When did YOU notice a difference...?

I started at 325 so I knew it would be a while before I actually SAW progress. The pic shows January 1st vs mid March, so about 2.5 months to see a difference.

I've lost a little over 20 pounds, and I still don't really notice when I look in the mirror. What I do notice is that my clothes fit much better and many are now too big. For my friends and family, I got random comments starting at around 10 pounds lost, but it seemed like everyone seemed to notice at around 18 pounds lost. It was werid, because no one said much at 16 pounds, but then everyone said something at 18 pounds. Such a small difference to me, but apparently made a big difference on my body. I'm assuming some of that has to do with body recomp too.

I first noticed when my clothes got too big and I had to keep hitching the trousers up again. It still didn't really compute in my brain until I glanced at my reflection one night in the kitchen window and wondered where on earth my huge backside had gone.

I still don't really "get it" though. My brain must be addled as I know I've lost a huge amount of weight, I am fitter and more active than I have ever been in my life, I'm a size UK10 instead of a UK28/30 but I still don't "feel" it. I've seen photos, I've seen my reflection in mirrors and windows but I still see myself as that 285lb woman.

There is no hope for me Maybe when I hit goal and I've got some more muscle definition perhaps.

the first time it actually hit me was when i started having trouble sleeping because my knees were too skinny and my leggings started fitting like sweat pants.

Mahdi22 wrote: »

Ocean_Breezy wrote: »

After losing 10 pounds my tshirts no longer fit me tight! That's when I noticed that I was losing inches...I can also fit my 12s and my 14s are loose.

I can't wait till I lose my first 10 pounds. Today's my eighth day of eating healthy and working out, I'm scared to go on a scale so I'll probably do it on the 1 month mark.
Good job btw!!!!
I can't wait till I'm in the 100's - onederland - just 20 pounds and I'm there. First time in 4 or 5 years

10 more pounds and I'll be under the 200 mark again. Can't wait for that again.

Mahdi22 wrote: »

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to know when YOU saw a difference in your body and thought that it was working (whatever your goal)?

Was it after 2 months, 10 pounds...Something else??

I really need motivation and greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!

Congratulations on your success. It's a complicated answer with a lot of answers depending on what you're looking for.

On the scale I saw it after my first month after I lost about 10 pounds.

Verbally I saw it after about three months when people started to ask me how much weight I lost and how I look good. They also told told me I need to get new clothes cuz my stuff is baggy.

I saw it in the wallet after four or five months when I had to redo my whole wardrobe.

Personally mentally I guess I started to see it after a year. It took me 8 months to lose 80 pounds and I was maintaining for about 4 to 5 months and I saw my reflection in the mirror and my reaction was what the hell is wrong with that mirror and then it hit me that's the new me

I started at 280 and just hit 20lbs lost last week (took 7 weeks). I'm starting to feel a difference in my clothes but I can't see a difference yet. I've been taking progress pictures though and I can see a slight difference in those (maybe?). My husband says I look a lot smaller, bless him, but no one else has commented on my size/weight loss. I'm definitely improving in the gym though, and that's how I'm gauging my success right now.

When I started wearing size medium shirts because Large was too big. Kind of an eye opener. Now I refuse to ever wear a large again.

Most of my adult life I was in the range of 250-270. Then I shot up to 307 (HW) and was pretty miserable in my own skin. It was difficult to find clothes that I felt comfortable in, and that was a new problem to me because honestly even at 250-270 I just picked any plus size 22 and it fit perfectly and I felt good in it. When I started walking miles per week and eating slightly healthier/less, I immediately felt better and once I got into 270-280s, I felt like myself again. This was all pre-MFP.

I seriously feel like all of my MFP weight loss (from 260s down to current 170) has just been like icing on the cake. There were stages especially around 200-220 where I really noticed, wow, I feel smaller in the world around me. But for the most part I don't honestly feel that different even after 3 years of maintaining the loss, and I still feel very shocked by full body photographs of myself. I picture myself a lot bigger than I am and where I used to focus on how fat my belly, back, or hips looked in pictures, I now focus on how skinny my forearms and neck look and how there's no way I am that tall (I am 5'8" but looked pretty short with the extra weight and got used to that). I am not complaining and seriously not trying to humble brag, just being honest. I don't FEEL that different and I always felt healthy and energetic except when I was WAY up, around 300 lb and just felt awful.