Is it normal to be afraid to lose weight?

[Anonymous]

I saw myself in the mirror today and noticed that my arms were getting smaller. I'm sure any other girl trying to lose weight would be happy, but I was not I felt fear wash over me. That's right I was SCARED when I noticed my arms getting smaller.

I want to be healthier and lose some weight so I'm not sure why I felt so scared when I noticed my body get smaller. Is it normal to be afraid to lose weight?

[Anonymous]

Yes its normal to worry about it. But don't let it make you scared. I am thin, If I skip meals or get ill I can loose weight really easily and don't like it. Ignore peoples comments on being thin, I get it all the time people genrally don't think I eat enough but my freinds are jelous that I can eat whatever whenever and they always stick up for me.

If you are naturally thin and with a high metabolism it is important that you either eat 3 meals a day and regularly or like me I 'graze' most of the day always eating!

If you can have a big breakfast, and two other meals and eat inbetween those.

Have deserts, eat cheesuburgers!

Milk and cheese are good for adding wieght but if you have bad skin then dairy can make it worse.

Eat lots of carbs as well as protein.

Basically just Eat loads!

Try and be healthy and eat all the time! If you do a lot of excercise eat more than usual afterward to relace lost calories.

I snack on nuts, cheese, milk, ryveta and pate, Salami, cooked sausage, rice pudding, protein shakes with added vitamins.

I have been unable to exercise much recently becuase of an injury and eaten more out of bordom and put on 7 pounds! wooooohooo! aiming for another 7 then I will be happy.

[iAmAWESOME18]

I am a weird chick because I am afraid of losing weight only because of all the horrible things around me I hear. I'm in that situation right now that you're in. I just want to lose maybe 5 pounds but in my eyes that's like a lot. I wasn't always this way though. Just calm down, don't worry too much. Just as long as it's for health reasons and not image reasons.

[Anonymous]

It's strange. When I first started losing and noticed that my fingers were slimmer, it did 'scare' (if you can call it that) me a bit as well.

I think it's just the change. You're used to the way you have been for so long and you're suddenly changing. You don't feel or look like how you're accustomed to.

[NotASuperhero]

Yeah, I feel the same way. I think it's because you're comfortable with how your body looks now, and the fact that its appearance is different is weird to you because of change, and you're used to how it looked before.

[nancyjune561]

yeah,i think so.