Would you feel good 20 pounds down?

When I look back at myself.. when I was 160, and then 175, and well, everywhere in between, I remember thinking to myself that I was so fat and I was in reality, pretty darn cute. Today, I am 225 and I wish I could be 175, 160, 150 even. If I am lucky enough to lose all these extra pounds that I am carrying around, I don't think I will ever be as insecure as I once was about my weight. When I lose this, I will make sure that I positively reaffirm how great I am... so I don't fall back into old habits. Note to self.. hold on to fat pictures..in case you begin to doubt yourself.

I bet I would notice. I can see right away if someone lost weight. I also believe people are jealous and don't want to say anything unless it is so obvious that you just have to say something. Like if you lose 50 pounds or more. 20 pounds is a huge difference. Especially is you are 170 and down to 150. Thats alot.

I'm the same way! I look back at pictures of myself and think, damn I looked good! But I can clearly remember thinking I was fat. I've lost 23 pounds, and I can see a difference now...and I've had people tell me they can see it too. I still have just under 40 pounds more to lose to get down to 155. The big difference this time though is, I'm exercising. When I was 155 before, I was out of shape. Yes I was a good weight, but I was a couch potato.

I hope so. I'd be in the normal range so I should feel good...but it all depends on how my body feels that light. I don't recall feeling normal....ever.

Yeah, I feel the same way. I think deep down we are all at lease a little self conscious, no matter what size we are. My wife is very thin at 114lbs, even so, she is very critical of her own appearance. I used to be thin, but I never really felt thin. It's very hard to remember where we have been relative to where we are.

To answer the question: I am 15lbs down, and I feel worlds away from where I started. Not only do I feel physically better, but I feel a spark back in my life that had faded away.

I thought that getting to my highschool weight would make me look perfect and be happy with myself, but that didn't happen. I'm on my way to stopping the loss and working out more because the weight is no longer a problem, but my fitness level.. meh

I've lost 32lbs.. Personally, I don't think I look any different and I feel fatter than ever!
This might be because of my ED but I feel better knowing I've lost some..
Just gotta lose more!

When I was 255+ I thought it wasn't that bad, but now that I'm 165 I feel like I look like ****.

I have lost about 22lbs. I started at 165. I can see a big difference. My family can see it. I have about 20 more to go. I can tell I am a lot lighter, especially going up the stairs.

haha thats me!!! I was 12st 7 and said 2 stone would do me......10 st 7 comes and im like ya i lost weight but i dont really SEE it........9st 13 at the mo.....still feel i have more to loose, my goal is 9st !!! My friend lost a stone and a half getting down to 9st.....she was happy but said she felt another few pounds would do it...got to 8st 7.....she thinks 4/5 pounds more will do

Moral of the story as my husband would say...women are never happy hahaha i'm starting to think he may be on to something

Feeling better but not seeing as huge of a difference as I'd like. I still have about 35 more to go yet.

I was 163 lbs when I got pregnant, after I was 173. I have never been skinny. At my lowest weight, 153lbs, and I was a jr in high school, I still remember crying I was fat all the time. I look back and I think, WOW, wtf was I thinking, I wasn't fat. Right now I'm aiming for 150 lbs, 3 lbs less than my lowest that I remember. I was at 173 when I started my journey, not I'm at 157 seven weeks later. 15 lbs has sure made a difference to me. I've down almost 20 inches all over. I know I can still afford to lost another 20-30 lbs as I'm only 5'3", but I don't feel fat anymore, just slightly chubby, lol. Work on you until you feel comfortable, whether it's -5 or -50 lbs.