This morning, my daughter wanted to take a pic of me NOW, instead of me waiting until I hit my 1st goal (which is 8 lbs away). I went to see the MD yesterday and was surprised to see that the medical scale said I weight 258 lbs. That is a total of 27 lbs lost since I have been on Medifast (started on Mar 27, 2004) and an overall total of 42 lbs.
Here is the update and my 2nd photo. This is 3 months after the 1st pic taken in Feb. The before pic was taken with an old Canon camera and it made the pic quality look dark and not true color. But there was not doubt about it, those chimpmunk cheeks and double chin was defintely there during that time. The only weird thing is I have hazel eyes and my eyes look brown with the Canon during certain lighting. The after pic was taken this morning with the new Olympus C770 camera and was almost smacked zoomed in front of my face, but those are the true color of my eyes and very detailed. And yes, the once double chin has receded and those pinchable chubby cheeks are no longer so profound and have been diminishing as I lose weight.
I was a bit reluctant to have my pic taken, let alone have a camera zoomed so close to me, but my daughter wanted everyone to see, that the double chin is almost gone and NO I am not naked, I am wearing a strapless halter "hippie" style blouse. Medifast does work and you have to have patience. Even with the little issues I encountered, I was still able to lose weight and these are the results. Regarding my hair looking so flat and frizzy. NY has had a very bad rainy soggy type of whether for the longest so blame it on that. All I can say, I am please with the results and feeling really good about myself. Can't wait to see myself for goal #2.