do you ever look down and your body looks bigger than when y

Stephisonaroll
Stephisonaroll Posts: 38
edited November 12 in Health and Weight Loss
now that I've lost some weight (not finished though!!) I feel like my body is out of proportion. Like my stomach looks big (even though its really smaller) compared to the rest of my body. I know that looking at the scale and doing my measurments will tell me I'm crazy, but every once in a whike I'll look down or in a mirror and think..not much has changed. Anyone else have these crazy thoughts you just have to talk yourself out of?
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  • susanrush
    susanrush Posts: 18
    Eeeeevery day.
  • Saruman_w
    Saruman_w Posts: 1,531 Member
    That happens to me sometimes. I look down at my belly and it seems larger than I remembered, but from the mirror it looks normal. I think it might be just a trick of the mind.
  • kaliannaf1
    kaliannaf1 Posts: 1
    That happens to me about everyday.
  • xmommyof2boysx
    xmommyof2boysx Posts: 114 Member
    I have this problem...just keep reminding yourself how much you already lost.
  • memcd911
    memcd911 Posts: 230 Member
    When I look down, all I see is boobs. It's a "problem" I'll never mind having.
  • hitmanhsp
    hitmanhsp Posts: 8
    I feel your pain !,
  • thatgirl125
    thatgirl125 Posts: 294 Member
    yuppers everyday I think that then keep saying the scale and everything says otherwise. That is how I have somewhat kept my sanity.
  • Tropical_Turtle
    Tropical_Turtle Posts: 2,236 Member
    every stinkin day - but it is shrinkin !!!
  • e_NV_y
    e_NV_y Posts: 100 Member
    yes! daily!! I have lost over 50lbs now but still feel the same.. i mean i know i look different but not extremely different.. I think maybe it has to do with when i was bigger I didnt really notice how big i really was.. I think i have always saw myself this weight now.. Its weird.........
  • richx83
    richx83 Posts: 334 Member
    I feel bigger now than i did at my highest weight, it sucks
  • tameko2
    tameko2 Posts: 31,634 Member
    yes.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    Yes, and that's one reason I like taking progress photos and comparing them. Sometimes I think I look the same as I did 30 pounds ago.... but on the flip side, when was around 160, I thought I looked like I look now. :indifferent:
  • DaughterOfTheMostHighKing
    DaughterOfTheMostHighKing Posts: 1,436 Member
    YUP!!!!! use a tape measure instead of the scale and mirror... :)
  • MandaJean83
    MandaJean83 Posts: 675 Member
    I feel that way many times each week...I still see the overweight girl in the mirror pretty often, although I know it's just my eyes playing tricks on me...
  • janeite1990
    janeite1990 Posts: 671 Member
    Yes, and it sux. Sometimes, I think it is the result of losing fat, but the skin hasn't caught up yet, so the result is worse in some ways. Sometimes I think it is because I am PMS and in a bad mood. Sometimes, I think it is because I am PMS and bloated. Sometimes, I think I have body dysmorphia. Sometimes, I think the calorie gods are out to get me.
  • sandy_taylor13
    sandy_taylor13 Posts: 194 Member
    I see that with my butt and thighs. I work on them so hard and the fat/bulging/just plain nastyness just doesnt seem to go away. I know it's shrinking b/c I can fit into a lot small pants, but its hard to remember that when i see all the bumps. Sometimes I wonder if it's even possible to get nice shapely thighs and butt. I guess only time will tell. Damn you genetics!!!
  • Maria_Goose
    Maria_Goose Posts: 247
    I know what you mean.

    Sometimes it takes a while for our bodies to re-distribute our fat, especially after losing a great deal of weight and ESPECIALLY if it's lost quickly.

    Also, it might be because you've lost weight in certain areas and the smallness of the newly-small areas make the places where you haven't lost weight appear larger.
  • DAM_Fine
    DAM_Fine Posts: 1,227 Member
    A lot of the time this happens to me too. I'll look at myself one day and think 'hey, you're looking really good!', and then a day or two later I feel as though I looked like I did at 140 pounds. Same weight, same measurements, clothes feel the same as they did a couple of days before, but something in my brain goes *click* and suddenly all I can see is the heavier lazy me again.
  • Stephisonaroll
    Stephisonaroll Posts: 38
    That happens to me sometimes. I look down at my belly and it seems larger than I remembered, but from the mirror it looks normal. I think it might be just a trick of the mind.


    this drives me nuts!!!
  • Stephisonaroll
    Stephisonaroll Posts: 38
    yes! daily!! I have lost over 50lbs now but still feel the same.. i mean i know i look different but not extremely different.. I think maybe it has to do with when i was bigger I didnt really notice how big i really was.. I think i have always saw myself this weight now.. Its weird.........

    I'm guilty of this too. I was nearly 200lbs but never really thought I was THAT big. I knew I could afford to lose some lbs but didn't think much of it..it's strange how our minds work huh?
  • Gavlar84
    Gavlar84 Posts: 19
    I tend to look bigger in the evening...sometimes I feel like I haven't made much progress - even after 20lbs lost
  • shmunster
    shmunster Posts: 538 Member
    I still think of myself as if I am as big as when I started, and like maybe some higher being is playing games with me, changing the sizing labels on my clothes! lol I logiclly know that I've lost and I am smaller but my brain acts very strangely. I still see myself as being bigger than other people too, even when they are bigger or the same as me

    Maybe I'm a tad mental though!
  • sassylilmama
    sassylilmama Posts: 1,493 Member
    All.The.Time. Feel bigger now than when I was my biggest. Makes no sense
  • MOS3
    MOS3 Posts: 134 Member
    Love this thread. I am the opposite. I have lost 25 pounds and even although my measurements tell me I am a normal uk size 12 and everyone says I look great. I am considering putting on some weight cos I feel I look too thin! I think that I am just considering myself against what I was like before and am not used to seeing myself thin.
  • SixCatFaerie
    SixCatFaerie Posts: 690 Member
    Eeeeevery day.


    This...
  • DeenieWeenie
    DeenieWeenie Posts: 149 Member
    Every day! *Sighs* In fact, I like myself better in the mornings. lol
  • MrDude_1
    MrDude_1 Posts: 2,510 Member
    I actually pulled out the measuring tape last night (something I havent done in several weeks... maybe even first time this year)

    I could swear my stomach looked larger, even though I know its smaller... and yea, it measured smaller.
    I think its because the upper part of my stomach/lower chest is flatter now.
    plus you get used to seeing yourself in the mirror everyday.
  • Rayman79
    Rayman79 Posts: 2,009 Member
    Yep, same here. I think its because the stomach fat is the last to go. I know I have lost fat on my chest, arms, legs and on my midsection too, but that sticks out more prominently now cos I'm not quite so doughy everywhere else.

    It sucks, but for the vast majority it is part of the process and that gut is gonna be the last thing to go... patience and persistence (I have to keep telling myself!)
  • KikiFraser
    KikiFraser Posts: 28
    TOTALLY!
  • sevencallmemom
    sevencallmemom Posts: 505 Member
    Yep. I feel like I post this nearly daily here, but I truly see myself as looking like the guy in the apple suit on the fruit of the loom commercials. LOL Huge belly and tiny limbs. I keep hearing "Oh my word, you are so TINY!" and I just cringe because I don't feel any smaller than I was 13 months ago.
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