Embarrassed by weight loss

stevwil41

I think that even as we lose the weight, we still have the overweight mindset. I think changing that is even harder than changing our bodies!

^^This, This, This!!^^

I can't tell you how long it took me to quit gravitating to the big and tall section when I was clothes shopping! On a slightly more serious note I see a trainer periodically to make sure I stay on track with my workouts and we had a very ernest conversation about different activities and things I hadn't been able to do because I'd spent a large portion of my adult life so overweight. Clinton pointed out that we weighed the same (he's a few inches shorter than me) and it didn't matter that he was in great shape and I wasn't, 215 lbs is 215 lbs and if he could do something then so could I. It took me a while to wrap my head around that concept but I walked around with a goofy grin on my face the rest of the day because I'll be damned if he wasn't right:) It was quite liberating and worth the price of the session even if all we did was have that conversation.

UponThisRock

Better than hearing: "you really let yourself go."

TNoire

I can see where your coming from but personally this actually helped me boost my confidence hearing people and there comments and I felt awesome about it I started a weight loss page on facebook cause I felt good and cause I wanted to help others and I had many say I helped inspire them to lose many many pounds, also is 100+ times better when my husband says I look amazing :blushing: even tho he loved me before I lost the weight I just feels so much better knowing I accomplished a lot!

I gained my weight from quitting smoking (almost 200lbs) and when my grandmother told me I got fat.... I knew I had to get back on track to the me I was before without the shyness ... not going back to 135 my highschool weight but I want to be comfortable