Body Dysmorphia

[AmberMarieRDA 4]

Thank you for feeling the way I feel!!!! Some days I feel like i'm 250+ pounds again, anxiety about booths, or ppl looking at me when I walk into a food joint! then days I look into a mirror and my face looks like skin and bones, but I feel fat. I still have 30 or so lbs to go and I too have ppl telling me to stop loosing weight! I've never felt certain bones in my body before and I've never been the size I am as an adult! But there are still those days that creep up and I feel like Jaba the Hut!!!

[ericaharrod 28]

I have only lost 38 pounds so far, but I lost 80 pounds before and still felt obese. I was talking with my dh about this and he has a theory. It will take as much time as you were obese to feel skinny. So in my case, I have been obese for 15 years, so it will take 15 years after I lose weight to feel skinny. It seems to make sense to me, what do you all think?

[his_spirit 62]

I haven' t lost a lot so far but have dropped a couple of sizes in clothing. I don't know about others but i have a huge range of sizes in my closet from yo yo dieting over the years. Never could get rid of the smaller sizes as I was keeping them for "one day". Many I have not been able to fit into for years. The other day I was cleaning out my closet and looked at a dress and thought I would try it on for fun never thinking it would fit and not only did it but it was loose.

I have been this way my whole life too, even when i was young and relatively thin I thought that I was way bigger than I actually was.

[Leisha249 24]

I lost alot of weight on Phen Fen a years ago. I was a size 8 and still felt fat. After I gained it all back and went back and saw those pics I was shocked at how thin I really was. People ask me all the time how much more I'm going to lose. I still feel soooo fat. But I know I looked fine at a size 8 and will be happy when I get there, (and I will get there) I don't know why we have such a hard time with body image, but that maybe one of the reasons we allow ourselfs to regain, cause we never felt that we were a good size so what did it matter. We already were fat in our mind so our body just followed along. Maybe. I just think it's a very important part of our struggles.