Question for Everyone

I dont know about anyone else but, I am having a hard time seeing the weight loss like everyone else sees it. I can see it in my face but not really anwhere else. I have lost 57 lbs and over 40 inches. I can tell in a way but I still see that my chest is still big and my stomach is still there. Any help would be appreciated! Sue 242/185/???

Sue, I can see it now, but until recently, everyone said great things, but I just didn't see it in the mirror. I started at 315 day of surgery and am 233 now. I think I dropped 70 lbs. before I could really look at myself and see it. I still have huge thighs, but and stomach, but I can tell it's all pulling in now. Can you see it in old clothes? Lisa

Sue - I was the same way, until recently I kept asking my husband, my mom, my sisters - "can you tell?", "are you sure?" then one day i was walking by a mirror in Target and caught a glimpse of myself and didn't realize it but when I stopped and looked I *saw* it. One day you will just notice and it will feel great. Hang in there and dont stress out about it.

Sue! Girlfriend! I know your pain! I haven't seen the weight loss all over until, yes, yesterday! I put on my 24 pants and the cutest red top I had and omg, I was struttin all over the place he he he. I have an old body hugger (like a lycra slip) that I wore under it and could actually see a figure! *GASP!* You could not imagine how happy I was- and it took me 121 pounds to see the loss! You're only at 57 Just kidding, you're doing amazingly well. Just put on something hecka cute and strut it chicky!

Hi Sue, I can see a difference now that I'm 4 months out. I've lost about 85 pounds and not sure how many inches. I still have a stomach but it seems to getting a little flatter. Just like my boobs. Hang in there you'll see a difference soon. Carly

I think I look exactly the same as before. I am down a lot, and really hardly can tell. I know I am smaller, because my clothes are. But, in my mind, I am roughly the same size: fat. I know it is a bad perception to have, but I guess as long as I am overweight, it wont matter to my mind where in the catagory I fall. I think that there are definately underlying self-esteem issues that I need to work out before accepting that I am smaller and that I do actually look better. I hope my mind catches up with my body soon.

Hi Sue I don't think our brains have caught up with our weigth loss. I guess we have been overweight for so long, thats what we are use to seeing. I have lost 143 lbs but when I look in the mirror I dont see it. People that have not seen me make a fuss over my weight loss but like you said, I only see my face getting thiner. Keep up the great work Kay

I with all of you on this subject, everyone I see goes OMG you've lost so much weight and I'm like.."really" I dont see it! I talked to a gal in our Psych dept who had RNY and she said she still buys bigger size clothes cause she doesn't see her body fitting into her size 8's so she goes gets 14's or so and then it's when she puts them on she finally notices she has lost the weight. I think we've become so trained in how we look at ourselves that we cannot get passed the "phantom fat syndrome." It will take time but eventually we will get our brains wrapped around the idea that we are no longer obese. I can't wait till I get down to about 200lbs, I think by then I'll notice it more on me. But I do notice my belly is getting flatter and my butt is disappearing on me...and if the face would catch up I think I'd be okay...my face still has some of the fat under the chin..and I think that is what I really focus on and not the whole package. Best of luck to everyone!!! Kelli