How much weight does this fat dude have to lose before he sees it?

mediocre — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:54:23 -0800

How much weight do you have to lose before you really start to SEE it, when you are obese? As seen previously in the green I am getting dentures and currently have very few teeth in my mouth. In the end after a lot of feeling humiliated trying to eat things I couldn't chew and swallowing things whole, I decided to simply subsist on meal replacement shakes and nothing more. Weight loss wasn't the goal, but has been a side effect. I weight myself for the first time since long before the denture process began and I was about 290, I am down to 250 now. 40 pounds lost in 3 weeks or so is pretty impressive, if not entirely healthy.. But it's not like I have much of a choice in this matter, I simply can't eat.

My question is, when will I start noticing it? I only weighed myself because the dental office I was in happened to have a scale in the bathroom, no one has told me I look like I've lost weight. I don't really seem to notice it when I look in a mirror (though I do have a giant beard hiding a lot of my face) and certainly don't look any better naked.

Not that I'm not amazed at my loss of 40 pounds, and since I won't be able to truly eat solid foods again until October or so I suspect I will lose significant amounts more on my 800-or-so calorie a day liquid diet.. but when will I really start to SEE it?

To answer a couple questions I see inevitable, I lead a relatively sedentary life. No intentional exercise, though I do walk home from work nightly and occasionally to work, which is about 1.5 miles each way and work a physically demanding job, but as soon as I'm home I'm on the couch and not leaving.

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How much weight does this fat dude have to lose before he sees it?