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Originally Posted by missbelle
I am older..67.....the face in the mirror for me is not the same as I feel in the inside. Inside I am younger, smart, simply just me.....! I can see why older people become invisible. We don't always look that hot yet inside we are that same 20 years old woman, the thirty year old woman or whatever....now its time for me to focus on other things....makeup helps but the wrinkles stay.........
I know you didn't mean this but I wanted to share this because the outside is so different then the inside sometimes isn't it?
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I completely know this feeling. I am about 70 pounds smaller in my head.
Of course, that can change, but it's as if my mental self-image is stuck on the nice lean silhouette I used to have before I started grad school, stopped working out, and had countless depressive months in which I sleep more, eat more, and do less.
But I know I'm overweight, so I convince myself, OK, I'll work out and eat less and then I'll feel better and be more fit. But because I'm somehow stuck on this internal self-image, I never follow through on these plans. It's as though thinking about it is enough, but really, it's not. And I don't usually see it in the mirror either - but then again, I don't spend much time in front of a mirror.
