200lbs when will the weightloss be noticeable?

I started at 200 (5'6") and am now 171. I'll be honest - not too many people have said anything about my weight loss. I am apple shaped. I notice it and am no longer wearing plus sized clothing, but I have only received comments from a handful of people. Maybe they don't want to embarrass me. I am not sure. I would like to lose another ten pounds. That should make my weight loss more noticeable.

Good luck!

I started out at 212 lbs. I am 5'1". It took about 45 lbs. for the dropped-jaw, can't-help-but-blurt-out-a-comment stuff started happening routinely from friends and acquaintances.

I am 5'4" and started at 238 lbs on June 1st. I am down 54 lbs, at 184 lbs now, and the last few weeks is the first time people have commented (coworkers and family). I have recently bought some new clothes that fit my new size and I think when I was wearing the baggy bigger clothes it was also less obvious. I am kinda pear shaped, I think, and myself have noticed my face has thinned a bit as well in the last month or so.

scr183 wrote: »

This is something that has so many variables involved that it's all but impossible to know. It will depend on everything from how and where you carry your weight, how and where it starts to come off first, even how you dress/your clothes fit, how often you see people (people you see daily may be slower to notice a gradual change), and on and on. For me personally, I started getting comments about 20 pounds in from co-workers, etc. (I am a little shorter than you but started at roughly the same weight). I also carried my extra weight pretty proportionally all over, and mostly lost in the same fashion (I'm working on the last few pounds now, and those are mostly in my belly. Grr.). You may have a similar experience - or it may be much sooner or later. It's hard to say.

What I would suggest to you, and what I wish I'd done early on but didn't, is to take starting measurements and pictures. Then take updated versions of each every month or so - those things may help you see progress that the scale doesn't show. You got this!

Edited for typo.

Another REALLY helpful thing is to take VIDEO of yourself! Even if it's a video with your phone of yourself spinning around in front of a mirror. It feels silly but you will be amazed at the difference when you compare it later. Sometimes with a photo you can think later that it was just a bad angle or flattering lighting, but with a video there is no denying how different you look and move.

I think it is roughly after losing 10% of your starting weight and many people's anecdotal evidence in the responses seem to confirm. However, there are always caveats...

If you lose from your face quickly, people will notice more quickly. I also find around 200 lb my weight loss (i'm 5'7" and an apple) get noticeable even if I've only lost 10 lbs to get there. Something magic about that number for me -fat loss or redistribution. I get really stuck trying to get below it. Once I do; I can keep losing weight, but it takes focused effort.

A good rule of thumb to think about when it comes to this is (if you are working out and eating at a deficit):

30 days: you start to notice a big difference in your athletic ability. You can walk/run farther, climb a flight of stairs without loosing breath, really start to push hard in a workout.

60 days: you start to notice changes in your bodies composition and the way your cloths fit.

90 to 120 days: others will start to comment on the changes they see.

myfightforfitness wrote: »

Hey everyone, hope you're all doing well. Now before I get into my question I know I shouldn't change my lifestyle to receive comments from people, I'm just curious about others experiences.

So I'm currently 200lbs, 5'6" and have a pear shaped body.

I was wondering how much weight I will have to lose until people will notice a change?

Has anyone who started at my weight recall when people noticed your weight loss? And have any idea when people will notice mine?

Thanks !

Too many times in my past my motivation was to look better to other people. Personally, this should just be a byproduct of your goals. Do this for yourself, do this for your health. People can really be a powerful force in discouragement. I did that for years and until I started focusing on only me, I did not succeed. I took a close look at what obesity was doing to my health and what my quality of life was going to be like the older I get. It is a seriously scary proposition. I'm getting a bit older now so I see my siblings and my piers and where there health is going and I want to run in the opposite direction. The weight will come off and you will succeed but if your motivation is the feed back you'll get from others then you're building your goals on something external that you cannot control. Find your own personal motivations. Every 10 pounds really makes a difference in your health and how you feel just doing everyday tasks.

My goal in 2017 is to lose enough weight that I am no longer considered obese, clinically speaking. Yeah, I'd love to be at normal weight but notice what sports teams always do. They don't focus on the Superbowl, they focus on winning the next game. Once you lose enough that you are no longer obese, you can make new goals and take it further.

Different for everyone and depends on how much you have to lose, but for me people tend to comment when I drop a size, but probably mostly because I'm wearing clothes they're not used to seeing me wear and fit better than the baggier clothes I was both hiding in and shrinking under.