Thanks wishes! (and thanks for the long ago compliment I missed Blancita.)
It's funny about the age thing wishes. I have a lot more fine lines now that I've lost weight, and in an odd way, in advance of losing weight I always felt a little unsure about that. In real life, people have always thought I'm younger than I am, and I used to think I might suddenly look a lot older. However, despite the extra lines, both in real life and in my photo online life, people still say I look younger now I've lost weight.
Well, it's all good I guess! I had a bit of a hard time with the idea of what I look like for a while when I started to lose weight. I knew I looked better, and I had the idea that posting pictures here was useful somehow, but, I felt confused about how I looked.
I started out not being able to relate to the person in the first picture, who looks different to how I felt on the inside. At the time I was that weight I couldn't post pictures on the net because I would just reject them. I knew I was that fat, but I would look at pictures of my face and just go - that's not me - well it was, but I hadn't accepted that my face had changed like that. Then when I started to lose weight I would look at the photos and compare with the mirror and say - well my lines aren't showing, and that's not me! But at least the photos looked better, so I published them anyway, even though I couldn't really relate to them. Now I feel a lot more used to looking as I do, and the pictures look like me to me - though I'm somewhat more lined. Probably in RL I look in between my real age and my net age.
Whatever I look like, what has counted the most for me is how I feel. I love to feel so much lighter and better able to move. I love being able to approve of myself much more than I could. I love feeling more mainstream too, and being able to not shop for clothes because I don't have enough money, instead of because I know they won't fit!!

(I do shop actually, and it's fun as, just not right now.

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I really do want to post a new picture along side those other ones. It's been a long time that I've been around the same weight. I've been in the game still, but dealing more with the demons instead of floating over them. I do think I've made some real mental progress though and hopefully there will be another picture to come as I start making physical progress again.
The weights are probably a bit high there actually. I was using a scale that weighed me as heavier than most other scales do. Currently I use a nice accurate sliding balance scale which shows me as about 68.5 kg (150.7 lb). On that basis I still need to lose a couple of kilos to get back to the weight in the picture from last September.