How much weight did you lose before family/friends noticed?

About 18-20 pounds:)

I started in Feb around 230 and I am now 206. People started noticing about a month ago when I was about 211. I think sometimes it's because weight is sort of a touchy topic. I've had someone ask me in a whisper if I was losing weight like it was a dirty secret. Just because they haven't said anything doesn't mean they don't notice.

My mom and my husband notice whenever I lose anything, but they both always tell me I look good. After losing 20 lbs (168 to 148 at 5'1"), the only other people who commented were my grandma and one person at work.

NOTE - Many people are too polite (especially at work) to mention anything about weight. When my co-worker asked me about it, my boss was right next to him and said, "I noticed too, I just didn't want to say anything." My close friends will just say I look really good. People are very touchy about weight. But if I bring it up, as when I finally got to a weight below what I had ever been as an adult (I was ecstatic), THEN they commented on how they noticed. Moral of the story? Don't depend on others noticing as motivation. What you see/know is all that really matters.

No one ever says anything about my weight loss (including family members). I've always thought it was petty jealousy. However, just this morning, a friend told me that when her husband saw me on Saturday, he couldn't believe the drastic change in my figure. But he didn't say anything, because he thought he would seem creepy. lol I'm soooo glad she told me, though. It was so motivating to hear it and it made my whole day. I'm still smiling.

About 25 lbs, and people noticed my face first. Now I get double-takes which throws me completely and makes me think I have food on my shirt or my jeans are undone or something equally embarrassing.

I hadn't seen my boss in 3 months and she said I looked like a teenager last week, which was the sweetest thing anyone has said.

I'm down 5 pounds so far and a few inches, I haven't noticed anything but my boyfriend said my waist is noticeably smaller, not sure if he means it or just being nice though.

Around 15 lbs, from 175 to 160. (I'm 5'7".)

Not one person I work with or am friends with has said they noticed!

1 - have you read any of the numerous threads here with people complaining about others commenting on their weight loss? Talking about someone's weight tends to be rather taboo...right up there with religion and politics...a lot of people probably notice but aren't going to say anything.

Give those threads a read and you will find that a great many people take offense at what is meant to be a compliment when somebody says, "wow...you've lost weight...you look great." Many people interpret that as, "wow...you used to look like a big fat piece of ****." Just give those threads a read and you'll see what I mean. Intuitively, others realize that many people can't take a compliment and turn it into something negative...people just don't tend to comment on other people's weight whether good or bad.

2 - You are correct in your assessment that the early Lbs aren't that noticeable when you have a lot to lose...even if you don't have a ton to lose, it can take awhile before physical changes occur. You have to remember that in addition to the visible fat that we see, there is fat around your organs and muscles that isn't really visible and you lose that too.

My first 40 Lbs didn't make for any drastic changes in appearance...my neck and extremities were a little thinner and so was my face...but my gut was pretty much unchanged and I still had quite a bit of fat on my face. People don't notice when you lose fat around your fingers and such...it's just not that apparent. My last 20 Lbs was another story...night and day. The last 20 Lbs dramatically changed in my face and that's when I lost the gut and started dropping pant sizes at a pretty good clip. At that point it was hard for people not to comment regardless of whether it was taboo or not.

Maybe it isn't a case of no one noticing but no one wanting to say anything. I found out some of my girls at work were noticing before anything was said to me. Margaret who I traveled with told me one evening that they were talking about me. She mentioned that she was on her way to start walking (she did give up ). The girls mentioned that they noticed I was loosing not know that I was the one who talked her into trying to walk. Turns out they didn't want to say anything to me because they didn't know if I was trying and they we worried I might get embarrassed if something was said. It wasn't until she spoke up and told them no that I was walking that they finally said something to me.

I can't remember how much I weight when the first person from work mentioned something but I was about a month and a half in. By the end of two months, around 20lbs, just about everyone I worked with noticed.

There is a quote that says : It takes 4 weeks for you to notice your body changing, 8 weeks for your friends to notice and 12 weeks for the rest of the world. Give it 12 weeks. Don't quit.

Thank you for posting this question, great input here!