How many pounds did you guys lose before you saw a noticable difference in yourself? I am 5'4 233 currently. I started at 252. My surgery was on 3/28/12.

How many pounds did you guys lose before you saw a noticable difference in yourself? I am 5'4 233 currently. I started at 252. My surgery was on 3/28/12.

I had a hard time noticing my loss until I did a side by side photo. I was banded on 12/20 other people started noticing in February but like I said myself it took a side by side picture to really make me see a difference. =)

I don't see it myself, but I am wearing smaller clothes.

I took before shots for this reason.. so 40 pounds later when i took after shots and compared them...it was a huge difference. But when i stood in front of the mirror i did not see it. So it really does help to take befoe and after pics.. I take them every 20 pounds! I am actually do to take more pretty soon.

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It took a long time for me to see it, down from 22 to 16 now, People at work starting asking me if I was on a diet..lol

I do now see the difference, especialy in pictures from last year on vacation,

It takes awhile sometimes to get your head and your eyes to see the same thing. I could tell I was losing because my clothes fit differently, but sometimes i wouldnt see it in the mirror. Now that I am kinda close to goal, I can look at myself in the mirror and see the difference but sometimes my head is like, wow, that cant really be what I look like. I dont feel that skinny.

It has taken time for me too see that i have lost weight but i have notice it in my clothing that their much bigger. But being honest when i see myself in the mirror i see that i look the same and that makes me feel out of place

i had lost only 12 lbs when someone commented on my weight loss (thankyouverymuch) but when i had lost 17 lbs and someone i had'nt seen in quite awhile comented " have you lost weight ? your face looks thinner !" Made my day !!! now im down 34 lbs and its really noticeable . today i wore pants and a jacket that i couldnt fit into a month ago and got a "skinny butt" comment from my hubby. Um, thanks honey , but i still weigh 190 lbs, so no "skinny butt", yet !! maybe later !

I went to my favorite Italian restraunt (I know boo) and the owner walks over, shakes my hand and says, "wow uve lost a lot of weight!" I told my hubby that's the nicest thing anyone can say to me AND then of course I didn't want to eat much because I was so motivated. My ENT said the same thing last week when I went to see him with an ear infection. I was so frustrated that none of my friends are noticing (or at least saying anything) but near strangers are noticing!! I take it where I can get it hehe!!

I have lost 75 lbs. in just over a year. No one seemed to notice until I hit the 50 lbs. mark. But the biggest comments came when I cut my hair really short!! However when I look in the mirror I still see myself as over weight. I am 7 lbs. away from the goal I set before surgery but now think I need to lose about 20 more lbs.

I found some noticed more than others. When I finally lost it in face people started to give me the wow. Now people dont even recognize me as i have rewind 14 yrs and have lost 115 lbs in 15 months. Finally at a normal weight .

Everyone around me noticed the weight loss, but I had a hard time seeing it. Until I saw the before and after pictures.

It takes awhile sometimes to get your head and your eyes to see the same thing. I could tell I was losing because my clothes fit differently, but sometimes i wouldnt see it in the mirror. Now that I am kinda close to goal, I can look at myself in the mirror and see the difference but sometimes my head is like, wow, that cant really be what I look like. I dont feel that skinny.

I have not had my surgery yet, but I can still identify with your comment about "I don't feel that skinny". I have always felt "fat".... even when I was not. The really weird thing? My goal is to get down to around 130 -140 after surgery. That would make me about the same weight that I was before I had my daughter (back when I was 18 years old!!). The other day I decided to pull out some photos of myself from way back when. As I was looking at them, I could remember everything about where I was, what I was up to in the photo, etc.... but I could also remember disturbing things like not liking the shorts I had on or the shirt or whatever...... because I felt "fat"!!!! Looking at those photos from my 225 pound vantage point, I can see that I was in no way fat, but it clearly didn't keep me from "feeling" fat. I wonder what sort of weird emotions I will have if I ever do make it back to that weight?? If I thought I was fat the, how will it feel to remember what it was like to actually BE fat??? Anyone have any idea what I am talking about??

I have not had my surgery yet' date=' but I can still identify with your comment about "I don't feel that skinny". I have always felt "fat".... even when I was not. The really weird thing? My goal is to get down to around 130 -140 after surgery. That would make me about the same weight that I was before I had my daughter (back when I was 18 years old!!). The other day I decided to pull out some photos of myself from way back when. As I was looking at them, I could remember everything about where I was, what I was up to in the photo, etc.... but I could also remember disturbing things like not liking the shorts I had on or the shirt or whatever...... because I felt "fat"!!!! Looking at those photos from my 225 pound vantage point, I can see that I was in no way fat, but it clearly didn't keep me from "feeling" fat. I wonder what sort of weird emotions I will have if I ever do make it back to that weight?? If I thought I was fat the, how will it feel to remember what it was like to actually BE fat??? Anyone have any idea what I am talking about?? [/quote']

Yes! i see pics of me when i was thinner...n i remember back then i called myself fat...now i look at those photos n icant wait to get back there! our minds play tricks on us

Yes! My teenage daughter is 19 years old now and I had the realization the other day that I used to be SMALLER than she is!!! She looks really tiny to me, but she wears larger pants than I did back then. I asked her how much she weighs the other day, because I honestly had no idea. She says she weighs 149. She is EXACTLY the same height as me. The biggest difference between us, apart from she is thin and I am fat... hahaha , is that we are shaped different. She has very narrow shoulders, a tiny chest and holds most of her weight in her bottom. I, on the other hand, have broad shoulder, JUGS and carry all of my weight in my torso. I look sort of like a California Raisin (or Mr. Peanut)!! hahahaha Anyone remember those guys?? I always wished I was shaped more like Zoe (my daughter)..... she is so lucky that she didn't get the "fat" gene. If I could anywhere NEAR 149, it would be fantastic!! Doubt I will ever be able to steal Zoe's cloths, however..... we are just totally different shapes!! It won't keep her from steeling mine, however..... She gets into my closet and wears my cloths. They look so funny on her because they are HUGE. She wraps the @#% around herself a few times and comes out looking super cute..... and I'm like, "Hey!! Give me back my tarp!! I need it!!!" She is so excited about my surgery..... because she says that maybe I will shut up about being fat! Sounds like a teenager, doesn't it?? hahaha :wub: