Was feeling good about myself them BAM!!!!

mearsy88
mearsy88 Posts: 87 Member
in Motivation and Support
So far I have lost a stone and been feeling pretty good about it! But then a picture of me from Monday was posted on Facebook and I looked HUGE!!!! Very sad moment for me ???? anywho that was all!

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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Congratulations on your loss, thats fantastic! you're just at the beginning of your journey, use the picture as motivation. You've got this!
  • mag131
    mag131 Posts: 542 Member
    Congrats on losing a stone! That's a lot of weight. Sometimes it takes a while to notice a difference in our appearance, especially since we're our own worst critics. Keep doing what you're doing and that pic will be a distant memory. :)
  • itsbasschick
    itsbasschick Posts: 1,584 Member
    chances are you looked bigger to yourself than to others. most of us see ourselves as bigger than we are...
  • mearsy88
    mearsy88 Posts: 87 Member
    Thanks guys! I saw it and was like oh god!!! That's bad! But I'm going to move past it and definitely going to use that picture as a "don't want to look like this again...." Before photo!!!
  • SinCityFit
    SinCityFit Posts: 96
    I'm 5'4" and 122.5 lbs and when I look in the mirror I think I look huge lol I was obese or overweight my whole life (230 lbs heaviest) until I started working out in 2009 when I was 31 years old and I have made peace that I will always have "fat days" and just use the numbers of the scale instead of what I look like to myself to make sure I'm at a healthy weight.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I really really hate when people post pictures of me on FB! I've had to detag myself out of a bunch of them...
  • pennyks88
    pennyks88 Posts: 167 Member
    I hate that! Same thing has happened to me. Congrats on your weight loss and let the picture be a motivator! Some of the pictures of myself that I've untagged myself from I use as motivators to never look like that again.
  • wellthenwhat
    wellthenwhat Posts: 526 Member
    For me, once I started losing weight was when I was first honest with myself. I suddenly realized how chubby I was, because it was ok, I knew it was possible for me to lose it. So anything before that for me would have been denial "Oh, I don't look that bad, I'm still pretty!" but once I started losing, it's "wow, that's me?". So, it could be a good thing!
  • dakotababy
    dakotababy Posts: 2,407 Member
    lol I get this a lot still. My most recent was after I finished a swim across a lake, my mil was filming the ending. When I got out of the water, I did not look like I had lost 70lbs in weight!

    I just appreciate the photos, consider them to be "progress" pics regardless, because I still have a ways to go anyway.

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