Prepare yourself to still see fat

So I get together with some people who hadn’t seen me since I was over 300 pounds and they look at me with shock and awe and go on and on about how great I look, how much thinner I am, how tiny I am (seriously someone said tiny!) and you know what I am thinking? My head still says “I see fat!” Now I am not about to say that when I had lost that first big chunk of weight that I had a beach worthy body, but I sure wasn’t as fat as I once was!

There is no escaping it, once you begin to focus on something like weight you will be over critical of yourself. Instead of focusing on your success all you will see is the work left to do. To this day I still have work to do, hell I will probably die unfinished, but that doesn’t take away from the success I have had. So don’t rob yourself of enjoying your success.

Why do we do this? Well for years we have seen ourselves as the fat one. That naturally draws a comparison between us as the fat one and the others as skinny ones. So while we are a lot smaller than we use to be we also aren’t close to them skinny people, thus we must still be the fat one. Well I say screw that! Instead of finding our faults let’s focus on the success we have made. Sure we might be works in process but we are heading in the right direction. The mind is a very powerful thing, and we need to make it work in our favor.

There are a couple tricks you can do to keep yourself focused on your success. First keep some fat clothes. I kept a pair of jeans and shirt I use to wear all the time and a suit. When I beat myself up to much I put them on. Seriously do this, it is awesome! The clothes are like five or six sizes too big, I look like a little kid who snuck into his dad’s closet. A second trick of mine is to look back on what I call fatter photos. I have a collection of pictures taken within six months before I started this quest, and I have no problem taking them out and comparing them to recent pictures. Always brings a smile to my face!

Remember it is ok to be a work in process and make sure you allow yourself to enjoy the success you have achieved along your journey!

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