Does anyone feel the same? (Lost weight but still feel fat?)

I totally I hear ya ...

I hope those bad voices will get less and less for me. I'm pretty much at my goal, .2 lbs off, and some days I think whoa I'm hot, other days I look at myself and still see the old fat me. Sometimes in public I catch a reflection of myself in a mirror or a window and have a "holy sh-t!" moment because it's very bizarre seeing myself this size. Almost like an outer body experience. People who haven't been through any of this don't understand how weird it is to see a smaller you.

I feel the same way to. I'm actually down 40lbs from my starting weight and down almost 100 lbs from my heaviest. But when I look in the mirror, its the same fat girl. Strange really, I wear smaller clothes, things fit better, but still feel the same as I did at 227. Hopefully it improves with time, lol.

I feel it too. Not all the time but alot if the time. I feel like a smaller version of my fat self. Like my hips have shrunk but there is still fat on them. I would rather be wider still with no chub on the side. Same with my thighs I would rather them be bigger with no celullite the smaller with lots. PlUs I have no boobs either. I just hope to keep goin and eventually I will see what I want in the mirror

Thankyou so much for posting this, I'm now 80lb lighter than when i started to lose weight and although i know ive lost loads of weight and gone down 7 sizes i just cant see it. I still hate the way i look and my numerous faults despite being fit & healthy and constant compliments from my partner who loves all the bits i hate and is more than happy with how i look now! He keeps telling me that the confidence will come in time and that i will feel better about myself as i get closer to my target weight because once im in my healthy weight range i wont be able to tell myself i'm fat anymore. I just hope hes right because i'd so love to look in the mirror one day and see myself the way he does )o:

It's nice knowing that it's not just me that has this problem xx

Hi
i wrote the same post on here a couple of weeks ago. my sister who lost 80lb 4 years ago went through the same phase and took her well over a year to realise she wasnt fat anymore. the confidence gradually came.
i dont feel any differnet 77lbs down, yes it feels easier to buy clothes but i dont feel i look any different specially for the better (not that i have a bit loose skin. hopefully it will come in time


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Omigosh, I definitely feel this way. People are constantly giving me these compliments and saying how different I look since the overall loss.. but there are times when I look in the mirror that I see very little change, if any at all. I know it sounds ridiculous because the loss can be seen in picture comparisons, but whenever I personally stand in the mirror sometimes it just feels and seems .. I dunno.. weird? I mean I AM still on the heavier side, but it'd been much worse in the past, ya know?

My guess is that it's just my brain that needs adjusting, seeing as I can never recall ever being this size in my entire life.... so maybe it's that.

I'm another one that's felt the same, I got down to 9 stone 10, still thought I was fat.
Then i went and got myself pregnant, and now looking back on my previous pictures before pregnancy where i thought i was fat -
i'm so gutted - appreciate every inch, every pound that comes off!
x

For the first time ever I'm in a size 4 (after grabbing 8's and 6's, my old sizes) and literally put them on 2-3 times each before I bought them because I felt sure they would look bad or they wouldn't zip up. It makes me feel kind of crazy, but I know exactly what you're talking about. I still see big me and sometimes can't fathom fitting into something or going out in something even if everyone thinks it looks great.

I feel this way all the time and I am so glad to find that I am not alone... Thanks for posting

This is so me too. I see in the mirror a skinnier me, and at work they call me skinny minnie, but parts of me still sees the same ol fat girl there was 7 months ago. It is crazy how the brain takes forever to catch up with the physical changes.

I feel that way often when I get overly bloated and when I plateau. I'll stop losing weight for 7-10 days and feel like I'm a total screw up instead of feeling like I've accomplished so much. Seems that the negative feelings concerning my weight are 10 times stronger than the positive ones. I've really been in a funk lately since I'm between sizes. I'm between 18 & 16 and I got totally obsessed with the scale and with underfeeding myself to try to lose more. I've taken 2 weeks off to get myself straightened out and feel like a person again instead of that constant obsession with what to eat, when to eat, how to eat... eat, eat, eat, eat. Bah! I'm real... I'm doing more real stuff for myself. If I have a snack, then so be it. I don't have to beat myself up over it as much as I have been. I've lost nearly 100 lbs. and still feel like a fat girl.

Absolutely. When people compliment me I'm thinking in my head... you haven't seen me naked!! I lost the majority of my weight 6 years ago and I'm technically at a healthy weight now, but I'm disgusted with what I'm seeing standing naked in the mirror. Cellulite on my legs and butt.. the bane of my existence! Loose skin.. ugh.

I just keep telling myself that if I don't like what I see then to change it. I've decided to start lifting weights because apparently that's the only way to tighten things up a bit and get rid of the cottage cheese thighs! My dumbbells arrived this morning. Time to get my butt in gear!

Absolutely! I was trying to explain it to someone who was calling me "skinny girl" the other night and when I was stumbling through an explanation of how I still feel like the fat girl she used the word anorexic which made me cringe. I'm afraid to talk about it because I feel like people think I'm fishing for compliments, but it's there...

Makes me think maybe I should have kept just one pair of the size 26 jeans around to try on when I can't escape the feeling that I haven't really changed.

Although I've never been "fat" per se, I also have an image of myself that's hard to shake. Even though several inches have come off, and i'm almost 20 lbs lighter than i was at my heaviest, and i pretty much see the difference every time i look in the mirror, I still strive for an EVEN BETTER me. I think it's totally natural, and yes, with time these images of ourselves will readjust. It doesn't help that we may have unrealistic expectations, too, with all the media airbrushed super-beautiful unrealistic images we are so inundated by everywhere. All we can strive to be is the best version of ourselves. And yes, you may lose weight and have more cellulite, or feel like clothes now don't fit right (i used to fit perfectly in one size and now i'm between sizes and it drives me nuts), but we are every day becoming healthier, stronger, and leaner, and that is the most important thing!
But i look at everyone that's posted here and your tickers, and think, holy cow! I could NEVER lose 80lbs if i had to! (or 100 or 125). It's the "stick-to-it-iveness" that i'm so impressed by when i see that, and I'm so proud of everyone that's been that successful! I'm truly just amazed at the gumption it takes to stick to a goal so steadfastly and successfully! It's just a constant reminder that every small choice we make every day does add up in the long run. If we stick to it, we will all get there!

Yes! I have my days I feel hot and days I feel like I'm freaking "fat" but I'm sure that it's all mental :indifferent: