Almost three years since I've started my "lifestyle change" and I still struggle with the mirror. Although this may be the case with every woman, it's seems to plague us curvier women more. It's easy to smile at the compliments or absorb the praise of a job well done but it all really comes down to how you feel about yourself. Every time I look in the mirror, I see my old overweight self.
Specialists call this "phantom fat” or the phenomenon of feeling fat and unacceptable after weight loss. GREAT. Another problem/phobia/phenomenon to add to the list. But in all seriousness, MSNBC did an article on this back in 2009. I stumbled upon this article after Googling why I hate looking at myself in the mirror.
The article interviewed a woman from Virginia, Kellylyn Hicks. She says in the article, “It's been really hard to change my self-image,” says Hicks, 37, of Chesapeake, Va. “I still feel like I'm this enormous person who takes up tons of space.” It's like Kellylyn read my damn mind. "People who were formerly overweight often still carry that internal image, perception, with them," says Elayne Daniels, a psychologist in Canton, Mass., who specializes in body-image issues. "They literally feel as if they’re in a large body still."
After reading through the entire article, which you can find
here, Doctor Daniels goes on to say that we have to let our brains "catch up". What if our brains never catch up?
Do you feel or ever feel this way? How do you cope with it?
Leave me a comment, lovelys!
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