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mammasita 06-26-2006 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ellis
Sara, you're gorgeous! I love your pics... thank you for sharing! :hug:

Mammastia, you've lost two more pounds!! Holy petolies, girl, that's wonderful! :hat: You'll soon be able to wear a ribbon (like they give out at WW) saying, "I've lost 20 pounds!" ;)

I was thinking about you girls when I went to my weight-loss clinic last week. I was striding along, feeling trim and slim and frickin' GORGEOUS, when I suddenly came face to face with a mirrored window. Honest to goodness, I stopped dead in my tracks. :lol3: For one split second, I thought I was walking towards a short, dumpy, middle-aged woman. :rofl:

I know, Im suprised. I bought a new scale and I think its off because its teetering into the twilight zone i.e. numbers starting with the number "1" OMG - it's weird.

Regardless - I think I've hit the 20 lb mark by the numbers on my old scale - I'll let it marinate until it's a solid 20 though LOL. Although I have to admit, I have the help of a therapist and a great psychologist who has prescribed medication to assist in my journey.

Misti in Seattle 06-28-2006 08:18 AM

Oh I am laughing... sort of! Same here. My last progress picture I was really happy and could see my progress. Then at a company picnic last week someone took pictures of all of us and posted them on the company e-site. Yikes... the most horrid FAT looking picture of me imaginable! I was horrified. But I went out and did some more exercise LOL and I do NOT look at that set of pictures again!!!

Sara, thanks for posting those... I know exactly how you feel! :)

Nicklewise 06-28-2006 01:36 PM

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For one split second, I thought I was walking towards a short, dumpy, middle-aged woman
I am sorry..lol I had to laugh, I feel the same just with out the middle age part.. Glad I was not taking a drink when I read it.. hehe

lilybelle 06-28-2006 01:49 PM

I still hate having pic's taken. But, last night I had a whole roll of pic's of me taken in different outfits and I am hoping at least a couple will turn out OK. I want to be able to post some "almost there" pic's. I feel like I look better in the mirror than I do in a pic. I will get these developed tomorrow , so everyone will be seeing them soon.

carolshmarol 06-29-2006 05:06 AM

This thread is funny because I can identify with the cute chick, ugly picture phenomenon. Something else I noticed.....I look better close up than far away. Far away I look like Pizza the Hut but close up I pretty dern pretty! But with pictures, I've learned to adjust the lighting (as not to make additional chins) and angle my face a certain way. I've got it all figured out. :D

Idrial 06-29-2006 11:17 AM

I'm not only this way with my weight but with my hair! I'll have my hair all styled and I think looking really good but when I see it photographed, it's awful! I wonder which view other people have, our mirror view or the photo view. I always think I look ok in a mirror and then the photo is so embarrassing. It always looks sloppy.

phantastica 06-29-2006 11:41 AM

Lighting is everything!
 
Yes, lighting and angle is everything! A photographer once told me that it's always better to take a picture from an angle, because we hardly ever see people square-on anyway. I also prefer the photographer take the picture from ABOVE, because from below the chins are amplified. Ick!

And of course, the days we think we look great, the pics are awful. But then, someday a pic will be taken with "bad hair" and no makeup, and it'll be the most beautiful one yet.

mammasita 06-29-2006 06:08 PM

Pictures
 
http://members.cox.net/mammasita/3fatchicks/cowpic.gifhttp://members.cox.net/mammasita/3fa.../yesterday.gif

Ok these probably won't stay up long lol - but the first is the cow pic I was talking about.....UGH, and the second is one Im "ok" with taken a couple days ago...probably because my son is covering 1/2 of me lol

HarpoChicoGroucho 06-29-2006 09:16 PM

WHAT??! COW? Far from it . . . Now I do prefer the second picture because I can see your BEAUTIFUL face clearly. You have a stunning face!!! And when I have a son, I'm going to grow his hair out like your sons hair!! I LOVE that haircut on little boys. SO cute.

Idrial 06-29-2006 09:46 PM

oh my gosh, you are so gorgeous! Honey, If I looked like you, I'd be posing for anyone with a camera ;)

LiLLy19 06-30-2006 01:24 AM

mamasita: I agree with the others! You are REALLY gorgeous!!! And believe me you DO NOT look like a cow at all!!

I think that when we look at pictures we tend to overanalyze ourselves, but when others look at them they see something completely different!

SupersizedChicky 06-30-2006 02:51 AM

So glad this post is up. In pictures my cheeks look so puffy and I look so plain, almost ugly sometimes, but when I look in the mirror I think, damn I'm pretty, and my cheeks are less. So the issue I have is, what do I trust, the mirror or the picture. I worry that the image I have of myself is so distorted that I can't accept the fact that the picture me is really me.

piperboo 06-30-2006 11:09 AM

Mammasita! You are gorgeous!!! Thanks for putting your pics out there with me - that way I am not the only one. We'll get there! All we have to do is keep trying AND supporting each other!

Sara

ellis 06-30-2006 03:04 PM

Mammasita, you are SO beautiful!! :love: Thanks for sharing your pics! And your little boy is such a cutie. :)

ERnanner 07-03-2006 11:34 AM

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I am so the same way. I will get all ready for work and thinking I am looking good today. Then I will walk be one of the bathroom mirrors at work and I about scream. A few of the girls I work with are pencil size so sometimes I feel so huge next to them. We took pics of our group for a poster a few months ago and I feel like I take up half of the pic. Sometimes I long just to be that person that blends in the back somewhere.


I have to say that all of you are "hot" lol I haven't been posting very long but you are some of the most beautiful people I have met. You know how you can meet somewhat and their personality totaly changes the way you think they look. So keep strong. I will post a good and bad pic for me too well if I can figue out how ha ha.

I thought I looked good here then I saw the pick pink cow lol
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This one I thought looked good but no head shot guess I have a fat head lol

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