Feeling fat. Ugh!

I'm a short girl with a round face one pound looks like ten extra pounds. For pictures find your angles, and let your photographer if you are self conscience. They can "pose you" so your angles are complimentary.

The equation for weight loss is calories in should be less than calories out (burn more calories than you eat)

A fit bit (or other tracking device) helps alot. Don't stop eating, start eating the right foods.

I have really been feeling the same way. I'm not overweight - but I am still at the highest weight I have ever been, the worst thing for me is photos. Often I think I look great and then see photos and feel terrible about myself! I cried uploading photos from our engagement trip to New Orleans and didn't post a bunch of them on facebook even though FH thinks I'm being ridiculous.

I'm trying to lose at least a little but the holidays are just killing me.

MacToBe: I am irritated with them too. The app going down before the holidays is stupid, and they planned this. The whole problem is they are totally changing the plan. No more Points Plus. I like what ive been doing for the past 5 years and really don't feel like learning a new program.

I'm in a constant state of this feeling! Though, since I cut gluten out of my diet for health reasons, I've lost 8lbs in a month, and that was with little to no working out (because I'm the WORST at that). But when I got our e-pics back, I definitely had a moment of "holy shit, am I *that* fat??". Mentality can be a hard thing to fight, but as someone who has dealt with eating disorders for years, it's pretty vital. The more down on yourself about your weight you are, the harder it tends to be to lose weight or be happy with the way you look. It's always nice to know that those who care about me will love me no matter what my weight is!

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@MacToBe- Thanks! We loved our pictures so much!! The only thing with bites is that it's a bit harder to find the right foods. Once you get the format down it's really easy to work with.

I gotta say, I used to feel this way when I was pretty overweight, and I was so consumed with diet, working out, stressed on trying to lose weight, and counting calories was the worst decision, and it only made me gain more weight.

The less I worry so much about food and exercise, the better I felt about myself. Someone who lost about 80 lbs told me that life is too short to 'worry'. You can still enjoy (some!) of the food, enjoy your work out, keep an active lifestyle and be completely fine. I'm not saying that you shouldn't care at all about being healthy, because you definitely should. But people who constantly stress out about losing weight only end up losing more confidence in themselves.

OP, you definitely look great. Working out 4+ hours a day isn't really necessary in my opinion, but keep working out! To those of you who did shed the pounds and fat, congratulations to all of you! And to those who need motivation, good luck to all of you and stay confident in yourselves, because I believe that's the key to feeling good about yourself on your wedding day. I know my wedding is far from now, but I definitely felt the pain about losing weight struggles.

I feel you gained forty pounds recently. Me and FH are starting a diet this weekend. Your welcome to join us.

Oh, I've gained sooo much weight since the wedding 2.5 months ago. I thought that the threat of holiday parties would motivate me to keep it off, but nope. So now I have one week to feel good in a cocktail dress. And all I want to do is eat cookies...

Yes struggling hard. For one my dress fits perfect so I'm in a I don't give a shit mood. And secondly its the holidays so yea. But when I get back from Puerto Rico January 11th I'm getting back to it! I tried on dresses for my FBIL wedding and felt like shit.

@Kathryn - Yeah I quit like 12 hours before I found out they were also completely changing the plan and doing away with PointsPlus. My co-worker has been doing it with me and hasn't jumped ship yet but she's pissed. Point values for lots of foods she eats have gone up and they haven't given her any more regular points and actually TOOK AWAY 2 weekly bonus points. It makes no sense!

@Salisott - You're totally right. It was kinda hard to find foods that were satisfying and filling --didn't make me feel like I was depriving myself all the time and would fall within my daily points. I feel like I have it down now though. I save my bonus points for wine! haha