When Will My Mind Catch Up With My Body!?

[livvsmum 2,369]

This is craziness! I keep waiting for my head to catch up with my body. My eyes are still WAY too big for my mini tummy. I got a scoop of chicken salad for lunch and surrounded it with some goodies from the salad bar (spinach, beets, cucumbers), and I was stuffed after 4 bites of the chicken salad. Didn't get to the rest of the pretties. It's so weird.

My mind is still in the eat, eat, eat setting, but my sleeve is doing its job.

Another weird thing is that I've now lost 54 pounds, and when I look in them mirror I still see myself exactly the same as I was before. My mind is messed up! LOL

[Sleevie J 130]

I feel the same way. I keep going grocery shopping and I only buy the things I should have but I buy way too much. I have enough food and drinks to last me a year. This is really weird for me too. But I'm losing and I can definitely get used to it!

[FieryRed 55]

I do the same thing. I LOVE fresh produce, for instance, but it's hard to buy small quantities of certain things (because my practical brain says it's cheaper to buy MORE-- like a bag of onions versus one or two single onions). But if I don't limit the purchase, they go bad. I've started buying frozen veggies, since they last longer...even though I'd rather buy fresh. I do the same with chicken...I either buy chicken strips (fajita-style, precooked), frozen cocktail meatballs, flash-frozen individual chicken breasts (one makes two meals, of course), and small frozen fish fillets (Gorton's has some nice ones with no batter and they have glazes of varying kinds on them). Even eggs. I LOVE eggs...but now can never finish more than 1.5 scrambled. lol So stock up on stuff that you can keep long-term like frozen meats and veg, cans o' tuna, etc. But I still do buy fresh stuff...just make a promise to USE it before it goes bad! lol

[southernsoul 773]

I am the exact same way! I started using only my little salad plates instead of dinner plates & I still put too much stuff on it. It's been really hard to get past the "clean your plate" mentality, too. I find I have the weirdest leftovers in my fridge, like one thin pork cutlet or half of a sausage link. In the past I would never have kept such a small amount of something, but now it's enough to make a whole other meal for me.

For a long time, I could see the difference in my body in pictures (and of course I knew that my clothes size was going down), but I couldn't see the difference in the mirror. Somewhere around 70 pounds that started to change, but I still can't see the difference in my face. It really is very weird how that goes.

[scarlet333 386]

I agree so much with the other posters. I finally broke down and bought some new pants since nothing fit except sweat pants and I had absolutely no idea what size to buy. I started with a 14, too big, size 12, too big and to my shock and delight I fit comfortably into a size 10. But every time i am putting on the size 10s I can't believe how tiny they look and still have anxiety that I'm not going to be able to pull them up over my thighs. I am still surprised every time that they fit. Only bought a couple of pair because hoping to still loose. Life is great! The sleeve is the best health decision I have ever made.