Will I always feel FAT?

Pretty sure this isn't going to help...

I have lost 3/4 of my goal and I feel fatter than I ever did before. I know I am smaller, and people tell me I look great...but the last 27 pounds bother me so much more than the whole hundred ever did. It's a weird feeling. Hopefully I will be able to adjust my thinking.

I used to think "I look great....for a fat girl"

Now I think I don't look so good for an average person.

well done on the 12lbs loss, when i last tried to loose weight i lost 42bls and while everyone was telling me i looked really good and commenting on how much weight i had lost i could not see it, i think its a mind thing, so untill i tell myself that actually yeah i do look good im never gonna see it thats just me though

Your bathroom mirror hates you. In fact, every mirror in your own home probably hates you. That's how it is with me. I went from obese to normal weight (though I'm still not where I'd like to be) and I still look the same in every one of them mirrors in this house.

But pictures, and even mirrors outside of my house... they don't lie. They show the difference.

Try taking progress pictures every month or so! :flowerforyou:

I think it works like this for me - when I am very fat I go into a denial mode I don't really even look at myself I definately avoid touching myself...this means when I get body aware and lose some weight I start to really see myself, I touch my body in the shower or while I work out and feel the muscles unders the fat and then the amount of fat that still remains.

I really SEE it and am never satisfied both are distorted self images one denies the fat the other only sees what fat is left

I have no idea how to overcome this issue

When I lost all the weight before I never saw myself as a size 6 one of the reasons I think it was so easy to gain it all back again was slipping back in that denial mode.

Progress pictures are a really good idea, even if you're not sharing them with anyone but yourself, because you do see a distorted self-image any time you look in a mirror. I never thought I was making progress, until I looked at a "before" family photo, and thought, "whoa".

And while some of it may be an insecurity issue, also remember that the human brain operates that way. Think about a friend's kid that you haven't seen in a few months. You have an image in your head of what he/she should look like, but once you get back together in person, you're blown away by the changes.

I have weighed 145-206lbs (currently 173lbs). I felt fat at every single wieght . . .

My ideal wieght (per doctors orders) is 150-160lbs. So at 145lbs I was quite thin and still thought I was fat. Now, if I look at pictures from that time in my life all I can think is "Geez girl, go eat a sandwich".

Its a body image issue. Hopefully when I reach 150lbs this time around I will be satisfied. . .

Congratulations on your 12 pound loss. As others have said, taking pictures is the best way to see the changes. I take a front and side shot every month. I can't always see the month to month change (I'm losing around 4-5 pounds in a month), but I can definitely see the 33 pound change from the first picture.

I actually don't feel fat anymore, even though I still very much am. It's the first time in my life that I haven't felt fat. I'm not sure what's changed. I think it has to do with not meeting the stereotypes associated with being fat. That is, I eat healthy and I exercise, which is what we associate with thin people, so I feel like a thin person even though I'm not. Of course, plenty of thin people don't eat healthy or exercise, but if I go off on that tangent this will be ten pages long! Basically, since I now have healthy, fit habits, I feel healthy and fit. Hopefully you'll feel this way too. It's a great feeling and keeps me motivated so that some day the scale might catch up to my new self-image. Good luck to you.

It will work out. As you lose more you will be able to do things you weren't necessarily able to before. Don't judge success by looking in the mirror because we are our own worse critic. Not that it helps, but I saw myself as fat when I was 102 pounds (and 15 years old). All I'm trying to say is that we are our own worst critic and don't worry, positive changes are coming your way!