Self image issues
Your brain cannot associate your head with the new body. When it sees your face in the mirror or in a picture the brain fills in the old body. To get a good look at yourself, cover your face and head and just look at your body.
You have a beautiful figure now. Practice looking at pictures of yourself until you can get your brain to see what you really look like.

Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Honestly I could not see it until I had plastic surgery. The excess skin messed up my psyche. I am the the same size post plastics but see myself as others do now.
Laura in Texas
53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)
RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis
brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco
"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."