» self image http://lapbandprogress.com Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:08:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Changing my image of myself http://lapbandprogress.com/changing-my-image-of-myself/ http://lapbandprogress.com/changing-my-image-of-myself/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:20:34 +0000 GT http://lapbandprogress.com/?p=115 I read an article today about why overweight people, even people who’ve had lapband surgery like I have, can’t seem to keep it off.  We all hear about “I have a sweet tooth” and “I always feel hungry,” but maybe it has a lot less to do with the sweet tooth and feelings of hunger than we realize.

The problem is that we SEE ourselves as overweight.  That subconscious side of us that stores our memories and emotions has an image of us that is overweight.  If our subconsious is fat, how will we ever be able to overcome that?  I’ve lost a lot of weight but I still fight the urge to overeat every single day.

I’m going to take his advice and try to reprogram how my subsconscious sees me.  I started today by taking a photo of myself today and comparing it to how I looked at the end of 2007.  Huge difference..   here, I’ll show you.

How I looked end of December 2007How I looked April 5, 2009

So, you can see a difference, right?  Yeah I know, I’ve still got 30 pounds of boobage to lose but it will come off.  I’m going to work on my self image and try my best to see myself as a thin person.  Apparently that will help me more than anything else I can do.

So fingers crossed!

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