When your brain and your sight can't agree about how you look

[lucky8]

I have this , especially in the gym when im looking my worst , no make up baggy clothes etc........i can see im losing weight but those awful mirrors just make you feel so bad when theres skinny minis all round you

[rainydays]

Originally Posted by MrsTee

I can relate to this in truck loads!

I never thought I was THAT fat ( when in truth I was huge).
And I still feel either
a) quite thin ( not true either I am somewhat less fat but no where near normal)
or b) the same as before - no different to my before weight.

And sometimes I can feel both these things is a day, an afternoon, an hour!!

Bizarre.

I can agree with this! I have periods of days or even just hours where I feel sooo thin (at least in comparison to almost 70 lbs. ago) and other days where I feel like a beached whale :/

[InsideMe]

Me! I have decided that I'm recovering from FATOREXIA. I thought I was all hot and sexy in my size 16's heck, isn't that the norm? Isn't that what we are told? But now that I'm down to a 12 I am so critical of myself and can't believe when I see pictures of myself now that I was really THAT big! Where was my head? Now I'm seeing how much more fat I need to lose. I see how good I look now, I'm leaner and down to a 12 BUT I have to remind myself that I have so much more to go before I fall back into my Fatorexia way of thinking. It's challenging that's for sure!

[sensualappeal]

Oh man I can totally relate. In both ways:

In high school, I lost 20 lbs by self hypnosis and it happened pretty randomly and I honestly didn't even notice it. I was the thinnest I've ever been at 116 lbs. Except when I saw myself in the mirror I still saw the bigger self, and I was self conscious. I thought I was fat. Now I look at pictures from back them and I'm amazed at how thin I was and how on earth I could have thought I was fat. Sad story lol

Then, I started gaining weight in college and I started feeling goof about myself. I felt pretty, I felt thin, I felt good. Until one day I saw picture of myself and there I was, back to where I started - 15 lbs packed on in 3 months. But I still didn't feel fat, I thought, it's just a bad angle, the weight isn't correct, I still look good, no worries. Then I gained more. And now I'm like wow I cant keep lying go myself any longer. I need to lose weight. So this is where I am now.

[ValRock]

Yup... I ask myself everyday when it'll go away. I still look in the mirror and see a 300 lb woman.