Although I have weighed from 117 (for 2 seconds) up to 255, I have always felt like the same person inside, and that person was plump! At 117 I dated someone new who said I'd be perfect if I lost 15 pounds (I'm 5'0)--and it's true, even at that weight, at age 20, I had belly fat.

Maybe I will try visualization. I said my continuing self is plump, notice, not fat. I am usually quite surprised at my reflection or a photo, even though I've been over 200 pounds for ten years. The last time I was "thinish" I was also 15 years younger.

What happened to junior sizes. In the olden days I thought of wearing an 11 or 13, but my daughter and her friends talk of 2, 4, 6 (no one would admit to larger than 6).