Body Image Issues

[rcain03@hotmail.com 1]

Thanks Brenda! I am going to try that exercise! Hopefully, I can lift my legs in the air...lol

[lauragshsu 6]

I love CJ Banks (they have a"normal" sized counter part called Christopher and Banks) clothes, but normally only when on sale.

I feel you too on the body issue. I'm a little less than half way to my goal, weighing 7lbs less than what I weighed the day I got married (more than 6 yrs ago), and still I only see limps and jiggly parts. What's funny, though, is people who have never met me don't see me as the "fat girl", even though I'm still heavy. People who havent seen me in a while are blown away. It took me finally looking at the pictures of myself taken right before surgery to make me see it. I knew I was heavy but my goodness, I never thought I looked *that* bad.

Part of me wonders why no one ever said anything. Then again, if they had said something to me, even at my highest weight, I would have cried, but still not done anything about it.

[CurvyCat 0]

So good to know that I'm not the only one feeling this way.

I too remember feeling fat in a size 14, size 12, even though I can't wait to get back in those sizes now.

I too look in the mirror and still see the same thing I saw 58 pounds ago. I'm not sure when the difference will click, but it's definitely not yet.

I still hate the way I look in photos, and can't see a difference there either. Fat arms, fat face, etc. Sure, the clothes are getting baggier and the number on the scale is getting smaller. But my brain is still stuck where it was. boo.

Not long ago, I found a Weight Watchers food/weigh-in log from when I was about 19 -- and at my smallest weight ever as an adult. I was 163 pounds, and obviously, those 13 pounds were way too many and I still saw myself as fat then.

I hope that someday I can wrap my brain around myself as a woman who is NOT overweight. That's something I've never been, even though I've been close.

Making the changes in my diet and relationship with food hasn't been TOO rough. Making changes in my relationship with my body may well be the hardest part of this whole thing for the long haul.