I just wanted to post to say I am super glad I didn't take a before picture. I've done it before and it just never worked for me, I'd feel guilty and exposed and give up before I even started. Or it would just motivate me to "get healthy today" and make me go from zero to 100 from day 1, which just led to burnout once the weight loss slowed.
This time I didn't take a before picture and the first week of my diet I didn't change my diet at all, just gathered information about my current diet, I didn't add any exercise until well into month 2. It was a slow ramp up. I didn't think of foods as clean or "superfoods" or bad or whatever, if it fit in my 500 calorie/day deficit I allowed it in small amounts. I don't feel deprived, the weight loss is slow but steady and I recently hit 6 months of tracking and 30 pounds down since November. This is the longest I have stuck with anything and since I can still have all my favorite high calorie or high sugar foods in moderation this is something I will stick with forever. It just feels like I'm discovering lots of new low calorie yummy foods but I don't make myself eat anything I don't enjoy just because "its good for me". I have increased to close to 10 k steps a day from less than a 1000, I feel stronger and I have more stamina.
Sure I don't have a convenient before picture in the same outfit for my after pic, nor do I have side by side progress pics. I have old pictures where I look bigger and newer pictures where I look smaller. If progress pics help motivate you then super. I know for some people it helps visualize recompositon changes. But if you are flirting with a diet but too shy or self conscious to take a before pic or progress pics... don't. Just start.
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