When I'm Skinny: A List

04/27/2015 5:11PM

Great post and good for you for looking at yourself and seeing a person instead of a size!! It's so hard to do but so important. I used to teach a scrapbooking 101 class - back in the day - and I always made sure to encourage the attendees to make sure they were in the pictures as well, regardless of how they thought they looked! It was brought home to me personally when my ex was killed in a car accident and I went through all of our family photos to put together photo books for our 3 kids. I had enough pictures of him to fill all 3 albums (with lots to spare) but there were less than 10 pictures of me (total) because I thought I was fat. Had I been the one in the accident my children would not have had much to remind them of me or the things we did together. That has changed. I love this post! It is so important for all of us to realize that we are worthy and wonderful regardless of our size!

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Thank you, Debbie! It's funny that you bring up the pictures, because I've been thinking about that, too. I read an article not too long ago about a woman who went 10 years or so without letting herself be photographed and how she regretted it, and it set me to thinking about how I do the same. That's definitely a struggle. I've been trying to tell myself to get in more pictures-- at least with my daughter. It's so silly not to. She doesn't care, and hopefully in a few years I can look at those photos and be proud of my progress. I'm sorry to hear about your loss and your kid's loss-- what a hard thing.

Debbie

Thank you :0) I know what you mean about the pictures! It is hard at first but our friends and families love us as we are. We just have to reframe it for ourselves. I have pics of me at my heaviest and I look at them and am so proud of how far I have come - and I have pics of me doing things with my kids, my friends and my man LOL Totally worth the cringe factor of the picture!