Facebook photo's

[*Emsie*]

Was just looking at Malcs thread with his brill pics and saw that it was a facebook pic that made him realise he needed to lose weight and wondered how many of us had realised that way.
It was a pic on fb with a group of friends that shocked me too. Yet when I was out on that night I still kidded myself that I wasn't as big as I was in comparison to the other women but the picture told me the truth!

 

[donna88]

I was constantly deleting photo's on facebook because ''I wasn't that big'' ''it was a bad angle'' I had perfected a way to look at the camera to hide my double chin and also I used to hide behind other people or things so my body wouldn't be in photo's....

It was meeting my boyfriends ex again, who used to be a lot bigger then me but had started slimming world and as she'd lost weight and I'd put on weight we were catching up with each other that made me really decide to loose weight. That sounds really shallow, but it wasn't completely that, I had been trying to loose weight and failing miserably, meeting her gave me the push and also gave me the idea of slimming world itself, I wouldn't have joined if she hadn't have told me how great it was.

 

[Jenna88]

That's what caused mine, it was a pic of a friends hen party and I looked huge. Needless to say I have now removed tags from all the awful pics!.

 

[loulou19]

This happened to me. It was a picture of me at my friends 21st that made me realise, my arms looked larger than everyone else's bodies!! I left them tagged so when I go on Facebook I'm reminded to stay on track with the weight loss

 

[*EB*]

Mine was some holiday pics....vile.

And now it's because I've had a baby so a different reason.....!

 

[Malc-D]

wow, thanks emsie .. just found this now, and had to comment now otherwise i would have forgotten about it by tomorrow

It was a terrible pic.. i've always known i was big, and always stayed away from the camera (prefare to be behind it). but i didn't have a choice i was sat there with a group of people and someone shouted smile.. the next day i go on facebook and get a notification say 'so and so tagged you in a photo' i clicked it and was mortified. more like ashamed of myself. and i'm man enough to admit that i did shed a few tears.

it was the first time i had truely seen just how big i was, and it was over twice the size of everyone else.
i decided that day that i was going to lose the weight and typically like most people i said i'll make it my new years resolution. i saved the picture, put it as my wallpaper and jan 1st 2011 i started my new healthy lifestyle.. and not looked back. i can't wait for the next works party, i'm going to get another pic taken and this time the smile is going to be genuine and not fake

i'm going to keep posting pics (prepare to be bored lol) they motivate me to carry on, i just need to keep remembering where i have been and what i have done
good luck to you all on your plans you can do it x