs. My issue is that eventhough people keep telling me how great I look I still feel really fat. I was just looking at the pics from my birthday party and thinking how unbelievably fat my face looks. I don't feel like it has changed at all. My trainer said that some of her clients have said how much weight I've lost, but I still feel gross. I've felt this way a little since the start, but now it's getting really bad. Is there a time when this stops? I know about the whole "body dismorphia disorder" I just want to know if anyone else is feeling this way or has in the past? How did you deal with it? I'm not depressed at all, but it would make more sense if I were, right? Weird...

[Regina]

Isabel I think I understand what you are saying. I know that when I lost all my weight in the beginning I still felt fat. I would look in the mirror and would see that fat person that I have always seen for years and years.

We were over weight for so long that our minds haven't caught up yet. So, even though you are still thinking you see your face as being fat it is not. Our minds need to catch up.

I went ahead and updated your picture so you can see what your face looked like when you first started this journey and how it looks today. This is why I tell everyone to take that Before picture so when we start to feel this way we can look back and say WOW. I can see the difference and I am sure most of our members here will see it as well when they look at the pictures. So, try to think positive and think of how far you have come in 6 months. Focus on that and not what you think you see. ;)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/LRJD/Dr%20ALLAM%20FOLDER/isabellljpgTOGETHRBEFOREANDAFTER-3.jpg

[QUEEBELL]

Thank you for that. I hope my mind catches up soon. LOL

[Lee3]

I know exactly what you are talking about- I know the scale says I weigh less and my clothes are smaller but my reflection looks the same to me. I see things on my body like real collar bones and knees. My wrists are smaller my rings are falling off but my reflection is still the same old me. What is that?????? Maybe I want to look like someone else? What is wrong with me?