I try to tell myself I haven't lost any weight..

I find myself making excuses for the weight loss. My chair is getting looser, someone changed the settings on the seat of my car. My pamts are loose because they've stretched out a bit. I can see the scale moving, my clothes are definitely looser, but there's this nay-sayer at the back of my mind that is downplaying my achievements. Does anyone else do that to them self?

Good morning!

I'm happy for your successes - and you should try celebrating them!  I'm not where you are (yet) but you know, it's ok to embrace the changes and admit to yourself that your hard work is paying off.  Be proud :)

I haven't had the surgery yet but when I was training with a personal trainer before I said to her felt like I was getting shorter. She ask my why I said every pair of pants of mine are longer in the legs and the floor looks closer.. She said it's because I am losing weight but I didn't see it just thought the weight lifting was making me shorter  

Don't worry, you're not crazy.  It takes a while for our brains to catch up to our body.  It took a long time for me not to see myself as "The Blob".  Not that I've got a supermodel body now, just a super Mom one.

Doing before, and during pictures can help with this.  I know I can't compare as I lose weight etc, but pictures that you take don't lie.  Also measure yourself (inches, not lbs).  Both of these can be helpful when you hit stalls too, or think you do.  When scales stop, doesn't mean the inches do as well.

Keep up the good work!

Cathy

This is pretty common. If you took measurements before take them again now. Also do not walk around in clothes that are falling off. Go to goodwill or somewhere cheap and get some that fit. It helps seeing the sizes going down.

I think one of my favourite parts of the weight loss was seeing the weight loss usually in moments when I wasn't expecting it.  Like others, it took me a long time to see the weight loss in my mirror.  For the longest time, I could only see it when it happened by accident.  What I mean by that, is that I would be passing a building and catch a glimpse of this thin woman in the reflection from the glass, or spy a thin woman on the security monitor leaving the Loblaws -- me, each time!  Or the funniest was when I had to do some media training for work -- I was about 10 months in from the surgery -- they video you as you are doing a media interview and then replay it so you can learn from it.  Wow!  They must have thought I was a bit bonkers, because seeing myself on tape was jaw dropping, and not because of the interview, but because there I was and I could see the new me!  So much fun!!

Enjoy!  Look for those moments.  At some point, you brain does catch up to the mirror!

DD

I guess it's something my mind does so I don't set up for failure. If I stop losing or gain it all back... well I've just made lame excuses for the loss anyway. Definitely something I need to re-think.