Will i see the weight fall off?

[Jachut 487]

I reckon it did take me about 45lb and that's even with a starting BMI of 36. I lost about 100 in total to get to a BMI of 22, but yeah, I was surprised how long it took for me to no longer look fat.

I think its because even though I'd lost, at say 200 lb (I'm 5ft 10) I still WAS fat. It may have been better than 250, but it was still pretty darn hefty. I was looking for things like bony shoulders, a flat stomach, visible shoulder blades and hip bones. It took a long time to see that and the most gratifying and noticeable changes in my body - that metamorphosis of fat person into thin - that didnt come until I was well under a 30 BMI. Prior to that, I was just a smaller version of my fat self. Other people didnt really comment convincingly until I'd lost about 45 either.

Also, because I "wore" my fat fairly well, I carried it very evenly and am tall, so i didnt have any really obvious features like a big apron belly or really ginormous boobs, I was just what I call "football player big", there was nothing that disappeared all at once, I just gradually shrunk all over and eventually bones started becoming visible.

(not that I wanted to look like a skeleton by any stretch, but to me, normal weight means collarbones, shoulder blades, hip bones, knees and elbows are visible and stomach is flat).

Edited May 15, 2010 by Jachut

[toffeesocks 0]

For a little while, it's mostly Fluid weight, but around 20lbs+ people will notice your face being slimmer and eventually you'll notice clothes being baggier but the face we know too well is the one you see yourself as for ages, and then one day you'll look in the mirror and see the still totally gorgeous but much much slimmer person you are! :redface:

A lot of my friends live quite a way from me and we only meet up a couple of times a year so I can't wait to shock them all! :smile2: