Buying Clothes After Weight Loss
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Any weight loss program, be it a gym, a support group or a food-based program is sure to have huge poster boards of before
and after weight loss pictures of its clients. As seeing is believing; the aim of these centers to motivate you to imagine
yourself in the ‘after’ picture and sign up. You dream of the day when you will be buying new clothes to fit you after you
lose all that weight.
But don’t set yourself up for disappointment based on the photographs you see in their offices.
The Right Before and After weight loss Pictures
The pictures of everyday, regular people that you see at your Jenny Craig counselor’s office may be some of the right types
of pictures of before and after weight loss. These photographs may have taken by friends of those who lost the weight in
their regular clothes and are usually taken using a Polaroid or handy digital camera. You may even bump into these at
meetings or at the gym and seeing their reduced dress size can be a big boost in your own motivation to lose weight.
The Wrong Before and After weight loss Pictures
Joy Behar, Kirstie Alley, Whoopi Goldberg for Jenny Craig and Slim Fast respectively have fabulous before and after weight
loss pictures. And they should; after all it’s a mega national campaign with the best lighting, stylists and photographers.
There is no doubt that they actually did lose the weight, but dressing the right way and having industry pros setting the
lighting and hair and make-up can make a huge difference.
Before you get motivated by the before and after pictures of Ms. Alley stop to consider how those pictures were obtained.
Even if you lose the same amount of weight she lost, it may take you longer. (She was getting paid to do it and would devote
more time to it than you probably have available.) And don’t expect to look like her afterwards, as the rules for any
celebrity photographs dictate that ‘It’s all in the lighting!’
Instead what you should aim for is your own before and after weight loss pictures done in a realistic way. After you have
chalked down your weight loss goal, take a picture in the same clothes on the same date each month. So, if you’re in your
favorite pair of jeans and a knit sweater on January 15th, get a friend to take a picture of you in the same clothes on
February 15th and so on. Don’t make it more frequent than that as it can be discouraging. Just like experts recommend you
weigh yourself once a week, a monthly picture should suffice.
And if you’re sticking to your program, there might not be a drastic change in the way you look, but there will be one in the
way you feel. So put off buying those new clothes for a few weeks after you obtain your weight loss goals to ensure it is
permanent.
Buy a few items each week to allow your weight to stabilize and ensure your body can maintain that new weight.
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