tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805498469863700732.post4212445644772347188..comments2009-04-25T06:17:01.048+02:00Comments on A healthier JayLady: Adjusting to the new me!JayLadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11790564079768015932noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805498469863700732.post-25862217231830108562008-04-05T16:38:00.000+02:002008-04-05T16:38:00.000+02:00What you wrote, certainly strikes a chord with me....What you wrote, certainly strikes a chord with me. For a long time I would bang into things,misjudge my width and the width of a chair, etc, etc, simply because in my mind I was slimmer. Talk about refusing to face up to reality!! Finally, I had to admit to myself that I had a problem. When I lost the 50 lbs, two years ago, I went from being an 'invisible' person to a 'visible' one. I started getting compliments, people noticed me and it completely derailed me. I wasn't prepared for it. i was also having problems getting used to the image I saw in the mirror. It just didn't look like what I perceived myself to be. I'd gone from thinking of myself as slim to seeing myself as fat and I was having trouble reversing that. I went and talked to a counselor and I realised that being overweight was a way of protecting and comforting myself, especially during the difficult periods in my life. I also realised, that because of messages I'd received in the past, I really felt that I didn't deserve to be slim. It was one of the reasons that I was still seeing that fat person in the mirror. I'm now feeling good about losing weight again and so far it's going well. It sounds hokey, but at the moment I'm doing a lot of telling myself that I really deserve this and that I'm okay. It's working. Hope all this makes sense!! You should be really proud of yourself as you are really doing well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17109531002159599556noreply@blogger.com