I recognize your story about the jeans. I will pick up pants and by how they feel in my hands I'll be like "no they won't fit" or "yes these feel right" but the problem is that I've been wrong because I'm not as big as I was before I started LCing. So my perception still is sometimes that I'm bigger than I am.

My perception of myself is helped by the fact that I have a very EVEN body, I don't carry my weight in one place so I am a big hourglass. I joke with one of my thin friends who is also an hourglass that she's just timing a minute and I'm timing an hour! lol