Mirrors - do you find some make you look better than others?

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Hi all,

I'm new to your forum - and have been finding great encouragement looking through the before and after pics. I'm well on my way - and just need to keep doing what I'm doing.

My question has to do with MIRRORS - as the subject says. I have a mirror in my bedroom which is just a cheapy from decades ago - a long tall sort of full length mirror. I've been happy watching my progress in this mirror. I was feeling so confident that I went to look at myself in mirror belonging to a relative and I was really surprised by how much BIGGER I looked. I mean - it is a radical difference. So I then went to a couple other mirrors in the house - which seem to fall between the two for how they reflect my look.

Am I losing it - or do some mirrors reflect us differently? It is maddening. What are your thoughts?

Thanks.
 
Oh yes- there are absolutely huge differences between mirrors! The cheaper the mirror, the thinner you look (in my experience). Those cheapy full length ones always make you look thinner, especially if you have it tilted back at an angle. Installed bathroom mirrors are usually more accurate, if less flattering ;)
 
Not that I'm happy that my cheapy mirror has been lying to me ... lol ... but I'm relieved that I'm not totally nuts about seeing a huge difference. Thank you so much for saving my little brain - I just couldn't figure this out.
 
yeah I have 2 mirrors in my bath room and I hate one of them I look a lot wider in one then I do the other. I hate the mirrors at wal-mart too in the dressing rooms I always buy stuff there and when I try it on there I look like poo but when I get it home and look in my mirror I look so much better.
 
I've never had a problem with how I look in mirrors. Everytime I look into a mirror, it shatters into a millions pieces for some reason.
 
I hate mirrors in general. However, it's great motivation when you're trying on clothing, you see what you look like in your underwear and you think "Screw this I'm making a more concious effort to lose weight!"
 
Duuuude, I totally see a difference in mirrors. Actually, my grandma has a mirror in her room and I always love to go in there and look at myself in it because I feel so thin!!! HAHAHA! It's like, oooh yay! And then back to reality everywhere else.

I call hers the magic mirror. ;)
 
my mirror above one of my dressers is a magical mirror. i get dressed and i'm like "damn i look good" and then i go look in the bathroom mirror and i'm like "no, no i do not."

then i thought i was having a slim day today (mirror wise) and my mother told me that i looked like i gained weight. FML (f*ck my life, for those that aren't aware about that whole fad/website).
 
My ladyfriend said the ceiling mirror made me look like an ass, I rolled off her to get her perspective and said "no hun, it makes me look like a dick"

Mirrors don't lie.
 
Funny, when I look into my mirror(s), I don't see anything wrong with my wieght, but in pictures, oh man it really shows :S
 
Thanks for all the replies. :) Sorry I didn't answer - I didn't get notifications there were more messages. Oops.

All your stories make me feel so much more relieved. Now I'll just keep trusting the measuring tape - and not so much the mirrors. Or - like Detox said about cameras, they seem to be very unforgiving, so maybe I'll just use my digital camera to take progress pics and watch those so I know when I've hit my "lookin' good" look.

By the way, I found 3 or 4 photos (head shots) of myself from the last 10 years, and I'm staggered by how much my face changed with the weight I had gained. Now I know some of you have more, or less weight to lose than I do/did and this is no slight or insult against your journey - but my gosh I never saw what this weight did to me since it came on so gradually. I might get up the courage and post these in the before and after section. Not quite that gutsy yet - but we'll see!

Thanks for making me feel better about the mirrors. At least I'm not totally nuts.
 
Shep03 said:
my mirror above one of my dressers is a magical mirror. i get dressed and i'm like "damn i look good" and then i go look in the bathroom mirror and i'm like "no, no i do not."

then i thought i was having a slim day today (mirror wise) and my mother told me that i looked like i gained weight. FML (f*ck my life, for those that aren't aware about that whole fad/website).
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Just had to make a separate comment to you, Shep03. I thought I was the only one with family that points out every flaw the minute they see it - even flaws that don't exist! Gah! My sympathies on your mother's nasty comment. Not helpful to the self esteem - you didn't deserve that when you're working so hard to help yourself!
 
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