Breaking the "Fat Girl" Mentality

I am in this same boat! i started at 230+ lbs and am currently down 63 lbs and i am constantly in stores looking at clothes that i know realistically i fit now but still thinking "wouldnt it be nice??" till a remind myself im in that size now. granted i still have 58lbs to lose and i know i am at a weight i havent seen in a long long time like since highschool but in my mind im still that fat girl i have a very hard tim seeing any change and still feel huge. I was wondering if i was alone for a while now!

I have lost 38# so far and have 22#-34# left to lose. I still end up in the plus sized section. I still go straight to my old sizes even though they are huge on me.

I still go to plus size as well knowing damn well.a 1x is too big. I have always dressed big trying to hide myself and I still do.... Hope this mentality will get lost as I lose more weight.

I so hear this!!!! i do the exact same thing!!!!! i almost wonder if its cause im scared this isnt real or something i know it sounds stupid

It's called Phanton Fat, we all have it ...

‘Phantom fat’ can linger after weight loss

Losing pounds doesn't automatically shed larger-than-life self-image


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31489881/ns/health-womens_health/t/phantom-fat-can-linger-after-weight-loss/

i've still got the fat girl mentality. the fact that certain clothes don't fit the way they would if i'd never been big is part of it, i think -- i'm not fat anymore, but i still have trouble wearing not-fat clothes... so that must still mean i'm fat, right? (can't a sista get a pair of jeans that comes up to her waist???)

i also eat like a fat girl. granted, i'm generally healthier about it than i used to be -- old me would be driven crazy by wondering what tuna salad and beefaroni tasted like mixed together. until she mixed them. and she would eat all of it, even though it was horrifyingly disgusting.
new me goes to the 24-hour walmart and buys a can of corn and a can of chopped black olives and mixes them together. and tracks it in her food diary. sometimes i still get convenience store apple pies and eat them in my car out of embarassment... but i track those too.
but it's still the same sort of behavior, still kind of obsessive/compulsive, even though what i'm doing is not as "bad".

also, i look awful when i'm naked and looking at myself in the mirror. i look great with clothes on, at any angle. but unclothed... so many rolls of flesh (that now look WORSE because they're flappy) and my huge, though faded, stretchmarks... there'd be no mistaking me with a true thin-girl. i feel like no matter how thin i get, i will still have the fat mentality, and a fat body -- not just by looks.

I was not overwieght for long (7 years) I felt better about shopping or my body before I lost weight. right now I dont know what I have. I have been so us to shoping or look at me fat or pregnant for so long I found what I have under there. Now I have a had time picking me out in pictures. Its hard for people to get ther mind around why I dont feel it. I hope I will lose this fast and start see who I am now.

I have been at my goal weight for 2months and sometimes I still feel fat. Because of the amount I lost I have excess skin and still need more toning.. I know I will never be skinny and that was not my goal. I am fit and off all meds which I have acomplished and am very proud of that. I really cannot believe I was as big as I was. I have a hard time with clothing sizes, not quite sure if I believe the number on the tag. It is less than high school (40 years ago). Mind boggling!!!! At the moment I still have a fear of gaining the weight back and struggle constantly to stay within a 5 lb range. I am hoping this will come more easily in the future.

I definitely still picture myself how I was before a lot of the time. When I go shopping, I immediately go for the bigger sizes even though I know I'm a 4 now. I'll do a little cringe before I look in the mirror occasionally because I remember how much I disliked looking at myself.
I've lost 35 pounds, and am only about 10 away from my goal. But a lot of the time I still feel like I'm pushing 170.

I sincerely hope that it goes away one day.

I went from 210 in January 2010 to 130 now. When I was 210 I had no idea I was that big until I saw myself in pictures and even then, I couldn't believe it. Now that I'm 130, I don't believe it until I see myself in pictures again. Even in the mirror I see myself at around 160 (which is what I pictured myself at 210). It is a struggle. Only recently have I started to see a 'fit' girl in the mirror and its not all the time. Sometimes I look at myself and think "omg I'm HUGE", other times I see myself the way others do.

I've lost over 90 pounds, and while I AM still fat, I FEEL like I am still HUGE. I never think I can fit through small aisles or gaps in things, I am SURE that clothes won't fit me in the size that I know I am now, and they end up fitting fine, I still feel very self-conscious even though there have been several incidents that have happened lately that indicate to me that I am suddenly in a different "class" of overweight when it comes to how other people see me (I never even realized that was a thing). I have no idea if my brain will ever catch up, but I really hope it does.

I still feel the exact same and probably will until my stomach is flat.