How do you feel when you look at old pictures of yourself?

[DipDipDive]

Say 5-10 years old?

Makes me want to kill myself, personally. I've really let myself go. :(

[funk63]

I used to be a chubby mongoloid so i guess good

[saz]

i look better with long hair and muscles. but i'm more of a jeans/t-shirt guy now, as my drum n' bass clubbing label whore days are pretty much over.

[Myu-to]

You shouldn't be so hard on yourself, most people's looks change dramatically from when they were 5 to 10 years old. Well, except for Gary Coleman.

[ScarySquirrel]

Eh, from that long ago I don't really care about it. It ha no effect on how I feel about myself right now.

Pictures from one, two, or three years ago... are kind of weird for me right now. On one level, I feel good because I'm finally getting results I can actually see with losing my weight loss - and finally having other people notice it too. But on the other hand, I feel disgusted that I ever let it get as bad as it did and still feel a little ashamed that I can't just wake up and be skinny tomorrow.

That's kind of prissy and emo sounding, but whatever. I think you get the idea. So, I didn't really vote...

[Lyman Zerga]

yeah it's weird looking at pictures where i had like twice as much weight

[na§tee]

well, ten years ago i was 15 - a child, pratically. i don't have any pictures of myself pre-university around the house. all my pictures from school etc are packed in boxes in my dad's house, and i find it unlikely i will ever visit him to get all that stuff back (when my parents got divorced my mum moved away and my dad downsized to a smaller house and kept all of our stuff). infact, i think he has probably just thrown all my crap out. it wouldn't surprise me.

five years ago i was 20 and i was pretty fucking big. i'm certainly no slip of a thing now, but i was heftier then. when i was with my first boyfriend we just got fat TOGETHER. apparently this happens to lots of people in relationships - they put on weight when they get into a routine. anyhiz, i didn't really give two hoots because i was pretty oblivious to it, but i do wish i put a bit more effort into my appearance and got off my arse to go to the gym or something.

[venusvenus123]

dunno really. i'm getting on now, but i rarely look back and think wow i was way hotter then. just had fewer grey hairs. sometimes i think eww, i was too skinny then.

anyway, post a pic ddd and we'll tell ya.

besides, it's never too late to get yourself back!

[cosmo105]

it all depends on the era of my life from which the pictures were taken. 10 years ago, ha, i was just barely in high school and adorable. 5 years ago, i was fucking miserable. but life changes so quickly these days that i hardly recognize the person i was a year ago. c'est la vie.

but yeah, i'd like to think i look a hell of a lot better now than a while back. i actually put effort into it (y)

[Lex Diamonds]

I'm pretty much exactly the same. Still pimpin' (http://photos-g.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v77/209/3/647515784/n647515784_123150_3981.jpg).

[gbsuey]

i think i look horrible in any pictures-not when i was a kid tho-from about 12 onwards i became the worlds' least-photogenic person. so i don't feel good or bad looking at photos. (except one from a family holiday on majorca when i was about 11 and really brown and skinny and cellulite was not invented!! then i feel a bit pissed off i had to grow up.) but i make a lot more effort these days so allthough i look like a trog in a photo i think i look a lot better in real life.

[hpdrifter]

I'm one of those people who grew into my looks. 5 or 10 years ago my face was still forming into itself and I was wearing too much makeup and all that. I think I definitely look better now.

[paul jones]

I have a few more grey hairs now(y)

[BangkokB]

Not Good: Especially When There in the Papers

[Dorothy Wood]

I definitely look better now than I did 5-10 years ago. I got a handle on my hair and learned how to dress and wear better-fitting bras.

I get disappointed when I see pictures of myself now though, because I always think I'm skinnier than I look in photos. meh. 2 years ago, I was getting pretty fit, I like those pictures, trying to get back to that. the asiago cheese bagel and cream cheese I just ate ain't helpin.

[HEIRESS]

I look so damn good when I was in spells of depression. those hermiting periods are when I look my bestest cause I go to the gym more, go on more solo walks, take the time to make yummy healthy meals for myself, and do lots of pilates while I stay at home alone watching movies.

when Im happy and social whore I spend my free time meeting up with people, eating out, drinking lotsa more booze etc.

and Ive noticed that I always am my skinniest during the winter months. I think its because I dont enjoy summer clothes that show alot of skin so I kinda let myself go (going to lots of bbq's doesnt help either).

In the winter I slim out because that way I look even better in skin-tight head to toe clothes.


The biggest thing I miss about pics of me from 5 years ago is my long hair and that fact that I had about 30% more in general pre-hair loss episode. sigh.

10 years ago is the era of having really bad skin and not knowing the wonders make-up can do.
Though I would probably trade in for my B-cup jockish volleyball playing body atleast a couple days a week now.
Though I had acknowledged that pants sitting on the hips looked better on my but they hadnt created them yet so I just bought boys cords and wore them gangsta loose back then. that combo-ed with hippy thrift store shirts and crazy unable to manage curly hair = eeek.

[Echewta]

I look at old pictures and think, "dude, you were so bland." Compared to now where I think "You dirty dog you. You sly dog. Guys do get better with age." Then I take out my comb and right when I'm about to put it to my hair in the mirror, i throw my arms out and say "Heeyyyy" because its perfect. Like that werewolf drinkin a pina colada at Trader Vic's.

[HotAndWet]

I'm pretty much exactly the same. Still pimpin' (http://photos-g.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v77/209/3/647515784/n647515784_123150_3981.jpg).

Are you one of the girls with pink pants?


About 5 or six years ago I was at my thinnest, I hadn't started to fill out too much and I was lucky cuz I could pretty much eat anything but my hair looked awful and I looked too goth-y...mentally I was in a terrible state though......nowadays I'm heftier, which in someways is good because I now have boobs and an ass, but whenever I see a full body pic of me these days it makes me sad, :(

[SugarInTheRaw]

You shouldn't be so hard on yourself, most people's looks change dramatically from when they were 5 to 10 years old. Well, except for Gary Coleman.

I think Gary's looks changed tremendously from the first to last seasons of Diff'rent Strokes.

From
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uz-sf5UEzc
to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zedtaqvRvuc

[mathcart]

old

[Kid Presentable]

I can quite happily pull my pud over pictures of myself. 18+, natch.

[venusvenus123]

I have seen drastic changes in people on this board over the past 7 years.

some good .... some not so good.

whereas you're just getting prettier by the day!

[monkey]

i look older but also i feel more comfortable in my body. not that im all accepting and loving... just.... more than before.

10 years ago i was so very awkward looking. and 5 years ago, i was very very skinny but very very fucked up. so now i feel like ive hit a proper stride. and i got big boobs in the process.

[russhie]

Ten years ago, I was what - 13? So I was a really skinny kid and had that teenage awkwardness about me, but at least I wasn't camera shy and my smile in those photos is really natural and happy. I miss that.

Five years ago, I was 18. Slightly thinner than I am now, and having just discovered clubs and bars everything was inappropriately tight. I wouldn't want to go back to being that person, ever.

[TAL]

I've been looking so long
At these pictures of you
That I almost believe that they're real

[taquitos]

where is the option for sexually aroused?

[BBboy20]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v370/docdre/Behind%20the%20user%20name/lastscan2.jpg

What happened. :mad:

[RoryMC]

I'm not sure if I look better or not. I know one thing though, I look a hell of a lot happier and when I look back on older pictures a lot of happy memories come flooding back.

I don't know if the same thing could be said in five years time.

[peterclamp]

hmmm much less hair, no glasses anymore...but I think I look better now plus I have lost 2 stone since last Christmas so its all good!

[Matt]

It's not that I look better then (I've lost about 75 pounds in the past three years), but I wish I had my old life back. The life I had 3 or four years ago would be great :(

[ToucanSpam]

Wow this poll is pretty straightforward, no maybes or third options.


Honestly, I look at pictures of myself now and back than and it makes no difference. I am perfectly comfortable in my own skin, past or present.(y)