Can you picture yourself?
I can’t. I can’t picture myself thin. I can’t picture myself any way but obese, not when I really try. Ironically, when I just have an image of myself that isn’t a conscience thought, I’m not overweight. It’s when I try to visualize the person I want to be at the next step of a healthy life that I just can’t see a healthy person.
I try not to dwell on it, and I’m pretty successful with that. Avoidance is a trait I mastered long ago. Some times it’s helpful, other times not as much. Is this an important step that is just holding me back, hindering any progress I think I’m making? Or is merely the fact that I think it probably is enough to make it such? Or am I just over thinking the whole thing, trying to expand my mind when I should just get out my Polish, German and Spanish books to reclaim the languages I once spoke?
So, can you picture yourself at your ideal weight, not as you are, unless you’re already there, and not as some figure of what popular culture has lead us to believe is the ideal? Do you have a healthy image of where you want to be?
Although I lost weight I still would like to lose some more so when I try to visulize myself thinner, I really can’t. It just doesn’t happen. I do however visulize myself doing something that I wouldn’t normally do like singing on a stage or being extra giddy. Like maybe being thinner will just make me even more confident. But, maybe you are thinking too much about it. I know some will say to visualize yourself thin but I need more than that. I want to see clothes that I can almost fit into or clothes that look within my reach of wearing in the near future whether that was a size 16 before today or a size 8 hopefully in my near future. Or I used to see people at the gym who were the same size as me walking like there was no tomorrow and I wanted to look just like them on that treadmill so I would aspire to reach what they were doing. But I think there is nothing wrong with exploring your thoughts and learning from them that’s for sure. I hope what I just wrote made sense!
oh yea, in my mind i am a size 4 or 6 like i was in highschool. its the reflection in the mirror that startles me.. i guess in that way i am opposite of you…but truly i will picture myself cute and fit and then get pictures back and say “woah, i looked really fat that day, i had no idea.”
but hey soon enough i will be fit, so its ok
I dont think I can ever visualize myself as thin. Even when I wore size 6 or 4 I could of stood to lose a little more. I am not sure what I would look like at my ideal weight. Do you think its a self-fullfilling prophesy? Like our mind makes our bodies go to the image that we keep? Great question. When I reach my weight I am taking a picture and carrying it with me every where so that will be my new self image
When I try to visulize myself at the point I want to be, I always go back and see myself as that thing girl I was on High School. That really isn’t reality because I will never be that girl, nor do I want to be. I have lost some weight but I still see the “fat” girl. It is hard to wrap our minds around all of this. I am glad you are trying to not dwell on it. Just have to keep moving forward.
Man, I need spellcheck!
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I think the reason I have a problem with this is because I have never been thin. I have no point of reference. When I was in my early 20’s I got down to a size 10 for about a year, but I was still 150. I’ve decided to look at it as an adventure, going where I’ve never gone before!