Has loosing the weight made you happy?

Well, yeah. Happier, anyhow. I was never overweight to the point where it really stopped me doing anything in particular, but I was uncomfortable with my body, not very energetic, sleeping badly, etc. I've still got another 50-60 lbs to go, i'm still fairly fat, but the 30 lbs down so far is an accomplishment and it is useful. I feel better, I look better, I have new interests - and that makes me happy. Not in some intrinsic, now-all-is-well way, but in the way that I think some happiness can be an accumulation of small moments of joy, including from things like pride, achievement, confidence, physical pleasure. Thanks to being healthier my average day now contains more of them - i'll glimpse myself in a mirror and like what I see or get compliment or a great endorphin rush from a workout, and that's a few more things in the plus column.

In my experience and observation, if you're generally unhappy, weight loss is not going to solve that issue.

I was quite happy when I was fat...just as happy as I am now. I didn't lose weight to be happy...I lost weight because my health was going down the tubes pretty fast and I needed to get things under control.

I would say that now I am a lot more exuberant and have a lot more energy than I used to...and I have way less aches and pains and I'm quite excited to have reversed all of my bad blood work and I am enjoying living a healthful life. It is my hope that living such a life will result in a longer and more fruitful life than it otherwise would have been had I not changed the way I was living.

I often get told that I must be proud of myself for losing so much weight but if I'm honest I'm actually ashamed that I had so much to lose in the first place! So while I am happy I've lost weight and probably extended my life I do have a certain amount of sadness for the years I wasted getting fat in the first place.

For some reason my ticker isn't showing but I've lost 100lbs

I have lost 30lb so far and it has made me happier.
I have noticed I am a lot more relaxed within my own skin, I am more confident and I have more motivation to do things.

I often get told that I must be proud of myself for losing so much weight but if I'm honest I'm actually ashamed that I had so much to lose in the first place! So while I am happy I've lost weight and probably extended my life I do have a certain amount of sadness for the years I wasted getting fat in the first place.

For some reason my ticker isn't showing but I've lost 100lbs

**THIS**

My happiness was never tied to my appearance, so looking better because of the weight loss, didn't make me happy.

I have always been a fairly happy person. However, after a spinal injury put me in a wheelchair for awhile and sidelined me for several years, the weight I gained over several years only exacerbated my disabilities. The pain, fatigue, and inability to do the things I used to be able to do, was very depressing.

After losing my mom to Diabetes in 2012, I finally got the motivation to lose the 80 lbs that had crept up over the years. I knew that if I didn't lose the weight, no matter what it took, I would end up with Diabetes myself, and I was determined not to put my husband and children thru the pain of watching me slowly kill myself.

So now, 50+ lbs lighter, I am much more ambulatory. Finding out what foods cause inflammation in my body, and staying away from them as much as possible, has greatly increased my quality of life.

I wasn't obese for most of my life, and the inner me, didn't match what I saw in the mirror.
I will never be perfectly healthy and 30 again, but I am definitely happier that the outer me more closely matches the more active person inside again.

And since I had an awesome husband and kids before weight gain, during, and after weight loss, I wasn't looking for my life to drastically change with weight loss.

I wouldn't say it made me happy, but it certainly contributed greatly!

It's not just the weight loss, though - knowing you're making positive changes and getting healthy contributes to confidence, even if you haven't "arrived" appearance-wise.

I find I can wear shorts or a swimsuit and not be constantly thinking about what I look like. I can just do life that day. That's a huge mental victory! It came with the journey, but isn't solely attributable to the weight loss, per se.

I would say I'm happy I made my choice and went through with it. I'm unhappy that my journey has turned into some weird social experiment where I have noticed an increase in the number of people who have become much nicer to me yet when I was at my starting weight they treated me like I had some sort of infectious disease. Also while I'm happy with myself I'm upset that this whole journey is making me broke. My belt budget had to be increased and with weights going for a dollar a pound I'm not sure I'll ever have all the toys I want. Would I do it all over? Nope ain't nobody got time for that.

The weight loss is nice, but not suffering from constant ankle pain makes me happy. Working on improving my levels of general badassery is also fun.