cant imagine myself thin...

It can be hard...a few years ago I lost 5 stone via a slimming club..(now regained plus 2!!!) I think one of the reasons that I did regain it was that I never actually accepted that I was slim...and I was.....when I looked in the mirror I was still fatter than my friends. I still bought clothes one size larger than needed because I mentally expected to regain...and I did...so you really will have to alter your mind set....tell yourself you are looking fantastic......and learn to love your new shape. BUT you can & will do it...just believe!!!

Yes I know how you feel. I was very thin in school but once the kids came and I got lazy about doing other things the weight came on. I don't want to be that thin again. I want to be healthy!!!! I want to get rid of my hips and belly and once that happens and I am eating healthy the numbers on the scale wont matter anymore. All I want is to be able to run and be able to work out without having to stop because I can't breathe. I have 5k's planned and someday I want to run a marathon but that does not mean I have to be thin to do it!!! I have already walked my first 5k and at the time I was over 200.
Put your long term goals down on paper then break them down to short term and you will find once you start meeting the short terms you know you will be able to do this!!!

Good Luck
Mary

i know exactly what you mean. i was skinny as a child, but it didn't matter then, so i had no idea, and don't really remember it. luckily, or unluckily, i have always seemed to have friends who were larger as well, so there was none of that 'token fat girl' syndrome.

i have seen people who have lost a lot of weight, and thought they looked weird, not because they looked bad, but just because they didn't look like themselves, and almost looked like they were missing something. you get used to the way a person looks, including yourself, so when there is a big change, from a totally different haircut, to a total wardrobe style change, to big weight lose/gain, it can be weird, and take awhile before you see it as normal. i think though, since you see yourself everyday, by the time you reach your GW, it won't be so shocking, you will already be used to your looks.

I used to be the same way. Although my body has changed, my inner self is still the shy person. Mentally I'm still the same person for the most part, but my outlook on health and what is normal has definitely changed.

I think once you've reached your goal and you're able to maintain that weight, you'll find yourself a new normal. At least that's what happened to me. Don't be afraid of what will change because once you're there you'll look back and see that you made the right decision all along.

I agree. To a degree, I still feel like it isn't physically possible to get down to my goal weight...I just can't picture it. But the thing that's helped me a TON is scouring the Success Story section for women who were my weight or larger who have gotten to their goal weight and who have posted pictures of the transformation. This way, I can see myself in their before pictures and imagine that my body will look similar to them in their after pictures. Maybe there was a less creepy way of trying to say this...