do I still feel fat? I have had good weight loss, but when I look in the mirror I am absolutely disgusted with myself and think I look even worse than before. I hope I can get over this one day. Sorry just had to get that off my chest.

*hugs* I know what you mean. I've lost about 30lbs, but can't see the slightest difference. I'm feeling discouraged too. Tomorrow will be better I'm sure. *hugs*

I understand as I have had an eating disorder as a teen. The body image is the hard one. You may never have an honest view of reality when you look in the mirror. So just focus on the reality. You are not fat and you are being healthy now. I don't know your history but this is my advice. I also avoid playing the scale/mirror game because I go by my clothing fit and know I am eating well mostl of the time.Good luck to you!

maybe you should go out and try on some new hot clothes, and see how good you look..i think its great that you are losing..maybe i was doing something wrong cuz i didnt lose s**t! lol

Thanks guys, I feel a little better. And congrats on all of your sucess with LCing!!! That is so exciting and seeing you guys do well is what keeps me hanging in there no matter what I see when I look in the mirror.

Oh, that nasty body image thing.
I'm going through the same experience.

I try to focus on the tape measure and the way my clothes fit, because when I look in the mirror I see imperfections and I hate it.

Thankfully, my hubby has always said I'm attractive to him, but that doesn't always appease my view in the mirror and my mind games that I seem to inflict on myself.

I hear yah. I lost close to 60lbs and although I can safely say I can fit in clothes I could not before (thus I KNOW I AM slimmer OMG!!), I feel the same as you do when I check the mirror. It's just maybe a fact of life that when you reach a certain goal then you realize other issues. Maybe it was the fact that we concentrated so much on the idea that all our problems stemmed from the extra weight, that we forgot other issues. Ooops I lost 60lbs.. dang now I just realized my hair looks like crap… oh wait I am pale and even though I am slimmer I have no definition or muscle. For me I knew that even losing lots of weight would not give me the “look” I wanted. I am completely aware that I have a good 6 months worth of physical training ahead of me to “shape” my body now.

It’s kinda like a sculptor making a new statue… they first have a huge block… then they scrape off a good 50 lbs of clay in a general starting shape and then they start to work it into a thing of beauty….or something like that LOL. Anyhow hang in there.

I feel the same way, I feel fat all of the time and whats funny is that I feel fatter now and am more self conscious than I did before. One thing that helped though was looking at pictures. I remember this one pic of me in a bathing suit before I lost and weight and the other day I saw one of me recently and I couldnt believe it!! I looked much slimmer, my stomachs not as toned as I would like but I couldnt believe that was me. Have your friend take a pic of you in your bathing suit and use that, it may help. The Swan show has a good idea about not letting the contestants see themselves b/c imagine how different you'd look to yourself if you saw yourself now compared to then, when you look at yourself everyday you dont see the changes and thats whats hard.

Oh no! I do not want to feel that way. Do you think that it is just today, or have you been feeling like this for a little while? I do hope that you feel better soon! You are always helping others through so much.

I feel the same way. Clothes fitting better; know I'm losing inches. Double chin looks to be shrinking. But when I look in the mirror, I still see the same ole me. And my natural high of feeling good drops to a low. Fortunately, this time, I don't soothe those feelings with food. So far.

Keep forging ahead. We can do it.

looking at pictures is a great idea, actually... I mean, it was those pictures that finally showed me how bad it had gotten. "Who is THAT?!?! oh. it's me. Whoa." It was quite the wake-up call.

I think we all feel that way at times.

You still think you are fat, but I am only a few inches taller than you and your start weight is nearly 10 lbs lighter than my GOAL weight. Now....look at my picture. Do you think I'm a hoss?

I guess maybe I'm just too old to be really into the body image thing anymore. If I can get to the size I want I'm going to be happy! My body will still be flabby in spots--it will sag here and there, but the important thing is that I feel soooo much better now than before LC.

I know it can get completely depressing looking in mirrors, and this is one reason why I don't look often. I learned from past experience that no matter how thin I was (I weighed 139 at my very least, wearing a size 8/10, and had these absolutely huge honkin' hips that would never leave!) it wasn't going to be enough. I finally learned I had to live with the flaws.

I usually only check out a mirror once or twice a week, and then if only necessary. Of course I look in the fitting room to see if the clothes look halfway decent. Then I go 'Woah! A few months back I was a LOT bigger than I am now!' LOL

Ok, hopefully this helps, this is what I've noticed for myself.
I know for me that I haven't been exercising like I should so I am seeing lack of muscle tone where I used to have alot- prior to having 4 babies. I've lost weight and inches but I am not seeing that tone so it looks, in a way like I've gained. It's like when I was way overweight, I didn't expect to see tone so I didn't look for it, but now that I'm closer to goal I'm looking for something that's not there cuz my muscles have atrophied over the years of being fat and I haven't been working to tone it up. That kinda scares me. I mean..if muscle weighs more than fat, then am I going to have to gain as I try to tone and therefore get further from my goal weight? Annie