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Yes, I know I wear a smaller dress size than I did when I began Atkins. Yes, I know that I can fit into restaurant booths and sit on chairs without my bottom hanging off. Yes, I've gone to the garden center and lifted a couple of 40 pound bags of compost to get an idea of how heavy the weight I lost was. But no matter what, everytime I look in that mirror I see myself as fat as I ever was.
Last night when I was walking into the community center for my class, I walked in beside a woman who wasn't stick thin, but she wasn't super-fat either. The glass doors reflected our side-by-side images. I was the same size as this other woman!!!!!
"No way!" I thought, " I don't look as thin as she does!!!"
But there it was in our reflections: we were the same size.
We are all our worst critics. I've been chubby my whole life and absolutely fat for most of my adulthood. So I've never seen the "skinny" me in the mirror before. I've always have seen "chubby Megs" or have avoided looking at "big-as-a-whale Megs" in the mirror. So it's hard for me to see myself as anything but chubby or fat.
So if you don't think this diet is working and all the exercise you're doing has been for nothing. Take a deep breath and step away from your ideas of yourself. Take an objective look an objective look at yourself. Losing a few pounds, losing a couple of inches, having your rings fall off your fingers because your fingers have shrunk, having the stamina to climb that flight of stairs without getting winded: all of these "little things" are successes in your weight loss regimen.
Last night when I was walking into the community center for my class, I walked in beside a woman who wasn't stick thin, but she wasn't super-fat either. The glass doors reflected our side-by-side images. I was the same size as this other woman!!!!!
"No way!" I thought, " I don't look as thin as she does!!!"
But there it was in our reflections: we were the same size.
We are all our worst critics. I've been chubby my whole life and absolutely fat for most of my adulthood. So I've never seen the "skinny" me in the mirror before. I've always have seen "chubby Megs" or have avoided looking at "big-as-a-whale Megs" in the mirror. So it's hard for me to see myself as anything but chubby or fat.
So if you don't think this diet is working and all the exercise you're doing has been for nothing. Take a deep breath and step away from your ideas of yourself. Take an objective look an objective look at yourself. Losing a few pounds, losing a couple of inches, having your rings fall off your fingers because your fingers have shrunk, having the stamina to climb that flight of stairs without getting winded: all of these "little things" are successes in your weight loss regimen.
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thanks megs for posting this, it really struck a nerve, made me all emotional and TOM isn't even near !
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