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You know somewhere in the back of your mind that you're getting overweight. Your clothes start to pinch, you notice you need the next size in underwear, you try on clothes in the dressing room but try not to look at yourself too closely, but you tell yourself you've "just put on a few pounds". After all, you've never had a weight problem before, after all, you were so thin in high school, in your twenties, in your thirties, and then, and then, suddenly, there it is. The picture that does not lie. The one where you look at yourself in that picture and you go "oh my God, is that ME?"
Happened to me today. Somethings got to change -and right now.
Anyone else motivated to action by a picture of themselves that "does not lie"?
I've had a few. As a matter of fact, our offices moved recently and I needed an ID for the new building. It's this fat, round grinning face that looks like someone took a picture of my old head and stretched it out sideways and gave it an extra chin.
This thread reminded me that I read somewhere not long ago, but can't remember where, a woman's story of a picture that changed her. She said she was somewhere that a street artist was doing sketches of people for money, and she decided to let him draw her. She said strangers walked by and saw him sketching and looked at her and nodded their heads approvingly, as if he was truly capturing her likeness. When he was finished and handed her the picture, she said it looked to her just like Mrs. Potato Head. She thought, "OH MY GOD, I look so much like this that people passing by thought it was a good picture?
A friend took a picture at Halloween; I was dressed as a tourist, wearing shorts that came about two inches above my knees ... which were sagging. That was my "whoa!" and "aha!" moment all rolled into one.
I knew I had put on some weight and I was out of work at the time so that didn't help. I got on the scale and BMI-wise, there I was---just at that overweight mark. I had never been overweight in my life.
That was that. I started losing weight in around July of 2013, stopped around January of 2014 and I've been maintaining ever since. I actually ended up putting a few pounds back on after numerous complaints from others and teetering the underweight line. But I weigh less than I did even in HS.
So true! Having said that, what can be shocking is to look at yourself sideways in the mirror and see of how your belly comes out as a result of accumulating body fat.
So true! Having said that, what can be shocking is to look at yourself sideways in the mirror and see of how your belly comes out as a result of accumulating body fat.
Or, since I work in the city and walk a lot at lunchtime, catching a glimpse of my reflection in a store window and realizing with a jolt that it's ME.
Yep, the one in which I was sitting on a bench with my son and husband and to me, it was like I had suddenly turned into the circus fat lady. I weighed myself and was shocked to discover that I had ballooned up to 162 pounds from my "normal" weight of about 125! (I'm 5'4".) I went on a diet, and I have never weighed more than 137 lbs. since!
So true! Having said that, what can be shocking is to look at yourself sideways in the mirror and see of how your belly comes out as a result of accumulating body fat.
I don't carry extra weight in my abdomen. Even at my heaviest my tummy was pretty flat. My extra weight goes straight to my butt, thighs and arms.
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