I just took some before photos...WOW! Reality check! I thought I knew what my body looked like...I mean I see it everyday in the mirror. It is much different holding the pictures in front of me and really "seeing"! How did you feel about your before photos??

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I'm avoiding it.

I have been too, KristenLe! LOL But I have lost 41lbs pre-op so I wanted to take some before I lost more...! That is seriously what my face looked like!

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I understand completely! Somehow my brain is in denial about how really huge I am. I know I am super morbidly obese but when I look in the full length mirror I don't see it so much. Now when I see the rare photo of me, especially when I am next to an average size person, I see how I truely am and it is horrifying! I'm like, who is that person? That's not really me, is it?! I force myself to look now. I do not want to have any delusions about myself and how bad I have gotten anymore .It's time face reality head on and do sonethjng about it. RNY before this summer is over!

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I understand completely! Somehow my brain is in denial about how really huge I am. I know I am super morbidly obese but when I look in the full length mirror I don't see it so much. Now when I see the rare photo of me, especially when I am next to an average size person, I see how I truely am and it is horrifying! I'm like, who is that person? That's not really me, is it?! I force myself to look now. I do not want to have any delusions about myself and how bad I have gotten anymore .It's time face reality head on and do sonethjng about it. RNY before this summer is over!

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My niece had a baby in March and she took the sweetest picture of me holding the baby. I cringed. I had to ask her not to put it on Instagram because I was appalled at how huge I was! :-(

Isn't it awful! So many things that should be easy or enjoyable are made difficult or uncomfortable because of this damn excess weight.

I've been wanting too, but haven't did it yet. I'm afraid of what I'll see. I always avoid pics.

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I finally took a before photo the day of my WLS seminar. Again horrified. But I wanted to have the before photo to compare to later. I bought an old house that I have done a lot of work to myself and I have always regreted not having before pics of how it used to look.

That was an apt comparison! Me and a house LOL!!

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I did not want to take before photos at all and you can see it in my face in the pictures. But, I'm so glad I did. I'm only 6 weeks post op but I can already see the difference thanks to those pictures! You'll be so happy you took them once the weight starts coming off. They will remind you of all you have accomplished!

Hi everyone, I am new and this is my first post. So glad to have found this site. I am having gastric bypass on May 2nd, so just a week away. This liquid diet two weeks prior is rough!

I hate having my picture taken and I hate looking at them even more but I decided a few years ago after having grandchildren that I would let everyone take my picture anyway because if something happened to me I wanted to be a part of family memories. But those photos were eye opening. I think I saw myself smaller than I am, although I don't know how since the scale doesn't lie. Now I am ALMOST looking forward to seeing pictures of myself through the next year.

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I always stand in the back of group photos and no sitting photos.

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I strongly recommend taking before photos. I'm now 3 months post op and a lot of weight has dropped off. I now take a photo every month to mark my progress , and I find it amazing to watch my body change; and I can't believe I was ever that big.

I strongly recommend taking before photos. I'm now 3 months post op and a lot of weight has dropped off. I now take a photo every month to mark my progress , and I find it amazing to watch my body change; and I can't believe I was ever that big.

That is a great idea!

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YES! Oh my goodness. I see myself every day but didn't realize how big I really am. Someone took a picture of me two weeks ago at a work conference and I suddenly saw myself how others' see me. I was so embarrassed. I posted that pic on here, as my "before" pic. I can't wait to be able to post my "after" pic!

I couldn't bring myself to take before photos. I'm seven months out and down nearly 90 lbs and I'm okay with not having them. I have other ways of feeling the huge change I've made. The clothes I'm buying are so much smaller it continues to amaze me every time I go shopping. I used to struggle to walk more than a mile at a time and now four miles is nothing. So, personally, I really only care about having after photos.

I took my before pic the night before surgery. I didn't want to look at it. I didn't want anything to do with it, but at 6 months out and down well over 100lbs I like looking at it compared to my pics of me now. It shows me how far I've come because physically I don't feel different. My mind protected me from seeing how huge I was and when I look in the mirror now I cannot see any difference, but when I take a pic and compare side by side with that first pic I'm all like "yeah, that's a major difference!"