How long did it take for your mind to catch up to the scale?

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  • vespiquenn
    vespiquenn Posts: 1,455 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    I think I'm always behind. 92 pounds down and the first sixty, I saw little change. Now, I see some change, but not 92 pounds of change.

    I think my mind will catch up when I stop losing. It's always playing catch-up because I'm still losing, KWIM?

    That's what I'm hoping for too. Once the weightloss stops, the mind will have a chance to comprehend what has happened and actually appreciate what it's seeing. :D

  • shylady76
    shylady76 Posts: 134 Member
    In my head I am still at 220. I haven't been there in over 2 years. I don't know if my mind will ever catch up to the scale.
  • HippySkoppy
    HippySkoppy Posts: 725 Member
    I am so pleased for those that haven't had too hard a time with their mind catching up with their new physical appearance and lower weight.

    For me, I think I will ALWAYS struggle. I suffer with body dysmorphia - It was instilled in me from a very young age by my family that I was fat (even though looking back a pics that just isn't the case).....ironically my obese older Sister was the main protagonist. :'(

    I have struggled with subsequent ED's and had many years of Counselling and CBT....it has mitigated the trauma and lessened the daily impact and for that I am grateful but still though....If I am having a tough day and mentally low the old disordered thinking rears its ugly head.

    I still find myself astounded when I catch a glimpse of myself in a window or a mirror.....I don't recognise myself and I do believe that I have a permanent mental picture of myself at least 30 lbs heavier than I really am.....and I am nearly 3 years into successful maintenance. :s

    Thank God for good, honest friends and Husband, and MFP which has given me so many useful tools to help combat this way of thinking. Daily weighing, measuring and logging have really put my actual reality into focus.....I'm not fighting those thoughts anywhere near as much.
  • KittensMaster
    KittensMaster Posts: 748 Member
    2 or 3 XL to medium shirt

    44 to 32 jeans

    It is very different but I am slowly getting used to it

    My hobbies are all new. Friends are pretty much 75% new

    I'm getting used to the vastly different life.

    This weekend was 115 miles on the bike getting ready for a sprint triathlon.

    That just sounds funny to even say!
  • karyabc
    karyabc Posts: 830 Member
    HippySkoppy wrote: »
    I am so pleased for those that haven't had too hard a time with their mind catching up with their new physical appearance and lower weight.

    For me, I think I will ALWAYS struggle. I suffer with body dysmorphia - It was instilled in me from a very young age by my family that I was fat (even though looking back a pics that just isn't the case).....ironically my obese older Sister was the main protagonist. :'(

    I have struggled with subsequent ED's and had many years of Counselling and CBT....it has mitigated the trauma and lessened the daily impact and for that I am grateful but still though....If I am having a tough day and mentally low the old disordered thinking rears its ugly head.

    I still find myself astounded when I catch a glimpse of myself in a window or a mirror.....I don't recognise myself and I do believe that I have a permanent mental picture of myself at least 30 lbs heavier than I really am.....and I am nearly 3 years into successful maintenance. :s

    Thank God for good, honest friends and Husband, and MFP which has given me so many useful tools to help combat this way of thinking. Daily weighing, measuring and logging have really put my actual reality into focus.....I'm not fighting those thoughts anywhere near as much.

    just to add that if that's you, on your profile picture, you look amazing!
  • Yoshirio
    Yoshirio Posts: 242 Member
    Im down 77.While I am certainly more fit and feel great.I dont see any difference in the mirror.
  • 915kat
    915kat Posts: 61 Member
    I'm 25 lbs down and yes I have a problem... even in pictures I feel there's nothing major. Like yes I see little differences; but I still "see me".
  • victoriagaro
    victoriagaro Posts: 1 Member
    915kat wrote: »
    I'm 25 lbs down and yes I have a problem... even in pictures I feel there's nothing major. Like yes I see little differences; but I still "see me".
    Exactly what I feel!
  • mike_ny
    mike_ny Posts: 351 Member
    I think I just notice my remaining fat more that I've slimmed down. Before I was big all over and pretty well distributed. Now I have a few annoying stomach areas that are taking their time coming off while most other areas look fine.Since I'm focused on specific areas like that, I definitely notice them more.

    Because of that I often feel more self conscious about my body now than I did when I was obese.
  • oh_happy_day
    oh_happy_day Posts: 1,137 Member
    Intellectually I can see a difference but emotionally I'm kind of like "but where did it come from??" I think I also critique myself more closely and my goals for body composition have shifted, so I focus on how far I have left to go and I still feel fat. I still think I'm hot, just hot and fat. :D
  • HippySkoppy
    HippySkoppy Posts: 725 Member
    @karyabc Thank you so very much for your kind words....I'm truly touched. <3
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,609 Member
    I've lost 45 lbs.

    I look at myself in the mirror, and to me, I still look the same as I did when I started.

    I was even looking back at some of the photos which were taking when I was up around my peak weight, and in a few of them, I see a slight difference between me then and me now. But in most I don't see a difference.
  • HB1032
    HB1032 Posts: 4 Member
    I have lost almost 35 pounds in the past 6 months. I am 5'10 F down to 155 pounds. I still feel chubby and don't feel like I look too much different from starting point :(
  • MissElectricEyeliner
    MissElectricEyeliner Posts: 122 Member
    38lbs down and my mind is still lagging, but see the difference in the glass when I walk past the ice cream at the store.
  • pstegman888
    pstegman888 Posts: 286 Member
    I only lost 13 pounds so far (well, after restarting in June - I also had a 20 pound loss a few years ago but then had to take time out for 2 surgeries). I haven't quite hit Onederland yet, but I see and feel a difference every single day. I was always fit and at a healthy weight in my younger years, and gaining weight after a long illness was a big shock. I guess my mental image is still as a smaller person, because I'm always surprised at my larger reflection in a mirror. But definitely seeing & feeling some bones emerging, the fat layer melting away, flatter abdomen, clothes fitting looser all the time, moving a lot more comfortably, etc. It's encouraging, because I can already see where I will be in another 25 or 30 pounds.
  • Osiris275
    Osiris275 Posts: 228 Member
    I started in February. Lost 55lbs now. Only last week did my mind see me as a lot thinner than I used to be!
  • TamLam99
    TamLam99 Posts: 247 Member
    the scale and my clothing show a 27 pound loss, the mirror doesn't yet.
  • kdz526
    kdz526 Posts: 210 Member
    My son's friends father said "You are getting tiny! what are you doing??" I actually looked down at myself and then looked at him and was like "what do you mean, I am not getting shorter! there is no way I am getting shorter!" I KNOW I am smaller, but i more often then not feel like a chunky monkey. I am still in the overweight range but have gone from 18's down to 7/8 in my fav style of jeans with almost 20 lbs left to lose. Its taken me years of starting and stoping (not gaining just maintaining while i stopped), and I still feel like I am the biggest one in the group (even though I know I am not). I think it just takes time and patience and positive attitude. Some of the looking in the mirror and thinking how awesome you are and how much progress you have made. Measuring tapes help too cause, I can not tell the difference in my trouble spots, but I can see a physical measurement of them getting smaller.
  • gramarye
    gramarye Posts: 586 Member
    I've lost 95 pounds over two years -- and unless I'm looking at a picture of myself from before I lost weight, I still think I look the same pretty often. ("Oh, well, I grew my hair out, but I don't look different.") And some of that is that I still have the same general body type. I never really took in my whole weight before -- I picked out the parts of my body I didn't like. I do the same thing now.

    It's a dysfunctional habit that I try actively to break, but it still happens. The more I don't do that, the most I realize that I've changed.
  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    It took longer to get used to it than the number of years that I was actually very large. :)

    I didn't see it all all until I had lost 80 pounds. Taking photos helps.
  • 365andstillalive
    365andstillalive Posts: 663 Member
    edited September 2015
    I still have days where I feel big, or like I'm not where I want to be, or like absolutely nothing has changed. I agree with others, pictures help. I've lost a little over 80lbs and I'm not in a healthy range for my height, CLEARLY everything has changed, my mind just doesn't always agree.

    I actually had one of those days yesterday, so I delved through social media and found pictures of when I was at my heaviest and threw a few in my profile. And yeah, things have really changed. Now I'm just working on consistently seeing that in the mirror.
  • 1mumrevolution
    1mumrevolution Posts: 269 Member
    For me, it took ages. I'm 18 months in and 41lbs down. A photo shoot in August 2015 confirmed for me what others saw but I couldn't see.
  • leahle0004
    leahle0004 Posts: 5 Member
    I'm down 90, and I don't see a difference yet. Logically, yes, my clothes are smaller and I can see a difference in pictures, but when I look in the mirror I see what I've always seen.

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