How long did it take you to see results?

Took me around 2 months to finally see any results. Trust me keep at it, it will eventually fall off before you know it. I lost 60 pounds in 6 months. And it flew by now that i think back.

Different for everyone depending how much you have to lose, and how fast etc. For me it was about 8 weeks. I knew I'd lost but it wasn't til I put on a 'goal dress' for a Slimming World event and realised it was already a little loose. This prompted me to try on a load of outfits that hadn't fitted in a long time and I hadn't realised now fitted again!

It depends on what you classify as "results." I count ANY change in the direction that I wish to go a "positive result" (no matter if it makes a drastic effect on my aesthetic goals or not).

If we're talking, drop dead gorgeous, turning the heads of every female that I pass, then we're talking months. If we're talking losing very minuet inches in certain spots and 1-2 pounds of fat (which eventually will get me closer to my aesthetic goals), then I see that weekly....

I'm finally starting to see results and I'm 2 months in. Other people who I don't see often noticed it about a month in. It really has a lot to do with your height and where you carry your weight. But don't get discouraged. It will take you a lot longer to notice than other people because we are all much more critical of our own bodies than others.

Today is day 73 for me. I've been logging every day and eating very healthy. I exercise one to two times a week, but my focus will remain food because that is where a lot of progress comes from. I weigh in on the 1st of each month so that weight is secondary to how I feel and my focus on eating right. Yesterday was the first day that I HAD to buy new jeans because baggy is not a great look.

I've learned that you have to do what works for you. Nobody's plan on here will work because it wasn't started by you. Some people will say they exercise 6-7 days a week, others will try fad diets and pills, but in the end it's your body and how you make it work for you. You have to be willing to accept the fact that when the weight comes off slowly (1-2 pounds a week) you aren't going to go to bed and wake up and notice a change. It occurs over time. Be patient, just think day to day, and those days will add up to months, and over months is when you will FEEL a change. Good luck!

about 25lbs-30lbs (3 weeks) before i went down a notch in my belt.

I lost 12 pounds my first month ... and that was when I noticed a difference. Other people didn't notice until I lost over 20 pounds - guess they don't look too close

I'm 15 lbs down and I don't see the difference in myself visually, except that I have noticed that you can occasionally see a bit of definition in my collarbone area (am still 240 - so it's only a hint of a collarbone but that's a big deal to me! Never had it before).

But I am several inches down too. I still wear the same clothes, they just fit looser. Jeans are belted and on increasingly smaller holes; I did have to buy new bras, but everything else is the same size or near enough to it that it doesn't bother me if things are a bit baggy etc. So because I haven't *had* to size down that feels like I haven't made progress I guess, and I can't see the difference because I have a long way to go!

There's a reason most weight loss programs advertised on TV last AT LEAST two months - if you follow pretty much ANY regime you'll be looking different by then, and your brain will be able to accept the difference you'll see instead of week to week.

When I really started losing weight it took my months to look in the mirror and really see that I'm a different, skinnier guy. But it was more in the looser clothes and better health that I FELT the difference. Fitness and weight loss are two separate things, And IMO the former is more important than the latter in terms of feeling a difference.

Mark

Personally it took a loooong time to see what other people saw. Seeing myself everyday kind of hid my results from myself.

I haven't taken pictures, but it's been ~4 months for me (June 10) since I started tracking calories daily, and some things have struck me. It took about 2 months to realize that I had dropped a pants size. I noticed that my bras weren't quite as full right around then, too. Somewhere in there, my fat roll eased up so it stopped some extra skin contact at night (TMI?).

Lately, I've noticed that when I'm laying down, if I put a hand over the area where my rib cage starts to separate, there's space instead of skin. And a pair of shorts I bought in May that I was too fat for (they were VERY tight), now fits comfortably with a few inches to spare (thank the gods it came with a belt).

My favorite change? When I noticed that it took more water for my bathtub to fill around me. I used to fill it to the "armrest" line. Now, I have to fill it an inch or two above that to get to the water level I enjoy.

I started at a high of 213.2, I'm currently at 185. My first big goal / bare minimum is just 5 lbs away. After that, it's trial and error as to how small I want to get (I don't want to lose the ability to bulldoze guys in soccer).

So, I'm an "in progress" story, but you can do it! Small changes, reasonable eating, and focus on success over failure. Anyone can do it.

Even now after losing almost 35lb and getting to what I thought was my goal weight I hardly see a difference lol. But when I think back I guess I do.. I know for sure my clothes are fitting better and people tell me I look like I've lost weight. I think others started noticing around the 20lb mark maybe but like I said I can't see much difference in my own body.

I've used MFP for well over a year, under multiple names, each was deleted, except this one. I made this one in around summer/fall of last year, didn't take it seriously, I was over 300 lbs. and still had this childish delusion I was going to lose weight to impress people. Finally earlier this year (in February) weighing about 5 or so lbs. less than my MFP join weight, I decided enough was enough if I wanted to live without medications (diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.) so I changed my lifestyle. Since then I have lost around 45 lbs., and I feel the difference to others is very subtle, but I notice I am starting to have curves where there was just fat before. I can also fit into a size 18w/20w jeans, where before I was a 24/26 in jeans. No one outside of my mom and friends online have commented about seeing a change in me, which sometimes makes me feel sad, but I am not doing it for compliments, I am doing it to be healthy.

Love yourself now, show yourself love now in how you treat your body (feeding it nourishing food, moving it, etc.) and it will repay you later. The larger you are (like me, give or take) the more you have to lose to see changes usually, if someone who weighed 200 lbs. lost what I've lost it would probably be night and day, but for my starting place, it is more subtle I like to call it the "Spanx effect". Like I am a little neater & curvier, my face a little smaller, but it isn't dramatic, it will be I am hoping over the next 4-6 months!