Nice setup you got goin' over there at FB, Susan. You're very pretty (albeit too young for me), and I would have dated you even at 280 lbs. :-)
I've been engaged three times, twice to the same woman (280 lbs), once to Rhonda (315 lbs). Rhonda and I were married in 2007 and --unfortunately-- divorced approximately one year later after she was taken in by a scam artist from Ghana. But my point is, both women who I was more in love with than any others weighed more than you did at your peak.
That's not to take away from your success story. I'm so glad for you, pretty one. As are countless others, I'm sure.
My peak weight was 278. Hey, that rhymes! lol
I simply DO NOT LOOK GOOD with a fat body. And I saw it in the one place that mattered. The dreaded 3-dimensional mirror. LOL .. you may have seen them at some department stores. There's the middle mirror, two on either side of that, and then two more on either side of those. Anyway, if you stand close, you can see what you look like from the side. Below is a rough sketch of what I saw. Think NEANDERTHAL cave dweller! Ugh.