Oh, boy, can I relate to this one! I had a meltdown when I lost 25 pounds, then another at 50... it's like success in some ways temporarily makes me feel worse because it makes me think about my body in ways I hadn't allowed myself to think about it in *years*.
I think one of the problems may be that weight loss is so slow that we get accustomed to it as we go along, then get impatient for the next goal. Imagine if we stayed the same weight then suddenly after months of hard work, we were thin. I think we'd appreciate the weight loss more (although we'd probably never get there without the positive feedback of loss!
). But hey... it may be a blessing in disguise, because if we were too comfortable in our success, we might not be motivated to reach the NEXT goal.
Just remind yourself of the facts: You're motivated, you're losing, and people are noticing. Those are terrific, wonderful things. WL is such hard work, both physicially and ESPECIALLY mentally. Most of us have spent so long being fat that we can't even imagine ourselves thin, so it DOES take time to change self-perceptions. In the meantime, work on how you talk to yourself. Celebrate small things. Give it time, and I KNOW you'll start to notice, too.