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I don't mind taking them, I don't like looking @ them! YIKES !    
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Look down count to three and look up! Smile! 
Ange
Changing My Lifestyle, One Day at a Time.
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I have a terrible habit of making a crazy face whenever people try to take a picture of me. It's very frustrating, and I can't seem to help it! My wedding is coming up, and I'm terrified that I will ruin all the photos with my faces!
Everything about you resonates happiness, now I won't settle for less.
Give me all the peace and joy in your mind.
Muse- Bliss
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In general I'm okay with taking pictures. I don't like the fact that my picture will be on somebody's Facebook page without my permission. I can't control that scenario or control somebody just taking random pictures in a public setting.
I CAN do this ONE day at a time.
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I don't typically mind, as long as I've gotten ready for the day and don't look like I just rolled out of bed!
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I don't like my pictures.
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I don't mind most of the time.:-)
Energy and persistence conquer all things. -Benjamin Franklin Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Isaiah 40:31(NIV) 31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Need help going Gluten Free? foodygf.blogspot.com/ exm.nr/GVHQEN
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Poorly.
Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
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grab a pillow, newspaper, ANYTHING to block the camera
~~ Knit more, eat less ~~
Call me "Lynn" it's a nickname
(where did the word nickname come from?)
Southern Ontario, Canada ~ Eastern Time Zone
What's the plural of Starfish?
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Anarie, Not everyone hates having their picture taken. I don't mind at all, most of the time. I have had mine taken enough that I usually even know how to pose so it will come out better than it might otherwise. Of course, smile. I take a lot of video of family and sporting and hobby events. I like to be in my own videos so I make sure to either use a tripod, or have some one else take some footage and pictures so I can be in my videos. I did not like my picture taken when I was very much overweight, and I have extremely few pictures of myself in that condition. The one shown here as my profile pic shows me about 30 lbs more than I am now, but certainly far from my heaviest. In fact, in this picture, I have the same shirt on in both the before and after pictures. I weighed over 200 AFTER my third child was born. I wish now that I had some pictures of me like that. A lot of people do not believe me when I tell them that I was that big, but I was.
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I don't have a problem with getting my picture taken
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Before I lost the 35lbs I would do what ever I could not to have my picture taken. Oh course when I did have my picture taken I only wanted my face in the picture. Now that I have lost 35lbs ( I still have a long way to go) I have my picture taken to see my progress. I also got thinking about it. If I do not pictures of myself either fat or thin, what would my daugther have? I know she would like to have pictures of me either way.
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Avoid it as much as possible
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I try and talk my way out of it.
Denise
If you think you can, or if you think you can't you are right!
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Waist and up shoots only.
Progress may be slow, but it happens!
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I enjoy it because (hopefully) some else will enjoy the pic as well. I just smile and look at the camera straight on.
"It is easier to raise good children than to fix bad men" by Fredrick Douglas.
Co team leader for Living With Diabetes team.
Co Leader for Healthy Hearts team.
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I stand on the preferred side for my look... and stand a bit sideways bend my front knee and lift my head and look down just a touch and smile. It's my least worst way to take pics... 
Ange
Changing My Lifestyle, One Day at a Time.
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I don't! Unless it's on MY camera...so I can edit out blemishes & double-chins in Photoshop...I don't get my picture taken. :)
It Is What It Is.... :)
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I enjoy having my picture taken. One of my favorite things to do is to look at family pictures. Priceless.
I have lost 6 pounds. Though I am not trying as hard as I feel I should I am very happy about the weight loss. Good luck to all of you.
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I am always curious. I never know how I look really.
I am transforming.
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only if I have to
Be~Happy~!
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Hate it...
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No problem.
"Excellence is but for the few."
| current weight: 178.0 |
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always hated it, never like them....I see now that it is a problem though i have tons of pictures of my husband and son but pix of me n my son are rare because i always hate the way I look
M Taylor
| current weight: 173.0 |
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Smile for the camera! Family wants photos because they love you. Size does not matter when it comes to love.
Remember to take time to enjoy the journey! Pam
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i hate it so im the one taking the pics
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I take many pictures - and so I don't mind if people want to take mine. I just don't want to pose for it very long - hurry up and take it
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I have no problem with it.
"Excellence is but for the few."
| current weight: 178.0 |
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I run away..or..offer to be the picture taker.... and if I have to be in the picture (and it's not an ID), then I head for the back row and hide behind everyone else.
Leader Temptation Busters Team. USA EST
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I have to get my photo taken a lot at work. I try to dress simply on a photo day, and have good hair. I get my hair done every 6 weeks. If in a winter coat, I wear a good scarf and shoes. If it's a suit do not wear gray, it looks terrible in photos. It doesn't always work out, but some of them are okay. I did splurge and have a professional photo taken to use for PR purposes, so I could be 100% sure of an attractive photo.
Karen - Seacoast New Hampshire
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I hate having my picture taken; it's nothing to do with how my body looks, it's my face, in most pictures I look like I have such a horse face! My smile also looks goofy.
Edited by: MOM2ACAT at: 3/18/2013 (17:24)
Never, never, never give up. ~Winston Churchill
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My name is Shari, come visit my page!
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I hate pics so much, I don't have FB. If I had to put a pic up, it would be from 6 years ago. My pet peeve, since I don't have FB, people who put pics with me in them on FB. the least they could do is photoshop.
| current weight: 184.0 |
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I tend to hide in the background behind people.
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Hate them! My smile always looks akwcrazy!
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I'm with Patti - I cannot fake a smile. Candid shots are usually okay. Posed are usually really, really, really bad
The most handicapped person in the world is a negative thinker; a person who has the skills, abilities, talents and tools, yet chooses not to use them.
~Heather Whitestone
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
~Leonard Cohen
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If it's a face shot no prblem!
If nothing ever changed,there'd be no butterflies
| current weight: 177.0 |
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I can't put on a good fake smile, so most of the pictures I'm in I don't like.
Keep a sense of humor. Remember, laughing burns calories too!
Laugh until it hurts! It's one of the few things in life that's still free!!
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when I was a lifetime member of The Fat Boys Club I hated my picture being taken but I stood still and smiled anyway for the camera. Now? I'm a photo 'ho.
It is not okay for an alcoholic to get drunk once in a while.
So do not tell a food addict it is okay to eat like sh*t once in a while
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I was absolutely tortured when I was a kid by family members taking pictures of me whenever I asked them not to and they always tried to find embarrassing ones (i.e. ones where I was eating or with stupid expressions on my faces. At family gatherings I still hate it; I don't think they realized the ramifications it had on me. If people warn me or ask me to be in one, though, I don't mind. It's just the tortuous candid ones I hate, especially in the age of social media.
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I have never liked getting my picture taken (no matter what my weight or fitness level). But i find it a bit more bearable since the advent of digital cameras, and it's easy to take lots and lots of shots, and erase all the lame ones. OH I used to DREAD opening up the envelope of prints from the photo finishing shop, flipping through them and ughhh there would be me with my eyes squinted shut or my mouth hanging open or otherwise looking dorky and terrible... and would my mom ever throw these away? NO cuz she PAID GOOD MONEY for them ha ha ha. Thank you, digital universe, for making picture-taking more bearable.
Goal 1 - break 200 by my birthday (46 pounds lost by May 23, 2013)
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It doesn't bother me. I don't like how I look but I don't stress over it.
Lay aside life-harming heaviness and entertain a cheerful disposition.
| current weight: 193.0 |
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Smile and bear it
GOALS:
24 Sep: 142 - Achieved 28 Sep
28 Oct: 136 - Achieved 14 Oct
9 Dec: 130 - Achieved 4 Dec
30 Dec: 126 - Achieved 16 Dec
30 Jun: 120 -
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I am not fond of it, I certainly don't go out of my way to have one taken, but if asked I will grin and bear it.
in northern Colorado (MST)
If there is no wind, row.
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SMILE! Act Goofy! Consider the person taking the picture. I take hundreds of pictures and people who turn away from the camera ruin my shot. It's a memory, a moment and everybody adds to the moment. Don't be a detractor or a negative nellie. Unless your in the witness protection program, seize the moment. It was a picture of my former fat self that started my new improved journey.
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I just smile and have it taken.
"Excellence is but for the few."
| current weight: 178.0 |
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I avoid them whenever possible
Karen
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Just smile.
History is not destiny.
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Having been on Amateur TV for years I don't worry about it. I would never have done it if I had. Stills, I don't care!!!
Edited by: TCANNO at: 3/18/2013 (04:45)
Made it, this time to my goal of 72K but reset it 70k to let me go up or down. I will be very happy to stay between the two.
See
http://trevcannon.blogspot.co.uk/
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Hate it with a passion and I avoid it at all costs.
*~*Lisa*~*
"Genes load the gun and lifestyle pulls the trigger"
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I'm good with it.
Janie Garcia Moreno
"WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE"
"PRAYER CHANGES THINGS"
"NEVER PUT A QUESTION MARK WHERE GOD HAS PUT A PERIOD!"
"WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, IT CAN ACHIEVE!"
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I used to hate it and would be the one taking photos and wouldn't want my photo taken. I regret it now since there are long periods of me with many photos and I am absent in them. I have decided over weight or not I am going to be in photos so my kids and grandchild(ren) have photos of me. They love me no matter what weight I am at, I so regret running from the camera now. And guess what? I was thinner, younger, and better looking back then verses now. No more avoiding cameras for me. I took 4 photos today in the theater with my husband. I will be putting my favorite one on Facebook in a few minutes. I have a new attitude when it comes to my picture taken, I have the person take several that way I can pick and choose the ones I like. Technology today makes that really nice.
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Everybody hates getting their picture taken. Okay, well, maybe not everybody, but LOTS of people, and it has nothing to do with how attractive you really are. The weight doesn't make much of a difference, either; I still dislike my pictures almost as much as I did at my very heaviest. The only piece of advice I can give is to ask people not to let you know when they're taking your picture, and don't look at them right away. If you avoid pictures, other people will be disappointed because they want a picture of you, and at some point in the future you'll also be disappointed because you'll want memories and feel left out. As bad as it is to see ugly pictures of yourself, it's worse to look in an album or a good friend's Facebook and see pictures of everyone BUT yourself. There's about a 15-year stretch of my life that's really not documented anywhere, and I would be happier if there were at least a few pictures of me at certain events, even if they were truly horrible pictures. And we always think our pictures look worse than they really do look to other people. For one thing, they're reversed from how we see ourselves in the mirror, so they look "wrong." They look bad to us because they don't match our self-image. But I mean, really, when was the last time you looked at someone else's photo and thought, "Wow, I thought she was pretty, but this photo tells me she's an ogre"? So that's how I deal with getting a picture taken-- remember that the person taking it is taking it for him/herself, not for you, and let them do it. You don't have to look at it, but you'll have the opportunity to do it later if you want.
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