(do note, I wasn't offended by the above, I'm just offering my honest answer)
It's different if you grew up as a fat, pokey, unathletic kid and proceeded into a fat, pokey, unathletic adulthood.
You don't really have a basis for comparison - you don't feel "sluggish", you just feel like you have always felt. You have lazy days (too many
) and energetic days. I feel much better now, but until I lost the weight I couldn't comprehend that difference, regardless of how it may have been explained to me. I didn't feel actively "bad", but I
do feel better.
Further, there's kind of a disconnect in the mirror. You see yourself as fat, sure, but not necessarily as far overweight as you may be. If you'd told me I needed to lose a 100lbs (when I really needed to), I would've been somewhat incredulous. I didn't see myself as having 100lbs I
could lose. Some of us just don't (or, didn't) have a good grasp of the numbers until the weight loss actually started.
When I look at old photos now I see someone who looks
much fatter than what I remember seeing in the mirror when I was that fat. It makes me feel very disconnected from the person I was. It's a very curious feeling, to be sure, but not all bad.