My suggestion

I made a mistake, every day I realize that I made this mistake, I did not take "before" pictures. I didn't stand in front of the mirror in my bikini (that doesn't fit anymore by the way) and snap away at side, front, and back views. I didn't want to see myself in those pictures. In that time I’ve lost almost 30 pounds and gone from a size 8/10 to a size 0/2. It’s my biggest regret, I know that my *kitten* has lifted an inch, but I can’t go back and look.
To that vein, I’ve just been “talking” to one of my friends on here and she also doesn’t want to see herself in those pictures. I’ve read on here that it takes about 30 – 60 days for your minds eye to actually catch up with what is really going on in the mirror, we see the person we were, not the person standing there today. This will haunt many people their entire life. Often the pounds don’t matter, but the visuals do because sometimes you see your changes on the scale, and sometimes the scale doesn’t change but you lost that extra chin.
What I’m suggesting isn’t to take the picture and post it for God and everyone to see. What I’m suggesting is take it, hide it at the bottom of your photo downloads for a month and then on the exact same day the next month re-gear up in that same outfit, stand in that same spot, and snap away. Embrace your body along the journey so that you start seeing yourself and all your accomplishments instead of seeing that layering on the outside and obsessing over the scale. In 6 months you can use it to post your own NSV and God and everyone can celebrate with you. It's the first of the month, go take your pictures!