Ladyfyre’s “slap across the face” posting got me to thinking. My experience was so different from hers that I started wondering how many people had my type of experience.
As long as I can remember when I looked in the mirror I saw an obese person. In college many years ago I was very fit. I did not have a car and either rode my bicycle or walked everywhere I went. I weighed in the low 120’s the entire time I was in college but I always thought that I was fat. I remember eating in the college grill in the midafternoon when there were fewer people around. I thought that people were looking at me thinking that I should not be eating that hamburger and fries because I was so fat. I hid to eat because I was ashamed.
When I started gaining weight, I could not see it. My body started fitting my body image.
Did anyone else have this experience?