If you lost weight what do you do with your old pictures?

[Anonymous]

Keep the photos. You are still you on the inside, and that is who your family loves.

I have had many ups and downs over the years. I LOVE the photos when I was super fit, of course. But the others are great, too -- I look happy, my kid is happy, DH looks happy. Just because I was pudgy doesn't mean life wasn't good at that time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mother collected them all and destroyed them. I have no photos of my childhood or myself before age 28.

That's hard to read, given the many layers of pain that seem to be behind what you wrote. I'm sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend had an awful nose in college and got a nose job post college. You can't find any photos of her before the nose job. I feel bad for her future husband and their kids if he doesn't know lol

This. With plastic surgery so prevalent now, what’s to prevent people from just pretending they’re naturally beautiful? It feels deceptive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please please please keep pictures with you and your kids. My mom struggled with her weight her whole life and hated being in photos. I have so few of her with me and I lost her when she was 58. I so wish I had more.

I am also overweight (working on it) but make sure to take lots of pictures with me and my kids. Even though I don’t look at them often I know they exist just in case.

As an adult child of parents who still refuse to be in pictures, I am really happy to read this. Your kids will be so happy to look back and see pictures of all of you through the years.