Saw the holiday pictures today

I hear you...............pictures dont lie. I'm sure you fine, i am not.

I saw pictures of me this holiday too and OMG! I am looking bad! We can do this though! I started a long time ago, lost 30 pounds last year and got off track. Gained back 10. I am a teacher and start back to work tomorrow after a long fun-filled break. I am looking forard to the routine and starting here again! I am planning on at least walking 30 min. a day EVERYDAY. Best of luck! WE CAN DO THIS!!:flowerforyou:

I have a mental piture in my head of how big I am. When I was bigger, I was in denial and looking at pictures would bring me up short because it would penetrate my denial. Now I'm smaller than my mental picture and I often find myself being brought up short because the image in the mirror is smaller than I expect.

Even though I'm not even close to my goal, I know what you mean! I found pictures of myself at my heaviest (245 pounds) 2 years ago on Christmas, and I can't believe how much I've changed since then! At the time, I wanted to rip them to shreds and cry, but now I'm glad I have those pictures to compare myself to.

GTO, just use those pictures as motivation. Don't dwell on how you think you look. You are where you are, and no matter how bad you feel you can't change the past, but you can work on it and make youself and everyone else very proud of you by next Christmas (and way before that)! I know how bad a felt when I was really unhappy with myself and hated even a glance in the mirror. I can think of times I would look in the mirror and want to cry because I couldn't believe I looked so bad. You just have to push past it and do something about it. You can do it!!

And remember, everyone is their own worst critic. I'm sure you don't look bad at all. Don't be so hard on yourself. Just imagine you where you want to be, make your mind up of what plan to follow, and just do it. You'll reach your goals before you know it!