What you think you look like -VS- How you actually look TW

[hollywood_girl]

I think:
-My tummy makes me look pregnant
- My arms are like two big sausages hanging off my torso
-I'm considered 'chunky' or as a 'big girl'
-I'm wobbly all over

Reality (?) :
-I'm a size S or AUS10 (US6..?)
-My friends say they envy my body
-I have on a few occasions not recognised myself in photos, or in passing reflections

Maybe I will never know how I actually look. Scary stuff.
How about you guys..???

[Clarice_Starling]

What I think: I look like the girls on fitness magazines (I HATE this look and want to look skeletal), My lower abdomen is huge, You can't see my bones, HUGE thighs...

What people say to me and think: I look skeletal, I should "eat", co workers are often worried about me (they don't know my problem), I am a size double 0 I guess it's considered and can rarely find pants that fit (not like I ever have money to buy clothes), my boss thought I passed out one time in the bathroom when I was just in there because I didn't feel good and when I came out he was like "I thought you passed out because your so thin.."

[PleaseClaimMe]

What I think- I am short and stout with too many curves. I can see my chest bones, but I think my stomach is a muffin top. I just look like a blob basically. Even though I'm a double zero, I feel like it's not a big deal because I'm short(5ft3)

What other have said- You're so tiny.. You need to gain weight.., etc. In fact, random people feel the need to stop me at the store and comment me on my weight.

[KoH.]

I have this really banging figure of myself in my head and when i go clothes shopping, i picture how good they're gonna look. When i try them on i'm too fat here, too lanky or wobbly there; basically nothing like i was hoping it would look like.

[Strangelove]

What I think:
-Huge calves
-Bursting out of my clothing
-Look like I'm overweight
-Very short and stocky
-"lumpy" and wide
-Round face
-Weird walk
-Arms that are way too long for my body
-Short torso

Reality:
-Size 1
-Flat butt
-108 pounds (a tiny bit underweight)
-5'4" (average height.)
-Others have told me I'm the skinniest person at my college aside from "xxx" person.
-Others have told me I'm frail looking
-Others have told me they wish they were this size (HAH FUCK OFF.)
-"How do you stay so skinny!!" and other stupid questions.
-Oval shaped face, when it isn't huge from purging.

Either way I hate it all.

[Strigis]

I think:
My face looks like a obese Face's.
My tummy is round, horrible i can see the fat everywhere.
My legs are ENORMOUS.
There is that horrible love handles i wish i could cut off.

Reality (?)
I'm a Size 2 USA, i don't know if that's huge or not, but i actually noticed people have bigger sizes, maybe it's because i don't have big hips.
People say i shouldn't lose weight, and i'm not fat. <- That is actually hard to BELIEVE.
People say i'm ugly, and they're right.

[Bibii]

I see myself at my maximum weight (BMI 20), I just don't see the weight loss at all. I think I still look healthy or most of the time when I look at myself I see big arms, huge thighs, big tummy..

I don't know how I actually look (now BMI 16 and a size double zero USA) but friends and co-workers often comment about my weight, ask me if i'm on a hunger strike, tell me that I look skeletal and sick.
And it's probably true, but I just don't see it no matter how I look at it, so even if there IS a distortion, my reality is what I see..

[kaitlynm118]

What I see:
•Fatty, too round stomach
•Too large of a waist
•HUGE ass/hips/thighs. Like, ridiculously huge.
•Man calves from when I used to run track/play soccer
•Average/slightly above average body
•Short-average height

What others see:
•Size 1
•5'7"
•The other day my teacher (who knows about my ED) said I looked skinny as it is, and that I looked unhealthily skinny and underweight.

I really wish I could see what others do, just for a day.

[karlamorgan]

I see:
Fat.
Stocky/short.
Average looks.
Frizzy hair.

What people say/reality:
Not fat (I'm probably more "chubby" than "fat" but it's really all the same to me...).
Average height (5'5).
Pretty/"really attractive".
"Sexy Jew hair" (my ex-boy said this and I loved it (and yes I am Jewish)).

[Ivy45]

What I think I look like: flabby and untoned. High percentage of body fat. I think I am accurate and that this is true. Other people always comment on how small and slim I am, which is true - I have a very small frame and I hide my problem areas well and don't ever wear a bikini or anything even if I go to the beach. But years of weight fluctuation and lack of exercise has left me wobbly and untoned with a high body fat percentage and cellulite. I think I see an accurate image of myself, I just think my flaws are more prominent to me than other people.