When did you stop feeling fat?

fteale

I hope this doesn't come across as an insensitive question. I just still find myself despairing over my reflection in the mirror, even though I know according to the numbers I am ok. I spend half my life still feeling fat, and the other half thinking I look great, then catching my reflection and thinking I look like a heifer.

So when did you get used to your new body?

ksmarathon2010

I haven't yet and I am 5'8" and weigh 137. I have lost a total of 80 pounds and still see myself as that weight. I have been around 137 for 6 months now.

janet_pratt

I'll let you know when it happens.

Jconner30

When my 42" jeans were too big - I felt happy I was loosing weight

When my 38" jeans were too big - I felt excited and PUMPED

When my 36" jeans were loose - People at work were calling me "The incredibally shrinking man"

When I put on 34"s AND THEY FIT!!! (This is where I am now) - I feel like I am not fat now

bjshooter

Nope, I still feel fat, maybe even fatter You would think after 53lb I would feel loads better, but I don't, feel like I still have miles and miles to go. Hope I get the wow, I lost weight feeling one day.

LaSweetMini

idk. I have the same problem. The more weight I lose, the fatter I feel. Whats up with that? :huh:

arw060310

Good question! I still feel fat. It seems like the more weight I lose, the fatter I feel. You would think it would be the opposite!

sc1572

I never feel "un-fat"...there are days I feel much better than others, because I am 5'5 and used to be at 160, and am now at 131.

BeckyReba

still working on that :P

lausa22

I'll let you know! It's lost 21lbs since starting and I still feel exactly the same.
Hopefully it'll be when I start to fit in my UK size 12's again, because that's what I'm aiming for at least.

McKayMachina

Makes sense. Before, if you were anything like me, you were in denial about your body. That meant you were blocking it out. Now you're aware.

I have more "fat days" now than I did 60 lbs. ago. I think "maybe when I lose the next 40 and reach my initial goal, that will all change." But I have friends who have lost over 100 lbs., are well within healthy limits for their height and STILL feel huge.

It may never happen. Just focus on feeling healthy. "Skinny" doesn't feel much different day-to-day.

But good work so far and stick with it. You can totally do this. Just don't expect a wildly different reality.

barleespringers

I would think, it's when you start loving yourself for who you are.

smketchum

I think a lot of it is mental. I am at my goal weight now, but I look in the mirror and I don't know that I would say I feel fat anymore but I see so many imperfections. My thighs are still not the size I want, I have a pooch in my tummy....and I think that just continuing to workout and tone my body will make me feel better and better. I know I am so much stronger now and will continue to get stronger and feel better and better the longer I stay committed to exercise and health. I think the trap is feeling like you are not perfect and never will be, so why bother. You bother because your health matters to you and your family and every mile you walk and weight you lift and donut you decline, you are one step closer to the you that you want to become.

bjshooter

Makes sense. Before, if you were anything like me, you were in denial about your body. That meant you were blocking it out. Now you're aware.

I have more "fat days" now than I did 60 lbs. ago. I think "maybe when I lose the next 40 and reach my initial goal, that will all change." But I have friends who have lost over 100 lbs., are well within healthy limits for their height and STILL feel huge.

It may never happen. Just focus on feeling healthy. "Skinny" doesn't feel much different day-to-day.

But good work so far and stick with it. You can totally do this. Just don't expect a wildly different reality.

I reckon that is spot on, I never ever cared, only lost weight for something to do and now I am a body obsessed freak

shesblossoming

I'm still fat, but I don't feel that way. I stopped feeling fat when I stopped acting fat.

I hope that doesn't come out the wrong way. My old habits were literally weighing me down... and my whole life now is completely different. My attitude toward everything has changed, and it just feels good.

fionat29

Never! When I lost 77lbs with ww a few years ago, I was the lowest weight I'd been and I was still taken by surprise when I saw my reflection in a shop window. This time round I am an even lower weight and I still feel fat. I think there is probably a body
dysmorphia thing going on. Husband tells me how slim I look and I just laugh at him.

juliesummers

I've battled various eating disorders over the years, and one thing they mentioned in the treatment center is that the thinner people got, the bigger they felt, the more obsessedthey were with their body, and the more attention they had on what they ate.
Obviously this won't apply to EVERYONE, but considering that most of us (in America at least) have an unhealthy relationship with food and body image, it applies to far more than just the ones with official eating disorders.

juliesummers

I've battled various eating disorders over the years, and one thing they mentioned in the treatment center is that the thinner people got, the bigger they felt, the more obsessedthey were with their body, and the more attention they had on what they ate.

Obviously this won't apply to EVERYONE, but considering that most of us (in America at least) have an unhealthy relationship with food and body image, it applies to far more than just the ones with official eating disorders.

juliesummers

I've battled various eating disorders over the years, and one thing they mentioned in the treatment center is that the thinner people got, the bigger they felt, the more obsessedthey were with their body, and the more attention they had on what they ate.

Obviously this won't apply to EVERYONE, but considering that most of us (in America at least) have an unhealthy relationship with food and body image, it applies to far more than just the ones with official eating disorders.

juliesummers

I did NOT mean to post that several times. My bad.

Becky1971

Never! Still do!