I’ve lost 2 stone but my mind still thinks I’m fat. Anyone else?

[gettingalife]

I’d really love to know if anyone can relate to how I’m feeling having lost weight on Mounjaro.

i’ve always been short and chunky throughout my teenage and adult life with a hunger that I’ve had to keep in check through every type of diet imaginable. I’ve hated my figure for 30 years, having a big bottom and boobs, a double chin etc…I could go on!

I am absolutely over the moon to at long last have lost 2 stone using Mounjaro since May. It’s staying off and still coming off too. But here’s my problem; my mind still thinks I’m the size I was and hasn’t appeared to have caught up. My clothes feel weird, even with the lovely size 12 wardrobe I now have feels wrong. I don’t think I look nice but then see myself in the mirror or on a photo and I’m surprised at how ok I look. My bottom isn’t big any more but it still feels like it is.

Honestly, I’m really finding it strange. I hate getting dressed in the morning as my clothes don’t feel right, sort of big but also tight? I can’t explain. Am I nuts or is anyone else finding the mental side of weight loss weird?

It takes a while for the brain to catch up with the body I’ve found.

I’ve been obese since primary school, thanks to WLI I am now healthy weight and actually weigh less now in my 40s than I did when I was 11 and several inches shorter.

I catch sight of myself in a window and don’t recognise myself and I still think of myself as a fat person, I stand at a rail of clothing in a shop knowing that the 12s will definitely fit and the 10s will probably fit but i still find it hard not to pick up the XXL or size 22 because it looks right while the smaller sizes look like kids clothes.

For months I picked up the bigger size clothes in shops and was baffled by them looking sack like on me. I am still a fat person inside and technically I'm still overweight, but no longer obese.

I lost 8 stone doing keto 9 years ago and I’ve kept it off.

I still feel like I’m 17 stone. I’m not.

It takes months. Absolutely months for your brain to catch up. I know I’m skinny now. The scales confirm that as much as they did I was fat. But I still catch myself many times and cannot believe the change. I’ve been at target for nearly a year and lost a stone since. 6 stone in total.

It must take forever. I'm 6 stone lighter and a normal BMI. Sometimes I catch sight of myself and can't believe it and other days I feel like 16 stone me. I exercise, eat a healthy diet but I don't know if my mind will ever catch up with my body.

Thank you for all of your replies. It’s clearly a thing then! I just thought I’d feel great and would embrace my new size but like you’ve all said, the brain clearly sticks to what it knows. I wonder how long it takes to shift? Or does it?

I am 9.5st now and feel fat still :(

I got down to 9st and now feel heavy here

It simply proves that relying on how you feel doesn’t bear any relation to facts. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I started a thread on this exact thing not too long ago - I totally understand. I still look in the mirror and think FAT, still look at photos and think FAT. Clothes I havent worn in 10 years fit me. I thought I was just being stupid 🙄

I don’t feel fat, I’m a size 8-10, although when I buy clothes I always have a feeling of doubt they will fit me. The problem is I didn’t feel fat at a size 18 either, I thought there was something up with the mirrors. Even obese, it was like my brain couldn’t accept it. When I saw photos I thought surely I don’t look like that. On the ring doorbell I was like surely I’m not that fat lumbering round, now I am toned and fit, I can see that, but I still look at things like ring, to see if I look fat, I’m that convinced I couldn’t have been that fat, not really, the photos were wrong. So I’d the opposite problem, i was slim all my life the weight creeped on, and my brain refused to accept it. Even though my clothes were big, the scales showed I was obese, my face bloated. I simply couldn’t accept it. Until I did and went in mounjaro. Now I’m like bloody hell I was so fat.

I came on here to ask exactly the same thing so I’m glad to see this thread. It’s only when I put on my favourite clothes to see they’re baggy sacks on me that I can think I’m smaller, although there’s a part of me that thinks they’ve stretched in the same way that clothes “shrank” when I put on weight.

i think I’ve always had problems interpreting what’s in the mirror because for years I thought I looked ok, even though if I was photographed with other people I always went - oh I’m the biggest one. I’ve also been lucky in that I carried my fat “well” and didn’t look my weight iyswim.