I've been 16+ stone for over 15 years and although I'd always planned I'd lose weight one day it had never happened. Tbh being that size was just part of me however weird that sounds.
Since September I've struggled with stress levels through the roof, anxiety and then out of control IBS and I've lost over 2.5 stone. Every time I have a massive IBS flare up I have 2-3 weeks of eating very little and drop another 7 pounds or so.
It's reached the stage now where I've had to buy new clothes and people are commenting on me being slimmer. This is great in lots of ways but I find it really hard to know what to say. Everyone assumes I've been dieting and wanted to lose weight and in reality it's as miserable as hell and I'd rather still be the same size and not had 6 months of pain.
I know the weight loss is good for my health and I am loving getting into more normal size clothes but I kind of feel that I've lost who I was and just can't get my head round being smaller. I know this sounds stupid especially to anyone who's desperate to lose weight but I don't know how to be this smaller person who has a limited diet and doesn't eat cakes etc 