yes sweetie, I am the same. I walk around the place feeling quite slender and feel great about it, and then I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror and
all those lovely feelings disapear
So, so true!!!
I walk about with my head in the clouds... obviously I know my weights an issue but I've never been bullied, never been made to feel undervalued or anything by anyone, so I swan about thinking I'm the bees-knees lol, especially at functions or 'do's'... then after the event that I've felt so great for, I'll see the photos and I get this big sick feeling in me that 'oh my god is
that how I really looked? That's why I'm sticking to this diet... I wanna be able to pass around photos of my sisters birthday party, or my nieces christening, to work colleagues and friends without having to sift through them first and remove all the horrible ones of me (often reducing a pack of 24 prints down to 10 or so!)....
I wonder why our brain plays these tricks on us? Maybe if we could see ourselves as being big and could get into the frame of mind psychologically that we had to lose the weight it would be easier to do so, but then why do thinner people think they're fat - such as bulimics and anorexics??
I don't think we'll ever understand the weird connections between our minds and food / dieting...
And I don't think anyone can understand these types of frustrations until they've had a life of dieting... Rosemary Conley, WW, Slimming World... as they say, 'been there, got the t-shirt'...
I have some old clothes I used to wear and think I looked huge in - my fav size 14 pretty short skirt from about 10 years ago - and I hold it up now and wouldn't be able to get one leg in it I don't think... I hope when this diet is finally done (and successful!!) each one of us can see the beautiful thinner person hiding away inside, come flourishing forward and be smiling back at us from all those mirrors we currently avoid...
Oooops, I'm rambling, tis late.... sorry!
tinks xx