You know how you see yourself? Maybe you feel inside that you are a certain age, different from your biological one? Or maybe the image you have of yourself is who you really feel you are, but isn't very present on the outside?
Well, I see myself a certain way, and I have always acknowledged that I am severely overweight. And while I know my weight is too high, I don't always feel like I am the
I was walking yesterday, and I don't know why, but it just popped into my head that I am that "fat woman". Do you have an image of what I mean? The proverbial fat woman we have all grown up around? I am not saying this as a put down, just as an acknowledgement of my own weight issues, and that while I know the numbers on the scale, I have been kind of disconnected from what it really means.
I realize that when all of the mirrors in your house only show you from the waist up, it is easy to get this image of yourself that may not be true. Inside, I feel like I am overweight, but, I don't feel like I am super big. However, I have to admit that my weight at my height is both extreme and unhealthy. I forget where I was yesterday, but as I was walking I realized that I really am more overweight than I see myself.
I think that the more I am able to see myself, then the more I am able to realize that I can make myself the person I want to be, and also reconnect on a deeper level with my body. I think that there may be a lot of us who are so aware of who we are mentally, but there is this disconnect from our bodies?
Does anyone else feel the same?