When do you start feeling better about yourself?

I started at 220 lbs, now I’m at 200. I know I look thinner, and people have been telling me so. The problem is I’m even more obsessive about my appearance than I was before I started dieting. I walk for hours, always staring at myself in any reflective surface, always ashamed of my belly, even though I rationally know it’s getting smaller. When is it going to stop? When am I going to stop thinking that every time someone looks at me it’s because they think I’m hideous? I’m graduating from high school in a week and I’ve realized I don’t have any pictures of myself in the last five years, because I’ve always been ashamed of my body. 20 pounds later, I still don’t feel comfortable taking a photo. I’m trying my best to love myself, but it’s so hard

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