Do you have weird things that your body isn't yours anymore after improving your diet/fitness?

Reposting from a different sub since I didn't get a lot of responses. Hoping y'all can help me.

tl;dr made improvements to my health, now my mental self is at odds with my physical self.

I rapidly gained about 70 lbs after I moved to a new city ~7 years ago and lived a very unhealthy lifestyle. About three years ago I started paying more attention to my health and very slowly lost some weight, but still not much. I wasn't very consistent with workouts and dieting and the weight loss kinda plateaued for a while. However, for the past four months or so, I kicked things into gear, made a lot of improvements to my diet overall, and have been consistently working out at least five days a week. I also started treating my (pretty severe) Vitamin D deficiency after about 8 or 9 years of completely ignoring it, and stopped weighing myself because it tends to discourage me and I end up falling back into the same old habits afterwards. I started to feel like I was finally at a place where I could sustain a healthier lifestyle for good.

What's weird is recently my body just doesn't feel like my own anymore. I'm having trouble reconciling it. It's confusing to me, because I don't think my current weight is anywhere close to what it was originally, and I never had this feeling of not being myself when I put on the weight (on the contrary, I didn't even notice how much I had gained until I saw photos of myself). I still buy and wear the same sized clothes even though I have probably gone down at least a size. I have all this energy that I don't know what to do with (I think largely due to Vitamin D) yet I still laze around when I'm home and am reluctant to do anything else. I'm a healthier person overall, but for some reason I just don't know how to act like one. I can't imagine myself as a smaller person wearing smaller clothes who isn't fatigued all the time and doesn't just lay around in bed at every opportunity.

Anyone else ever experience this? Were you able to push past it? I'm starting to worry that if I can't make it past this mental hurdle, I'll just revert back to my old ways. My weight usually fluctuates quite a bit and I've never been able to healthily sustain weight loss or make significant lifestyle changes until now.

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