Before pics question...

VintageChick
on 8/13/11 5:49 am

Like many 'big gals', I run and hide anytime anyone gets a camera within shooting distance of me! So, I don't have any to speak of, except face pictures... ya know, the facebook kinda pic that everyone has.

   Very, very, very few candid pictures of me exist!

Now that surgery is becoming reality, I'm looking to do a few 'before' pictures. Do you have a specific before picture that just 'speaks' to you?  Or now that the weight is gone, do you wish you had taken a picture of yourself in a certain pose or dressed a certain way, just to remember that part of who you were but will never be again?

So far, I just have the 'tank top and shorts standing by the door' standard photo.

In the future, I don't plan to dwell on the past and my 'fat life', but I am pretty sure I'll want something to help me remember what I never want to return to, and to perhaps share with other's interested in WLS.

Ideas?

cattywompos
on 8/13/11 6:08 am

VSG on 09/30/10

I too had very few pics of myself pre-surgery. I did take one about a week post op wearing clothes, but I wished that I had done one in a tank top and shorts or just under garments because the clothes I was wearing in the shot were not form fitting and don't really show how big I truly was, but I suppose that was the point at the time. There is a family pic of me at my heaviest that I have been thinking of trying to scan because that one is hideous! When I look at that one I can see a big difference in myself now. I have also thought of copying it and pasting it on all doorways to food (fridge and cupboards) so I see it every time I am trying to fit the urge to indulge. Take a pic or two, you will definitely want to see your progress!

HW-304 / SW- 286 / CW-198.25 / GW-170

DrHollywood
on 8/13/11 6:14 am - Harbor City, CA

VSG on 02/01/11

Trust me....Take many many before photos. Even if they are for your eyes only at first.
Also get in your bra and take some too. side, front and behind. You will be glad you did.
I took some and honestly I wish I had more. I do have a couple dozen but I wi****ook a 100.

TAKE MANY!!

Oh and different outfits too!!!

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Onedaysoon
on 8/13/11 6:23 am - PA

VSG on 07/28/11

Just do it! At least do a bra and panties pic. It's good to be able to look at your bare skin and see the different changes that are happening. For me, especially as I am stuck at the same weight for the past week, I can go back and look at those pics and even though I have only lost 20lbs so far, it's nice to look at them and say 'hey, 20lbs IS a big deal! I'm doin it!' . :)

~Carly~
Age:30 Ht: 5'2 ~ HW:250 ~ SW:228 ~ GW:125 ~

cannonkb
on 8/13/11 7:04 am, edited 8/13/11 7:05 am - SC

VSG on 02/16/11

I didn't go as far as the bra and underwear because I don't have anyone to take pictures like that of me but I did have some taken with some form fillting workout clothes on. You can see them on my profile - they are not pretty. I wish I had taken even more but they will suffice. One thing that I did not do that I would suggest is take your measurements before surgery so you can measure when the scale isn't moving and see that you are still making progress even when the scale isn't moving. Good luck!

VintageChick
on 8/14/11 1:51 am

Thanks all!

I really wasn't planning for underwear pictures, but when no one is around, maybe I'll strip and do a few in front of the mirror after all. Definitely not even comfortable posing in front of my own husband 'nearly naked'. He's seen the fat in all it's glory, but certainly not purposely posed.

I'm definitely going to drag out the tape measure, too.

Nothing can make me more mad at or sick with myself than looking at my own photo or trying on clothes!!!

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