muscle dysmorphia?

[jeremys]

ok i posted pics a while ago of me after 3 months' time off for injury. i got my diet straight and started training my whole body again and i look a lot better already. not a complete transformation from what you guys have seen, but you know what i mean. anyways, for some reason i think i look skinny as hell!! WTF???!?!? i mean, i still weigh about 250. i know i still got some fat and stuff, but i swear i look so SKINNY that if i cut, i wouldnt have anything.

is this a problem? anybody else deal with this?

 

[Citruscide]

I don't like to cut down too much for that very reason.. I feel I'll be too small... I'd rather have the extra few BF % just to maintain some size... I need that size to do the lifts I want to do anyway.

Although, I'm going to have to cut down sooner or later... more likely sooner.

C-ditty

 

[endpoint]

I cant tell you how to deal with it...i suffer from it all the time.

i just though i would let you know that you arent alone or weird.

 

[Thaibox]

I'm pretty sure that if you're on this board, you've got some level of muscle dismorphia. People(normal people) think I'm a monster, but when I look in the mirror, I see a prisoner of war.

 

[needsize]

I'm pretty sure that if you're on this board, you've got some level of muscle dismorphia. People(normal people) think I'm a monster, but when I look in the mirror, I see a prisoner of war.

i seem to be agreeing with you a lot lately, I find that sort of disturbing....

But I suffer from it bad, at 5'9" 230lsb at 10% bodyfat I'm by no means small, but when I look in a mirror I see small. I avoid certain types of clothes as they make me feel scrawny. Hell, if I lose 1/8 of an inch off my arms, I feel like I look like an aids patient.

It can be unheathy, but at the same time, its probably also part of what separates us from the "normals" that dont understand what we do to ourselves at the gym, why else would we keep going back?

 

[gonelifting]

Dysmorphia, Is that what they call it? I`ve been calling it (to myself) reverse anorexia lol. I HATE being skinny That`s what drives me in the gym. 6ft 2.5" 235

 

[Citruscide]

Damn, we all suffer from this then.

C-ditty

 

[Drunken_Weasel]

I didn't have this problem before. I always saw myself as fat, but at the same time, large in terms of muscle. Now that I have lost weight, I feel that im still fat, but also at the same time small. Its very agrivating, because i know my strength has increased, and probobly muscle size. I will probobly never be happy, but I can say I will be happier once I get rid of all this FAT!

 

[circusgirl]

If that's you in the avatar you are not skinny.

Here's a tip - get someone to take body-for-life style photos of you and use photoshop or somesuch to chop the head out. Then you won't be looking at a piccie of YOU, just a muscled frame, should help you see how large and muscular you really are.

This tends to work for ladies who think they are fat. Different dysmorphia I know. Give it a try.

Then every time you feel small, check the piccies and you will see you are not.

Also, go to an amusement park when the weather's hot and check out all those gruesome father-of-5-no-time-to-work-out bods on display. You will feel better .

 

[jesus 2]

I'm pretty sure that if you're on this board, you've got some level of muscle dismorphia.

i've said this before and i think you are absolutely right. i have muscle dispmorphia. i am not afraid to say it. i am afraid of the cutting phase i am most likely to begin though....

j to da 2