Jeannie - have extended Emm's instructions which hopefully will take you through every stage.

First go to a free photo-sharing site and open an account. Many of us use flickr.com. Go to http://www.flickr.com/signup/ - think all that is required is email address and password (it’s part of BT Yahoo, and is quite reputable).

1) Next, you've saved your photos on to the computer
2) Now you need to open www.flickr.com in your browser and sign in (if you’re not already signed in)
3) On your home page look for the link 'upload photos or videos' and click on that. (If you can’t find it, look across top, click on “You” and then “Upload photos of videos”
4) On next screen, select 'choose photos'
5) A new mini window opens, which shows files on your computer hard disc. Scroll through until you find the directory where the image is stored, and then double- click on the name of the image you want to upload
6) You go back to main window again and name of file shows (if you have more than one picture, click on “Add more” and repeat step above)
7) Once you have names of files of all images displayed that you want to upload, scroll down and under “Privacy” click next to “public” (so other people can see them)
8) And then click on “Uploaded photos and videos”
9) Once photo has been uploaded, it says “Finished: next add a description perhaps”. Click on “Add description” ��" you have to go through this stage even if you are not going to add one
10) On next window, scroll down until you can see your picture. The title will be the file name, but you can change this is want. And you can also add a description ��" but you don’t need to
11) Then scroll down, and click on 'Save this batch'
12) On the next screen, you will see your photos displayed
13) Click on the photo you want to upload
14) When this opens on next screen, above photo you will see 9 small icons: click on 'all sizes' (5th from left/5th from the right/bang on the middle!)
15) Scroll down under photo to 'no.2 Grab the photo's URL'
16) copy url
17) come back to here and above post you can see 5 icons: click 4th - 'Image Link'
18) You will see a mini window open above entitled something like "Explorer user prompt" and this has an empty box next to the text "URL", Paste your photo url into here and press OK
However, sometimes Internet Explorer, depending on settings, you get a message just below menu bars which says "This website is using a scripted window to ask you for information. If you trust this website, click here to allow scripted windows". If this happens, click on that message, and then click "Temporarily allow script" (or similar) and then go back to step 17
19) Your url appears in message but note you can't view picture until it's been posted

And DON'T edit, you'll lose your picture and have to start again.

Followed your instructions to a ''tee" Jackie. Couldn't see O.K. to press, but apart from that, everything else all right. Will try again - thank you so much for your patience!
By the way, it is only a photo of a corner of my garden! I have just discovered that when I clicked on the url above, the photo appears in a small window!

16) copy url
17) come back to here and above post you can see 5 icons: click 4th - 'Image Link' 18) paste url and press OK

did you do No. 17?

Jeannie - I've edited my message to revise the instructions for steps 17-18 - see at top of this page.

In other words, when you click on the 4th of the 5 icons above where you post your message, there is a mini pop-up window that appears on your screen? It's into this that you past the url and press OK. But also sometimes setting on some people's browser don't like this window, and you get a message that tells you how to override it, but this message is so hidden away that is easy to miss. I get this message, and it appears on a line just below all the menu items on my browser window.

Amazing isn't it that it takes some 18 steps to paste a picture in a message, and the help facility on the forums is absymal! I'm also having terrible problems with slow downloading of pages tonight - about 15 minutes per page. And it's not my dial-up line: other websites are working fine.

Golly! A thousand waterbottles to you Jackie for hanging in there.
Oh you'll get this around 10:15!!!

Julia and pippa you both look lovley in your photos well done.

Great photo Pippa, you've certainly lost weight!

OK, so, I was asked if I would post before and after pictures on here, so I'm giving it a go...

Unfortunately, there aren't many before pictures in existance, and this one is rather less than flattering as I was pulling a face at the time, but it gives you the idea.

Hopefully, some photos should now appear...

This is me at somewhere around my largest:-

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/2655684111_80b ea91dd9_b.jpg

And this was taken today:-

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3118/2661390695_41f 6d4ba4a_o.jpg

Fingers crossed x

Bother - that wasn't supposed to happen - here's another go...

I seem to look a bit pixelly - the photo looks clearer in the previous post URL link...

What a difference Teresa!! And don't you have a beautiful smile. It's so great to be able to see how far other pople have come.

Wow Teresa, you look like two different people and you look so much happier in the second - wonderful. Looking really slinky slim x

Woah Teresa you're a whole new person - you look like you 'lost' a whole person too.

Theresa, I seem to recognise that 'Do you really have to take a photo of me' look in the before photo! You are not only beautifully slim in the after one, you look happy being snapped. On another thread I said I imagined you as slim, graceful, confident etc. And it looks as if I was right.

Thanks for sharing these with us. As Jean says, it's great to see how far people have come. This in itself is a motivator.

Teresa that is AMAZING! It really is like a totally different person - I would never have recognised you in the old photo. Do you feel like another person, or do you still recognise yourself in your former body? I think you're an amazing example to all of us of what can be achieved if you put your mind to it

Awesome photos Teresa.

Theresa
Gosh you look so slim and different in the 2 pics Well done you!

My husband was a bit dumb-sruck when he saw me downloading the photos yesterday... We've only been together for about 6 years, so although he knows I was a lot larger before we met (I have still lost quite a bit after as well), he's never really seen a picture...

I'm not surprised he was dumb-struck! What a complete transformation, and thank you for posting them. You look completely stunning, and I love it that you've changed your profile pic too...

wow teresa you look amazing!
what a transformation!!!

Well, I'll add to all of these! What an incredible transformation!! You must feel so good about yourself now. I guess looking at the before photo stops you getting into bad habits again. I'll have to see if I've got a before one of me but my ICT skills are lacking!

Thats where the kids come in.

Me in December 2007, just before the healthy lifestyle started

Me in same outfit considerably slimmer! (2 stone less)

Thanks for the instructions Emm. I hung in there (after site crashed twice!) and have got to grips with it. Now off to post pics of my pets and some other 'before' photos!

Then, bed for definite!!

Trying again...

Me at (almost) target weight last Thursday!

A good 'before' photo here - what a double chin!! Not sure of my weight then but it didn't look good, it was taken in April 1997 just after my daughter was born. A good one to compare with the above.

Click on the photo above and you'll see what I mean about the chin(s)!
Elinor has slimmed down too!!!