I've recently come across a comment in a fitness community on Facebook; it was a comment from a girl who shared her feelings that seeing before and after photos of people on the internet made her anxious and negatively affected her mental health.

She wrote something that resonated with me, and that, I believe, will resonate with many of you as well. She wrote that when people share their before and after photos, it's usually perceived as if the "before me" was unhappy, "fat" and ugly, whereas the "new me" is lean, toned and pretty. The "new me" is the one that is celebrated by others.

Quite logically, it makes the impression that the before version of that person wasn't good enough because of their weight/appearance.