I've been overweight my entire adult life. At my last physical I weighed in at 210 lbs (I'm 5'7) This puts my BMI into the obese category. Plus I have high cholesterol and I don't want to take any more drugs - I'd rather try diet and excercise first. I decided that I was tired of being overweight and out of shape and like I said I was worrried aobut my cholesterol, so I went to see my family Dr. to get her recommendations. She said Weight Watchers, South Beach or a Registerd Dietician. I decided to go the dietician route since my supplemental insurance would cover it, and I wanted to learn about eating healthy too - not just loosing weight. So far it's been good, I'm loosing weight slowly but steadily - I've lost 15 lbs in the last two months, which she says means I'm losing body fat, is a healthy rate, and I'll likely keep it off.

Here's the weird part, before I started seing the dietician, I never really worried about how I looked, I knew I was overweight but always dressed attractively and professionally in + size clothing. I think too I was hiding behind my weight as a defence to keep guys away due to issues arrising from CSA. But basically I was ok with my body.

Then yesterday I went for a hair cut (hair now looks great) and of course they have these big mirrors so you really see yourself, and all I could see was a fat cow & I hated how I look. This is really the first time I've had a negative reaction to my weight.

I still have a lot of weight to take off - my goal weight is 135 - 140 lbs, so I know It's going to take months to get there. I just don't want to hate myself the whole time I'm getting there.

Has anyone else had a massive change in their perception of body image around weight and weightloss.

Thanks.

--splitimage