opposite to anorexic

Options
herecomesbod
herecomesbod Posts: 1
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
ok.. i NEED to lose a few stone.. but i still think i am thin??!! what is that about
i have always been naturally skinny.. but the last few years i have piled on the pounds and am now more then a little overweight!!!
trouble is i still FEEL thin??!!
and sometimes i look in the mirror and think i am aLOT thinner then i really am.. it is only when i see photos/ catch myself in window reflections that i realise just HOW big i really have got!!?? its even to the point where i will buy clothes and they just dont fit.. but i blame the shops for cutting too small!!???

anyone else like this??

or am i completely insane??!!

Replies

  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,247 Member
    I think it's a fairly common phenomenon, we see ourselves daily in the mirror and whether you're gaining or losing weight the changes are small enough that we don't register them. I had been feeling pretty chuffed about my fitness improvements and weight loss and then I saw some pictures posted on my tri club's website from our January swim meet - I joined MFP the following day.

    A little OT but in the same vein, there has been some interesting research into how parents perceive their children's' eating habits, activity and general health

    http://www.ccpnetwork.ca/pdf/FINAL March 23 Exec Summary - Parental Survey CCI.pdf

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20973817
  • privatetime
    privatetime Posts: 118
    Nope. :-) For me, I feel like my normally thin self, intellectually. But ANY reflection is as though a stranger has jumped in front of me. Photos are, of course, the undeniable truth. I stopped allowing photos and video to be taken of me when I started gaining weight. As it is, it would take the jaws of life to get the memory of the fat me out of anyone's head. Photographs are eternal, and my weight gain is just too embarrassing to want to remember. (I was thin all my life until I developed a metabolic problem that caused weight gain. Once that was diagnosed and treated, I'm getting back to my "normal" weight. Having always been "the thin one", it's weird to suddenly be fat.)

    But, I do still feel like my thin self, in my head. It's a shock when even a size 6 is too small. (I was a size 2 or 0 most of my adult life.)

    I really notice the trappings of being overweight. My thighs touch....and I am very aware of it. When I sit down, the sides of my thighs sort of fall over and touch the chair, where the sides of my thighs normally stayed upright. Oh, and I have belly fat for the first time in my life. When I lie face down for, say, a yoga exercise, it feels like I have a little cushion under my abdomen. It feels so strange!

    Well...you get the idea. ;-)
This discussion has been closed.

Categories