So when i was at my highest , i had weights that i felt like i would be happy with. Now that im hitting those numbers i'm happy the scale is moving but thought i would look different.Anyone else going through this ? I thought 170's would be cool not my goal but i size but before surgery it sounded good. Now i just feel a different kind of fat, still big....who else is finding these lower sizes are as satisfying as you thought

I worry about how I will mentally adjust to maintenance. I'm within pounds of my goal weight, but I've gotten used to almost 9 months of the scale moving down. It will be weird to have it stay the same. Maybe because I have yo-yo dieted for the last 15+ years, in my mind if the scale isn't going down it must be going up. I feel like that worry, is stealing the excitement that I should be feeling.

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Edited October 11, 20169 yr by losergrl75

With the hair thinning, the fat disappearing from our cheeks and the exhausted expressions looking back at us in the mirror, the self takes a while to get used to the new body..

the glow will come back once your body has adjusted to the new you. Right now it's staring at a stranger and that is alarming at first. It's not that you don't look good, it's just that you look different.

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Edited October 11, 20169 yr by Lema

Remember this journey is as much mental as it is physical. I would recommend seeing a therapist on a weekly or monthly basis to help your eyes see the improvements that the body is showing us.

Remember we have had years and years of society convincing us we are fat and ugly and unwanted.

We now have to teach ourselves we are a different person we used to be.

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I think for me i never felt fat. Not even at my highest. I guess some of it is cultural. Being aa, and in the south "THICK" is used to explain away obese. Nobody had a problem with my weight except me. Never called names to my face, hair and makeup is a hobby so I've always been the "pretty for my size" girl. I think now that i look back at pics and really see myself for what i was, i wonder i can i trust what i see if i couldn't see that?

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