Maintenance panic / body dysmorphia?

localgrr

I'm taking a diet break, perhaps a permanent one? I felt like if lost a good amount. I've been on maintenance a week or so and I've been keeping in the numbers but I just feel so chubby all of a sudden. It's too soon to trust the scales which show an extra half kilo.

I've just become obsessed with the idea of getting abs and stuff and it just feels so far away. I feel like I'm never going to be happy!

MikePTY

I highly doubt your body composition has changed at much if at all in only one week. It seems like it is a mental thing related to body image issues.

We are all here because we have some part of our body that we wanted to change through fitness/weight loss, but likewise, we can never be truly happy with ourselves based on those things alone. Our bodies will never be perfect. Even the people who we look at as examples of perfect bodies, they have flaws too and many of them think that they themselves aren't perfect. So some of our satisfaction with our bodies has to come from inside. We can never be happy just on our progress alone.

DiscusTank5

Growing up, whenever I complained about being unhappy, my mom always told me about her Uncle Ken, who was stricken with polio at age 5. For the rest of his life, he walked with the aid of crutches but always said, "I am determined to be happy no matter what." And he was!

whmscll

I get what the OP is feeling. I’m still trying to lose body fat and am on track at .5 pounds a week. Mine are mostly vanity pounds, and some days I am really happy and can see small changes. But the other night while at country two-step lessons I looked at myself in the dance studio mirrors and felt that I looked like a WHALE. The next morning I had lost another .5 pound of scale weight.