Episode 16: No More Before And After Photos

Run, Selfie, Repeat

Kelly Roberts

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

My issue with ‘Before and After’ photos is that they place the before photos in a context that implies that it’s unacceptable to look like what we look like in our after photos. Newsflash: If you're on a weight loss journey, it doesn't matter how much weight you lose because if you fail to work on a positive body image, you're in for a rude awakening when you look in the mirror and feel inadequate when you reach your goal.

I'm all for advocating for working towards the strongest version of yourself possible, but when we compare before and after photos, we're implying that there is something implicitly wrong or unattractive about our before selves. And it needs to stop.

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0:00.0	Here we go one more time.
0:02.7	Everybody's feeling fine.
0:04.8	I can't believe I've made it 16 episodes without opening the podcast with that
0:09.1	Insync song.
0:10.3	It had to happen.
0:11.3	It was inevitable.
0:12.8	Hi, everyone.
0:14.7	Welcome to episode 16 of the Run Self-Repeat podcast, where we talk life with a side of
0:20.3	running.
0:21.0	I am your host and lifelong NSYNC fan, Kelly Roberts.
0:26.2	And today, I am fired up because I want to talk about something that just fills me with rage and disappointment.
0:35.6	Let's talk about before and after photos, shall we?
0:38.5	Okay, so every once in a while,
0:40.6	I'll receive a notification on Facebook
0:42.2	or some sort of social media outlet
0:43.7	that alerts me that I have either been tagged in a photo
0:47.4	or that someone's commented it on an old photo of me.
0:50.0	And I'll click the notification and find a picture of myself
0:52.7	that I never knew existed.
0:56.5	You see, when I was at my heaviest, I was weighing over 200 pounds, and I tried to delete
1:02.2	every single picture that was taken of me because I was afraid of being judged. I think because
1:07.2	my own self-loathing was so intense and my shame was so huge, I convinced
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