When do you FEEL skinny?

arewethereyet

Today I wore my goal jeans!!

The ones I bought 35 pounds ago, thinking: "No WAY I will ever fit in these....what was I thinking??"

I decided to tuck in a tight black shirt and wear a belt. Anyone who has gained weight knows what that means. It has been 15 yrs since I tucked in a shirt and wore a belt.

I kept putting my arm across my belly because I still feel fat. I kept waiting for someone to tell me I had no business wearing this outfit in public!

How long does it take for our minds to catch up with our weight loss?

I mean seriously, if my friend told me she felt fat in her size 6 petite Levi Strauss jeans, I would laugh at her.

Just sitting her thinking.....wondering if others feel the same way?

Have a great weekend my MFP friends! I love you all for the roll you have played in my weight loss and healthy new lifestyle!!

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vhuber

You look sooooo cute!! I don't know what to tell you about "when" we will feel skinny but some days I truly do! Like last Sat. evening we went to a friends Pub open house! I pulled my size six Levis on and they are now LOOSE (had to wear a belt) after doing the 60 day Insanity series! I wore a lime green top tucked in and i had people but especially men say I was skinny! I am NOT skinny, I am at a healthy weight and I am FIT!!! I must say, I really do like my body now and I have definitely earned it!!! Peace comes from within and maybe when you are my age you will feel it too!! Good job and NEVER go back!

swtally80

I posted about this exact same thing a while back! Its ridiculous our mind stick back there at our high weight! I know I wear 6-7 sizes smaller than I used to but my mind still sees the roll/muffin top, I wish I felt like the skinny girl people tell me I am. Someday maybe we'll get used to this lol!

stef_e_b

Wow, congratulations!

I feel skinny when my newest size of jeans feel loose straight out of dryer. I love when that happens!

kchabby76

Ha! I used to be skinny, and now I am looking to lose the weight again. I was a size 4 before children. I remember NEVER feeling skinny. There was ALWAYS some weight to be lost, something that looked fat to me. Good luck in your endeavor; and you do look fabulous. Keep telling yourself you look great, it will eventually work.

elephantmeg

I lost 40 lbs about 4 years ago. It took me about a year to start feeling like I was slim. And then since then I've had 2 babies so I've had to redefine myself twice more but still even with that I think my over all view of myself has been more slim than not if that makes any sense?

jwtomboy

Just the other day I had thee cutest jeans and only two months before they were so tight i only wore them to Church and other short periods of time. But just Saturday... I put them on and they literally fell off! Best day eva I was really happy.

lisaaan

Soooo feel the same way,

Last week the scale read I had lost 4 pounds, in a week. i weighed myself three times not believing what I saw...then i started to think that it was wayyy to much weight to lose so fast, prhaps there is something wrong with me[some disease or something}......

For me losing weight signifies my inability to hide from the world....no one really notices me when I am overweight...just the funny smart girl...

I remember when I was 40 pounds lighter than what I am now, and I swear when i looked in the mirror, I saw the reflection of myself as I am now{40pounds heavier}...my eyes/brain did not see the image that was in the mirror, just the overweight girl that has been there for 30years.....

I just wrote about this in my Thursday weigh in group... so glad I surfed around tonight to see your post

BrendaLee

I think it's pretty common after weight loss...your brain can't quite catch up with your waistline. Let me say, you look fabulous though.

toots99

Today I wore my goal jeans!!

The ones I bought 35 pounds ago, thinking: "No WAY I will ever fit in these....what was I thinking??"

I decided to tuck in a tight black shirt and wear a belt. Anyone who has gained weight knows what that means. It has been 15 yrs since I tucked in a shirt and wore a belt.

I kept putting my arm across my belly because I still feel fat. I kept waiting for someone to tell me I had no business wearing this outfit in public!

How long does it take for our minds to catch up with our weight loss?

I mean seriously, if my friend told me she felt fat in her size 6 petite Levi Strauss jeans, I would laugh at her.

Just sitting her thinking.....wondering if others feel the same way?

Have a great weekend my MFP friends! I love you all for the roll you have played in my weight loss and healthy new lifestyle!!

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I was just thinking this today!

And I think you look amazing in your picture, I love it!

arewethereyet

thanks for the compliments and the comments.

:drinker: :drinker:

mmnichol

You look great J!!!! Shake that thing girl!!! :laugh: :laugh: :drinker:

erikazj

You look fab. I don't know when the brain will catch up! For me, some days I feel skinny (or at least skinnier), but then I have other days when I still think I look terrible. Perception is a strange old thing.

Erika x

ilike2moveit

When I look good naked because clothes can cover a lot of flaws. You look great!:noway:

AwMyLoLo

You look fab. I don't know when the brain will catch up! For me, some days I feel skinny (or at least skinnier), but then I have other days when I still think I look terrible. Perception is a strange old thing.

Erika x

This is how I am. Some days I feel fabulous like I have a rockin body... other days I sit at work and pinch my belly fat all day and constantly look at my thighs flattened out in my chair... :noway: Sometimes I feel great that I have lost 10 pounds. Sometimes I think I look worse than before I lost weight. This past Monday I went into the bathroom at work and my "double chin" was like WHOA... when recently, I had been able to see and feel a difference in my face and chin. It seems like the better your body gets, the easier it is to find flaws.

arewethereyet

Thanks again for the compliments. They mean a LOT to me!

I was talking to a young girl at work who is in my opionion, perfectly shaped and proportioned.
Her tummy is flat, she has a curved booty, she has a slim waist and her arms are thin with muscles. Due to her age she has none of the sagging skin issues associated with living 48 yrs

She said she hates her thighs. :noway: Really? what about them? too wide.

I pointed out she looks like a woman and what size pants do you wear?? Size 6!! SIX?? I wear a size six. THAT made me feel thin!!! Now she is 4 inches taller than my, so her 6 is my 4.............but STILL!!

I hugged her and told her she is beautiful. To enjoy her young healthy body and see her hotness when she looks in the mirror. Life will change it and she will look back on these pix and say WOW I was HOT!!.

SO I decided to do that now. At age 48. I mean will I not look at my pix of today when I am 68 and say....dang, which I had that _____ insert body part!!:happy:

I hope everyone can see their hotness today!!!

Tamishumate

Love your new pic you look fab!
I still catch a glimpse of myself in a store mirror and think its someone else. Cause that normal sized girl can not possibly be me! I look at clothes and think no way will that fit me , and it does. Our brain can't catch up to our bodies I think. Its a real issue I struggle with.

courtney_love2001

I was packing for Thanksgiving break and saw a size 8 jeans in my closet. I wear a 10 comfortably now, but I thought, no way can I fit them on and be comfy. Welllllll I put them on and walked around my room, looked at myself in the mirror....Is that really me?? Not a muffin-top to be seen anywhere...

I rarely have "fat" days anymore and it feels great!

And I see that you made it to your goal...congrats and you look amazing! Hope you stick around because we all benefit from your positive attitude and uplifting spirit! :flowerforyou:

webe

I have pants that are starting to get big and I say "finally" But then I realize that they are newer, smaller pants than I was wearing this time last year. Time for some more new pants soon.

InnerCutie

You look sooooo cute!! I don't know what to tell you about "when" we will feel skinny but some days I truly do! Like last Sat. evening we went to a friends Pub open house! I pulled my size six Levis on and they are now LOOSE (had to wear a belt) after doing the 60 day Insanity series! I wore a lime green top tucked in and i had people but especially men say I was skinny! I am NOT skinny, I am at a healthy weight and I am FIT!!! I must say, I really do like my body now and I have definitely earned it!!! Peace comes from within and maybe when you are my age you will feel it too!! Good job and NEVER go back!

:laugh: I believe she is just 2 years younger. You both look amazing much better than I do at the 23 years of age

vhuber

You look sooooo cute!! I don't know what to tell you about "when" we will feel skinny but some days I truly do! Like last Sat. evening we went to a friends Pub open house! I pulled my size six Levis on and they are now LOOSE (had to wear a belt) after doing the 60 day Insanity series! I wore a lime green top tucked in and i had people but especially men say I was skinny! I am NOT skinny, I am at a healthy weight and I am FIT!!! I must say, I really do like my body now and I have definitely earned it!!! Peace comes from within and maybe when you are my age you will feel it too!! Good job and NEVER go back!

:laugh: I believe she is just 2 years younger. You both look amazing much better than I do at the 23 years of age

When your 50 just about 51 two yrs is alot, just jokin! lol Hang in there sweetie and your goal will be achieved too! I am glad you began this journey now instead of later when health issues, aches, pains and stretched skin started showing up! I thank you for the compliment and I truly wish for you success!

havingitall

Jeannie you look amazing! Your pictures truly show a wonderful glow from within and a healthy body on the outside!

My mind still plays horrible tricks on me. The women in my walking club, who didn't know me at my heaviest, asked me to bring a before picture to show them because they are all excited for me with my weight loss. I printed one off and I didn't see a huge difference in it. My friend was over and she looked at it and said "holy cr@p!!". I asked my husband and daughter if there was a big difference and they looked at me like I was insane and said their was a HUGE difference.

There are days I feel very fit and strong and other days I feel like the old me. This weekend wasn't the best for eating so I felt a lot like teh old me:ohwell:

karleen

im back into my 'fat jeans' from before i got pregnant. [lost weight before i got pregnant also so these are the jeans that were the fat jeans back then!] and i actually feel pretty good in them. seeing as ive been captain sweatpants for the past 4 months now to be in jeans [normal jeans not stretch ones haha] is weird.

went to pick my babys daddy up and got out of my car so he could drive only to hear 'wowwww youre wearing jeans, they look GOOD' which basically made my weekend haha. but i still dont feel skinny! [im not by any means haha. but its nice to be back into jeans for sure]

bellinachuchina

I feel the SAME way! Friends and family are saying "you look so good, you're small, etc.", but I just don't believe it yet. I still feel 244lbs. in my brain, probably the same way when I felt like I was 170, when I was actually 244! lol Isn't it funny how our mind acts? After all of this hard work we should be able to enjoy our new bodies, not be in denial of them! I just haven't gotten used to being this size yet. I haven't been this size since 2003, maybe? Plus, I have people saying not to lose anymore weight b/c of my wide frame. I just want to fit into size 8, single digits, and I will be happy. Thanks to these lovely hips, I'm currently in 10-12, but hopefully after the last 15lbs. are gone, I'll be in my goal size!

Keep up the awesome work!!!

sniffles

I feel skinny when there's no mirror and no stick thin people around to compare myself to.

Wishful

I feel skinny when I don't have to turn sideways to walk through a narrow gap between the students' desks!

You look great--size 6, wow!

weaklink109

In answer to the comments about self perception, for me a picture always looks "fatter" than the mirror image. Don't know why that is.

As for feeling "skinny"--even though I am not yet halfway to where I want to be, the fact that I can't buy anything in the plus size departement anymore because it will fall off me, has made me feel "skinny" relatively speaking. Trying on pants and being able to pick and choose, rather than settle for the one pair that fits well enough to be tolerable is also a positive change.

BTW, as I have said on 2 other threads, if you are in transition, and at a point where you HAVE to buy some clothes or be arrested for indecent exposure 'cuz all your pants are falling off:laugh: REMEMBER your friendly neighborhood THRIFT STORE, RESALE SHOP, GOODWILL, whatever is in your area. I bought 3 pairs of pants for $20 at my local Goodwill, as well as a killer leather purse for less than $7. Money is tight right now, so this was a real mood booster as I was getting tired of wearing the 2 pair of jeans that I had and that was it, as far as pants that actually fit.