Just a short post, based on some thinking I was just going through.
Last week I popped into my University for a catchup session. On the way home I caught myself unawares in a mirror in the carpark lift (or elevator across the pond). It was the first time I'd looked at myself and thought "wow, I've shrunk" - particularly my chin. That evening I checked out the old beer belly and that too looked quite nicely smaller; again for the first time really.
Since then (and especially since my chinese on Friday) that feeling has definitely gone away. Yesterday someone said to me how much better I looked without the double chin, a comment I immediately put down since in my opinion my double chin was firmly still there. Never-the-less, I took a chance to have a look in a mirror and check out the torso again... and this time felt disappointed. The scales told me I was no loss/no gain, potentially +1lb yesterday (variance). I was doubly conscious about what I ate last night as a result, and have been extra well behaved since.
I've spent the day feeling decidedly large, and upon looking in the mirror my backup chin looks huge.
So my thinking is this, do we affect/alter our interpretation of the physical based on what we're considering mentally? I'm pretty sure the answer is yes and it's something we all do, but still. Anyone of you other weight loss folks suffer from this occasionally?
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