Does the camera really add 10lbs/weight??? or is it just a myth....sometimes when I see pictures of myself (recent ones) I'll just ask myself "do i realllly look that big" b/c i honestly don't think it's as bad as the camera portrays it to be haha
haha Im the same way, but I always think that the mirror must take off weight too! Because when I look at the pictures from when I was heavier than I am now.. I cannot believe how I look! In the mirror I never felt that big. Now I'm just going to rely on pictures for real proof haha.. because sadly the camera just doesn't lie. I mean, lighting and angles can have a big part of it... but generally how we look in the pictures is how we look now! I just printed some pictures of me at my biggest and I'm putting them in my room and in my purse haha. Reminder of why I don't eat chocolate or Taco Bell.
I have the same issue. I look in the mirror and I think my face has gotten thinner but then I look at a picture that was JUST taken and I am totally shocked. My face looks so fat in pictures compared to "real life." I try not to have too many pictures taken; it's totally discouraging. I reaaallly don't feel as fat as I really am!
I think I'm the opposite. In the mirror, I can't see the changes. I look at myself and still feel like I look the same as I did at 241. Then I see photos and realize that I look a lot different now.
I think the camera is pretty accurate. I'm the same way though I never saw myself as that big in the mirror till I'd see it in pictures. The only difference is I feel like I look the same when I look in the mirror unless I try and see the differences, then I think I'm thinner than I am. LOL! XD
i think it does a little bit. maybe not 10lbs but, especially if you don't have a good camera, the photos can be really unflattering. i think it's mostly video cameras that make you look fatter though...
it can also be the angle that the picture was taken in... learn to work your angles and you'll never look bad in a picture! haha...
The mirror is deceptively thinning the closer you stand to it. You're looking down at your body from the height of your eyes. If you want the brutal truth, stand really far away from a reflective surface.
I have the same issue. I look in the mirror and I think my face has gotten thinner but then I look at a picture that was JUST taken and I am totally shocked. My face looks so fat in pictures compared to "real life." I try not to have too many pictures taken; it's totally discouraging. I reaaallly don't feel as fat as I really am!
I'm the exact same way. I'll see myself in the mirror and I believe I'm improving, but then I'll see a picture of myself or catch a glimpse off the side of building and I look disgusting. I don't feel as fat as I am, either! x.x
oh ya i def know about the slimming effect mirrors can have...i'm so anal that i'll look at like six diff mirrors in my house (i'm a mirror freak) while i'm getting ready or just before i go out (some make you look thinner, others bigger or normal i guess) so i don't really rely on mirrors to show me how i look (family is much better haha)...but i guess angles do play a major role as well...ughhh i just hate pictures (for the time being)
I always just assume I really do look exactly as I do in pictures, but I also take the angle/lighting into account. Most of the time I spend so much time looking into the mirror that I convince myself I look *worse* than I actually do, not better, so seeing a picture and being able to compare it to a picture from a year ago is actually really nice.
Cameras add a wee bit if you don't know how to angle yourself the best. The camera takes a 3D person and squashes them flat, and you view the photo and try to reconstruct a 3D image from what you can see there. The camera will record your furthest reaches even if you are quite tapered and then create an image as if you are filled out all the way from extremity to extremity. The main thing, though, is that people often snap pictures of you from all sorts of angles and when you are not expecting it. Models spend months learning how to turn their best bits to camera and find the angles and the light, so even if you are posing for a picture we often get it wrong.
Sadly, though, the mirror tends to be kind because we expect to look in it. You know there is a mirror in your bedroom, and in preparation for looking into it you stand up tall, suck in your belly and turn your angle till you look the thinnest. What you'd look like if you walked past an unexpected mirror is more accurate, but as soon as you see the mirror you pull up, so what you really look like is partway between the photograph and the mirror.
I am seriously fat in photos, though. Not sure what I do wrong but I can never stand at the correct angle. Even before I put my weight on and I was a normal size I was simply giant in photos. Probably a combination of baggy clothes and bad angles, but I've a photo of me with my mum, I was a UK12 and she was a UK22, and I look by far the fatter one.
I absolutely hate pictures just because I don't see myself as that fat until I see the pictures and I am going to regret not being in them when my kids get older.
Photos and weight
I just printed some pictures of me at my biggest and I'm putting them in my room and in my purse haha. Reminder of why I don't eat chocolate or Taco Bell.
