Besides just the emotional boost it gives, have others noticed changed? For me after I dropped most of the weight I noticed big changes with my hair and nails, this was well after I quit smoking so I can not really relate it to that. Also skin changes (for the better). Am I just imagining this?

My nails are definitely in better condition! And I've finally stopped biting them! I've still got skin like a teenager, I doubt it's likely to change any time soon, I've been plagued with bad skin for the last 15 years!

My posture's tonnes better too, I used to kinda shrink into myself, shoulders rounded trying to hide, but now my shoulders are back, boobs out and head held high!

The thing I have noticed the most, and this may be too gross to mention, is that my bowels seem to function much better. I have far less stomach problems and heartburn too.

Nothing's ever too gross to mention

Oddly, I've been suffering really badly with heartburn the last couple of weeks. I did panic a little until I realised there was no way it could be pregnancy related

Mine got better when I cut out a lot of grease from my diet. I do notice that when I eat a lot of raw veggies that it flares up again. I guess my system just doesn't want to digest all that raw stuff.

It might actually be the other way round! Raw food digests a lot quicker than things like meat, so it could be that your body's trying to digest something else and the raw veg is digesting a lot quicker and the backlog so to speak is causing heartburn! My biology's a bit rubbish mind so that could be total rubbish! If I remember right, meat can take weeks to fully digest when I first became veggie again I had awful trapped wind and bloating, which according to dr google was because the higher levels of fibre and the change in the amount of veg I was eating was making the new food break down quicker than the stuff already in my system!

I don't do well eating raw veggies, they have to be at least steamed for me to go near them. I am pretty sure my nails now grow better than they did when I was pregnant. I am far from a vegetarian but here is a good image for the rest of you to enjoy.

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My posture
My skin (guessing all the water helps)
More active
More awake in the mornings (although the dark mornings isn't helping that atm)
More energy
Was suffering IBS occasionally and I haven't in months

I'm properly chuckling at that!

Wobbs I wish I was more awake in the mornings, I still can't do mornings - never have done and probably never will

My energy levels have gone right down this week, but I'm still run down and have been eating far too much rubbish

I think the biggest thing for me has been a change in posture that came with working out regularly. I haven't even lost much weight yet but since I've been working out for a few months now, I sit up straighter.