Body Dis-morphia??

Everyone in my life says I look completely different. Some people don't even recognize me that haven't seen me in 6 months +. However when I look in the mirror I still see the same fat chick. I literally cannot see my weight loss when I look at myself. I have set an appointment with my shrinky dink and I have my 4 month check up with my surgeon, both next Monday.  Is this something you have dealt with? Am I over thinking this?

It's sooooooooooooooooooooooooo common! For me, being plus size is ALL I have ever known. I was short and chunky even in elementary school (like Honey Boo-Boo! LOL). 7 months out and 80lbs lighter, I do see a difference and I know I'm alot smaller. But I dont see a skinny person. I still feel the same person as before and when I look at my loose skin, I still think of myself as big. I don't think its crazy though. I don't think I have a problem. You just don't automatically change what's been in your soul all your life.

I know how your feeling... I too went through this and think many of us do. My suggestion is do something that you never thought possible. Something that you never imagined you could do because your weigh didn't allow you to do it. Continue finding those things and you will hit a point where it clicks, its emotional for sure and you will realize that this "new you" is just that... new! 

Great job and continue to fight the fight... here is my story of when the mind caught up with the scale.
www.sheddingounces.net/2012/09/the-mind-has-caught-up-with-s cale-muddy.html

Apparently this is very common.  

For me, I could not see the changes in the mirror, but i COULD see it in photos. How strange is that. Other people have the reverse happen.  Now I can see it in the mirror.  

I think this is a time in life where you have to learn to trust the opinions and words of others, and distrust your own.  If 10 out of 10 people say you look skinnier, I say go with that :)

Maybe it's a little like "tinkerbell" - you have to believe first, then you can see.

Try it out!

The research says that it takes about three years for the body dismorphia to fully go away for most people.  I could not see the changes in the mirror for the longest time, but I could see them in photos.  Can you see the difference in photos too?  Check it out, it might help. 

 Hey, I'm at goal and I have trouble seeing it most of the time. The other day I was in a store trying on a jacket and all I could see was the "fat guy". It's times like those that I calmly tell myself my pant size and breathe deeply. 
I can see the changes in pictures far better than in the mirror. Just as Elina said, I understand that it's going to take me a few years to adjust my mind's eye to see myself realistically. 

I am 3 months out on the 23rd have lost 55 lbs since surgery and still see myself at my heaviest, it's totally normal!

I have the opposite problem... I don't see myself as fat.  Go figure.  I told that to the shrink during my psych evaluation.  I could tell he wanted to chuckle.  I only see myself fat when I have to look at pictures of my self and I think - "Who the heck is that fat chick!"

Let me just put an AMEN on that!! I would look at pics and think, "who the hell let them have a camera if they can't take pics any better than that!" I always knew I was heavy but I never saw myself in that way. I have more embarrassment for the old me than the new. I am finally at a weight now where I can say I "see" the difference...some days. My husband constantly digs out old photos and randomly tapes them to our bedroom mirror. He chuckles after I stand in front of it, sucking in to try and look "thinner" and laughs. He then says to look in the corner and ask myself again if I see a difference. I still touch my bones quite a bit because I don't believe they are there. That is the one thing I can truly say brings the weight loss home: when you can feel and see bones you never knew you had(so to speak), its time to admit you're shrinking!

 Glad you posted this. I think I feel the same way but for different reasons. I have lost 60 and feel as though I look the EXACT same because when I weighed 249 pounds, I thought I looked the way I do now at 189.........My poor husband has to deal with the day in and day out! LOL