Flashback Friday: Loving the Before Picture

On Fridays I am going to post a “flashback” post from my old blog that I started close to a year ago.  This will help give some insight into what things were like for me when I was first starting my weight loss program.  The following is a post that I originally wrote on May 30^th of last year.  I was a little more than a month into the program and was having all kinds of new insights…

May 30, 2008—Loving the Before Picture

I am learning that in order to make a real, lasting, positive difference it is so important to learn to love the “before picture”. In the past when I have lost weight, the more I lose the more I start to hate the person that I was when I was bigger. I get disgusted when I see old pictures or videos and think–that isn’t even me anymore. But, I think the real key is accepting and loving the girl in the before picture and knowing that she is me, just a less healthy version who needs a lot of love and support. And that is what I am giving myself right now!! It is an enlightening journey…

Re-reading this reminds me that loving the before, after and everything in between is key to making this last.  I do not feel one bit ashamed or disgusted now when I look at older pictures of myself when I weighed close to 300 pounds.  I feel proud that I finally cared enough about myself to spend some time helping myself.