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I approve of John's post.


Be happy if your face slims down a bit slower than the rest of your body. That's the one place i probably would have left a little fat on, but we can't pick where and how we lose it.

I think I started getting 'you're too thin' comments based entirely on my face around 170.

My face start noticably slimming around 30 pounds lost. I think this is when I started getting comments about the changes to my face. I didn't necessarily notice, but when I looked over pictures I DEFINITELY could see the difference. I would recommend pictures as well. I have a naturally round face, so I think it took me a bit longer to really see the difference. Even now, in face only pictures, I look heavier than I am. It stinks. :(

I've lost almost 50 lbs and my face looks the same to me....well maybe down to two chins instead of three. I have no neck, which doesn't help matters! I always wanted a long, graceful neck, yet I have none at all :( . My head looks like a pumpkin sitting on a barrel!!

I see people who are of similar size to me who have nicely sculpted jawlines, one chin and cheekbones. I'm always sooooo jealous!

Ugh yeah so I started comparing pictures I couldn't see much of a change and neither could others (I asked a few friends who recently came into town) until they saw the rest of my body. Guess it'll take longer to see a change.

I wish I had a slimmer face in general!! I've seen pictures of "plus size" models (def not plus!! btw Omg their figures are amazing!!) and they have very slim faces with high cheekbones!!

When I lose weight I first start noticing it around my waist and my face. The hardest parts for me are thighs and arms...

Head shots really do help to see the difference. If I just look in the mirror, even after 78 pounds gone, all I see is a fat face and my double chin. But pictures are a whole 'nother story.

Me at 302:
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...2727/Me298.jpg

Me at 221:
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps2f6acd6a.jpg

I didn't think there was any difference until I compared photos from now and before I started. The weight loss in my face is actually pretty dramatic.

The issue is not so much what I look like now, but how hard it is to admit what I looked like then.

Wow you look great!!! Ok I'm definitely going to take some good full face shots very soon! I'm always angling myself is some weird angle to make my face look thinner lol

Awesome Garnet! Quite a difference. You look great.

A couple thoughts:

When I was at the 90 pound point (where I stopped losing on purpose) I was starting to look gaunt. That was one of the reasons I stopped losing. I was at a pretty good place weight-wise, so I stopped at 90 pounds. When I compare photos from that exact time (October) to photos at Christmas (same weight, 3 months later) I no longer looked gaunt. I think 2 things happened. First - I believe my face filled out a little, but more importantly, I think I got used to my "new" face and it wasn't as gaunt as I thought - it was just different.

The next point just hit me a few days ago. I'm coming up on 2 years of maintaining that 90 pound loss. All the while I was losing I had the idea that at 250+ pounds I hadn't looked "that bad." Even when I first hit my lowest and would look at pictures from just before I started losing, I still didn't think 250+ looked that big. I realized the other day when I looked at some pictures from before I lost any weight that now my brain sees me as having been fat. No other word for it. At 250 pounds I looked fat. But it's only after being at a relatively normal weight for 2 years that my mind sees this as normal and that as heavy.

Those things said, I think we are not in total control of how we perceive things about ourselves. I'm sure some sort of defense mechanism kicks in and tells us we look OK when (sorry, folks, the truths hurts) we do not look OK with a BMI of 39 (that was me at 252.) I think you will see a difference if you look at photos. I think we all lose in different places at different rates, but none of us will not have a fat face at a normal body weight.

And, Besty2013 - I'm with you on the jowls! But I realized this: most of my over 60 friends - never fat, formerly fat, still fat - have jowls! That's life and life is good.

Lin

Hm. My face was one of the last things to slim down, I don't know why. Now I think I look somewhat gaunt, but... what can I do, we don't get to choose where to lose, right?

For me, the first places I'm losing weight are the non-noticeable places, such as my knees and elbows. I have noticed my face slimming down though, and I've only lost about 25 pounds.

I have lost 50 lbs so far. There is a huge difference in my butt & belly & arms but I hardly notice a difference in my face. This is so frustraing sometimes but I think there will be a noticeable change in face when I'm close to my goal weight.

my face has really slimmed down....I only notice it with comparison photos though....in fact, I just put two pics side by side and took a photo of it to compare and I see a huge difference...but when I look in the mirror I still see all kinds of fat :(....however last summer I was at an event and someone took a close up of my face (taking a bite of food, no less ugh) and when I saw the pic I LITERALLY didn't realize it was me for a half-second or more and was like "why did they even tag me?" before I realized it was ME....if I can get that comparison photo I just took on my computer I will post it