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Author: sg 190/158/130
Date: 05-11-03 11:19
I saw some posts about looking in the mirror and seeing no change despite a shift in the scale. I've lost 32 lbs and today I took pictures of myself and was ready to cry at how I looked. I last took pictures of myself when i weighed 190. I just see very little to no difference between 190 and 158. People keep telling me I lost a lot of weight and the scale says the same thing but I see nothing. I was almost in tears... I don't know what to do. I feel like I probably won't look any different at 130.
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Author: Ken 367/343/250
Date: 05-11-03 11:23
Your eyes don't always see the truth..mine don't and people tell me they can tell how I look all over
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Author: sg 190/158/130
Date: 05-11-03 14:23
I think you're right. I just hope that one day I can look at myself in the mirror and be content with what I see. I suppose its OK that I don't feel that way yet because I still have 28 lbs to lose. Thanks for replying. Iappreciate it.
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Author: kayla
Date: 05-11-03 14:31
Hey! I have the same problem that you do. When I did lose weight for awhile (the most being 10 pounds), I saw no difference between the weight before and the weight afterward. The only thing that seemed to satisfy that I was lighter than before was what the scale read. For me, this wasn't satisfiying. I would much rather LOOK 120 pounds but have the scale read 150, instead of looking 150 and the scale telling me I'm 120. I think that, if a person has been overweight most if their life, they pretty much picture themselves overweight forever. So when you really do lose weight, even though to everyone else you look thinner, you still see yourself as a fat 130, or a fat 120 or a fat 110. I feel like you can do whatever you want to with your body, since it is yours, but be careful not to harm it.
Ask yourself this: if I lose another 10 pounds, am I going to look 10 pounds lighter, or am I still going to think that I'm overweight. Recognizing when you have extra weight and when you DON'T is essential to your health. Sometimes, people have different approaches to they way they want to look, and some people might say you look great, but ultimately what you weigh and what you look like is up to you. Just be careful.
Hope this has helped some :)
Kayla
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Author: sg 190/158/130
Date: 05-11-03 14:45
yeah that did help. thanks.
you know, I think maybe there is an advantage to not being satisfied with how i look at this point. I still have weigh to lose, so I'm not in this comfortable position where I'd be happy just maintaining.
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Author: miranda 230/149/140
Date: 05-11-03 16:23
At your weight, after 32 pounds, there's undoubtedly a difference, but it may be subtle, at least to your eyes. I could not see much of a difference in myself for the first 30 pounds. For the next 35, the differences very slowly became more noticeable, but still not dramatic. However, once I got within about 25 pounds of my goal weight, it seemed like every 5 pounds made a major difference in the mirror. The closer you get to your goal weight, the quicker the changes will come, and the more noticeable they will be. You're more than halfway to your goal, so my guess is you don't have long to wait before you reach the point where the differences will be obvious, even to you.
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Author: Shari 250/171/125
Date: 05-11-03 18:21
I've been heavy for the past 15 years (I'm 35 now), weighing between 225 and 250. It took me a while to get used to it, but, I did. I was happy, had alot of friends and, although my weight bothered me occasionally, I was a generally happy person.
Well, now that I've lost nearly 80 pounds, though I'm still a happy person, my weight and appearance seem to haunt my every thought. I pass a mirror and I see a heavy woman. I see myself in pictures and just see the fat body parts. I see myself on videotape and think the same thing.
I've done comparisons of my before and after pictures and I do see a difference, though, not as dramatically as what people are telling me, or what my clothes are doing.
My therapist told me to do this: Take a before picture and tape it to the mirror. When you look at yourself, look at the before picture. She says with time I will come to realize how different I do look. She said this sometimes helps with anorexics and how they can cope with their body image. Hope this helps - I have yet to try it.
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