My weightloss tattoo

After months and months of dieting I decided to get a tattoo to remember the journey .. And to make sure I never forget it ..

Let's see how many people get the meaning behind it :)

http://i34.tinypic.com/167mqrn.jpg
(still quite fresh)

Putting time back into your heart?

Very interesting!

Is that a heart or a lung? Could be either. Now I am assuming the hourglass represents time. So have you added more time to your life by losing weight?

Did you start caring for your heart because time was running out?

Or...does the heart symbolize the love you have for yourself or your life and you know the longer you wait, time is slipping away?

I LOVE these kinds of questions! I will be thinking about this one;)

Ok, after looking again, I am wondering if the red tear drops are actully supposed to be blood or teardrops? Blood, Sweat and Tears?

And is there some symbolism behind the blue veins? Strenghth?
The climbing ivy: time?

A long journey, with a great deal of sacrifice, over a long period of time?

Ok, I know, enough already:)

I like it :)

Living longer from taking weight off and reducing strain on the heart.
Freudian secondary symbolism of hourglass figure.

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Originally Posted by dsirkle

Living longer from taking weight off and reducing strain on the heart.
Freudian secondary symbolism of hourglass figure.

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Pretty close

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Originally Posted by Chocolate Muffin's

Is that a heart or a lung? Could be either.

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Now sure how you get a lung from that - but it is a heart :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Chocolate Muffin's

Now I am assuming the hourglass represents time. So have you added more time to your life by losing weight?

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indeed :gj:

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Originally Posted by Chocolate Muffin's

Did you start caring for your heart because time was running out?

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Oh yes :gj:

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Ok, after looking again, I am wondering if the red tear drops are actully supposed to be blood or teardrops? Blood, Sweat and Tears?

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Blood.

Basically a doctor told me a long time ago that, and I quote, my time is running out (being obese that is).

Time running out = hour glass

Now we have heart disease in the family (my dad and all his siblings were overweight and had a heart attack before 55).

So heart disease + time is running out = heart inside an hour glass.

Now the blood .. Basically while I lost all that weight I did get more years out of that. A heart without blood cannot work. So because I got my life back the blood gradually fills up the heart again, pumping life back into it.

I think that pretty much explains it :rolleye2:

Oh and no idea how I came up with it .. just popped into my head.

that's some good work!

congrats on your weightloss

congrats and really symbolic :)

Congrats on losing the weight!

I too have a tattoo that I will get once I hit my target weight!