I've recently hit my goal weight (160 lbs, 6'1" 22 m) and started maintaining. I had wanted to see a before/after comparison, so I pulled up some photos I had taken last year when I was at my heaviest right before I started losing weight, around 240 lbs. I was absolutely shocked by how fat I looked in all the pictures. I looked far, far heavier than I had realized at the time, and than I had ever seen in the mirror. Instead of being happy about how much weight I lost or glad I lost it, I am just upset, ashamed, and embarrassed by how much I weighed when I didn't even realize it. It has totally ruined my day. To be clear I definitely knew I was fat, but the face in the mirror I saw back then was not nearly as bad as what I now see in the pictures. It's also suddenly made me paranoid--if I thought I looked better than I did in reality back then, is it true now too? Am I not as slim as I think? I don't think that's true because my weight is pretty good for my height but I have still been scrutinizing myself in the mirror all day.
Has this happened to anyone else when looking at "before" pictures from when they were heavier? Does anyone have tips about how to look at it and feel good about the progress you've made instead of being embarrassed about having not realized how fat you were at the time?
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