Do you feel thin, even when you're not?

LumberJacck

A lot of people here on MFP have talked about how they "feel fat/big even though they are not fat/big anymore". Well I have the opposite feeling. I was thin up until the age of about 29, so in my head I feel thin even though I'm not. This means I have a tendency to over eat and hence gain weight, even when I supposedly am trying to lose weight. Anyone else like me?

arussell134

YES!!! It's funny you mention this, because I was *just* thinking about this the other day. I have (or should I say, had) been thin all my life - until following the birth of my 2nd child. I knew I had a few extra pounds, but considered myself generally not bad/thin.

It took a doctor telling me to get active and facing my actual weight and the fact it didn't fall on the "normal/healthy" range for my height to realize I needed to do something about it! I have also run marathons before so I think in a way, I'd hung my hat on past successes and somehow justified my lack of activity the last couple years.

After three months of hard work, I'm down 15 pounds - still not where I need to be, but getting closer.

chadya07

i feel...

ok i am still very overweight but i am now fit... in that even though i have a lot of body fat i have strength and stamina i never had. and so when i walk i walk like a much thinner person. and when io look in the mirror i see future me, and not as much of the fat me. even though i am there. if that makes sense.

its such a huge difference to me that i sometimes walk around with confidence i didnt have before.

i can never have a ghost of thinness because i havent been thin since i was 10... so i know it isnt eactly what you meant. but its my thought on it.