Also, I have to ask: are you *absolutely* sure there's not some horizontal distortion going on with your video conversion? It's not at all unusual, and the other video glitches you mentioned make it seem likely.
I ask because (dun dun dun) this very same thing happened to me a few months ago. I knew I had regained quite a bit of weight but hadn't seen myself on video in months, so I completely trusted what the camera was showing me and I Flipped The Hell Out. Total shock and horror, both at how I looked and how much it seemed I had been deluding myself. I was all boobs and butt and a face like the full moon. Even my flat, straight hair looked fat. I finally went wailing to a friend, who immediately pointed out to me that everyone else in the place -- the waiters, the band, the audience -- ALSO looked like Shrek on the video. I was so focused on my own size that I hadn't even noticed!
When we got it fixed I was certainly visibly bigger than I had been, but not orders-of-magnitude bigger. Cameras lie. Don't let the little shits turn your life upside-down. *smooch*
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Also, I have to ask: are you *absolutely* sure there's not some horizontal distortion going on with your video conversion? It's not at all unusual, and the other video glitches you mentioned make it seem likely.
I ask because (dun dun dun) this very same thing happened to me a few months ago. I knew I had regained quite a bit of weight but hadn't seen myself on video in months, so I completely trusted what the camera was showing me and I Flipped The Hell Out. Total shock and horror, both at how I looked and how much it seemed I had been deluding myself. I was all boobs and butt and a face like the full moon. Even my flat, straight hair looked fat. I finally went wailing to a friend, who immediately pointed out to me that everyone else in the place -- the waiters, the band, the audience -- ALSO looked like Shrek on the video. I was so focused on my own size that I hadn't even noticed!
When we got it fixed I was certainly visibly bigger than I had been, but not orders-of-magnitude bigger. Cameras lie. Don't let the little shits turn your life upside-down. *smooch*