Lost 16lbs, yet it doesn’t even feel like I lost 1 😔

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  • EllyhBelly
    EllyhBelly Posts: 10 Member
    Yes - I have lost a whole stone and thought (maybe stupidly) that I would look and feel so different but I think I look the same!!! I am a bit depressed/unsettled at the moment so that may play a part. I also took photos at the start five weeks ago and photos now and I don't know they kinda look the same - a tiniest bit more definition if you look really really really hard.
  • SteppenFetchit
    SteppenFetchit Posts: 39 Member
    By way of progress pics, I've found, and others have told me this too, that it takes losing between 15-20 lbs before I notice a difference in comparison. Of course, I have a lot to lose so that number may change as I lose more. 😐

    BTW, active friends are welcome - let's work on making our pics healthy and lean together! 😀😀😀
  • amfmmama
    amfmmama Posts: 1,420 Member
    take a selfie of just your face, and put it side by side with a picture from last summer. I am sure you will see the difference!
  • Desikudinspain
    Desikudinspain Posts: 32 Member
    You guys are commendable, I've not lost a single pound in the last 03 months despite doing everything right.
  • LAT1963
    LAT1963 Posts: 1,375 Member
    NotThatDamselAnymore wrote: »
    How are you taking your weight loss?

    it depends on what percent of your weight that is.

    If you are losing pretty evenly over your whole body, it can be harder to notice the changes at first. If you pile up 16 lbs of butter it looks like a big pile, but then if you imagine all that butter smeared all over you it's not that thick a layer.
  • freda666
    freda666 Posts: 338 Member
    I have lost 80 pounds, around 30% of me, and while I was noticing my clothes were getting bigger and have had to take some skirts in, it is only in this last week that I actually feel significantly smaller. Cannot say why all of a sudden now, but I think because we see ourselves every day we do not easily see the big change.
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,324 Member
    The scale and tight clothes don't lie.. but your brain will lie to you as you look into the mirror. The same brain that tells a person, "you don't look fat in that?..until the person sees there photo and realizes OMGSH... I'm FAT! It works both ways.

    So.. I use tight clothes.. when my shorts zip.. I know for sure I've lost weight and there is a difference. To heck what my doubting negative mind says. And it is funny when you go down in sizes you almost think the clothes are sized wrong that your really don't fit into that 8..but you do.
  • KeriA
    KeriA Posts: 3,338 Member
    elisa123gal wrote: »
    The scale and tight clothes don't lie.. but your brain will lie to you as you look into the mirror. The same brain that tells a person, "you don't look fat in that?..until the person sees there photo and realizes OMGSH... I'm FAT! It works both ways.

    So.. I use tight clothes.. when my shorts zip.. I know for sure I've lost weight and there is a difference. To heck what my doubting negative mind says. And it is funny when you go down in sizes you almost think the clothes are sized wrong that your really don't fit into that 8..but you do.

    Sometimes someone says something that explains why you are doing something which is a mystery. I have been wearing a shirt that I couldn't get into last summer but is still a tight fit. I avoid tight fitting clothes. They make me feel fat and usually that doesn't help. So I am wondering why I am doing this except for the fact that I am staying at home so no one sees. You have explained my unusual behavior. I think I want to experience this shirt getting loose as I continue to lose.

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