Imposter syndrome after weight loss — feeling like a fraud in my new body

DataDave said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.

DataDave said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

No disagreement, though it depends on where somebody is starting from, and this thread has been assuming a starting point nobody stated.

DataDave said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.

Reporting back.

Follow-up — I put something in the gap where food used to be rather than waiting for the gap to close on its own. That was the part nobody told me.