Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Image issues
I have lost weight so quickly that my mind just can't seem to process the differences. I work with three great women who are all just slightly overweight. In fact, I told them today that if I looked like them, I would be done losing weight. It turns out that I probably weigh the same as one. They look so normal that it was surprising to me that I might actually look fairly normal now. In my head, I still feel sometimes like I weigh 370 pounds. The reality is that I'm not. I heard this might be an issue, but I never imagined how much it would play in my in mind. we started an exercise/weight loss/and/or inch loss competition at work yesterday. I got up at 3:30 to work out for two hours before work. I also just worked out again briefly. Tomorrow I plan to do the same and work out for two hours after work as well!! I'm going to win even if it kills me. For once. . . I don't want to be the worst physically fit person!! I'm going to be competition for someone!! WOW. . . what a difference 11.5 months makes.
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Wow! 3:30! That's crazy! And here I am complaining that I can't get up by 6:00 to fit in a 30 minute walk.
ReplyDeleteI struggle with the same body issues. I don't think it would matter what size I am I always feel like I'm the fattest person around. Even if I'm with someone that I know is bigger than me and even if that person outweighs me by 100 lbs I still feel like I'm the fatter one.
Good luck working out! I think it's really hard!
The image issues also work in reverse. When you start gaining weight, you still view yourself as a skinnier person. Then, you see yourself in a photo...and the reality bites you in the butt, hard!
ReplyDeleteIt's so true!!! I was shocked when I saw my before picture. I already thought I was ugly, but then I saw HOW ugly I had become and was horrified that I ever went out in public. Even people who are bigger than I am now. . . I still think they are smaller.
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