It's surreal - anyone else not used to their 'new' bodies?

arrawyn79

Yeah its weird. Someone asked a friend of mine who that skinny guy was. It was me.

@jeffrey - haha. that's awesome! that must have been a strange (but great) feeling for you to hear that and realize they were talking about you!!

people at my work when they see me, a lot of them now go 'Hey, Skinny!' and I think.....that's nice, but they must not really mean it.... I just can't wrap my head around it...!

Libby81

I'm also the same. My initial goal was to get to a size 12 (UK), I kinda bypassed that and went to a 10 so none of my old and target clothes fit. Then the other day I was clothes shopping and tried on a 10 that was .............drum roll...................too big....................so tried a size 8 and it was perfect.

I still don't see it in the mirror, but I think when I was a size 16, I never really saw or felt that I was large and overweight. Everyone kept telling me I didn't need to lose any weight at all. So I've had to readjust my minds perception of my starting weight too and then try and work from there. I still feel fat and gross some days but that's because my problem areas are now more visable

algebravoodoo

I definitely have more to lose, but I've gone from a size 22/24 (26/28/XXL in tops to cover my belly) to a size 10/12 and L tops, and I literally cannot fathom it. Several people have called me "tiny" recently, and I'm like "are you KIDDING me? I am HUGE!" I still am technically in the obese category for my height (I am 5'1") and my belly is still of gigantic proportions in relation to the rest of me, so it's like my brain is preventing me from seeing what's really going on. LoL.

Yesterday was really strange, I was walking down the sidewalk and there was a crowd coming my way so I went to the side to walk between a pole and a bicycle, and I literally paused for a second and thought "oh, I need to wait until these people pass because I can't fit through that gap," and I had to force myself to keep going because I KNEW I could actually fit...and I did!

The brain is a strange thing...

^THIS!!!^

Same size difference and reactions... just 5'8" so height makes me appear a little thinner than I am and belly is now all but flat. I will still wait for the path to clear and hide in the back of the group photo.

PizzaforAnderson

LIke a few others have said, I don't see it in the mirror, but I do when I see pics. It's a weird thing! I can be standing in front of the mirror wearing something I just took a picture of, and look at the pic and think it looks great and look in the mirror and think, "eh.". I started at a size 18 and I'm now finding a 10 is getting loose. It's weird to walk into a store and buy a size medium top.

The thing that is strangest to me, is you ladies saying you're 5'3" and weight 150 and wear a size 6!! I'm 6', 152lbs and in a 10 at 20% body fat. Body composition is a very strange thing. I guess I gotta thank my genes for my *kitten*!!! :laugh:

ishallnotwant

You guys all make me want to cry. So inspiring and fun to read these testimonies. I feel the same and also feel vain because I am always looking at myself now, but it's more out of sheer surprise: Is that me?
Down from a very tight 18 to an 8 right now. I love best my collar bones. They make me so happy.
And I am really noticing my shoulders, less like a football player more like a woman.
I feel more feminine and alive and energetic and it's really wonderful.
Trying on clothes is fun for the first time ever.
Someone described me as SLENDER the other day and it rocked my world.

Yes, people think I'm too skinny, boney, now too but it's only because they are used to me all puffed out.
It takes time for everyone to get used to it.

Don't feel vain, I do similar things. I still feel like the "overweight" girl when i'm walking around for some reason. I see other chubby girls and think "Oh, i'm probably about her size"-and then I see myself in a store window or something and it still really surprises me that that's me in the reflection. I also look at sizes that are too big, and have to put them back. I feel awkward because i'm often looking in some sort of reflection or something in disbelief-I went to Disney with my husband last month and there was an almost full length mirror in the bathroom and I actually took front and side pictures of my reflection-this lady came out and caught me and I felt like some teenager on facebook or something! :laugh: I actually stopped and explained to her that i've lost over 30 pounds since the beginning of the year, and I don't have a full length mirror at home so I saw the opportunity and took some pictures, and that i'm not some diva who worships herself. :laugh: I just felt so awkward. She was super sweet about it.

My friends and especially my husband have been telling me I am tiny lately, too. :blushing: I've started getting the "don't lose more" or "don't lose too much more" comments, too, but i'm going to keep going until I reach my goal-whatever it ends up being.

opuntia

Well, I didn't have a lot of weight to lose, and I was skinny for most of my life, so the experience of being thin again isn't surreal. But the muscle definition I've been gaining is completely new to me and very surreal. I keep touching my arms to feel the biceps and triceps, and touching my tummy to feel the ab muscles. And my thighs too. It's like I have a new body. I've always had weak muscle tone, due to having Aspergers, and I'd never really had any desire work on strengthening muscles before - it wasn't something I even thought about as a possibility. I only started working on muscles because I started a job which is quite physically demanding - and since then, I've been amazed at how my muscles are forming firm shapes under my skin. I know they're still very small compared to a lot of people here, but I am comparing them to what they were before, and there is an amazing difference. :-)