Since the beginning of 2017 I have been making a concerted effort to lose weight. It has been going well - through a combination of more sensible eating and taking up running so far I have lost nearly 4 stone and gone from a size 18-20 to a 12-14.
My friends/family/colleagues have commented on this and my old clothes are hanging off me - rationally I know I have lost weight. However, whenever I look in the mirror or at photos I can't stop seeing myself as huge even though I'm much smaller than I was - I'm starting to find it quite demoralising.
It's not helped by me not wanting to buy a lot of new clothes while I'm still losing weight so a lot of things don't fit me very well at the moment, but I don't feel I look good even in the clothes that DO fit me at the moment...
Has anyone else experienced this? Is it just a matter of time and my brain adjusting to being a new size? All I see in the mirror is the fat girl and I don't want to be stuck feeling like that forever after all my hard work!