[lizzybeth81]

So. . . I still haven't put up a new picture on facebook since I started losing weight (not even 1lb). It bothers me when I look at the pictures that are up there because that is not how I look anymore. I have deleted all of the pictures of me that are horrible, but the ones that are left do not represent the way i look now. It bothers me even more that my friends keep tagging in pictures that are two years old, when I was A LOT bigger than I am now. . . Seriously. . . Do people even realize how hard those pictures are to deal with?

I don't really know how to throw it out there? I'm proud of my weight loss, but I don't really want to flaunt it?

I'm not the kind of girl that posts things every day (or ever) about my daily weight loss battles, and I'm not the kind of girl that will do a "facebook" photo shoot to show people what I have accomplished.

Have any of you ladies felt like this? I'm feeling crazy these days :0

[FreeSpirit]

Your friends care about you and your life, I don't see why you have to make an announcement about it or delete your old life anyways? Just add new pictures when you take some and leave it at that. That's what I would do.

[mandalinn82]

I never posted my progress photo collage or anything on Facebook. I just posted new pictures as they were taken. No announcement, just photos of me, only thinner.

[Mommy in Motion]

Ditto Mandalinn. I didn't make announcements about weight loss- just posted pictures when I had them.

I do understand being bothered by friends tagging/posting older photos. I saw some of myself from almost 3 years ago on a friends page the other day- I was so embarrassed by it- and hurt that he would post it. And then I felt crazy for feeling hurt- because I knew he didn't share it for any negative reason. It's just a picture from a Christmas party. Not his fault I was heavier then!

~Dagny

[ms hodge]

I feel you! My friends are idiots about tagging pictures where someone's looking less than their best. Like seriously, the candid shot you took where I have 3 chins and look like a deer in the headlights deserves a tag? lol

But yeah, feel comfortable putting up photos as they're taken, but also be prepared that people are probably going to comment on them. People commenting on my weight loss in general always makes me a little uncomfortable (as though we can pretend that I never got big to begin with and it will just erase itself from history), so I have to steel myself for those.

[Mickeypnd]

ive never posted anything say hey this was me thinner and I was fatter before. (I wont now since Im fat again!)

I don't feel its really necessary. I mean you post pictures of yourself now thinner and they can see the ones of you before and clearly they can put two and to together and see you've lost weight.

if not then they need their eyes checked!

[kabaker]

I left all my old pics alone. I just post new pics as I take them, never with the purpose to show my weightloss. I just look thinner.

[Phoenix301]

Ditto on most of you guys...however i am not as shy about telling people ive lost weight at all, but I don't usually post 'progress' photos to facebook or anything. I post pictures of me that are thinner..but my friends have also tagged me when I look like sam hill, but i dont get mad at them, i get mad at myself.. I did once upload a new profile picture captioned with something like "me minus 25 pounds" but no one really made a big deal of it or anything..i wanted one of me thinner because my other one was like 2 years old

[misstraveller]

I think it's great to leave your old pics on there. They represent good times with friends and family REGARDLESS of our weight I left mine up and as I have more great times with friends and family, I make SURE they tag those It's a great reminder of how far I've come, and I won't let the fact that i was a little larger ruin those memories.

[kelly315]

It all depends on how you want to represent yourself, because that's really what you're doing. Do you want people to forgot how you used to look? Would you prefer new acquaintances don't know about your weight loss? These are personal questions. Either option can be valid.

[jennyplain]

I posted a picture of myself that I took at work, and got TONS of comments from people commenting on how skinny I looked (relatively). I wasn't expecting it, and I'd honestly just posted the picture because I liked my new dress! Facebook can be weird with that kind of stuff. I say post a picture you like, and if people make comments, then let them, but you don't have to draw attention to it.

[Jlyne327]

I have pictures on there from my early college days where I was 110 pounds and then I have pictures from several weeks ago where I was 196. I know that people know I gained a ton of weight but it's okay because I'm going to lose it again!!!!! It does bother me sometimes though, I totally agree.

[Foxlette]

I never post about weight loss, struggling with exercise, or anything like that. I don't post much on facebook that too personal, because of those awkward people who crept out of the woodwork from high school, or the fact that my parents (and both of my grandmothers!) are on facebook. I tend to keep my posts pretty neutral - talk about work, the dogs, music, etc.

The only thing I really, really dislike is when friends (or former friends from years ago) post and tag those super embarrassing photos. I know its already been mentioned, but I feel the need to rant about it too.

We don't even talk anymore, but you feel the need to post party pictures from Senior year in High School, and tag me in every single one... even if I'm not in the shot? Not cool. Not to mention that I was 100lbs. lighter then. Just what I need - my grandmother commenting and saying "You were so much thinner back then!" Yeah. There's one in every family.

[Jenteal]

I too just update photos as they are taken but I've never announced any weight loss or even let them know I'm losing. When friends tag old pictures of me that I really am horrified with, I go remove the tag.