The beer thing's been bugging me too. It fills me up fast and doesn't even taste good anymore. Never bothered me in the past, but it tracks since I started in early Feb. Thanks for all the thoughts from everyone.
You legitimately look like that though. You're looking fantastic and you've earned it. We hold onto old pictures of ourselves too long, hard to reprogram that. Takes time to believe it but trust me, you look phenomenal - it's real.
the facial fat redistribution is one of the less discussed physical changes - most people are focused on the body composition but the face changes follow the same pattern of losing the volume that provided certain structural support. the effect around the mouth area is that structural change showing up. it tends to stabilize once weight loss slows
the body language as universal communication point is genuinely underrated for before-and-after comparisons - posture, how someone holds themselves, and the level of physical ease in a photo communicate more than people expect before they look at the actual measurements. sometimes the non-verbal read of a photo captures the change better than the numbers do