Post-Op and Body Dysmorphia Disorder

Was body dysmorphia disorder play a part in your weight loss journey? I see that so many of you loose the weight so fast that mentally it may be hard to handle. Was it hard for you?

Yes that is and was still a hard problem for me. It was harder before it's getting better. I'm not sure what else to say. I mean i have no prob talking about it if you have any other questions just not sure were to start

It has played a big factor in my life since surgery... and still does at almost 2years post op. I didn't realize until after surgery that I had body dysmophia prior to surgery though as well. I never realized how big I was until after I had surgery and started looking back at pictures of myself. Now it kinda weirds me out when people I knew from when I was bigger see me and don't recognize me and have to take a second look. I still feel like the same me that I was before...only smaller. You do get kinda use to it though after a while. Good luck, hope that helps

Yes I had body dysmorphia before surgery and it is worse now after surgery. Although I didn't know I had it prior to surgery. I actually thought I was the same size as my size 4 friends and I definitely thought I looked better than them. My best friend weighed around 145 and I weighed 380 but I thought we were the same size.

Now after surgery I still feel like I am 380. Every time I look in the mirror I see a woman that I didn't see before (a morbidly obese woman). When people say you are the perfect size, I say "um no, I am still pretty thick". My guy friend told me that I was skinny the other day and I thought he was just trying to be funny. He turned around and was like no baby you are SKINNY!

Yes it is true when you are trying to lose the weight, it doesn't seem like it is coming off fast enough, but it is fast enough to trick your brain. I sometimes feel like I am going to wake up with my fat suit back on.

I don't know if this is really classified as 'Body Dysmorphia disorder' but I have a similiar problem in thinking I look different than I do- But instead of thinking I look alot bigger than I am, alot of times I feel like I look better or look like I weigh less than I do. I know that's weird. Like I'll look in the mirror and see someone who is pretty much normal looking but curvier with a thicker lower body. Then I'll look in some pictures and look at the scale that says 180 and my jeans are a size 13, and I realize that I'm still big and not normal. It can be really depressing. Does anyone else have or heard of this issue before??