I haven't been this weight in over 5 years. However, I still cannot wear the jeans that I was wearing 10 lbs heavier than this. What gives? I wasn't more muscley then.

I have lost almost 50 pounds and only one clothing size. AAARGH! I feel like there isn't much of a difference in the way I look. I know, how I feel is most important, but that hasn't been different either, as I never really felt bad Healthwise before the band.

Is it skin? What? I am so sick of being a plus size! I'm still a 20!

Loose skin could play a part. I am the same weight now as I was when I met my husband 9 years ago. I can barely squeeze into the jeans I was wearing comfortably when I met him.....I'm sure the reason is loose skin I have hanging on my lower abdomen that I didn't have back then.

Carol

Who knows? I'm the other way round, I'm thinner at this weight than I was at 16 years old. I cant figure it, I thought I was just "feeling" thinner you know, but a comparison of photographs, I have double chins and am really beefy at 84kg at 16, whereas I have none of that now. I think I have a lot more muscle due to the exercise over the past year and as an adult, you just naturally lose that facial puppy fat I think.

But what can you do than go with it, you will get there, just keep plugging away, and exercising makes a lot of difference.

I think its all about body porportions too.. when you gain weight.. your body changes shape and when you lose it.. doesnt always go back to the same shape. I lost alot of weight and was the weight i am now a couple yrs ago, but then gained ALOT back and now back down to where i was.. my body is completely different shaped then before.