Do you ever think you'd be thin?
 

Oh yeah, I think like that almost everyday of my life. I myself have never been slim/thin/skinny/a healthy weight either. I have no idea what I will look like at a "healthy weight". Kind of scares me. It also discourages me, it makes me think I could never be thin.... :dunno:

yes....i know i have a small frame and i'm only 5 foot, but i just can't picture it. that is what i'm aiming though but i don't think my skin will be all tight and stuff, ya know. my skin has stretched and stuff so it'll look weird.

That thought crosses my mind everytime I think about my weight. I never been thin so I think I would always be the fat girl and just want to give up and go back to bad habits. But then I mentally slap myself, and say "baby steps, you'll never know till you try!"

I used to think it DAILY but then i saw people who were bigger than me and get down to be sooo tiny! so i said to myself one day that i CAN be thin.

I've never been real thin. I was a normal weight once but had big thighs and butt. I can't imagine myself being thinner. Every day I look in the mirror and see the same thing. I have to look at pictures to even notice my progress. I'm afraid I'll always think I'm fat.

Pretty much think of that everyday.. but I never give up hope. If I ever feel down, I read a story on here and know that I can do it! =]

I'm sure I must sound like a broken record on this forum sometimes, but I have been fat my WHOLE LIFE--from getting teased relentlessly throughout childhood, all the way to when I started my weight loss last summer. When I got my very first pair of jeans at 10 years old, they were size 18... Now, at ~175 lbs, I literally have not weighed this little since I was prepubescent and probably 6 inches shorter. So, quite honestly, YEAH, I have a d*mn hard time ever picturing myself as "thin," or even being an average, normal-sized person. Part of me knows that it IS possible, because I have seen it done by many of the amazing members on here... But I think it will take a very, VERY long time before I could ever self-identify as a healthy person... If I ever do! I just feel like, I don't even know what it means to be a normal-sized person, or how normal-sized people act, or anything, you know? It is ALL brand-new to me!! :p

It's REALLY hard for me to imagine being thin because when I WAS thin, I thought I was fat.

I remember being weighed when I was 14 (already as tall as I am now, pretty much done developing) and I weighed 138 and I thought that was like huge.

OOOOOH how I long to be 138 haha

this is the story of my life. i think it's why i have such a hard time committing and staying focused. it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. i've always been overweight and out of shape. so i just can't look past that.

Oh, same. I was just thinking today I wish I was as "fat" as I was in high school when I thought I was hideously fat, and I was between 135-145 the whole time. Heck, I'd be thrilled to be be 20 pounds or so "fatter" than I was then.

I can imagine getting down a bit, but hard to imagine close to my goal weight right now again, it's been a while now... One pound at a time I guess. ^_^

Same here. I used to be thin, but I had been heavy for so long it just didn't register that I was where I had wanted to be. The process seems so slow and of course you see yourself everyday, so it's not like running into people who haven't seen you in so long and notice right away. I did have thin "moments" when something that I never dreamed I'd fit into again actually fit and I'd be on cloud 9 all day. Oh well. Hopefully I will be there again soon and appriciate my accomplishment.

The smallest I ever was down to was 150 so sometimes i wonder if I'll EVER be 135- and I have no clue what I'll look like and the thought that I'll have to buy a completely new wardrobe seems so strange to me.

I think we all must feel that way at times and that's usually followed by a feeling of failure for me, but I'm trying to break that cycle and coming here is really helping!

I'm at a point where I feel like I will never be thin. I've been stuck at this weight for a few months. Whenever I see people post on here showing how good they look and say they did it by running a few miles 3-4 times a week, while I run about 30 miles a week and see no results on the scale. I'm trying not to give up though, I'll continue to run regardless and just pray that someday I'll look like the runner I want to be.

The thinest I've ever been was like 160 lbs I think...and that was with help of Chinese medicine that I can't even get over here.
I have always been heavy... I saw this pic from when I was in 6th grade and I look bigger than I am now. AND I was holding icecream in the picture! hah!
I don't even remember what I weighed when I was growing up...so it's really hard to tell or even imagine what I will look like. All I do is picturing people's reaction... You know, those you haven't seen in awhile and then WOW!

Onestar Make sure you are doing strength exercise.. That will def help you with toning up the skins, too, although it's not going to be perfect. :)

sm177, one thing you have to remember is that yes, there are people who lose faster even with less workout and more calorie than we eat...but they may weigh way more than you do. It's not that difficult to find those who weigh over 300 lbs and lose 20 lb in a month, if you search for them. You started at 140 and are at 113 right now. I'm at 176'ish. It will use up more calorie to move a body that weighs 176 than to move a body that weighs 113, even if both of us were doing exact same work out for the same amount of time.
So don't let that get you discouraged. You are sooo close!

I've often wondered if I would look so different when I'm thin that I'll be ugly and not even look like myself. I have never been thin either, I've always had extra weight. I can't even begin to picture what I would look like...

I feel the same way. I think my weight gain started after the incident with my heart when I was around 4 years old. Ever since I was overweight. I always think to myself I will never be a specific weight. Sometimes I think if I were to get there would I still have the thought in my head that I am still overweight. It's difficult but I don't want to give up. I wish I had a family memeber that would go through the weight loss process with me. I would give me more hope but I'm glad to have found 3FC. It actually really does keep me motivated. =D

oh my god YES!!

Dead-on, same story.
This chick was sucking in to save her life, and thought she was CHUNKY:
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Uhm. Can you say "delusional"???? :dizzy:

I was about 138 there as well... and I too would KILL to be 138 again, my god!
To answer your question tho, I... can't really picture myself "thin." Even when I was that size there... I'm actually about a size 8, maybe a 10. Define "thin." I think of sprightly little brunettes whose size 4 jeans are getting loose because they "forgot" to eat lunch that day. I don't think I'll ever be that girl, lol.

God I hope so. :)

Jelbb- ur avatar u look fantastic. :)

Awwww, thanks honey! I've pretty much deadened my hair with my straightener, but when it rains there's no point in trying to straighten it, since it'll just curl when it gets wet... so I had it curly last week. :P

its looks like a professional pic. u look like a model seriously. :)

I'm in the same boat. In high school I was probably around 140-150. I was always the heaviest kid around... but now 40 pounds later, I wish I was that fat again. I imagine when I lose it, I'll have my nice shoulders back and a jawline again, but I never really did have a pretty middle, so my hopes aren't too high in that department.

... yeah, I have a very distinct memory of being like 8 or something and my mother walking in on me staring glumly in the mirror, squishing my chest with my hands. She asked bewildered what I was doing, and I think I answered something about how all the fatter girls in my class had bigger boobs (I qualifying myself as "fat" at the age of 8).

I've been fat my whole life, so yeah. I never thought I would get this far. I dreamed I would, but I didn't have the confidence to believe it would be reality. I still don't believe it sometimes that I can reach a normal weight, or be thin. But I take it day by day and I'll get there. You will too!!

I find it hard to imagine myself as 'thin', but even harder to imagine what my life would be like to sustain that weight. I'm another one that has been overweight my whole life (actually weighed more in highschool than I do now), so I get into this mindset that to be thin I'd have to do something radically different from what I've done my whole life. That seems really scary, and I worry that I wouldn't be able to keep it up.

I have no goal weight for this very reason. I'm focussing on changing habits that don't freak me out: eating vegetables, portion control, exercise. I still don't see myself being thin at the end of it, but I already feel better in so many ways. I'm okay with never being thin, as long as I'm active, nourished, and happy with myself (I don't ask for much, do I? :P).

I know the feeling. when I was a senior in high school I weighed 145 and was sooo embarrassed that I weighed that much!! Although now I dont know if I could ever weigh that little again...but darnit I'm gonna try and hopefully I dont feel super uber FAT when I get down there:) STAY POSITIVE

OMG Jelbb, I have seen that picture before, but it always blows my mind that you could've ever thought you were fat... Just goes to show how weight can mess with our minds! :dunno: But you are so freakin' gorgeous, both in the "skinny" picture AND in your avy pic/all of the more recent pics you've posted. IMO you have supermodel status at ANY weight, chicky! ;)

Ya know, it's kinda funny, I never would've thought that I'd be saying something like this, but reading through some of the posts on here is almost making me think that in some respect, I'm a little lucky that I've never actually been a normal weight... I don't have any period of my life that I can look back and think Man, I was so skinny; why didn't I know it then? I've experienced quite an oppositional phenomena, where I look at pre-weight-loss pictures of myself and think, D*mn, I was much fatter than I felt!! :lol: But that also means that I don't have any regrets over the way I've viewed my body in the past. Even when I was delusional about being obese, at least I was relatively happy--I hated my body, sure, but it didn't consume me or anything. And now I know that I when I DO have a normal body, I'll be totally aware of it and all the hard work that went into getting it. It's like, because I've been at the other extreme, I feel like it makes me better able to truly appreciate what I have now. Am I making any sense? :dizzy:

i feel the same way... i mean.. currently i weigh 215, my goal weight is 160, well like two -three years ago, i was 160 and when i was... i thought i was fat then... and i look at pictures of myself then... and i wonder why people didnt smack me when i said i was fat. i guess its because even though i looked good in clothes, i still never looked good in a swim suit because i was small... but not in shape. and i can def. imagine the life style i would have and how i would feel being thin, i am a thin person on the inside, i just cant imagine ever actually getting there. I am scared that when i lose all my weight.. i'll gain it all back. even with exercise and healthy eating... that scares me.

All the time. I think that maybe I can get down to be "less fat" but me? Being thin? It's so hard to think that could ever happen when I've been overweight since I hit puberty.

honestly im petrified that i'll get down to goal and i will still be fat. At 115 i still felt fat, and one of my good friends called me her cute chubby friend.. so i dont know if ill ever be "thin"

I was overweight by the age of 3, obese by freshman year of high school, and morbidly obese by the time I graduated. Having never been thin, I never felt that it was possible, or at least never pictured myself that way. In fact, it wasn't until I realized this week that I'm only a pound or so away from having a normal BMI that it hit me that becoming thin is not impossible.

I totally relate to that feeling. This month has been a terrible month for me emotionally. I feel it'll NEVER happen (being skinny). My boyfriend and I are on a diet, he's lost 17 lbs. barely lifting a finger. Talk about frustrating. Reminds me of that one weight loss commercial where the lady is on a diet and she's like this is what happens when I lose weight (and her boobs shrink lol) now we're both unhappy...All this hard work and I seem to be going nowhere, SIGH. :stress: It really helps seeing these inspirational stories on here though.

Yes, I think I can be thin, even though I never have been. In a family full of overweight/obese people, my mother has been some little beacon of hope. She used to yo-yo diet before I was born and shortly before I came around, finally was able to control her weight. She is SUPER active but I guess that's what it takes. She's 5'1 and has been 105-115 my whole life, so almost 30 years.

I feel like my weight has been a rebellion to her sometimes obsessive working out--like I wanted to separate myself from her by NOT exercising and NOT watching what I ate. Now that I'm older, I want to make permanent changes and that's going to involve being more active and more food conscious.

Anyways, I know I can survive for years in the 120s, which is a healthy BMI and wearing a size 10.. but I'd love to live in the 110s.

I can relate, I think will I ever be thin again? In high school my senior year I was on the dance team/pep squad and was size 5/6 and that was after actually gaining some weight. Ever since I graduated I've progressively GAINED weight like nobody's business ( I've struggled with anixety, depression, etc but still) and ballooned all the way up to a size 18 at my highest weight! :( Sometimes I look at my prom pic for some inspiration, I'd LOVE to be that size again!