After reaching one weight goal, does anyone else experience that it is difficult to not still consider oneself fat?
A bit of a mangled title, apologies, I struggled with phrasing it right.
So some context and background: I'm a man i(185cm) in his thirties and I've usually hovered well above 100 kg / 220 lbs -- at most I was at 130kg/290lbs. It's basically been around that for most my life and I've had some attempts on losing weight but last summer I really did an effort and now I am comfortably around 85kg / 187lbs.
People around keep saying I've gotten so thin, my family says I mustn't lose anymore as that would be unhealthy and I've concrete "evidence" with my weight scale and the fact I use M and L size clothing (as opposed to XL and XXL previous)
Yet for all that, I both feel and consider myself overweight. It's a bit unnerving looking at myself in the mirror and I can't for the life of me convince myself that I've gone much down in weight or that there's mich of a change and see still a big ol' stomach, lovehandles, flabby arms and so on.
I wish to emphasise that I know that I have lost weight and I'm around the intended weight I wanted to be, and it's not an issue that consumes my mind or anything - but I wanted to hear from others if they had similiar experiences and if this is something that perhaps lessens with time. I reached my goal 6 months ago so it is all relatively fresh I suppose.
If anything, I realize that this disconnect between actual weight and how I feel/regard myself does give an insight into how people develop eating disorders -- I feel that if I was perhaps younger and more insecure this whole "issue" would have had much more negative impact on my selfesteem.
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