I've been at my current weight before. My ticker says 166, but I got off track and gained back 10 pounds. Now I'm on that weight loss track again, or at least trying (I can't seem to keep my head in the game), and revisiting the same weights a second time around.
The last time I was at my current weight, 171, I felt great! I thought I looked great! I'd see pictures of myself and think I looked good, not fat!
Now I'm here again, and I think I look quite heavy, and I don't think I look that good. This was confirmed when I was looking at some pictures from a couple of weeks ago. My face looked a lot fuller, and I thought I looked heavy. Still not bad, but heavy.
I wonder if it has to do with maybe some water retention. When I'm actively dieting, I'm better about drinking water, and the foods I choose to eat have less affect on my body where water retention is concerned. I could see in the pictures that my face looked fuller, and the areas along my jaw line were less pronounced. It could very well have been the lighting or angle or whatever, but the pictures really seemed to show a fullness to my appearance. I wasn't even overly critical. I thought I looked OK, in the pictures, just more puffy.
Then I think there is the psychological factor. I think there is something to be said about how when we feel good, we we look good. When we feel beautiful, and confident, and skinny, we project that and others see beauty and confidence and maybe even skinny. We hold ourselves differently. We project differently. When we feel frumpy, dumpy, others notice that too. They might not necessarily see us as big as we feel, but they do pick up that negative vibe. Does that make sense?
Last edited by twinieten; 04-09-2012 at 09:07 AM.
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