I feel like I look the same...

So I have lost 21 pounds in about 2 months. Just trying to eat healthy, excercise more. Not wanting to do anything crazy. People keep commenting about the weight I have lost, but I feel like I look exactly the same as I always did. And I am really not sure what to say when people say "You've lost weight! You look great!" uh, thanks yeah I must've looked like hell before. IDK, just kind of venting. Feeling frustrated and annoyed.

i did too, until i bought new clothes. thats what i suggest you do! :D

Look at old pictures and new ones. That's what did the trick for me. I have a before and after in my profile :)

You see yourself every day in the mirror so the change is simply too gradual to really notice it.

Just looking in the mirror I look the same as I did 70 lbs ago, but if I look at pictures I can reallyy tell the difference

I know exactly how you feel! I feel the same way I did before, and see the same me in the mirror, yet I *know* I am slimmer because I fit into much smaller clothes now. I have lost a comparable amount of weight to you also and people are constantly telling me how much better or more svelt I look. 

Although I know we have to wonder how we looked before I suppose, I just grin and say 'thanks'. It isn't easy to lose weight and we have A LOT to be proud of. I also am sure I *must* look better without all that extra poundage, right?! And honestly, I think most people mean it in a nice way.

So chin up girlfriend, you look fabulous, have done fantastic in getting yourself into a healthy lifestyle and should rock your new body. Remember, even if it feels the same it definitely doesn't look the same!

My favorite is when people say "wow you look great, you've lost some weight haven't you" when you've gained it.  I think those kinds of comments come from a good place to take it as a good thing. The most important thing is that you feel happy with yourself.  I agree, get the before and after photo then you'll really notice the difference! (and feel better about it)

Thing about weight gain versus weight loss.

When you gain weight, it's sometimes goes to certain parts of your body first. Which is why some people end up looking like a pear, or apple, or basketball. Like the weight immediately goes to your butt, or stomach, etc. before other areas. The only real sad thing about weight loss is that when the weight comes off, it comes off pretty much evenly. So for awhile you will *still* have a unfavorable body shape that may make you believe you haven't changed. You have gotten smaller, but the shape has changed very little.

But if you keep losing the weight, eventually things will begin to even out.

Use the clothes idea. Better yet, get a body measuring tape and or body fat calipers and learn how to use them! I'm a guy and over a month ago I was a size 54 waist and now I'm a size 44! (10 inches woot) But, I seriously felt like nothing was happening, but then I realized I had tucked my belt in a bunch of notches and realized that my tight fitting 54's would drop to the floor without my belt.

My buddy got me onto the measuring tape and calipers - now I'm starting to record and track my progress.

 Good luck to you!

Go pick up a 10 lb weight or a 5 lb bag of potatoes and lift it.  You lost OVER 20 pounds!  Amazing how our body can carry all of that weight!  Be proud and keep going for the next 20.  People have said the same thing to me and I've only lost 14 lbs.  It doesn't bother me because I know I look better, I feel better and I know they're not trying to insult me, it's just a fact that I look better trimmed up. 

I don't know for certain if this is true, and I don't particularly care for the celebrity-endorsed fad diet trends, but this helped me get a good mental image of my progress.....I read in some stupid article somwhere that while Kirstey Ally (sp?) was losing weight, she would buy a 1 lb package of SnowCap lard for every pound she lost and had them set up in some sort of display in her house....I don't think that is a practical idea, but next time you're at the grocery store, just have a look at them, or the 1 lb packets of butter....then imagine 20, 30, or however many pounds you have lost all stacked up in fromt of you.....it really puts things into perspective imagining carrying all of that around, and then knowing it is off of you :)