55 pounds lost!

dramaqueen45

Starting date - 7/27/14
Starting weight - 180 pounds
Ending date - 3/26/16
Ending weight - 125 pounds









Hopefully I figured out how to post pictures. Anyway- thanks to all my MFP friends and everyone else in my life who told me I was looking great. Took about 20 months but I got there finally!

TK6299

Good for you!! You should be really proud of yourself. What an amazing transformation. Awesome job!!!!

ClubSilencio

Congrats. You do look great.

RoseTheWarrior

Fantastic! What a difference! Great job!

JayJo13

That's incredible! Great job and dedication! All your hard work obviously paid off!

samfordbelle

Amazing job!!

lemonychild

you look good! what is your height

jls1mum

Youve done brilliant
Tell me how you managed it

yweight1969

Congratulations

NAbramovich

Thanks for posting. You look terrific!

BXCHICAinOHIO

You look wonderful! Congratulations! Best for continued success!

flowerhouse

20months well spent - you look great congratulations

Fursian

Those people in your life aren't wrong, you do look great! Well done to you!

dramaqueen45

Thanks to all.

lemonychild wrote: »

you look good! what is your height

I am 5'4".

jls1mum wrote: »

Youve done brilliant
Tell me how you managed it

I just followed the calories MFP gave me and ate whatever I liked (although I tended to go for healthier foods so I could eat more). I generally ate back exercise calories (all in the beginning) and then ate back about half toward the end. Toward the very end I would not eat back exercise calories at all a few days a week to lose those last few. I also have found an exercise that I enjoy- I ride a recumbent trike and we have a lot of rail trails around here. Husband and I go a few days a week in the nice weather.

Jussilu

You look terrific!! How wonderful you must feel!!

jdt242

You look amazing. Well done!

Melissapaige1

That's amazing! So proud of you! I'm 5'2 my starting weight was 180 on Sept 3rd, 2016. Today im 175. My goal weight is 125-130lbs. I'm getting a bit sad, and discouraged, although I love to excercise and I won't stop. I'm wondering what's going on that I've been stuck at 175 for the past 2-3 months? Sorry I hope I'm not taking away from your success story, i just find your success story so motivating.

dramaqueen45

Melissapaige1 wrote: »

That's amazing! So proud of you! I'm 5'2 my starting weight was 180 on Sept 3rd, 2016. Today im 175. My goal weight is 125-130lbs. I'm getting a bit sad, and discouraged, although I love to excercise and I won't stop. I'm wondering what's going on that I've been stuck at 175 for the past 2-3 months? Sorry I hope I'm not taking away from your success story, i just find your success story so motivating.

When I look back at my progress I saw that I consistently lost about 5 pounds a month for the first 4-5 months (and I didn't even use a food scale). After that it slowed down a bit so I bought a food scale and started weighing everything. That helped a lot. For a couple of months last year from March through May I was stuck and I would swear I was logging everything, but if I'm really honest with myself I would say that I was adding a lot of calories with BLTs (bites, licks and tastes). I usually come home from work /gym hungry and tend to snack when making dinner. I think I started losing again when I stopped this habit by eating some high protein snacks before my workout. That helped me not to be so famished when I got home and I could make it until I actually sat down to eat. I have hypothyroidism and I even visited my doctor last summer when even when eating 1300 or so calories per day (plus eating exercise calories back) I could not drop any weight (my second plateau). She said that my TSH levels were in the normal range and would not change my meds (grrr). I still contend that some people (small frames like me) need a higher dose, but I couldn't convince her- I think she just saw that I was a healthy weight and decided I didn't need to lose more (but mathematically it didn't make sense for me not to be losing). Just annoying that she was deciding that I was "thin enough". Anyway I digress- after that I lowered my calories even more, and started doing intervals when I worked out. That broke that plateau. My final 10 pounds took, no joke, about 6 months to lose. My body just didn't want to give it up. Now for the hard part- maintenance! Don't give up- it will happen. Try different things if you are stuck- something has to work eventually. I have heard intermittent fasting can work to break a plateau although I've never tried it. I was afraid I would just end up binging.

plectrum29

awesome! Looking Fab...way to go.

22Brentwoodgirl

Fantastic results for your very hard work! Congrats and thanks for the inspiration. The last 10 pounds can be tough.

Melissapaige1

Thank you for all the helpful tips! Congratulations again