I was lucky enough to spend a wonderful Easter day with family and friends. Some of them have already posted Easter pictures on Facebook.

I've had such a good attitude, but seeing myself in those pictures is depressing. Stupid pictures have a way of undoing me.

Edited April 5, 201016 yr by Drasan

You have no idea how thankful you are going to be next year when you have these pictures to gloat over. Today, my MIL and I looked through 7 years of pictures to find "before" pics of me, we found 10 so I am in about 1 1/2 pictures a year with my family. I know its painful now but next year you will be one happy camper when you are able to see the difference a year makes. Don't let this take you off course. :smile2:

ITA with Leigha. When we're "there" with no hopes or promise of what a great future is in store, it's easy to be disappointed with the pics, but now remember there IS hope!!! Those pics will be great progress pics for you to compare your svelte self too! One of my regrets is that I don't have enough before pics because I was always hiding!!

Leigha's right! I wish I had a million more "depressing" pictures of me. I have so few "before" pictures---and as I shrink, it's really nice to have evidence of that shrinkage.

Next Easter, your pictures will take your breath away. Until you reach that place where you're okay with the camera, be kind to yourself. You're doing all you can to become what you want to be.

Aww . . hugs to all of you. That is exactly what I needed to hear.

There will be no shortage of before pictures for me. There are so many camera bugs in the family.

'Next year' sounds like a foreign place that I've never seen before. I know that place is there though. Those of you who have already arrived or see it on the map keep encouraging the rest of us on our journey to get there.

Thank you so much for another way to look at those pictures. I'll try not to cringe.

Next year DOES seem a long way off, but I got to see my last yeas pics, and I now have a neck !! ANd a Coller Bone! ANd I"m down 6 sizes!! I was sure "next year" would never come... but it ALWAYS does :-)

Best of luck to you !

Drasan -- thanks for your nice note earlier. Don't even give those photos a second thought. Just right click, save them to your computer, then untag yourself if you want.

The heavier version of yourself that you see in those photos isn't going to be your reality much longer. Even a month from now, there will be a perceptable difference -- and, with each passing month, you are just going to feel and look better.

One of my friends was teasing me the other day about how often I put photos up on FB. And I just laughed and said that I was making up for all the years when I cringed at the sight of my own photo! Heck. . I don't even crop my body out anymore. And, you're going to be there before you know it.

Catherine

Before: I hated pictures of myself. I hated people taking pictures of my face, my body -- YUCK!

Now: I love finding one of those rare horrifying pictures, because it's not me anymore. I'm done, done, done with who I was in that picture.

You will get there, and you will get to the point where a fat picture is a treasured one, because it's so different from where you're headed.

Chin up! Do what Catherine said -- save those pics and move on! :-)