Question for you Success Stories. :)

it really depends on how much you have to lose. nobody noticed on me until i went out and bought more clothes that actually fit me properly.

I would say about 40 pounds. It was winter so I did wear alot of sweatshirts. It is a little harder to tell then.

I have lost a little under 15 pounds...some people have noticed but most haven't...

Between 30 and 40 people started to make a lot of comments. Getting clothes that fit made a huge impact on people commenting too!

Around 30 lbs was when people who don't see me every day started to notice. It was 40 or 50 lbs before people I see all the time noticed, but, like others have said, I think that was largely because I didn't buy any new clothes until my pants were practically falling down to my ankles when I put them on. Once I started wearing new, smaller clothes, I got comments all the time.

It's funny because I've lost 80 lbs over the past 15 months, and someone I see nearly every day just now said something about it a few days ago. The way he said it made me think he had noticed before but never wanted to mention it. You have to remember that some people will be super excited for you and will compliment you as soon as they notice, but some people will either be jealous or will think you might be offended if they comment on your weight (this is especially true about men, I have discovered), so they won't say anything.

Only a few people have said anything about my weightloss. Some of my family & a class mate of mine, are the only ones who have really commented on seeing a difference in my body. And it took me losing about 15 pounds before they ever said anything.

I seen my cousin last weekend for the first time in about 5 months. She told me that her & her husband was on the Atkin's diet & that she had lost 8 pounds. When I told her that I had lost 25 pounds, she looked shocked. She said that she didn't even know that I had gained that much. But actually the last time I seen her, I was @ my heaviest. I guess by being so taIl (5'9"), I hide my weight. Which is good, but it would be nice if others would notice. And they will in time, just as I'm sure more will notice your weightloss.

Good luck to you during your weightloss journey! :bigsmile:

my closest friends noticed after about 20 ( i was very big) lol...but other people didnt notice till i lost 50+ and it was annoying for a while cos i thought i might have just stayed bigger if you wouldnt notice! lol but after that every single person i met was in shock lol

One or 2 people noticed about10lbs. It was winter and like someone else said you wear bigger clothes and can really blame them

When I've lost around 15 to 20 lbs I've noticed something very curious.
Around people (not my family or friends) that would see me everyday and didn't know I've started a diet they were kind of afraid of asking most likely because they thought I could be sick or something. Same case you don't ask a woman if she is pregnant unless you are 100% sure she is. :bigsmile:

Some people would look at me and comment that something was different (most about my hair which didn't change, only got a little longer) until one day I finnaly said maybe was my weight lost that make my hair looks bigger and fuller since my face is skinnier :bigsmile:

Now after 37lbs, everybody know :blushing:

36 lbs

It seriously took about 50lbs before people started saying things to me. I didn't buy new clothes for a long time and the fact that I had lost weight was hidden behind baggy clothes and uniforms. When I started to wear clothes that fit, lots of people noticed.

I'd say I got my first coments around 12 pounds, but most of them started coming around 20-25 lbs

20lbs

for me it was about 20 pounds. i carry my weight evenly all over my body. took a while to really notice

I am still waiting for that first person to notice :mad:

I don't know when people started noticing, but they started commenting after about ten pounds then the frequency of comments increased at 20, 30 etc. But now I've been skinny for so long (since 2006) that most people I know don't realize I used to be bigger!

I'm having this problem now, too. Meeting new people is strange now because when we go out for drinks or dinner and they see how careful I am about what I order, they don't understand why I'm on a diet. I look totally normal and healthy now, so they look at me like "You're not one of those high-maintenance, constantly-on-a-diet-because-you-think-you're-fat" girls, are you?"