I don't visualize myself thin to keep myself going forward but I have some idea what I *think* I will look like.. as i am smaller then I have ever been as far as I can remember(i wore size 20w when i was 13... i am in a 14w-16w now)
but then again who knows I might look better :P

Crysania

ABSOLUTELY! I've never ever been below Plus sizes either.... but since I've started this WOL I absolutely believe I will not only get to normal sizes but to see single digit sizes as well! I can see myself as I was emant to be.... its amazing and I reach for it non stop! If I want to cheat I thikn about it and I stop myself. I am a fat burning machine...Its my mental picture...I visualize the fat melting away even when I sleep.... its working REALLY well this week... a ton of water helps too!

Wow crysania! You are 6 feet tall?! Here I was thikning how in the world can she wear a 14-16?! lol Now I see said the blind man! good for you!!!

my mother calls me her amazon.. i am one inch shorter then my dad :P I shot up to nearly 6' by the time i was 13-14ish talk about feeling akward in school! (well until i did homeschool :P )
finding clothes and shoes is a pain and will probably always be a little

Crysania

According to Dr. Phil it is crucial that we do visualization....I'm trying to make a habit of it everyday..It's been years since I've even been close to a "normal" size...

I just started the visualizing thing. I moved offices and in the move I found a picture of me and a friend when I was at my most comfortable weight. It almost looks like another person, my face looks completely different.

I pinned it up in a spot I can see and keep visualizing that I am making progress to be that face again!

I take the info from Dr. Phil that I feel will benefit me...I do not think he's always 100% right especially with weight issues..I did buy his new book..I do like his approach though...sugar coating everything will not help...I want to "get real!!!" with me weight...lol

I actully was only in public school up til 5th grade but was like a foot taller then even most of the boys in the class .. it was kinda akward being able to look nearly all the teachers in the eye lol .. i don't know how my classmates reacted to it cause i don't think i ever talked to them. i normally read in my free time and stayed as far away from them as possible (i felt they were all way to immature) though when i was 15 i went into clubs when they had conserts and didn't get carded ever i was told i looked about 25 by people. now i get told i look about 20 (which i am close) :P

there is a differance between an 18 in ladies and a 18 in womens clothes. I can fit into some 18's in ladies now, my problems still are hips and shoulder width. my goal size is going to be a ladies 14-16. if i can fit in a smaller size all the better i supose but i am not gonna cry cause i am not a size 6 i was a size 20-22W when i was at 298, I asume I carried my weight well (least that is what i have been told)
though it is strange the places I see to be loosing off the most lol (the shape of my shoulders are becoming more defined, my fingers have droped a ring size, my arms are narrower and i wear braclets i have never been able to wear... ect)

Crysania

Hi Monika!!

I have not ever been really small (and healthy) in my entire adult life, so I don't have a specific image. And even if I was smaller when I was 15-17, the early 90's were BAD fasion-wise for me, LOL! Polka dots (ala Madonna) Dark black eyeliner, and tights with a business jacket, or a short skirt (with knobby knees) and a polka-dot bra top and leather jacket!! LOL!!!

I do have an idea what I will look like because of my figure. I will be busty, with a narrow waist, as it is only a 38 right now, at 242 pounds, and larger hips. An hourglass. I can't wait!

Diana

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).

I've been overweight for so long, (well actually I don't think there was a time that I wasn't, unless you count 5 & 6 years old..) anyhow.. I have been overweight for so long, I can't even imagine how I would look if I actually lost my weight. I have tried to imagine, but I can't get anything into view.. I guess that maybe losing weight has been something that I never could picture happening because I have tried so many times and so many ways without ever having any success, so therefore I can't even imagine what I would look like 150 pounds lighter. That would have 1/2 of me!
Wowsers!

BTW.. you guys look great! Keep up the good work! I'm only on day 3 of induction doing Atkins, and am finding lots of support here! I believe this time is really IT!

ME TOO EXACTLY!!! ditto to the letter!

The only visualization I've been doing is seeing that scale go down, LOL! I was also large at an early age. I can remember being the tallest in class in elementary school and always being in the back row for picture line ups. I'm 5'8", which doesn't seem so tall these days. Back in high school (graduated in '74) I thought of myself as fat, but when I look at those pictures now, I look pretty darn good. So maybe what I should do is pull that picture out, scan it in on the computer and somehow figure out how to age progress it. Boy, wouldn't that be motivational!