caught a side glance of myself in a store window. . .and at first I was mega bummed. . .huge thighs were the first thing I saw. . .but then I realised that I was not staring at the large mass at the middle. . .because there was no large mass at the middle. . .it's been a while since I looked at my reflection and thought. . .gee my thighs are big. . because I used to look in the mirror, etc and say HOLY SHIT I am honkin huge.. . Almost one year of work (alibet easy work) . . .10 dress sizes. . .just to be a fat grrl. redawn

Redawn<
Congratulations on all the weight you have lost!!
It is great to see the middle gone!

Have a great day!!

Don't kid yourself. It took hard work to get rid of that middle and you've earned the right to be proud of yourself.
It's nice to see ourselves melting away.


Congratulations!

Leigh

Take solice in the fact that I know mirrors lie! There is a small but mean-as-hell gnome who transforms us as we look into the magic mirror of his.

You are doing great! Forget the mirror but never forget THAT fact!

Congrats on your weight loss so far.
If we keep working, the mirror will eventually be our friend!

Just think, very soon you'll be a "not so fat girl!!"

Keep your chin up and don't get discouraged because you're doing fine.

I think you should be proud of yourself...remember it did not go on in a month or two and it will not(should not) come off in a couple months..Your body is going through some magor changes...kind of like an onion it will peel off one layer at time,sometimes thick ones sometime thicker ones. Be proud of a great job done so far

Sometimes, it's just that way, but you have to look to the longterm. Like you, I sometimes get discouraged about losing 34 pounds and still being fat. Not just fat, but morbidly, dangerously obese. When I lose another 50, I'll still be fat. That's the reality.

But then I think of the prize, and the mountain we 100+ people must climb to put our hands on that prize. I think that yeah, I'd like to be further along than I am now -- I'd love to be where you are -- but I can't get there in a day or a month or even a year.

I wrote in my journal a few days ago about the quest for average. I'd love to just be average. I'm looking forward to taking the "mordbid" out from in front of my personal "obesity." And I know that there ain't no magic and there ain't no easy way, but that determination and our own spirits are what we have to take us there. Those are kind of magic in and of themselves, if you think about it. People who have always been thin have no idea what people like TDCers go through just to get what they have. But like any other great struggle, it makes us strong.

You've lost a lot of weight. You're doing the right thing. You're taking command of your life, and people should applaud you for it. You should consider yourself an amazing person because you have this difficult demon in your life, and you've got it under control.

Fat girl? Maybe outwardly, maybe at the moment. But a moment is just a moment, and you are a million things besides fat. Fat can't define you unless you choose to let it. The fact that you're here says that you have decided that it cannot define you. Bravo.

You just have to keep that faith.

-Scott

my mama said there'd be days like this. . .there'd be days like this my mama said

Thanks guys. . .I am merely sighfully resigning to the life long struggle . . .there is no other option. . .to have control of the food going in is too great a joy to give up. . .BUT as I lose weight I am starting to lose the 'cloaking device' that my brain put in to allow me to still feel cute. . .as I get down in weight. . .the effectiveness is waining. . . .I am trying on things that fit my top (size L) and not able to get the all behind me in an XL. ..don't get me wrong. . .this weight loss is the most amazing thing I have ever done. . .and right now I have an art show going up and have a singing solo this Christmas at church. . .didn't have my drivers license until I was 36 (will be 42) so my life really has begun again. . .and this WOL has lengthened the pleasure if not the length. . .redawn

When I find myself feeling like you do I have to remind myself how would I treat someone else who was feeling the same way? It seems we're always more supportive of others and so hard on ourselves. I now weigh more than you and if I was having a hard time I'm sure you'd be giving me plenty of positive strokes. Be as kind to yourself as you'd be to others

/me looks at that nasty lil (mine is big!) gnome!

You've done well, redawn...success will be yours!

I'm confused by what I'm reading. I thought you were celebrating that your thighs are now bigger then your middle. But reading all the replies it looks like i got it wrong. So if you are celebrating the shinking of your middle congrats and if you aren't congrats any ways because you should be celebrating it. I too thought it was easy getting down to 200 pounds and it didn't seem like work at all. I have been serverd humble pie, low carb of course, trying to get the last 50 off.

I read a very informative post by a very insightful young woman from the land where M And Ms can run free with no fear she will eat them that her mirror sees no fat when she looks in it no matter how many pounds the scales say she weighs. She sees herself and is happy with what she sees because it is her not some ugly fat monster. She isn't a thin body lurking in a fat coat as many of us seem to feel we are. I often wish I had a mirror like that. No matter how much I have lost I'm always looking forward needing to lose more and not backwards at all the weight I have already lost.
So celebrate the wonderful changes your apperance is undergoing and rejoice in your new looks even if they aren't the final ones you are striving to acheive.
Congrats on the shrinking job you have already done.

Happy low carbing to you

It just goes to show that there is no reality - only perception (as Dr. Phil would say). You have done great, so far, Redawn and you know what? I CELEBRATE finally being just a fat girl rather than being so fat that I was an practically an oddity almost every where I went.

I can now fit in the chairs when I go out and even though I'm still big, I see LOTS of other people who are bigger than me out there, which I didn't always. I, for one, am happy to be just a fat girl these days.

Okay, I gotta say it - WOW 10 dress sizes? That is AWESOME! You're doing wonderful!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!