I got a few comments at around 25 pounds down. Now, at 50ish pounds down, every person I see has to ask me how much I lost and how I did it. I'm glad they notice, but I'm still the same person. I feel like they look at me differently, when I don't see myself that way.

i think the bigger you start, the more pounds lost it takes for people to notice, a percentage thing.

starting at 300lbs, i've lost 24, and i think maybe 1 person has asked me if i'm losing. i haven't yet hit 10% weight loss, and from what i'm reading that seems to be the area. 10-15% loss, not a specific number of pounds. 25 pounds off of someone that started at 175 is a lot easier to notice than someone that started at 275.

It took me about 23 lbs until anyone said anything. Just in the last two weeks. Funny how I went from nobody saying anything straight to comments that I am getting too skinny and "how much do you want to weigh, like nothing?" I am not too skinny, and am really liking how I look right now, still with plenty of curves, but I want to lose about 10 more lbs, this abdominal fat needs to GO.

Nothing yet (22 lbs down) except from people who know. But there have been two girls who work in my building who lost a ton of weight in the last few years, and I honestly didn't notice anything until they were almost at goal. I see them maybe a few times a week, and it was really all of a sudden, hey, WOW you look great! lol

Originally Posted by chickadee32:
I've lost 30+ lbs in 2 months, and no one has noticed.

I'm hoping that when I get down to 20% of my body weight lost, which will be ~55 lbs lost, the difference will be more noticeable to people. Certainly by then I'll have had to purchase some new pants at least. :)

I'm up to a little more than 50 lbs lost, and still no one has noticed! Or at least, no one who doesn't know I'm trying to lose weight has said anything. It will happen eventually though. :)

Same here. I've dropped a whole dress size so far, but no-one has said anything who didn't already know.

I have only lost 6 pounds so far and people noticed right away.
It is perhaps because I have little to lose, but my cheeks are gone and my tummy got smaller. :D

Originally Posted by beerab:
Around 30 lbs. But I think I was also wearing smaller clothes too so that made people see it even more :)

What she said, almost to the exact poundage. And I also clung a little too long to outgrown clothes. The comments became commonplace after I bought a new pair of jeans & dug some smaller tops out of the back of my closet.

Also, I heard it from women at work sooner than I heard it from men. I'm one of the few females in my dept. in an otherwise male-dominated workplace. I think I was down by about 50 pounds when men began to speak up, hesitantly. Such is the power of a strong, well-publicized sexual harassment policy in the workplace: It can make men very careful about alluding in any way to a female coworker's body. After my response made it clear that it was okay to talk about, I & the guys had really good talks about gym & exercise.

So ... take heart everyone. Sometimes it's not you. It's not that your hard work is getting you nowhere. It's quite visible. It's that social conventions keep people quiet until it's pretty freakin' obvious & it's become the elephant in the room. (Or maybe I should say, until you've transformed yourself from the elephant in the room to one of the gazelles.)

At 15 pounds down only a few relatives who know I'm losing have said anything. No one from school or work has spoken up yet.