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Why do I still feel fat even though I lost weight?

Profile: Madeleine01
Madeleine01 on Jan 2, 2015
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Because "fat" isnt really a state of being it is a state of mind. I have experienced that you will never feel okay with yourself and your body before you change your mindset. It doesnt matter how much you weight.
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Anonymous on Jul 7, 2015
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It's your imagination, ask the close people around you about your looks, shape and weight and see their opinions, you can continue in losing weight until your satisfied
Profile: disenchanted99
disenchanted99 on Apr 3, 2017
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It is about perception. You still perceive yourself as fat, even though you may not be. You might compare yourself to others, or to people in magazines, or your idea of a "perfect" body. This does not make it accurate. If you can change your perception of yourself, then you can start to see your body more positively.
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Anonymous on Jan 25, 2016
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Eating disorders are not rational. You feel fat when you're skinny and skinny when you're fat. They are dangerous to the body as well as the mind and never turn out good in the end.
Profile: nbMacaron
nbMacaron on May 30, 2016
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You lost inches or pounds, but it doesn't seem to change the way you feel about yourself. When you get used to thinking of yourself as fat, it's really hard to change that mental picture. Sometimes the dissonance between what you perceive and what is can be pretty drastic. When this happens, it might be helpful to get a second opinion from someone you trust to be honest with you.
Profile: comfortingCherry1415
comfortingCherry1415 on Mar 24, 2020
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I've gone through this feeling multiple times. As a woman growing up in this day in age, I think society's socially constructed definition of "beauty" is often equated to being thin. Living in a hot climate doesn't help either as there are added pressures to constantly maintain a certain look to be deemed pretty. It took me a long time to realize that my self-deprecation was really affecting my happiness and the fact that I was constantly focused on the number of the scale or the amount of calories I ate in a day only brought more stress in my life. I changed my outlook and donated my scale and deleted my calorie tracker. I instead focused on working out for me because I wanted to be healthy. Changing my eating to focus on achieving the best health possible for myself. Choosing to love my body and appreciate my flaws is a constant battle, but it's so important and writing down in a journal the things that I do love about myself really helped me change my mindset
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