mental image

Hi   I know others have gone through this

I had my surgery on 1/23/12  and I am down  close to 50 pds.     I am happy with that.  BUT...

I was looking at my before pictures and  other then in my face I just don't see the difference.  I know in my head that there is one.   My clothing size has dropped and  friends and coworkers remark on it  BUT>   I just don't see it!!!    I want to lose  50 more so maybe  when I get there  I won't just see the fat person.

 I have the same problem.  I know that I have gone down 4 sizes, but I don't see it in the mirror.  

Take some measurements of yourself.  Even if I can't see the change in the mirror, my measuring tape will tell the truth.  

 It takes the head a long time to catch up. I have lost over 100 hundred so far with a good 50 to go and although I feel better, move better and all that good stuff I look in the mirror and still just see fat...less fat but still a lot of fat. It just takes time and trying to concentrate on all the positives and not concentrate on the negatives.

 Don't know if it'll help at all but I found the following article very interesting: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31489881/ns/health-womens_health/t/phantom-fat-can-linger-after-weight-loss/#.T5YPWhB5mSM

If I stop and look at myself - in a mirror, in a photo, wherever - I still see fat me.

If I catch a glimpse of myself out of the corner of my eye in a window or mirror, I think "wow - I'd like to look like that!"

My head is seriously out of whack. But since I know that, I can discount what it tells me and recognize that I AM thin, I AM toned, and I AM doing what I should.

I'm doing it less and less often now that I am almost 3 1/2 years out. Sometimes I do catch a glimpse of myself (like the other day in the Sams Club camera on the way out) not realizing it's me. Then when I do I think, "That's really me!!!'   But as I said, it's happening less and less often