I can feel myself smiling more when I am out and about and I seem to be looking people in the eye more rather than looking at the pavement (if i can't see them they can't see me?).
I think becoming slim inside our heads as well as outside is going to be something we have to work hard at during this journey. I don't come out of this with a "fat" person inside (wanting to get out?); I want to be slim. I want to be able to choose healthy food not because I am "watching my weigh" but because it simply tastes as good to me as the "non healthy" version.
A person I know had gastric band last year and has gone from 20 to 11 stone but from what I understand she still lives her life as if she was 20 stone. She doesn't see the slim her in the mirror at all.