Is this visual progress or am I seeing things?

Mblaqsidetoside

I was looking at a picture of me from last January and trying to compare it to one I took only a few weeks ago. Given these are both of my face but I like maybe it thinned out a bit. But I can't tell if I'm making that up or not. I'm struggling a lot mentally with trying to lose weight.
This is me last January:

This is me now:

daaimah123

I see a difference. You can see that your face has thinned out. Keep up the good work. I was just doing this today.

TheNoLeafClover

It's not just you. There is a clear difference in the second picture. You're making great progress, OP. Keep going forward.

theblondetrick

There is a difference of course. But what probably makes you uncertain is that you're smiling in the pictures and when we smile, our faces expand, so they look wider.
Oh, and look at your eyes, now there's a clear difference, your eyes look so much bigger in the second picture, which means you've lost weight.

RHachicho

Definite progress. It's not just you.