You look great! Did you get your hair cut?

This week I got my hair cut and colored, just shorter and brighter.  This has been a big topic of conversation wherever I go and whoever I see.  I get compliments all day long, "wow your hair looks great"," I love the hair"," that cut really suits you", "where did you get your hair done it looks great", "you look so good, I love the new hair cut". Yes I cut my hair, but don't you think that maybe the real thing you are seeing is the effects of my weight loss?

And then there are the people who say, "have you lost weight?  You look great?" when they saw me two days ago and the only thing that had changed inbetween is that I got my hair cut.

Now I will give you I got a great haircut and really enjoyed my new stylist who did my hair.  I think that I look good and it definately updated my look.  But I am confused how it is I look thinner with a new hair cut.  How is that possible?  What is it about a change in my hair that creates and optical illusion of thinness?

If I had only known I would have cut my hair sooner and not bothered with the whole weight loss thing..NOT but still it's a strange thing for me.

My husbands theory is that people don't really look at you, that they have an image in their head that is their default setting of what you look like.  Like having a pic that pops up on your cell phone when someone calls.  So if you are making gradual changes like weight loss the people who see you regularly don't update their internal pic of you.

However when you do something a little more obvious like change your hair length or color then it forces them to re-set their picture of you in their head and they suddenly notice you look different. 

Thank you everyone for your compliments, I REALLY appreciate it and they go a long way towards me wanting and needing to keep making more improvements to me.  I don't care if you think I am skinnier, taller, have new hair, new teeth or anything else, keep the "you look greats" coming and I will smile and say "Thank you, I feel great".