7 weeks post-op (HW 300, SW 254, CW 222) today. Pics on the left are this week at my lowest weight in over 5 years, pics on the right are my highest weight 2 yrs ago (top) and 1 year ago (bottom). I gradually lost almost 50 lbs in the year before VSG, but the most noticeable changes to my body have happened post-op. I’m really happy with my progress and the everyday differences in my life, but the weird part is that I sort of always saw myself this way. I guess like reverse-body dysmorphia. I never had a big problem with my body at my highest weight because I never realized what I truly looked like. In my mind the “new me” is how I’ve always looked. It has actually been really difficult to process — especially now, seeing the huge differences between my current self and my old self— that nobody else saw me that way. They saw a body that I never identified as my own.