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Can you visually see your weight loss?

This may be a stupid question...but, after reading over several posts on here and from my hospitals support groups site, I'm seeing a trend. I just want to confirm that I'm not going crazy and that trend is correct. Even though the numbers on the scales go down and our clothes get looser and sizes go down, do we still not really "see" our transformations? I know that for me, since I started this journey in December, I've lost over 80 pounds and I can tell it in my clothes, but to look at myself, I don't see one of my children missing from me...is that just my "fat" eyes?

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  • S@ssen@ch
    S@ssen@ch

    I have to really look/study myself to see the weight loss. It's easier if I focus on certain areas. For instance, I can see my clavicle. But I don't really "see" it in my face or anywhere else for

  • GreenTealael
    GreenTealael

    Its hard to tell a difference sometimes when you see yourself so often, usually others who havent seen you in a bit notice right away. But photos really really help. They often catch the subtle t

  • Diana_in_Philly
    Diana_in_Philly

    This is so hard. I'm almost 3 years out. I've lost 150 pounds. Yet, there are some days, I pull my clothes out of the closet, look at them and go - that can't be mine, it's too small. I consistent

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3 hours ago, Frustr8 said:

I miss the old ME
the happy ME
the fun to be around ME
the content to be where I was at ME
the gone ME
Will the new ME I am constructing. be a good enough ME to last me the rest of my Life!????

The 'old you' could not have been that happy, or you wouldn't have had the surgery.

However, any radical change is a shock to the system, so I'm sending you a virtual hug. xx

  • 2 weeks later...

I don't notice a difference when I look in the mirror but I do notice a difference when I look at photos week over week.

  • 6 months later...

wow I am pre op for November 11th and I soooo can not relate or imagine feeling what you guys are odviously going through..wow….

  • 4 months later...
On ‎10‎/‎15‎/‎2019 at 3:31 PM, november11 said:

wow I am pre op for November 11th and I soooo can not relate or imagine feeling what you guys are odviously going through..wow….

recap...it's now 4 months later and I can relate but....look....BEFOREDUO.jpg.f6a6eba9a6ee2727702b38efdc248c7f.jpg

Its a mind game Just recently i can see the difference, Took me 6 months - I can look at a picture of before and after That i clearly see but the mirror? Mind games. Its all a game and common - But one thing i do know, I feel way better so not really concerned with this mind game

I still see the old me when I look in the mirror. It takes a photo to make me see the new me.

On 3/14/2019 at 10:18 PM, Frustr8 said:

I miss the old ME
the happy ME
the fun to be around ME
the content to be where I was at ME
the gone ME
Will the new ME I am constructing. be a good enough ME to last me the rest of my Life!????

Wow you are going through the weightloss depression bad. I hope there is someone IRL you can talk to you. You are the same you with some minor adjustments. Have you been doing to group or anything. I am so sorry you're feeling this way.

I didn’t recognize myself in a photo at work. After asking myself “who the hell is that?”, it clicked. The mind definitely takes longer to catch up...

I myself see it, and the numbers prove it, but I don't seem to understand why other people don't see it, must be some kind of psychological tick. And humans are very jealous creatures lol.

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