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Having trouble with body image

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justallovertheplace · 23/01/2010 21:32

Forgive the name change.
I have recently lost a lot of weight. Lets say 4 stone. It's the second time I've done this as with both dc I have put on a lot of weight when pregnant and breastfeeding. I have done it very quickly, in less than 4 months. Thsi has taken me to a size 12.
My problem is that I am worried I am taking it a bit far. Obviously a size 12 is hardly skeletal, but it;s the first time in my adult life that I've been this size (am normally a 14). I thought that I would be fabulously happy at a size 12 but all I can think about is losing more weight. I am worried that I now think a size 10 will be perfect, I won't be satisfied when I get there and keep going. Part of me can't believe that I am a size 12, and I think my clothes must be mislabelled or a 'big' size 12. I am so pleased to have lost the weight, don't get me wrong. I am just a bot worried that I have started somehting I can't stop How can I stop this? I admit that I am eating far too little atm, and continue to lose at least 4 pounds a week, which I know logically is extremely unhealthy. But as soon as I reach one goal weight, all I can think of is taking off another half stone. Do you think maybe I have just lost weight too quickly and my head hasn't caught up yet?? I think my problem is that even before having my dc I have always been fat in my head, so now that I am smaller I can;t accept it I started at about a size 20 btw, so it is a big change.

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willsurvivethis · 23/01/2010 21:43

Could you convince yourself to take a break from losing weight? To just maintain for a bit knowing that you can always lose more later?

4lb per week is about 4 times as much as you should lose, no wonder your body and mind have trouble catching up.

justallovertheplace · 23/01/2010 21:45

That's the thing. I really don't feel I can take a break. I'm weighing myself up to 3 times a day and I wake up every morning and head for the scales. All of which sounds bad I know. I don't feel satisfied with what I see in the mirror. I do think it goes deeper than that obviously, I am on medication for anxiety and I do wonder to what extent this is linked to that

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maxpower · 23/01/2010 21:47

Speak to your GP x

MerlinsBeard · 23/01/2010 21:48

losing weight is addictive - especially if you recieve positive attention from it as well as feeling great in your self.

The weighing yourself many times is a worry. I have "suffered" from eating disorders for many years and this is something i do (among other things)

justallovertheplace · 23/01/2010 21:49

Maxpwer, I shall be honest. I am worried about seeing my GP as I don't think I will be taken seriously. Looking at me, you'd have no idea there was a problem

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mumof2children · 23/01/2010 21:57

i felt the same about seeing the gp... but once it's done it is done.

i think you need to focus on something else to achive.
but please see your GP before this obsession to loose weight becomes into an eating disorder

maxpower · 23/01/2010 22:31

If you tell your GP what you've written in your OP, they'll take you seriously.

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