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My weightloss tattoo

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  • 08-15-2010, 12:30 PM
    JibbaJabba
    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)
  • 08-15-2010, 12:31 PM
    LadyOhh
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    Putting time back into your heart?

    Very interesting!
  • 08-15-2010, 12:56 PM
    Chocolate Muffin's
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    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;)
  • 08-15-2010, 01:00 PM
    Chocolate Muffin's
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    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:)
  • 08-15-2010, 01:03 PM
    llovelace
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    I like it :)
  • 08-15-2010, 01:04 PM
    dsirkle
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    Living longer from taking weight off and reducing strain on the heart.
    Freudian secondary symbolism of hourglass figure.
  • 08-15-2010, 01:17 PM
    JibbaJabba
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by dsirkle View Post
    Living longer from taking weight off and reducing strain on the heart.
    Freudian secondary symbolism of hourglass figure.

    Pretty close

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Chocolate Muffin's View Post
    Is that a heart or a lung? Could be either.

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

    Originally Posted by Chocolate Muffin's View Post
    Now I am assuming the hourglass represents time. So have you added more time to your life by losing weight?

    indeed :gj:
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Chocolate Muffin's View Post
    Did you start caring for your heart because time was running out?

    Oh yes :gj:

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Chocolate Muffin's View Post
    Ok, after looking again, I am wondering if the red tear drops are actully supposed to be blood or teardrops? Blood, Sweat and Tears?

    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.
  • 08-15-2010, 01:24 PM
    Buttons
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    that's some good work!

    congrats on your weightloss
  • 08-15-2010, 02:41 PM
    dc4teg
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    congrats and really symbolic :)
  • 08-15-2010, 03:47 PM
    Soterios
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    Congrats on losing the weight!

    I too have a tattoo that I will get once I hit my target weight!
  • 08-15-2010, 04:01 PM
    DJ_Bizarre
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    Congrats thats really really cool, i like the symbolism you used
  • 08-15-2010, 08:46 PM
    Chocolate Muffin's
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    Sweet! A very nice success symbol. Thank you for sharing it, I love these type of things. Weight-loss is a tough journey - congratulations on making it though.
    I really did think it was a heart, but I wanted to leave the lung option on the table...:rolleyes::D
  • 08-18-2010, 12:30 PM
    Samuel
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    If I wasn't so darn scared of needles, I would get a weightloss tat too.

    Maybe that is a path I need to cross at some point. Thing is though, I am not done yet so ..
  • 08-18-2010, 12:33 PM
    JibbaJabba
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Samuel View Post
    If I wasn't so darn scared of needles, I would get a weightloss tat too.

    Maybe that is a path I need to cross at some point. Thing is though, I am not done yet so ..

    Something to look forward to :) As of today I have the weight I had last time I was 15 - that's about 20 years ago :weirdface

    I think losing so much weight (in my case 100+) is harder than sitting at a tattoo studio for 4 hours :)

    Plus I think it was more painful to get tortured by my personal trainer hours and hours for months :)
  • 08-18-2010, 12:37 PM
    BEasy119
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    Nice tatt,

    congrads on your weight loss
  • 08-18-2010, 12:40 PM
    JibbaJabba
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by BEasy119 View Post
    Nice tatt,

    congrads on your weight loss

    Thanks :handshake
  • 08-18-2010, 02:42 PM
    Samuel
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by JibbaJabba View Post
    Something to look forward to :) As of today I have the weight I had last time I was 15 - that's about 20 years ago :weirdface

    I think losing so much weight (in my case 100+) is harder than sitting at a tattoo studio for 4 hours :)

    Plus I think it was more painful to get tortured by my personal trainer hours and hours for months :)

    Sitting at 130+ lost so far.

    I know what you are saying, and I know in the end it would be a great way to remind me of the journey, but .. the needles!
  • 08-18-2010, 04:42 PM
    Buttons
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Samuel View Post
    Sitting at 130+ lost so far.

    I know what you are saying, and I know in the end it would be a great way to remind me of the journey, but .. the needles!

    It's entirely different than a needle from the doctor.

    Doctors syringes are about 18g - 14g. Tattoo needles are closer to 24-26g. Very very thin. Thinner than a sewing needle. You don't even see the needle during the tattoo procedure.
  • 08-18-2010, 06:50 PM
    N4S
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
    Good tattoo concept but I think the heart and the blood could have been executed a bit better.
  • 08-20-2010, 12:14 AM
    Wilsons
    Re: My weightloss tattoo
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