Face to face Friday!
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Wow - this is so great to see all of us as completely different people! I actually ran into a girl that used to dance with my daughter who kept looking at my, for about 20 minutes, like she knew me, but couldn't place it. She finally figured out whose mom I was...asking me. She was in 3rd grade at the time and just turned 16! I can only imagine the shock, but I'm impressed she figured it out.0
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I like these threads. The difference a new way of eating makes not only in the size and shape of people's faces but the changes in skin tones and clarity is quite noticeable. You are ALL amazing people. Thank you being part of this journey with me.
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KnitOrMiss wrote: »JodehFoster wrote: »License photos...2009 vs 2012, 100# difference. I took most of it off in the months following the first pic & then took a break & maintained before taking the last 20#.
Up 20# now (new position at work two years ago led to bad stress eating) & getting back down again now, easy peasy. I was always thin, gained this weight in my late 20's...took until my late 30's to do something about it, including booting a bad relationship. So, in essence, I lost 360#.
That is amazing. You look like your own daughter in the second picture!!! Congrats.
Wow you all look great!! Very inspiring pics0 -
I already stuck these in another thread, but hey...what the heck. You all look AMAZING by the way! The changes are astounding.
My current one is probably overly flattering because it was taken with a low quality front-of-cellphone camera. Blurs the skin. 2 Before pics, first from December 2011 and second from November 2014.
About a week ago, excuse my daughters distorted face, she was turning her head!
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This is almost a year apart. But I've only been losing weight the past 3 months. Not sure if it is that noticeable.0 -
Definitely noticeable!!0
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Wow, @fvaisey, you've slimmed down considerably!0
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That is some awesome in your face proof this works.
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Love, love, love all of these!0
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^^^^ What she said! ^^^^
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These are all really, really great!0
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Jbarnes1210 wrote: »
Down 102 from first photo, not really a big change in face....
I see those collar bones though 0 -
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@bluefish86
You look like a different person!!
Amazing transformation!!!
Fitness looks great on you.0 -
Jbarnes1210 wrote: »
Down 102 from first photo, not really a big change in face....
Try resizing the photos so the distance between your eyes is the same, and the T distance to your mouth. Those things don't normally change. Once the pictures are actually the same size, the differences in definition around your smile, etc., would be far more noticeable. Your eyelids too, of all things...0 -
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KittensMaster wrote: »After a while
Talk about looking like a different person! I bet people you haven't seen for a while don't even recognize you!0 -
They don't
It is kind of cool
I still am adjusting to me
It is a mental and social change
I'm joining a triathlon club. Never thought that would happen
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@KittensMaster I'm really good at seeing faces, but I absolutely can't see you in the before picture at all!
All these beautiful faces full of happiness and health! Guess this means I need to find some face pics. I've studiously avoided being in photos for years. I'm quite good at hiding! A "halfway there" pic right now could be great for comparison later!0 -
@2Poufs When my MIL died suddenly at age 49, and there was a whole discussion about pictures and who had them and didn't and the fact that she was significantly overweight but never avoided being in pics with family because she was just so happy! Then a good friend passed on from NAFLD, (She was in her early 30's at the oldest) and she'd been heavy so long, I literally had one picture of her that I ran across completely by accident!
Her children didn't have any pictures either, it made it hard for them to grieve and made their loss seem more intense because they literally had no reminders left. It took this kind of jolt for me to realize that my family saw me exactly how I was, regardless of whether I allowed pictures or not, and it hurt me MORE to think of them without pictures of me for memories should the words happen (Gods forbid), and I realized how SELFISH I was being to rob them of memories we shared just because I didn't like my reflection. I was who I was, and avoiding pictures did not change that.
I think that was a pivotal realization and acceptance that started me mental changes to get me where I am today. I am not saying that this applies to anyone else, but my fear of being in pictures and having to recognize and accept what I had done to myself physically or allowed to happen to me was the projection of my selfishness at not wanting to SEE what I had done. I was avoiding accepting reality, and robbing my family of ME... I had to get over all that before I could get healthier...
I sincerely hope no one has to go through this kind of loss to realize something like this, and I hope everyone else's reasons for avoiding pictures aren't the same as mine were, but remember, a picture is just a snapshot of time. It doesn't lie, it doesn't poke fun, it doesn't hurt us. It is our interpretation that does. I'd rather my family have a ton of photos of me at my heaviest, because that is how they knew me then...than for them to have nothing of me when I'm gone...0 -
@KnitOrMiss You're right and many of your reasons are my reasons. My sister is the pretty one, and she's never let me forget it in 45 years, and I'm the smart one. Pictures are just a reminder of my sister being a jerk. But I hate the thought that there won't be many pics when I'm gone, at least nothing where I'm not acting the fool! Yep, that's pretty selfish.
I really like putting faces to names, but I haven't done that for you guys and that kinda makes me a tool. So...
Although I'm not getting rid of Abby (my coffee cup) as an avatar. Not for a while. Baby steps!0 -
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@KnitOrMiss You're right and many of your reasons are my reasons. My sister is the pretty one, and she's never let me forget it in 45 years, and I'm the smart one. Pictures are just a reminder of my sister being a jerk. But I hate the thought that there won't be many pics when I'm gone, at least nothing where I'm not acting the fool! Yep, that's pretty selfish.
I really like putting faces to names, but I haven't done that for you guys and that kinda makes me a tool. So...
Although I'm not getting rid of Abby (my coffee cup) as an avatar. Not for a while. Baby steps!
This is amazing. Honestly, you look younger and healthier now than your motivation picture!!! Bah humbug on jealous siblings. She only rubbed it in because she felt inferior to you that whole time!! Remember that...0
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