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    Men's 'after' pictures: why so serious?

    Posts: 147 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    Just a random observation, but I do wonder... in men's before and after pictures, they're usually smiling before, and almost never smiling after. Why is that? Where did the smile go? Bring it back!

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    • Posts: 1,280 Member
      Maybe guys want to show how tough and macho they are now that they're in shape when before it was important to show how sensitive you are because you didn't have the body to pull off macho.
    • Posts: 21,219 Member
      Have to concentration on flexing (well, at least that's why I didn't smile in my after pictures).
    • Posts: 188 Member
      Maybe they like themselves better without a smile.
    • Posts: 40 Member
      Haha, mine will be the opposite. There are NO before pictures of me (I hate pictures in general, long standing hatred from years of family photos with a large numbered family)
      So all my after pictures will be all smiles :)
    • Posts: 8,911 Member
      I tend to have the male equivalent of Resting *kitten* Face when I'm not paying attention to my facial expression.
    • Posts: 12,942 Member
      Ponkeen wrote: »
      Just a random observation, but I do wonder... in men's before and after pictures, they're usually smiling before, and almost never smiling after. Why is that? Where did the smile go? Bring it back!

      I've never heard of this before. It is the no-smiling-after sydrome? :D
    • Posts: 774 Member
      Amount of work it takes to build muscle along with diet makes guys cranky. I know I am.
    • Posts: 365 Member
      hAngry face!
    • Posts: 87 Member
      stevencloser wrote: »
      I tend to have the male equivalent of Resting *kitten* Face when I'm not paying attention to my facial expression.

      Lmfao best response ever.
      I have a resting *kitten* face if I don't pay attention, so I feels ya there.
    • Posts: 144 Member
      Shereewhitney88 wrote: »
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      Lmfao best response ever.
      I have a resting *kitten* face if I don't pay attention, so I feels ya there.

      Srsly. Even my husband of 15 years (minus 15 days) asks often, "What's wrong?" "Did I do something?" OMG, no, I'm just not making an effort to have a 'pleasant look' on my face! Good grief.
    • Posts: 1,066 Member
      I think it's the equivalent of girls who do the duck face thing.
    • Posts: 21,219 Member
      Josalinn wrote: »
      I think it's the equivalent of girls who do the duck face thing.

      Not really. Duck face in intentional, but not smiling in a picture isn't necessarily intentional. Don't you have at least one picture of yourself where you aren't smiling?
    • Posts: 29 Member
      What in the world is duck face?
    • Posts: 517 Member
      When people take pictures of themselves with their cheeks sucked in and their lips puckered
    • Posts: 1,912 Member
      usmcmp wrote: »
      Have to concentration on flexing (well, at least that's why I didn't smile in my after pictures).

      this!
    • Posts: 15,151 Member
      Yep, they're hangry.
    • Posts: 147 Member
      Liftng4Lis wrote: »
      Yep, they're hangry.

      Aha! That must be it!
    • Posts: 465 Member
      stevencloser wrote: »
      I tend to have the male equivalent of Resting *kitten* Face when I'm not paying attention to my facial expression.

      Me too. People tend to think I'm angry if I'm not smiling. I'm fine with that.


      As for smiling in pictures. It's just awkward. I either do silly smile, or none. I also just don't like photos! I'll do smiles for other people, but that's just so I don't have to take more pictures (and hear complaining).
    • Posts: 1,047 Member
      VykkDraygoVPR wrote: »
      As for smiling in pictures. It's just awkward. I either do silly smile, or none. I also just don't like photos! I'll do smiles for other people, but that's just so I don't have to take more pictures (and hear complaining).

      Me too. All my pictures are some kind of ridiculous goofball face, because I don't really get what you're supposed to do. It's such a contrived situation, posing for typical pictures. Better to take tons of candids, now that they're basically free, and sort 'em out later.


    • Posts: 2,408 Member
      Ponkeen wrote: »
      Just a random observation, but I do wonder... in men's before and after pictures, they're usually smiling before, and almost never smiling after. Why is that? Where did the smile go? Bring it back!

      Why are the womerns always making puckered faces?
    • Posts: 18,343 Member
      edited November 2015
      ncboiler89 wrote: »
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      Why are the womerns always making puckered faces?

      Because Duck face. It's supposed to be sexy and stuff.
    • Posts: 2,408 Member
      AnvilHead wrote: »
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      Because Duck-face. It's supposed to be sexy and stuff.

      Dude...when I see a puckered face selfie like that I need to back my chair away from the desk asap for obvious reasons. It is just that sexy.
    • Posts: 2,471 Member
      Ponkeen wrote: »
      Just a random observation, but I do wonder... in men's before and after pictures, they're usually smiling before, and almost never smiling after. Why is that? Where did the smile go? Bring it back!

      If I get all buffed up my after picture will be smiling, with food and beer in hand. Seriously.
    • Posts: 147 Member
      robertw486 wrote: »
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      If I get all buffed up my after picture will be smiling, with food and beer in hand. Seriously.

      Which is exactly right.
    • Posts: 1,150 Member
      stevencloser wrote: »
      I tend to have the male equivalent of Resting *kitten* Face when I'm not paying attention to my facial expression.

      Had to quote that to see what you were saying. And yep I'm exactly the same
    • Posts: 2,817 Member
      dhimaan wrote: »
      Amount of work it takes to build muscle along with diet makes guys cranky. I know I am.

      This explains why all the guys on Tinder and PlentyofFish look so pi$$ed off
    • Posts: 14,261 Member
      I'm not a man but I think it's hard to feel normal while smiling and taking a picture of myself. It seems very vain. So then the next option is to attempt to smile but also make it look like a candid shot where I just happen to be smiling and situated *just so* with no crazy eyes or double chin or strange expression. Then those look weird to me. And then I get frustrated and end up having a non-smiling "get this over with" expression on my face.

      I can't figure out how people get good focused flexing pictures of themselves without their cameras covering their bodies or their fingers showing up in a corner of the shot. Especially pictures of their backs.
    • Posts: 3,543 Member
      From a marketing standpoint it is usually the other way around. Lots of before and after pics on Instagram. Personally I am smiling in both. But I get the flex point of view. I recently was at the gym and a guy next to me asked me to take his picture while working out. I was like yeah aaaahh no. lol I see him holding up the dumbbells in one position for like 2 mins and someone was taking his picture. lol
    • Posts: 221 Member
      Personally, I am not smiling in either pics. But in the after it is probably because I am trying harder to flex lol.
    • Posts: 4,370 Member
      Well..they usually lose more weight and faster…and to top it off..they bulk up with muscles and look super fit.

      so… .They have a serious look cause they've done some serious work.
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