Old pics !!!

I so feel you on this issue.  I look at my before pics and I am just amazed at the change.  God is so good.  I pray for us on BAF constantly. 

Prayers are whats needed. We cant do this alone.

Continued blessings to you, me and all of us in the struggle !

I hear you on this!   Sometimes I get sooooooo sad when I see my old pics---remembering how miserable I was at that particular event, and knowing for 100% sure that I DIDNT WANT TO BE THERE.  Looking at my ugly outfit and remembering how hard it was to find something to wear...I used to hate to go to everything...and after it got really bad, I even gave myself permission to miss important/family things--like my sister's 40th birthday party--I just couldnt do it anymore...but thank God for wls!!!

Wow Pacia.......just think of all the things we missed out on cause we made food our # 1.

I can remember being on a cruise with my sweetie and our children.  I made it to the beach but refused to move when i got there.  The sun, my weight it had all been toooooo much for me.

I sat there getting black(er) and more miserable by the minute.  When I tell you it looked liked the whale had been brought to shore.  Thats the before pic of all before pics. 

 Now if I had a chance to go again...I would be different and partake in all the excursions and just have fun.  I tell you weight will stifle you if you let it get out of control.  Im anxioulsy waiting for my financial situation to change so I can go again and give good living a chance.  Just merely existing didnt cut it for me.  (smile)

Great day !

I avoided cameras like the plague and I think that helped keep me in denial about how big I really was even though I saw the numbers on the scale and had to buy size 3x clothes.  When I see old pictures where I was REALLY big, they make me feel a little bit sad for that woman in them.   It's funny though; I don't see ME when I look at them.  That's somebody else.  I can't identify with her anymore.

I can dig it Sue...alot of my old pics are me hiding behind something or someone and eating of course.  Shaking my head again.

Its funny, in my pics, I never felt as bad as I looked. I actually thought I was cute in my head...but the pics show a different story.  I dont want to ever forget who I was at that time and how I felt  cause Im fraid it might be too easy to slip back into who that old person was. Shoot, I still love to eat.  Despite  my new size....Im still very much the old me on the inside. Anxiety filled Plum.  Regardless to how  " good " my outer package has become.

Like you, I also felt sad for  the woman in the pic and how much potential she had on her side, if only she just knew it.  Not that people werent telling her...but somehow she didnt believe it. 

Newsflash....I believe it now cause I am learning to live it daily.  I have begun to expect more from life and cant wait to see what more this journey has in store. 

 Blessings - so blessed (smile) !!!! 

I too keep a before pic on my desk at work with a little note that says before you eat it remember LOL . it is right on the bottom of my computer monitor where i spend most of my day so it helps me make the right choices through out the day.

thanks for being so transparent . even after its been a while sometimes you get so caught up you dont think back on what it used to be like and i am a firm beliver that in order to know where you are going you have to know where you came from! and lord knows i have come a mighty long way!!!

Love that saying....." before you eat....REMEMBER "

I bet that cake or fast food wont mean nearly as much after that.

Food is just so overrated at times anyway.  How many times have you wanted something real bad, you get it and then its disappointing.  I dont really eat out much anymore for that same reason.  You never get what you pay for.  LOL.

Many of us have come a mighty, mighty long way and we need to keep heading that direction. Amen !

 Blessings to you !

I don't even recognize the chick in my old pics!  It's surreal to me, almost - but brings me back to REAL life anytime that heffa Lil Debbie starts tryna holla and Burger King starts riding my craving jock......

what keep s me giggling is the same mofos that look at me now and say 'you're TOO skinny - don't lose no mo!' were the SAME SILENT muddafukkas who ain't point out how BIG my ass was back then!!!!  

Interesting Mack....we can never understand people and what motivates them to do what they do.....we just gotta keep doing us.

You are another one on this board that has worked your tool to the max.  Kudos for doing what you do -soooooooo well and for helping many of us through your example and tough love sessions get to where you are.

Continued blessings, health and wellness MM !