What do you see when you look in the mirror ?

Well since this thread is going to the dogs, I am channeling my inner dog imagine! Gorgeous don't cha think?

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You must be very high maintenance.

4 1/2 months post surgery and I'm down 70lbs and from a size 16 to a size 8 bordering on a size 6. My brain doesn't know what the f*$k is going on.

I have a new hobby I call "trying on other people's clothes". That helps me to figure out where I am in relation to them. Sadly, that only works with people who are willing to take their clothes off for me.

Way to go Erin! That is why I love sharing because you can see you are not alone and "it's OK". Take some photos of yourself in "other" peoples clothes before they take them off of you We want to see your cute self

Congrats on the weight loss, and thanks for the giggle, lol. I love your new hobby.

On days with head hunger:

Weirdly, I have the opposite reaction. At least when I catch a glimpse of my reflection unexpectedly, like in a plate glass window or mirror, I don't recognize the huge person wearing my clothes. I think of myself as around a size 8. I know I'm not, but inside I am. I am pretty much always at least mildly disappointed in my appearance when I look in the mirror over the sink, and am appalled when I see myself in scant clothing in my full-length mirror. I know that's me, or course, but inside I have an image of myself as a much thinner person. Odd, huh?

This is me. I remember when I took my pic the morning of surgery and looked at it I was confused. I never saw that person I saw in the mirror. I always saw myself as smaller than what I actually was.

So now when I look in the mirror I see me as o am now, I think. But I worry that I'm seeing a smaller me than is really there, because my mind never really saw a 337# person.

AEvery once in a while I'll think my thighs looks like they did at my highest weight. I always pull out the measuring tape and hold it around me at my old highest measurement to prove to my brain that's not where I am anymore.

I have the same experience.

It's like I am always dysmorphic.

When I was a size 26/28 (really a 30/32), my mental image of myself was so much smaller. I think that's why I hated photos. I insisted in my head that I took terrible photographs, but really, I think they were just very accurate and thus, were disturbing to my mental image of myself.

Now, at a size 4 to 6, my mental image of myself is so much bigger. I insist always that my clothes are mis-marked and vanity sized. I would say that I tend to see myself somewhere in the range of an 18/20? Maybe a 16/18 on a good day? -- and all the while, I am worried that I see myself as smaller than I really am...