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

[CompulsiveChris]

I think I look slightly overweight with muscular shoulders. In reality I'm 9 stone overweight and my belly hangs quite a way over my trousers. Judging by some of your posts I need to lose at least one of you in weight.

[Portia]

What I see:
I'm ugly and worn out. I have dark circles under my eyes (Makes me look like Death) and my face looks huge. My arms are fat and I have a big gut. I'm flat-chested.

What other people tell me:
I look ugly and worn out.
I'm thin.

Reality:
I'm ugly and average sized.

[arrow]

I see:
Too tall, need to be shorter
Fat


What I actually am:
Too short
Fat

[Merla]

How I think I look -
My face is a round mess with about 20 chins. My arms are flabby and untoned. My stomach is potbellied and sticks out way too much. My arse is MASSIVE. Seriously, I am hauling some booty behind me... it's my worst feature. My thighs are round and tree trunk like and my calves are too thick. I think that's the word I'd use to describe my body - 'thick'.

How most other people comment on me -
Skinny shoulders, child bearing hips, healthy and generally what girls should aim for. Not fat but not a skeleton either. My boyfriend is always banging on about how fit my body is and how he loves it so much but most of the time I put it down to him saying it because he feels he has to.

[Pamshame]

I think: I look the same as I did before this relapse - UK 12
Reality: I am a UK 8

[apparent.]

I think I'm pretty dodgy looking. Fat? Mmm... sort of... big, sometimes. And not right. It doesn't all fit together as it should; my face is atrocious, sometimes I look really haggard and fucked up.

I don't know so much what other people say, but haha, I get "you look really cute" or innocent or sweet or words of those description, quite often. Which is probably terrible. But they don't see the wrinkles like I do...

[sunrayshay]

I feel fat and to be I really look fat ( I don't understand how other people can see different)
After my recent weight gain of 5-7 lbs I have an muffin top thunder thighs and huge butt I'm 5'5 -107 - 108.something

Actual
Everyones noticed my weight gain and says I need to gain mOre but this looks good so far by they did notice and were laughing like where did that come from .
I'm starting to fit my clothes again and I'm almost a guess size 24


I just can't handle this weight gain as small as it seems it's making me crazy

[meganmegan]

What i think:
-fat stomach
-huge thighs
-huge arms
-ugly face
-flabby

What people tell me:
-i have a flat stomach
-my thighs are skinny
-i'm thin
-i need to gain weight
-i'm "not ugly", or i'm "pretty"

yeah, right.

[haifisch]

What I See
-Fat stomach, wrinkles of fat when I bend forward. Pooch stomach.
-Fat forearms.
-Fat neck and chubby cheeks
-Elephant legs. Fat, fat, fat disgusting thighs that will touch if I stand a certain way.
-I feel stocky and like I should be taller so that the weight will stretch out more.
-I feel like I weigh about 140 pounds.

REALITY
-I can feel some of my organs.. my doctor says that my stomach pooches because of my organs, not fat.
-My forearms are bigger than my biceps.
-My neck is actually fat. I swear.
-My legs really are fat, they repulse me. Others say though that they are knobby and skinny.
-I am 5'8, I do wish I was taller (my mom is 5'10, I want to be her height.)
-I weigh 111lbs.

[citrous]

What I think:
Total muffin top. Flabby belly.
Bat wing arms.
Chubby cheeks.
Bulky thighs.
look fat in everything I wear.

Reality:
77 pounds at 4 foot 11 inches - 15.6 BMI
boyfriend tells me I look skeletal and unhealthy
everyone always commenting on how tiny I am
people who want to be skinny, say they "don't want to be as skinny as" me.
size 00, extra small top. jackets never fit.