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Ways to Stop Feeling Fat After Large Weight Loss!

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When you experience phantom fat, it is difficult for you mind to overcome all the years of negative reinforcement of your body-image. It's like phantom limb syndrome when people lose a limb but still feel it and even experience pain from the missing limb. You can fear that the weight loss won't be permanent and you will eventually regain the weight. Retraining your brain CAN take years.

1

Take photos of yourself. Compare yourself to other people and objects in the photo.

Take photos of yourself. Compare yourself to other people and objects in the photo.
2

Try on your clothes you wore when you were heavier to give yourself a better perspective.

Try on your clothes you wore when you were heavier to give yourself a better perspective.
3

Ask someone that is with you in a crowd to point out someone that has a similar body size as you.

Ask someone that is with you in a crowd to point out someone that has a similar body size as you.
4

When shopping, try on what size you think you are vs. what size actually fits you.

When shopping, try on what size you think you are vs. what size actually fits you.
5

Study yourself. Force yourself to be accustomed to how you look now.

Study yourself. Force yourself to be accustomed to how you look now.
6

Take your measurements and log them to show how much your body has changed.

Take your measurements and log them to show how much your body has changed.
7

Really pay attention to people's compliments. Don't dismiss them! Accept them!

Really pay attention to people's compliments. Don't dismiss them! Accept them!
8

Trace yourself on butcher-type paper and really look at it.

Trace yourself on butcher-type paper and really look at it.
9

Revisit places where you felt too large to fit into. How do they feel now?

Revisit places where you felt too large to fit into. How do they feel now?
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Appreciate all the pounds you have lost.

Appreciate all the pounds you have lost.