Do your old pictures disgust you!?

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  • cursiny
    cursiny Posts: 907 Member
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    I have always hated pictures of me. Even now. I am only about half way to my final destination of health. Maybe then I will like looking at myself :)
  • SpecialSundae
    SpecialSundae Posts: 795 Member
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    I'm actually a lot more accepting of my old pictures now. I hated myself because my photos never matched up to my self-image and now I see the good side as well as the flaws, even though my photos finally match my self-image.
  • ktcomplicated
    ktcomplicated Posts: 16 Member
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    Not at all. It's a part of my history, you know? And I'm not down with being ashamed of any part of my past that's made me who I am. For me it's mostly really strange, because I can't remember what it was like, even though I lived it for so long.
  • MistyMtnMan
    MistyMtnMan Posts: 527 Member
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    I just can't believed I looked like that at one point. I'm even more shocked at the progress I've made since then. It's awesome to see hard work pay off!
  • teamAmelia
    teamAmelia Posts: 1,247 Member
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    Nope. I don't self-hate. :flowerforyou:
  • mmckee10
    mmckee10 Posts: 405 Member
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    My old pictures are my thin pictures. I don't hate them.. I use them as motivation.
  • BigCed77024
    BigCed77024 Posts: 1,115 Member
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    It is SOOOOO important to love yourself NO MATTER WHAT! I have to admit I have never really been extremely over weight and wouldn't know how that would feel. HOWEVER, if you don't love you how can anyone else? Weight should never be a reason to think you are ugly. I know a lot of beautiful on the outside, ugly on the inside folks. Take pride in who you are as a person.
  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
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    My old writing disgusts me. I adore my old pictures. This is why I keep a sketchbook and and an image directory on my computer, and do not keep a journal.
  • tristaj90
    tristaj90 Posts: 330 Member
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    I am not disgusted by my beginning pics. I had always been an overweight child and once I had my son in November 2011 and got to March 2012 and I had still gained after having a baby, I was upset. I look at that picture and it reminds me of a "dark" time in my life. A reflection of myself and how I no longer want to look. I still "feel" that fat. I weighed 234 pounds then. I now weigh 143 and feel amazing, but that fat girl is still inside of me. If I look at those pictures I can remember that on the outside I don't have to be that big. I can keep myself away from that. It keeps me MOTIVATED to keep working. I was very depressed and very paranoid that i was going to fall over and die when I was big. I worried about heart attacks and blood clots. I still have some worry, but I know now I'm healthy. I've got a healthy BMI, healthy waist size, normal cholesterol, normal blood pressure, etc.

    Sorry for that long response but I wanted to paint a picture as to why my old pictures will never make me feel disgusted.
  • Firemansam79
    Firemansam79 Posts: 416 Member
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    Not me, they remind me of how easy it is to slip into bad eating habits, gain weight and how much work and dedication it is to lose.
  • goalss4nika
    goalss4nika Posts: 529 Member
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    Yea, they disgust me, BUT I use it for motivation. I never want to go back to being the roller coaster rider who needed two attendants pushing on the bars to secure me in.
  • TeachTheGirl
    TeachTheGirl Posts: 2,091 Member
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    I'm not disgusted, but I do have troubles in identifying my own face. I'm aware it's me in the photos, but it's not ME. But then again, I still get that sometimes when I look in a mirror. I guess only time will help me figure out which image is more representative of my true self, eh?
  • Salty_Sauce
    Salty_Sauce Posts: 1,329 Member
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    I cringe when I see how bad I was before. I'm still not where I want to be and still hate to be photo'd. But, the really bad ones are good motivation
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
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    At first I had a hard time with coming to terms with it and I actually hurt my husband's feelings by some of the things I said (he wouldn't stand for someone else saying things like that about me and it didn't make it any better that I was insulting myself). But since he brought that to my attention, I've tried to gain a different persepective. It's not so much how I look that disgusts me but the fact that I let myself get to that point and was completely in denial about it. In a way I think that's healthy because it's a reminder to keep myself in check.
  • Naomi0504
    Naomi0504 Posts: 964 Member
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    Yes, I hate them. I won't even put a before/after pic up from 30 lbs ago until now.
  • NoeHead
    NoeHead Posts: 516 Member
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    I don't know about disgusted, but more so sad. Sad I chose food instead of finding another outlet of stress, loneliness and axiety. I feel I missed out on a lot.

    i'm pretty sure pics of me disgusted others though lol
  • EddieHaskell97
    EddieHaskell97 Posts: 2,227 Member
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    Disgust is a bit strong... No, I don't like them, but they serve as a part of the journey. They're me as I was, and life was still good then. It's just better, now.
  • Target126
    Target126 Posts: 33 Member
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    I hate every photo of me from the age of about 17 to 31. There are some pics my mum took of me in June/July 2011 playing in the sea with my stepson and I look disgusting, the pic that is my current profile pic I quite like (and actually asked for it to be taken) but I can see that I need to lose weight
  • CarynMacD
    CarynMacD Posts: 230
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    My CURRENT photos disgust me. Eeewww
  • Salty_Sauce
    Salty_Sauce Posts: 1,329 Member
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    Yes, I hate them. I won't even put a before/after pic up from 30 lbs ago until now.


    You did real good ;-)

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