Hard time looking at pictures

DisneyLover
on 3/2/12 9:07 am - WI
So before I had surgery I HATED how I looked in pictures.  I, like I am sure many of us, avoided the camera as much as possible.
Over the past week I have had a lot of pictures taken of me in group settings and posing for pictures at Disney with my mom.
I have a hard time looking at pictures of myself post op.  I don't know if it is because I am not used to seeing myself or what.  I look great compared to how I used to look.  People tell me I took too skinny, but I am not.  I am in my normal BMI range.  I have a whole wardrobe of clothes that I now love to wear.  I don't know if it is because I am trying to grow my hair out and it is driving me nuts or what the deal is.
I don't know if my post op brain is still trying to catch up with the way I look or what.  Sometimes I don't recognize myself.

Anyone else have this problem?  I know, it is such a bad problem to have.  

Sarah

    
unewillow
on 3/2/12 11:42 am - CT
I have the opposite problem, in that I hate looking at pictures of myself pre-op.

But, one of the things I do struggle with is looking at new pictures and not knit-picking my appearance. Especially when it comes to the excess skin on my arms and the muffin-top. I feel like, they're betraying me as a former fattie, and no one will ever accept me as a normal weight with those reminders.

These are the head demons I think we all battle at some point.
            
stlfocus
on 3/2/12 1:24 pm - IA
My brain has not caught up with my body yet. I know the clothes are smaller, but I still see the fat girl in the mirror. And the person in the photos doesn't look like me at all.
                                
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