Feeling Bigger After Losing Weight: Why Does Your Old Body Image Stick Around?

Love the Body You Have: Begin to appreciate what and who you see in the mirror. · Aug 26, 2026 · 4m

What happens when your body changes, but your mind does not seem to catch up?

In this episode of Love the Body You Have, I talk about the disconnect that can happen after weight loss, muscle gain, or any other physical change that you believed would make you feel better about yourself.

For many of us, the message has been loud for a long time. Change your body and you will be happier. Lose the weight and you will feel more confident. Gain the muscle and you will finally feel like enough.

Those messages can come from people we know, fitness culture, advertising, and society as a whole.

So what…