Non-Scale Victory, part 2: Things You Can't Tell Just By Looking at Her.

Non-Scale Victory, part 2: Things You Can't Tell Just By Looking at Her.

Before and after (or during) photos are really compelling. I love seeing those of people who've lost weight or had makeovers or toned up, sometimes all three at the same time. These imagesinspire me to keep going. Love it when the person in the after photo appears to be taken of a wholly different one than the one in the before. It can seem impossible that one can get from one place to the next. It must be magic. Or trickery. Or photo editing. Then it's clear that real change is possible,

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Victories that have Nothing to do with the Scale.

Victories that have Nothing to do with the Scale.

Having lost over 80 pounds, which on a 5’1” frame is a gracious amount of weight, I’m now able to do things I simply couldn’t - or wouldn’t attempt - before. For people of normal weight there are everyday experiences and habits, movements and processes that are so mundane as to be out of any kind of consciousness. But for fat folk things can be oh so different.

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