I Finally Got Some Before Pictures

I have not had my picture taken in like forever and my husband has not seen my body even more forever! Today I was getting dressed and I found some courage and asked him to take my picture (without looking lol). I stood in front of the infamous white door and he took a front picture, a side picture and even a back picture. I was wearing my bra and underwear so I won't be posting those on line. I am going to get more pictures in the next two weeks that I can post.

I can't believe I did this but I got all my hair cut off. I have what we called in the olden days "a pixie". My hair is all gray and it was getting hard to color it with longer hair. I colored it after the haircut and it was easy.

I am going to go to the surgery list for April and invite the others to join us. 

Awww. Sounds like a good day!! I love short hair and can't wait to see the pics. I bet you will like your photo taken more in the coming months.

Good heavens, one would have to be really brave to post pics in their undies. 

I think that I thought, yes you can take the pictures but only because this body is going to be history. That is where my courage came from. I was raised by my father and had 5 brothers so I am extremely shy about even wearing bathing suits when I was young and slim. My dad had to get the school nurse to tell me the facts of life. She even showed me a little movie.

Aww, YAY for pics! I really need to do this myself... Maybe tonight I really need to change my avatar to a pic of Me... and put some "Before" pics up on my profile. And I really do think I'm going to do the every pic a day for a year thing... then animate it... Go**** would be great perspective to, literally, see myself shrinking...

I was thinking after surgery my husband could take a picture every day and I could put them together and flip through them as morph my way down. I saw where a pregnant girl did this. I could also flip the pictures backwards so I can see myself get fat. Pretty good incentive.

My husband is going out of town and I am going to set his tripod up to take my own pictures. My camera looks so funny on one because it is so little and the tripod so big.

Congrats on the new found courage, and your new hair cut! You don't have to be from the "olden days" to be tired of covering gray hair though I'm in my thirties, and I've been hiding the silver so long I forget what color my hair really is. Anyway, I bet it looks good on you...we need pics!
Nancy

'grats on getting the pix taken. I think it's incredibly important for us to have 'evidence' for those days when we still see ourselves as fat when we actually aren't anymore. Mine (ugh) are in my profile.

My mom is going to cut my hair next week. I swear, no one here can do a shag. I keep getting a slightly layered bob, which is just Not Right. Then I'll color it. I went several different shades of red for the past year and last time, dark brown, which toned down the red. I'll probably do the brown again. Don't want to be in the hospital with silver roots shining. LOL

Ah Hah,

You let your age out when you mentioned shag haircut. I had a shag too. Now it is just a pixie (another old word not used anymore). I have to color my hair now every 2 to 3 weeks because it grows so fast. When I don't color it the gray hair makes me look like I have bald spots. Do do remember that we called conditioner "creme rinse" and not "conditioner"? And even creme rinse hadn't caught on.

Keep in touch Char

Diana

I did, didn't I? LOL Yeah, I got the pixie cut every year right after school was out. And yes, I miss creme rinse. It just detangled without leaving glop behind that made my hair all flat. I also remember when Clairol Herbal Essence smelled green (yum) and not flowery (yuck).