I am trying to set up an image in my head of what to expect from my goal weight so I am not disappointed. I will finally be shot of the bumpy tummy from my surgery, but I am a large-framed person and much as I'd love to feel thin one day I don't think it will be like that. I have big arms, I've always had big arms. I've put on a few photos which hopefully meet the upload limits and everything. The first one is my fattest fat photo from a few years ago, the weight piled on after I met my husband and started eating like him. Much of that weight is gone now, but what is interesting is when I look at all of the other photos apart from the last one I felt fat in all of those pictures too, especially the one in the striped uniform because all the other girls could move their arms in theirs and mine gaped at the bust and caught at the back every time I moved, and I have that tummy roll too.
The final photo is really intersting because it's the only picture I have from when I was very skinny. Normally when you look at a picture of an anorexic person you think OMG that person is really skinny, but I don't look at that and think I look dreadful, I just look like any of those other skinny girls out there, I just look slim, not terrifyingly skinny. Just for reference in that skinny picture I weigh 98lbs, so obviously that's unhealthy. Maybe I am looking very harshly on all these photos? The biggest irony is the only photo I didn't feel that fat is the massive one!!
Not sure how big I am in the fat photo, the others I am probably 155-165.
I'm trying to set a goal I can be happy with, would be interested in pictures of other people with a larger body frame, especially someone who is large but short. I'm not sure what to make of all this, I don't want to have a mental image of getting skinny when I'm only ever going to be a more healthy, lean big person. Not entirely sure if I can find the question here, but just pondering these photos, really.