Help Choose Transformation Photos
Well I’m working on answering the call of @LosingWeightDaily on twitter. I’m putting together a MyJeansFit.Me! profile. I’ve been working pretty hard the last 14 months and thought it would help me stay accountable and share my story with more people … maybe it’ll inspire someone to not give up, no matter how long they’ve been fighting.
The biggest part of the submission for me isn’t the questions I’m sure it’ll ask, it’s actually finding the correct starting pictures to use. Should I use the photos from when I started working to get fit and lose weight back in 2000?
That’s quite old but it’s where I really started and it’s when I was at my heaviest weight of 450 pounds. That picture doesn’t even feel like me any more which is why it’s so hard to use that picture … it was so long ago.
I just realized that I’ve never shared that photo with anyone other than my wife. I’m a bit self conscious as I imagine most everyone is that’s overweight.
Maybe instead of that one it would make more sense to use a photo from January of last year when I started this most recent triskaidekaphobia trip?
It isn’t as dramatic as the first photo but it’s the picture that represents the most recent journey.
I haven’t taken official before shots in a few years now so I can’t create a nice front and side view photo. I took the ones back in 2000 because I was planning on participating in the Body for LIFE challenge. I never did submit my 12 week package.
Oh yea, in case you were wondering, here’s a recent picture of where I’m at today, down 72 pounds (or 132) depending on where the “starting line” is placed.
I realized something interesting today looking through all my old photos, I hid from the camera a lot. I have a bunch of pictures of friends & family and scenery but only a handful of myself. In almost all of the photos I have of myself I’m sitting in a chair, that’s weird. Anyone else notice that in their old heavier photos?
My wife noticed that in my old before pictures I was never smiling … I never really thought about it. I guess I have a lot more to smile about now days.
I feel really good this time and feel like I’ve finally found a place where I can regularly hit a stride. When life throws me a few more curveballs I guess I’ll know for sure how resilient I am and how much I’ve internalized my most recent lessons.
I’ll know soon enough I guess, only 4 more weeks until the next little test arrives.
What do you think, which photo should I use? I’d love feedback on which picture people think makes the most sense to use. I don’t want to mislead anyone about my journey … I want to be as honest as possible.
I think you should use the first photos from 2000. If that is truly when you started your journey, they are the best representation of how far you have come. So what if they are 10 years old. Slow and steady wins the race to healthy and sustainable weight loss.
Yea, the funny part is up until 2000 I didn’t have the inkling or drive to care about my weight. I always new I was big I just never knew how big I had become.
Thanks for the feedback.
Amazing! so amazing! I’m so proud of you !!!!!!!!!!! Dude, your like my new hero!
My son’s about your old size. I will be sharing this with him.
Wow, AMAZING! thanks for giving us all hope. Wow,…..dude, your amazing!!
whew, so proud….!!!!! man, you can add me as friend. email j_can_tu@yahoo.com I”m on facebook toooo!!!
Look forward to connect with you!
Keep it up.
Thanks, I appreciate the comment. It’s been really hard, I won’t deny it. In the end you can’t ever give up. You have to keep trying until you find something that works.
Feel free to put your son in touch with me. I’d be happy to chat with him via email or online chat.