Now I see how much I have lost! :)

I've been steadily losing weight over 2 years or so but similar to many people on this site, although I have been seeing the numbers on the scales go down, looking in the mirror its hard to see the changes.....always seeing how much fat I have to lose rather than how much I have already lost. To add to this, I don't think I really realised how big I actually got.

Ever since  I was borderline anorexic between about 16 - 18 I've always been stuck in a kind of starve/binge cycle. Add to that a bout of depression and my late 20's saw my weight gaining and gaining. I don't think I really faced it properly until one day I stood on the scales and was shocked. Antidepressants got me back on track, giving me the motivation to start working out again and stop the starving and binging and start eating healthy.

So far I've lost around 40lbs....although I'm not totally sure of my highest weight. Yeah I feel so much better but I really didn't realise how much I've changed until a friend emailed me some pics she has of me from around 2/3 years ago. I was shocked! I couldn't believe I let myself get that bad. BUT......my god its given me some motivation seeing how far I've come!

Another 40lbs or so to go....bring it on!

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Congratulations and well done xxx

I'm going through the same thing...for the first 30 pounds or so of my weight loss I did not notice much of a difference.  Little things here or there, and the changes in clothes but it never really hit me that I was changing my whole body so much.

Today I have lost over 35 pounds and I can definitely see a difference in the mirror.  The fact that I know I weigh LESS than people I always thought were thin or what I wanted to be is SHOCKING to me.

It's such a good feeling to realize how much you have truly done for yourself!

You are so cute

Congratulations..and WAY TO GO!

Thanks guys, I was just so shocked when I saw that first pic.....couldn't believe that I used to actually leave the house looking like that. The shame! I still have a long way to go....hopefully one day I'll look back at the second pic (taken July this year) and think 'Wow....I used to be that fat?!' lol