SydneySweetHeart

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

I have lost 70 pounds. I started at 285 and now I'm 215.

The past week has been very hard for me. I stopped losing weight and I was worried I wouldn't lose anymore. So long story short I got very depressed which I have had problems with depression. Well today I was on the highway and four cars in front of me wrecked and two of the cars came sliding towards me and some how I moved just the right way. Honestly I have no idea how I did it and the way the cars were coming my car would have flipped over a bridge. ( no one was injured) but I had the realization that life is precious and I'm only 3 weeks out of surgery and I have a lifetime left.

The past week has been very hard for me. I stopped losing weight and I was worried I wouldn't lose anymore. So long story short I got very depressed which I have had problems with depression. Well today I was on the highway and four cars in front of me wrecked and two of the cars came sliding towards me and some how I moved just the right way. Honestly I have no idea how I did it and the way the cars were coming my car would have flipped over a bridge. ( no one was injured) but I had the realization that life is precious and I'm only 3 weeks out of surgery and I have a lifetime left.

I have been working hard and I have lost 25 pounds but today I went to my grandmothers house and the first thing she says to me is that I look FATTER!! I wanted to cry. I had my surgery 2 weeks ago. I had lost 13 with the 2 week pre op diet and lost 12 the first week after surgery and the second I haven't lost any. So the mix of not losing weight and being told I look fatter my self confidence is lower then it has been ever before.

I had my surgery on the 13th and it has been an up hill struggle. I am thankful don't get me wrong but I have only been able to get maybe 300 calories a day. The first week I lost 12 pounds and second week haven't lost anything. I know I need to get more calories but I'm never hungry and food has never seemed so disgusting and everything sugar free tastes like bleach!!

Thanks everyone! This was very helpful! I think I'm going to start seeing a therapist sometime after surgery so I will be able to take the fat goggles of!

You see yourself everyday and have high hopes and goals. You probably wouldn't notice 10 lbs on your self but your family could. I was the same way. If after losing most of your weight you still feel like that I would talk to a therapist about it and get on track but I think you will notice it more and more especially with pictures. I felt like I wasn't seeing a difference., The scale was moving and my clothes weren't much different. Everyone was raving how great I looked. Once I compared my week before surgery to my month out surgery.. HOLY COW you could see it in my face especially.

Oh, how I have been there. It takes time for our mental to catch up with the physical part of us. Losing the weight as quickly. The Fat Goggles need to come off and will at some point. It takes time to adjust to the new you.
Sherri

Our brains play games with us. And it always will. We see ourselves one way and yet we are another. When an anorexic patient sees themselves, what do they see..fat...It is a matter of perception.
It will take time for you to see the new you and as you start seeing NSV you will start to see yourself differently. But trust me you will still have issues with how you see yourself. Being heavy for a long time makes us see ourselves as large for quite a while. It is part of the retraining of our brains. Learning how to eat better, exercise, take care of ourselves more and resolve what got us to the point where we needed this help.
I am 16 months out and still see myself as a very large woman. my daughter tells me all the time that I am not and that I see things with a fat head. I am working hard to overcome this issue....
Keep talking it out with your family and ask what they think. I know I have to because I always feel heavy! they are a great stabilizer for me.

So I'm on my two week diet and have lost 10 pounds and my whole family says I look like I've lost weight and I look great but for some reason I look at my self in the mirror I look fatter! So I'm worried I will lose 100 pounds and still see my self the same.

I will have to look into that! And I hope so too!