To FAT for pictures! ugh...

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  • Chibea
    Chibea Posts: 363 Member
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  • Nah113
    Nah113 Posts: 25 Member
    I don't get encouraged about losing weight because it's just a setup for disappointment

    However, the curmudgeon (me) is now encouraged. :grumble:
  • lovemitch125
    lovemitch125 Posts: 257 Member
    I think I take too many pictures, just never of my whole body. I love having family photos to look back on :)

    (Esp. When I can trick the camera into making me look skinnier than I am :wink: )
  • SerenaFisher
    SerenaFisher Posts: 2,170 Member
    Great post, I have always avoided group photos because there was no guarantee of a good shot, until about three years ago anyway when I realized I have a lot of great pics of my friends together, but none of them with me. I accepted I do not always have to have that one angle where I look the way I want to, I'd rather have the memories with my friends.
  • Chibea
    Chibea Posts: 363 Member
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  • Roxanna40
    Roxanna40 Posts: 5
    Thank you for posting this! I really needed to hear this!
  • sherimacquarrie
    sherimacquarrie Posts: 69 Member
    Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!!
  • Mimisam45
    Mimisam45 Posts: 132 Member
    :sad:

    This broke my heart, I never let my family take my picture!!
  • Chibea
    Chibea Posts: 363 Member
    Bump for more peeps to read this~
  • Maustullio
    Maustullio Posts: 4
    Thank you for being so heart warmingly honest - you are so right - life is way too short to hide from it xxx
  • jennycasper
    jennycasper Posts: 12 Member
    Thank you for your wonderful, insightful post. Like many others, I cried.

    I have posted pictures of my sons every month on a share site since the first one was born. Always of them doing things and being adorable. I now resolve to include one of me with each one of them every month. From this day forward. Someday they will have these pictures and never know you were an inspiration, but I will.
  • yourenotmine
    yourenotmine Posts: 645 Member
    Nice thoughts, I guess, but, no, still no pictures of me. No thanks.
  • Ameythist
    Ameythist Posts: 20 Member
    Thank you for sharing, that was really awesome and a total eye opener.
  • auntiebabs
    auntiebabs Posts: 1,754 Member
    :heart: :smooched: :heart: :smooched: :heart: :smooched:

    My Mom has been overweight her whole life and has always hidden from the camera, but she's in her 80s now and we're wishing we had more pictures of the Mom we knew growing up.
  • Chibea
    Chibea Posts: 363 Member
    Bump for everyone and to keep it where I will remember it.
    Not just pictures, but being present in life is an issue for me....
  • MasterKat
    MasterKat Posts: 149
    Wow, thank you for this. Total tear jerker...but a total eye opener!
  • albatrosssherpa
    albatrosssherpa Posts: 63 Member
    Crying. Reality check. No, seriously...crying.

    this
  • jr1985
    jr1985 Posts: 1,033 Member
    Totally agree! BEAUTIFUL family too by the way!
  • Jenism1
    Jenism1 Posts: 149 Member
    So good! So right! Well done, thank you for sharing!
  • groke101
    groke101 Posts: 59
    One of my favourite posts ever!
  • Chibea
    Chibea Posts: 363 Member
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  • TrailRunner61
    TrailRunner61 Posts: 2,505 Member
    This was me, before I lost weight...
    Yeah, we should allow others to take pics of us so they have some of us when we are dead and gone because we ate ourselves to death.
    Just because we are fat, it doesn't mean it's OK. Get off your butts, go for a walk and eat healthy today. You'll be glad that you have 'before' pictures!!!!
  • peachezncreme
    peachezncreme Posts: 60 Member
    Thank you for this post. Now if I could only get my husband to read this... :(
  • Goosiesnougs
    Goosiesnougs Posts: 420
    I'm totally doing it .......Thanks for the kick in the a&$
  • TeachTheGirl
    TeachTheGirl Posts: 2,091 Member
    I read this one on Facebook this morning. =)

    Sadly, I still avoid cameras because of how they USED to make me feel. It's been a while since I've had a good picture taken...
  • wccafe
    wccafe Posts: 20
    awesome.
  • imakimm
    imakimm Posts: 839
    Thanks for sharing this!! I agree with you so much! I rarely have an pictures with my mom because I hated how I looked. Now, I regret it because she passed away and I don't have many pics of us together. The ones I do have I cherish...
  • jdennis719
    jdennis719 Posts: 32 Member
    wow -- I SOOO needed to hear (read) this. So thank you. thank you for sharing and thank you for waking me up!!
  • crazyellybean
    crazyellybean Posts: 999 Member
    Great post! .. this is something we all need to remember
  • BingleyX
    BingleyX Posts: 1 Member
    I see people I'd like to walk up and talk to. Thanks for the reality check. :heart:

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