Comments on: Do You See Yourself As Others Do?

By: Lara (Thinspired)

Lara (Thinspired) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:33:59 +0000

I can definitely relate to this! I think once you’ve been overweight, it is hard to see yourself differently. When I first lost weight in high school, I was going to a party with a friend and she offered to loan me a cute pair of pants she had. I laughed and told her she was crazy, that I would never fit into them. Not only did I actually fit them, they were a little big! It took that visual, physical incident to show me how much I had changed.
Very interesting post! And you look great in the photo
Lara (Thinspired)´s last blog ..Fresh Start February

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:40:31 +0000

That scene you described where you held up your pants to your husband happened to me numerous times with my old boyfriend. To this day, I walk into a store and still have no idea what size I am. I have a hard time thinking I fit into groups of women who are all the same size as me. I wonder if that will ever change too. One thing I love about strength training is that it changes my body composition. Before I started lifting weights, I would look at myself in the mirror and still see my overweight body, just a shrunken version of it.
Susan´s last blog ..Goals For February

By: Hope @ Hope's Journey

Hope @ Hope's Journey — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:50:22 +0000

Honestly, my perception of myself has always been a little…off. Like you, when I was heavier, I never thought that I was “THAT” big. I just refused to believe it, in denial. It only came back to slap me in the face when I saw a picture of myself. So I decided that no one would ever take a picture of me if I could avoid it. And for a few years, I did. There are very few pictures of me in that time. Just snuck pictures taken by my ninja dad at holidays or something.

Now back to today, the image of myself in my head finally matches what I am looking at in the mirror. It’s pretty darn cool.

Hope
Hope @ Hope’s Journey´s last blog ..Slip-Up

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:47:40 +0000

Love the new site design!

By: Merry Mary

Merry Mary — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:29:53 +0000

No because I have no idea how other people see me. And honestly I don’t think that’s what this is about anyway. It’s all about how you see yourself.
Merry Mary ´s last blog ..Weigh In: Post Vacation Damage

By: julie

julie — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:38:06 +0000

I still think of myself as quite large, though the numbers say I’m not so much. The clothes I buy and wear look tiny, but I’ve still got a ways to go. Sometimes I look in the mirror and I look huge, other times I look just normal. I’ll deal with this eventually.
julie´s last blog ..Eat less, exercise less

By: Sagan

Sagan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:28:58 +0000

I think I’m usually pretty good at being realistic about my size, which might be why my body’s been at a fairly healthy weight my whole life… it was recognizing that I was looking a little chubby that got me interested in health in the first place. It’s good when we can truly SEE ourselves for who we are!
Sagan´s last blog ..Re-Cap of the Raw Food Challenge: Part One

By: Mackattack (Beth)

Mackattack (Beth) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:26:50 +0000

I still see myself as bigger than I am. I don’t feel different than I was a year ago…I love the change in pants sizes but don’t feel it!
Mackattack (Beth)´s last blog ..Running Fool

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:41:20 +0000

I can see myself as I am now at 206 lbs., but when I was about 40 pounds lighter I had a hard time seeing myself “thinner”.

I still can not imagine what it will be like to reach my goal and not have all the excess fat. No idea what that will be like and I can imagine I’ll be like you…not recognizing myself.

Very interesting post.
Leah´s last blog ..That’s a Switch

By: Carla

Carla — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:14:00 +0000

My mother told me that her family always called her fat. When we recently looked at pictures of her when she was young, I saw that she was NOT fat, she just wasn’t as skinny as her sister. Now she is always struggling with her weight because she sees herself as her parents did and doesn’t believe that she will ever be slim. Even when she did manage to lose weight, she always said that she still thought of herself as fat.
Carla´s last blog ..How I lost weight in January