My fitness pal is the key! See pics! Total transformation

IdLikeToLoseItLoseIt

Kudos! I love your hair blonde, I think it suits you and makes you look younger. Amazing success, thank you for sharing your journey with us.

verptwerp

Wowzers, what an amazing transformation ...... lots of hard work & determination goes into that, too !

andres0691

Truly an inspiration! Good job

arditarose

wow...

SamanthaPeake

Wow! What an achievement and an inspiration!

rebeccaEsmith

WOW Girl you rock congrats!!!

Watch_Me_Rise

Literal jaw drop! Holy buckets that's an amazing transformation!!

Alastair007

Gosh is that the same person? Looking really fab well done!

ajsmommy824

Oh Wow!!!! You look amazing!!!!! Great job on your journey!

bigblueeyes1

I'm speechless!

Nicole_M4

Shut the front door!!!! You are a machine!!! So inspiring ♥

blkandwhite77

CoJak0810 wrote: »

vwagar wrote: »

Sassyk35 wrote: »

Wow you look amazing! ! The Today show? Did you have skin surgery or anything? I don't in anyway mean to imply or offend I just ask because your transformation amazes me. If you don't mind me asking what are your before & after stats? How long did it take you?

No surgery my love!! I have loose skin but I lift free weights and its toning up! My stomach is flabby but I don't care! I started jan 2014 at 350 and now I'm 179

That's what you look like at 179?!?! You look like you are 130 at most! I'm at 187 and I look nothing like you and 5'3"

It has a lot to do with height and body structure. I'm almost 5'8 and at 160 I was a toothpick. Flat abs, couldn't pinch fat if you tried. You could see my hip bones sticking out. sigh slowly going to get back to that lol

blkandwhite77

You're a true inspiration! I've lost 65 and get frustrated that I still have 60 to lose but stories like this help me see the light at the end of the tunnel!

fatblatta

well done!

taydalnik

vwagar wrote: »

log, exercise, & eat well! You don't have to give it all up but 80% of your diet should be healthy ! My fitness pal has brought me all the way to the today show! My next goal is the cover of People! The sky is the limit guys! Trust and believe in yourself!!!

vwagar wrote: »

log, exercise, & eat well! You don't have to give it all up but 80% of your diet should be healthy ! My fitness pal has brought me all the way to the today show! My next goal is the cover of People! The sky is the limit guys! Trust and believe in yourself!!!

taydalnik

You look great!

MakePeasNotWar

Patttience wrote: »

You look great. Congratulations. However, please explain how lifting weights can tighten skin? Skin is not muscle. Skin will tighten up over time because it renews itself. Whether or not it will completely go back to original, i don't know. I have yet to see in myself how much recovery can be achieved in 2-3 years. One down two more to go. But im past menopause so many not as much as a young person.

Also i think you've probably done it harder than is necessary. People don't need to exericse to lose weight. People should exericse for their health but this means they don't have to really work that hard. Moderate exercise is all that's necessary for significant improvements in health. I lost all my weight without exercise and am only doing it now regularly for my health becuase i didn't feel like doing it before. NOw i jsut walk on the beach every day with my dog for about 3km and sometiems i do a few sprints or jog about 1km. GEtting your heart rate up is the quickest way to increase fitness. i'm not really interested in building muscle. I am interested in reducing muscle loss though so I only ever had a small calorie deficit to lose weight. I know this makes it slower and for people with a lot to lose they can increase the deficit but if you get hungry, then you probably fail after a while. So i balance the deficit with avoidance of hunger.

Strength training raises levels of human growth hormone in the body which in turn increases skin elasticity.

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0365-05962011000600015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en

mandyarostegui

Congrats to you! I love seeing stories like this. I have kept 100 lbs off for 15 years now - I fully understand the loose skin issue. You learn to embrace it. I used to be set on having surgery, but now, I am okay with it. Glad to see it seems like you are also.

PS - I was on Oprah's last weight loss show... crazy how weight loss can take us places we never imagined, isn't it? Congrats on the Today show - I know you will make it to People magazine!

getitamb

Great work!!

vwagar

MirandaTN wrote: »

Congrats to you! I love seeing stories like this. I have kept 100 lbs off for 15 years now - I fully understand the loose skin issue. You learn to embrace it. I used to be set on having surgery, but now, I am okay with it. Glad to see it seems like you are also.

PS - I was on Oprah's last weight loss show... crazy how weight loss can take us places we never imagined, isn't it? Congrats on the Today show - I know you will make it to People magazine!

Thank you so much!!! Nice to see that you've had the determination on keeping it off! That is my ultimate goal!!! God bless

vwagar

taydalnik wrote: »

You look great!

Thank you!!! I FEEL SO GOOD

vwagar

blkandwhite77 wrote: »

You're a true inspiration! I've lost 65 and get frustrated that I still have 60 to lose but stories like this help me see the light at the end of the tunnel!

It is def possible! Look how far you have come! If flies by

Crys1209

vwagar wrote: »

log, exercise, & eat well! You don't have to give it all up but 80% of your diet should be healthy ! My fitness pal has brought me all the way to the today show! My next goal is the cover of People! The sky is the limit guys! Trust and believe in yourself!!!

Amazing!!!!!!!

Myxalplyx

Awesome transformation! You make 179lbs look like the 130's though. Great smile btw in both pics. Keep up the good work.

icklemay

Wow! Well done, u have done amazing and look amazin