Double Double Toil and Trouble…
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DRATS!! I hate double chins?I hate ALL double chins, but mine in particular?They are just nasty little creatures?And they completely change the shape of a person?s otherwise lovely face?
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Why in the hell does fat need to collect there anyway???
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Now, I should start by saying that I have been obsessed with double chins well before I even had one?My sister and mom tease me to this day for something I walked around and did, a lot, back in my youth..
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In high school I didn?t even come close to having a double chin, but I was sooo worried about getting one, that I did some funky neck exercises I had heard about in Readers Digest?(Yes, I swear)?
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To achieve this, I had to throw my head back as far as it can go, and repeatedly open and shut my mouth to feel the pull of that neck muscle?And then DAILY, I would feel my chin to see if had grown or shrunk?I can not even tell you how much time I wasted worrying about a chin that did not exist!!
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So, no big surprise, when I found out I DID have one, I was quite shocked, angered, and sad?It was many many years later, after I had gained more then a significant amount of weight that I even realized that somehow between high school and marriage, I had gained not just one, but TWO double chins?
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So then the games began (And I know MORE then one woman out here will know EXACTLY what I speak of)?
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?Smile Dawn, I want a picture? Cool, but can you raise the camera HIGHER then my face so that you are looking DOWN on me and my chin looks smaller??? Truly, this became my repeated response?Or holding your chin out at a ridiculous angle so that your face appeared smaller?
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In addition to that was my demanded right to be the first one to look at all newly developed pictures?Picking out the ones that did NOT show my double chin became a game to me?And more then a few pictures were destroyed in this process?
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So I am blogging about this for two reasons?
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First, my Brother in Law, Rick, the one who is a Marine and will be home soon, asked if I could go through my pictures and send him some for his retirement party?So this is what I did last night?Went through a rather large, unorganized tote of about 400-500 pictures looking for pics for him of us as a family?
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In doing so, I also pulled out some rather crappy looking ?Fat? pics that I want to post, or at the very least, hold onto?You know, in case Oprah calls me and wants me on her show?You know, you gotta have the absolutely WORST pic of yourself should that happen, so the WOW factor is better when you walk out on stage!!!! 
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Soo. I found this one picture of myself where my face is sooo incredibly round, and my neck is non existent?It looks like my shoulders just reached up and swallowed my neck, and left this blob of skin directly under my chin?Yep?A perfect picture of my triple chin?I show it to Steve, and he is frankly flabbergasted that its me?I think he has blessedly put that out of his mind, that I really truly was that fat?
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The second reason???
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Even though I have lost over 60 pounds, and I no longer hate having my picture taken (Quite the contrary, actually, you may have noticed!) But I am now, once again, obsessed with my double chin!!!
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I was fairly certain it had gone away?But NO!!! I saw it in a picture this weekend?And I am ever so devastated?I mean, COME ON!!! Is it too much to ask for my chin to just be normal??
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I will take 5 pounds on my hips, if I could dispose of the one pound hanging off my chin?Okay, so maybe it?s not that bad, but it sure feels that way?
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I mean, how small must a person get before you lose a chin???? I mean, to me, it looks really really gross and disgusting?How can you lose so much weight and still have a double chin??
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Oh. Yes. Right?Because I am still fat?
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I keep forgetting that! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr?
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Well, buddies, I have resolved to ditch the double chin once and for all this year?BE GONE to you, my chin, I say! You are not WANTED or NEEDED around these parts?
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May you all be blessed with only one, very beautiful, chin today!
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YUCK! I think this is about 2002…Holding my niece Lilly…This is gonna be my Oprah pic!!! 
First off, Girlie, I see no evidence of a double chin in any of the pics I’ve seen of you!!!
And second…sometimes there are just some things you’re not gonna be able to do anything about short of surgery! I’m thinking on the line of my arm flaps! No matter how much weight I lose, I’m always gonna have those arm flaps.
You gotta just learn to love yourself with all your real and/or imagined imperfections, cuz we’re gonna love you no matter.
I swear sometimes our brains are linked….I was cleaning up my puter yesterday and I found the most awful picture of me ever…Im pretty sure. I can not beleive it is even me! I will post my oprah picture too. You are so not alone, I too reserved the right to approve all photos before being made public!!!!
Lots of shredder food for sure!
After reading your blog and looking at the picture, I think you look beautiful, fat and all. Dont get me wrong you look fantabulous now adays but you’ve always been pretty! And with a personality like yours you will always shine!
Have a good day chicky!
Lisa
OMG!!! You don’t even look like yourself!!! You have done fantastic!! Hey, I’m having the “chin” issue, too, I hate it, I’m actually using some cream that is supposed to help tighten it up, plus exercises, I want it gone, pronto!!
You’re doing good Dawnie…….what a difference 60lbs. make.
But I’m with you sister on the double chin. The day can’t come soon enough when I wave bye-bye!!!
I have a big nose and I can’t see it unless someone takes a side angle picture of me. So I always try to look directly into cameras. hehe.
You look so different now. But your before & after pictures do look like the one in the magazines, in your ‘after’ picture (your profile one), you look all glamarous and made up. Very pretty.
You should be so proud.
No friggin’ way!!! Holy Moses, the wow factor is huge, and I haven’t even met you in person yet! I hear you about the chin, it’s been one of those things for me that I simply sigh about and move on, because frankly, yes it has to do with weight, but moreso with genetics. My mother has one, my sisters have one, and some of them are quite thin and athletic, so it will never go away from me, but I try hard not to dwell on it, doing so would make me feel crappy, and we don’t need those feelings. You sure sound excited about them coming back to the states!
Okay, first WOW….definitly WOW factor pic. Second, I have no idea where you’re getting that you have a double chin. Girlie, I’m looking at your profile pic, very carefully and I can’t see it. Be careful you’re not making things up in your head.
Dawnie… you are too cute for words!!
Love the Dawnie we love.. the super fab rockstar!
That’s not your shoulders swallowing your neck, that’s the ‘baby hunch’. Almost every picture I had taken of me from ‘98 to ‘03 had the baby hunch. then I got hip to the rest my head on top of the baby’s head while we were both facing front pose….great to hide the double chin.
I also remember the neck exercise, hey do you remember the ‘we must, we must, we must increase our bust’ one?
Not only do you look amazing Dawnie, but you also look about 10 years younger now!
And there is nothing wrong with pictures taken from an elevation.
OMG I used to do that chin exercise too! My middle school gym teacher taught it to us. We had to do it every day. Can’t say that it helped me any though.
Ha ha ha, come again about those exercises? After reading your blog, I never want to have one!!! My b/f actually once (while trying to be amourous) told me that he loves me in spite of my double chin… BLAST HIM!!! I was lying down and my head was resting on a veeeeery high pillow! It was!!!!