Sep 12 2010

Do I Look Like I’ve Lost Weight?

by Ash • Eat Less & Do More • Tags: calories, comic, diet, exercise, health 0

I've been on a new diet recently, and it's had really good results.  I started out 123.8Kg and a little over a month later, as of today, I'm down to 111.9Kg.

Now obviously by the numbers, this is a great result, but the sad fact is that I dont feel different.  I dont feel like I  look different either, despite what friends and family have  said.  I'm wondering if being obese (that word cuts like a knife, doesn't it?) effects you psychologically more than we think.  This then, after loosing 10cm off my stomach circumference, which should be clearly obvious - just isn't to  me in the mirror.  I wonder if I might have some kind of body image problem, or worse still, a kind of eating disorder?

I like to think that I am a level-headed person, but over the past 3 or 4 years I've been becoming increasingly self-conscious about my body - to the point that I no longer go swimming!  I'm not really sure what to do from here, but since this diet has been working, I guess I'll just keep doing it, and hopefully, when my current clothes simply do not fit any longer, I'll feel differently.