Still feel fat sometimes

It will be a year that I have been post op on November 24th. I have lost 113 lbs so far. I went from 244 lbs to 131 lbs. I am 5' 2 and now a size 10 instead of a size 22. The problem is that there are times that I still feel as big as a cow! I am still amazed when I fold up laundry and see how little my pants are and I do stare in the mirror sometime at how flat my belly is but I just don't feel like I have lost enough. I feel like a failure sometimes. I eat right walk 2 times a day 5 days a week and use a Gazelle too. My goal is 125 and I believe that I will make that but now even that seems to me like I will still look fat. Does anyone else have this problem?

I'm 4'10", I started pre op at 218, wearing a 3x to 26-28. I'm now at my goal of 115 and I'm wearing a size 4 petite. I can also wear some of my 10 year old daughter's tops from the GIRLS DEPT. We bought matching hooded sweat shirts her's is a large mine is an xl form the girls dept. Now with all that said YES I still feel and see myself as the same fat person I was a year ago. I've ask about this at support meetings and I have been told that it takes sometimes 2-3 years for our heads to catch us with our bodies as to what we really look like now. You are NOT alone in feeling this way. Robin W 11/17/03 218/115

Thanks, it really is nice to know that I am not the only one who feels this way.

I struggle with that feeling, too. I have lost 165 lbs and am 13 lbs from my goal. Everyone says I look great and don't need to loose any more, but I still see a big fat belly. I thinks it's mainly because I have a lot of loose skin. I know I'm not fat any more, beacuse my clothes are so small. It's just really hard to believe it's real sometimes. I believe we all go through this for a while until our brain catches up with our weight loss. We're gonna make it! By the way, congratats on your success!! Cecil 338/173

I am so happy you posted this!!!!!!!!! I deal with this issue every day and the more I lose the worse it seems to get. I have gone from a size 24 to a 4/6 but when I look in the mirror I fell so much worse about my appearance than I ever have. Everyone tells me how great I look but I still tell myself there just being polite. I know this is not true but I am having a very hard time getting myself to believe it. I thought losing 167 lbs would help my self-esteem but it seems to be spinning around the bottom of the toilet and getting closer to the drain every day. Melissa 314/147/150

I am in the same boat you are in. Everybody that I come in contact with say: Don't lose anymore weight and I say I need to lose this fat stomach and they look at me and say you are going to be too skinny if you lose some more. I feel we did this for us and we need to be happy with our selves. I am 5"2' and weighed 221 size 20-18 and now 150 size 8 but want to be 120 size 5. I haven't lost any weight in about a month and haven't been eating the right foods everyday. I need some help with getting back on track. So if anyone have some pointers please feel free to email me. You can also check out my profile. I need to update often but don't due to not losing the weight lately. Through it all I would do anything to trade with you that is a size 4. You probably look very great and just because WE have this fat person of us in our heads, we don't see how good we loo****il we are dressed up or having a good day.