Sara, you're gorgeous! I love your pics... thank you for sharing!
Mammastia, you've lost two more pounds!! Holy petolies, girl, that's wonderful! 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. For one split second, I thought I was walking towards a short, dumpy, middle-aged woman.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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 sarah and Ronnie.JPG
This one I thought looked good but no head shot guess I have a fat head lol
You'll soon be able to wear a ribbon (like they give out at WW) saying, "I've lost 20 pounds!" 
For one split second, I thought I was walking towards a short, dumpy, middle-aged woman. 
Lighting is everything!
Thanks for sharing your pics! And your little boy is such a cutie. 
