After weight loss!

jqpublic · May 31, 2006

Doe,s any body else feel this way! Qustion after you have lost your weight.did it take you a while to see your self as being thin?

for me it took just a few weeks ago too see how thin I really was.

Elisabethsew · May 31, 2006

When I lost 200+ pounds, I never saw myself the way others did. I would see a person and ask, "Am I the same size as she is?" Body image is a strange process and I think the longer a person is morbidly obese, the longer it takes him/her to "see" themselves the way others do. I remember getting a surprise glimpse of myself in a mirror and being shocked it was ME I was looking at. Similarly, when I would shop for clothes, I ALWAYS picked clothes that were too large to try on thinking, THAT size would never fit me... but it did.

Jachut · May 31, 2006

Although I answered in Pnut's post that I never saw myself as really "big" either, I have stuck in my head that I'm a "big girl". I am taller and larger built than most women, yet still smaller than most men. However, I was bigger than most boys in late primary school and throughout high school.

I've learned to appreciate myself as "Amazonian", lol. I really dont think I"ll ever feel thin because I didnt feel think when I was 70kg, and I dont feel any fatter now than I did then either. I feel just the same.

Gawd, I need a drink. Its wine o'clock here. That made no sense did it?