Ok, I think this is a strange problem. I started WW back in March and for the first time, I saw a big change in my appearance in pictures that were taken at my dgs's birthday party this week. Problem is -- I don't like the change! I think my face looks sickly. I look old. I now understand why someone said I was looking like my mother. My dh said the picture was taken from a bad angle. I don't know.
I guess we will see what Thanksgiving pictures look like.
I think that facial changes can be pretty drastic at first, but as you continue with what you're doing your body sort of gets used to it. If you think about JHudson pictures from awhile back, she wasn't looking AS fabulous as she did before, but now her face seems to have settled in to her new weight. I felt the same way about my face; as I started loosing fat from under the skin I felt a bit droopy, but now my skin *seems* to have tightened up a bit as I've continued to lose more fat, and it looks better.
I've also noticed it in a friend who has had weight gains and losses because of extremely long term use of prednisone. When she finally was off of it, first she looked drawn and tired, but then her face perked up after a bit.
I hope the same thing happens to you.
Plus, weren't you sick this week? Maybe that was why you didn't look 100%.
That's a really good point.
Last week I lost (was sick, too), this week I gained (stupid hormones, but at least I'm not sick anymore), but I got a GREAT new coat. One of the receptionists and I have hit it off, and I had mentioned this white coat I bought last year that is now drastically too big for me. She said that a relative of hers is that size, and that she had a white winter coat that she had undergrown, and we should swap coats. So we did that.
Her relative really liked my old coat, and I really really like her old coat.
The conversation started because another woman at the meeting had spent a bunch of time and money in getting a swimsuit that fit, then life got in the way of her water aerobics and she didn't wear it for months. Finally got to the pool the other week, and the suit doesn't fit, it's far too big for her now. So now she has a brand new, expensive suit that doesn't fit, and she was saying she wished we could bring in our old clothes and swap. I think it's easier to swap winter coats rather than swim suits, though.
Today DH bought an Active Link. He's psyched to have a new gadget.
I know he's happy, too, because he lost and I gained this week. Heck, I'm glad for him, too!
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I started the last weekend in September. I'm a happy lady. I'm feeling better, more energetic. I still have a ways to go but I feel confident I can keep my momentum. I haven't decided on a final goal. I'm just going to take it in 5% increments for awhile. 
