*Updated December* cleochatra

[cleochatra]

Posting these makes me want to cry. I feel very emotional looking at them.
I used to weigh 325 pounds in August of 2004.

[cleochatra]

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These were taken today. I have a long way to go, but this is me at 217 pounds, on October 31, 2005.





Me, December11, 2005. Not the best, but look! I have a chin and a neck!

[wannabethintoo]

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Wow! You look so different! You're such a cutie in those recent pictures Cleo. I love the second one.

[Sheshy]

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It is hard to look at pictures when we're at our heaviest...you don't know how many times I've wanted to move my 'before' out of my siggie line...I hate seeing it!

But, having them is the reminder we need not to go there again! I, for one, fooled myself for years that I wasn't really as heavy as I was...those pictures are real and prove it to me...yes, I really was that heavy and I was really miserable!

So, even though it's hard, I feel it's necessary to be honest with ourselves! ((((cleo))))

[ladyinred]

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You are so cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!!! I think I've said that before. Yes, you are bigger in the first pictures, but still a very luscious, voluptuous woman. Now you look so skinny!! If that's what 217 looks like, then I wish I looked like I weighed 217!

You are very cute and pretty and have a great smile and great hair. Why you worry so much? And losing 108 pounds?? That takes some kind of internal fortitude, woman. And you've got it in spades! I'm very proud. My little beauty queen!

[Sheshy]

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I love your new pictures! Can you do that avatar thing like Brook has? That would be awesome to do that for your pics!

You are just adorable!! Don't you just love yourself! (((pinching your cheek))) ... not that cheek! I only got 23%...

[cleochatra]

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You guys are so wonderful! Thank you. I swear posting these I was going to urp. Or cry. Or both.

I totally hate looking at myself, even now. Thanks for being so kind. I mean it.

{{{ladyinred}}}{{{Wannabe}}}{{{shelly}}}

[Sarah1341]

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You Rock Cleo!!! Always an inspiration

[Desertthorn]

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I think the smile saids everything. You are amazing Cleo and so beautiful.

[speedygt03]

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Cleo--You are ***SO*** beautiful!!! Your transformation is the most inspiring one that i've ever witnessed. You look so much younger now, you're a gorgeous person....inside and out

[Pau]

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What a beautiful woman you´ve become!!!!

Because I have no doubt you were beautiful inside but ......... look at you! You should be INCREDIBLY proud of yourself! I am!!!

[rybread]

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Cleo, you look FANTASTIC!! What a change! And I'm with speedy - you've taken years off! Go you!

[slimndown]

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Cleo, I really don't believe the bigger pictures are you. You can't see those big, beautiful eyes in them or that smirk you often have.....congrats! Keep up the good work!

[goin2Bgood]

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You are beautiful, inside and out You make me smile often throughout the day LOL

Maybe I'll get the nerve to post pics someday too

[BabyDreamer]

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Cleo,

You are beautiful! I wish I were as pretty as you. I have read where once heavy people never believe they are as pretty as they are when the weight comes off and hate to look at themselves. I am sure it is a mind thing. But, you are amazing! What an inspiration!

Deb

You guys are so wonderful! Thank you. I swear posting these I was going to urp. Or cry. Or both.

I totally hate looking at myself, even now. Thanks for being so kind. I mean it.

{{{ladyinred}}}{{{Wannabe}}}{{{shelly}}}