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Something interesting about all the profile pics

So I don't think there's anything wrong with this, but I can't help but notice that the profile pics for almost everyone (especially the ladies on here) make everyone look like they are about 21 years old and not a single pound overweight.

Even people that haven't had any surgery or lost any weight, the pic of their smiling face appears to be that of a 21 year old who is not overweight in the slightest. Do people just post pics that are from before they gained weight? Pics from when they were 21? Or are some people finding the "perfect angle" that makes you look really thin? How does one do this?

Maybe I want to make a "glamor shot" picture so I can also be a sexy 21 year old woman. How can I accomplish this?

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Well I must have been absent the day they taught that at fat guy school....cause I surprised myself with this selfie.....I was sweaty as hell from just running 5 miles and I was right in the middle of drinking from my camelbak (yep....a straw!). I told myself to delete that picture cause I'm pretty sure it made me look fat and older than 21....but too late....I already posted it to the world.

Well I must have been absent the day they taught that at fat guy school....cause I surprised myself with this selfie.....I was sweaty as hell from just running 5 miles and I was right in the middle of drinking from my camelbak (yep....a straw!). I told myself to delete that picture cause I'm pretty sure it made me look fat and older than 21....but too late....I already posted it to the world.

I always wonder about updating pics!

I get used to seeing pictures that's how I recognize a poster half the time by pic not name per se... I know bad but hey :)

Well then you guys put new ones up and I get all confused! Do I know this person? The name is familiar but they look different??

I guess that's why I've kept mine the same even though it was from many months and pounds ago...

This thread reminds me of a great thread started many months ago about how the closer to goal someone gets, the wider the shot on their picture. New people always had extreme close ups and people at goal tended to have full body pics.

This thread reminds me of a great thread started many months ago about how the closer to goal someone gets' date=' the wider the shot on their picture. New people always had extreme close ups and people at goal tended to have full body pics.[/quote']

I thought the same thing!

Ok see I changed mine.. It weird and unfamiliar now right???

I kinda like it Laura. You look good in both, but you were smiling in the old one. wish there was some kind of way to have a composite profile pic (then vs. now) or (face vs full body)

I kinda like it Laura. You look good in both' date=' but you were smiling in the old one. wish there was some kind of way to have a composite profile pic (then vs. now) or (face vs full body)[/quote']

Haha! That's always butters problem with my new pictures never smiling!

Your right I was pouting in that picture..

I suppose you could do a composite but it comes out itty bitty...

I kinda like it Laura. You look good in both' date=' but you were smiling in the old one. wish there was some kind of way to have a composite profile pic (then vs. now) or (face vs full body)[/quote']

Like this?

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Yes like that. Only they would be too teensy to see when on the site or heaven forbid, on the mobile app.

Laura and Butters, is that really you?? I've been a member since August and until i saw these pictures, really didn't know much about your starting points. Y'all have always been slender to me, but these pics are proof that it wasn't always these case.

Butter, were you a bouncer in your former life?

This thread reminds me of a great thread started many months ago about how the closer to goal someone gets' date=' the wider the shot on their picture. New people always had extreme close ups and people at goal tended to have full body pics.[/quote']

Uhhhhh.... DUH! :-P

Yes like that. Only they would be too teensy to see when on the site or heaven forbid' date=' on the mobile app.

Laura and Butters, is that really you?? I've been a member since August and until i saw these pictures, really didn't know much about your starting points. Y'all have always been slender to me, but these pics are proof that it wasn't always these case.

Butter, were you a bouncer in your former life?[/quote']

Ha.....I just didn't like my picture being taken.

This one makes me look even worse..

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Ha.....I just didn't like my picture being taken.

This one makes me look even worse..

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DANG, YOU LOOK GOOD! What an accomplishment!!!

On topic, I am a 21 year old girl which is probably why I look so young.

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