Lou1973
Silver Member
I'm not on LL but have been on a low carb diet where I have lost weight pretty quickly (2 and a half stone in just over 3 months)
Something weird happened to me yesterday and this forum is so much busier than the low carb one so I thought I'd see if you lovely people would be able to help.
I still look in the mirror and see an overweight person - I think I look OK in clothes but definately not thin (this is despite a tummy tuck almost 6 weeks ago - I look in the mirror and see a flat tummy but i still think it looks thick)
Ever since xmas people have been telling me I look good but I just think blah, blah, blah whatever I've still got about 10lb to lose.
Anyway on friday i went out with some friends and we took photos of the night. Yesterday I looked at the photos and do you know what I do look quite thin - still think I could stand to lose the last 10lbs but the thing is what I saw in the photos is so much smaller than what i see when I look in the mirror.
I wonder if anyone else has had this and if you have any advise for how I can retrain my brain to see the actual me in the mirror not the image in my head (funnily enough when I was overweight I had the exact same problem but then I would look in the mirror and think I looked ok then look at photos and cry because in real life I didn't look half as good as I thought I did!!)
Something weird happened to me yesterday and this forum is so much busier than the low carb one so I thought I'd see if you lovely people would be able to help.
I still look in the mirror and see an overweight person - I think I look OK in clothes but definately not thin (this is despite a tummy tuck almost 6 weeks ago - I look in the mirror and see a flat tummy but i still think it looks thick)
Ever since xmas people have been telling me I look good but I just think blah, blah, blah whatever I've still got about 10lb to lose.
Anyway on friday i went out with some friends and we took photos of the night. Yesterday I looked at the photos and do you know what I do look quite thin - still think I could stand to lose the last 10lbs but the thing is what I saw in the photos is so much smaller than what i see when I look in the mirror.
I wonder if anyone else has had this and if you have any advise for how I can retrain my brain to see the actual me in the mirror not the image in my head (funnily enough when I was overweight I had the exact same problem but then I would look in the mirror and think I looked ok then look at photos and cry because in real life I didn't look half as good as I thought I did!!)