Thank you for those comments. I'm sorry I missed replying earlier to you dariqueen and Keiriku.
stuco, I wondered if my looser skin would make me look older, and at first when I posted here and had people say I looked younger I thought it might be because the photos don't show enough detail - but I do get the comment about looking much younger, from people in RL too, and that's nice. I sure do feel a lot younger. I did need to do a lot more work than normal this week and noticed that I could keep going for hours in the way I used to when I was much younger, though for the past few years I'd been feeling I couldn't any more.
After 7 months I'm finding it a bit hard now to believe how much more difficult it was to move and how much less energy I had. Believe's not the right word I suppose. I believe it, I remember it. It just seems like it must have been someone else. I was not sure about posting these pictures when I made this thread, but it is good for me personally just from the point of view of reminding myself, that I really was that fat, and it really did feel that bad, and that I really am NOT going back there, regardless of whether it would be easy to let that happen just now.