Why is the steering wheel so far away?!
So I feel naked or vulnerable in my car now because my belly fat used to be some strange security blanket of closeness to the steering wheel. Now I am really far away from the steering wheel and I feel like I'm this gangly little creature that is just floating in a sea of open space! What's even crazier is I've only lost 35lbs!!
I picked up on the part of your post that is not really a NSV. You say that you now feel vulnerable and I remember feeling the exact same way when I first lost weight. I think it is normal to feel this way as we really do take up so much less physical space now. This simple reality made me feel tiny but not in a good way. I had to find a loud and strong voice to counteract my "smallness". I get where you are coming from on this, and I posted something similar when I lost weight.
You might like this slam poet and what they have to say on taking up space.