When you lost weight, did it feel weird to be smaller?

I have a friend who lost half his weight after bariatric surgery and I’ve often wondered how his psyche changed but haven’t broached the subject. When I’ve lost weight it’s only been the ten or twenty pounds needed to make me look and feel better; it didn’t change my psychological nature in any way but for the better.

Personally, when I lost weight, it felt wonderful. After I realized I had lost weight because I was down 2 dress sizes it made me feel like I had accomplished something positive…but no weird feeling.

Keep up the good work!;-)

You just feel like yourself again! The worst part was seeing myself in a shop window- horrors. Now, I don’t cringe. I like the way I am small in a chair. It’s great on so many levels

I was heavier (not overweight but chunky) growing up. Then 10th grade hit and I was getting thinner without even knowing what I was doing.
It felt like something I didn’t deserve, or hadn’t earned. It was such a surprise, how much of a difference it made in everything—like my body fit all of a sudden, and worked as one, rather than parts getting in the way (andI hadn’t even realized they had been, before, because it was all I knew).
I also felt naked all of a sudden. I liked my body all of a sudden. I’d never felt like that before, and I didn’t know what to do with it. It was confusing. I felt like everyone was looking at me and I had no shield. I didn’t miss the shield, I didn’t want the shield, but I felt exposed without it. So I found stuff I still hated about my body and focused on those, because that’s the only way I knew how to be with myself.

So yes, it was weird to me. Weird’s a good word.

Congrats on the weight loss @kevbo!!
I lost 10 lbs. last summer after losing my job. I did feel weird because I’m not really that big anyway and my friends kept commenting on it.

I lost weight after each baby and just felt like myself again. I have gone the other way and have gained weight and it is psychologically damaging!!

For me, I feel great when I notice that things fit that didn’t before! The weirdness comes when others notice. Whenever I see someone whom I haven’t seen in a while they always comment on how I’ve lost weight. I cringe and thank them, but it still feels awkward. I don’t know why. I guess because they are acknowledging the fact that they noticed my body? I don’t know. On the one hand I like it because it means that I’ve lost enough weight for others to notice and not just myself, but at the same time I hate it and it almost embarrasses me.

I feel great! As @global_nomad said, I fit into my clothes again. Once I lost enough weight that a couple friends told me I was beginning to look ‘drawn’. I didn’t want that, so I stopped losing.

I’ve been really skinny, and quite overweight. The only times I felt weird was when I was really skinny (I pretty much liked the way I looked, but other people were always talking about it, and not really in a positive way.) and the first time I gained a good chunk of weight in a short time (when I went from hyper- to hypo-thyroid, I went from 114 lbs to 170 lbs in the space of a year.) Later on, I lost 31 pounds and I felt great, but people were back to saying I was too skinny. Eh, fuck it… you can’t win! Might as well figure out where you feel best. :)