3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community - A Note to Newbies (and Oldbies, too!)

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Sheila, you look great. Good luck with the WW contest.

You look great!!!

You look fantastic, Sheila!! Congratulations on all your success. What an inspiration you are. :yay:

I noticed you’re the same height as me, and I hope you don’t mind my asking, but would you say you’re more medium-boned or larger-boned? I’m definitely large-boned and it’s been 15 years since I’ve even seen the 100’s (I’ve been overweight all my life) and never been “at goal”. I’m just curious as to what it might look like and since we’re the same height I thought I could use you as my "model" for inspiration. :)

Hey, that's so sweet, Christine--I've never been anyone's inspiration. I guess I'm medium-boned. I don't really know. I do have a pear shape. When my daughter got out of boot camp, she weighed 168 and wore a size 8. I'm less than that and still have a hard time fitting into a size 10 pair of pants. I can do it in dresses easily, but not pants, dang it, and I seldom wear dresses. It's those darn child-bearing hips. Hey, I think those are definitely the big-boned part of me! :)

yeah I really wish I had a picture of me at my highest weight. The best I can find is 2 photos that we figured was when I was in the 230's. I had never really made a hard commitment to dieting, I just started to change my eating and exercise habits so I never thought about taking a beginning photo.

Sigh. I did it, but it didn't go as planned. I'm nearly 40 pounds less than my highest weight -- I never bothered to take a picture then. I fear cameras the way Dracula fears daylight or Superman fears Kryptonite. I can smell a camera within a 150 foot radius and am adept at launching the appropriate countermeasures to ensure there is no photo record of me anywhere in existence. I'd make a great spy if I could only keep a juicy secret.

Anyway, I was wearing something pretty cute today in some new miracle pants that seem to shave dozens of pounds off of me. So I thought, well while it's not 316, it's still a weight I don't plan to come back to, so why not a picture while I look nice? In my mind I had fantasies about showing people the picture and have them tell me, "There's no way you weigh that much!"

I took it. I look dreadful. Perhaps had I let more people take pictures of me over the years, I wouldn't have let it get this bad. I know we've cursed the mirror vs. camera discrepancy here ad nauseum, but HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? How is it possible to stand in front of a full length mirror and really look at yourself, decide you look great, then 1 minute later have the camera reveal the grim reality that is your fat??? I just don't get it. I also wonder if that is how other people really see me. And do thin people have the same problem?

So no need to console me, I just wanted to vent - my questions are rhetorical as I'm sure the answers are something the universe has decided not to reveal yet. And I also wanted to express my sincere hope that when I get to my goal, I will cease to be so unphotogenic and will finally look decent in a picture. Gotta run, (sniff) I smell a camera...

I took pictures of myself in my new bathing suit (which I'll sadly not be using now that I'm not going to england to see my now ex). I took front, back, and side...and I realized how overweight I really look. I mean, when I take normal shots I can usually do enough and get a good picture where I don't look so bad...but just laying it all on the table like that.

I really need to get my butt in gear.

By the way, is there a picture thread or anything? I know there's a progress thread but I just staretd.