I really hope it does, Gazter! I have the most desperate stage-fright, and I've always put it down to my size and being so self-conscious. Plus, after having three kids, I have the "apron" that I don't think will ever go away, no matter how I slim down. I guess I've been lucky in that I'm big all over, not just in one awful looking problem area, so I'm losing it all over, rather than that one area, so I haven't really seen much of a change yet, other than my upper arms not looking question marks when my arms are by my sides haha.
When I told a friend of mine at the beginning that I wanted to be 9st, which involved losing 9st, half of myself, she was shocked, and told me I'd look ill. But according to any chart I've checked out, at 5'2", the lowest I can go without being under-weight is 7st 11lb, and the highest without being over-weight is almost 10st, so 9st seems about right. If it happens that I get to 10st or even 11st and am happy, I'll be glad to stop losing lol but until I have more of an idea of my shape under all this flab, I'll keep going.
I know what you mean about the constant conversations about weight loss. It gets boring and repetitive. There's only so many times you can tell someone how you're doing it, or what you want to weigh, or how much you've lost. I find when you're talking about it all the time, it seems all the longer lol
I did slow down... I had lost 2st between Sept and Dec 2011, but have spent the last 8 months figging about and just being good/bad/good/bad and mostly maintaining, so that's why I slowed down. I got my head in the game and rejoined group a month ago and have lost a stone since then, so it's sped up again because I'm focused.
Here's to the next 5st not taking a year haha