Squee. I've reached my goal. Before and after pics...

ritodcin03 · June 2010

you look fantastic! Congrats!!

Shy1979 · June 2010

Awesome transformation. You look great ... you really do!

MissingMinnesota · June 2010

Congratulations! I love hearing how you took 6 months to maintain and were still able to get back on it.

PS love the profile picture I have that print in my living room.

leavinglasvegas · June 2010

WOW! You didn't just lose weight! You lost years! At least 10. You look AMAZING! Congrats to you!

fraochin · June 2010

WOW! You look FANTASTIC! I'm new to this site, only joined today, but seeing that after pic has made me more determined than ever! Well done you!

suziblues2000 · June 2010

wow! Just amazing! You look great!

NurseWeber25 · June 2010

Wow that is wonderful! You look AMAZING! Thanks for showing those of us just starting out that it is possible!!

AmyW4225 · June 2010

CONGRATULATIONS!! You look AMAZING!! What a difference. You should be so proud. I can't wait to get to my goal.

hammersue1 · June 2010

wow you look simply stunning and a new person. wow. well done you have shown me its achievable thank you xxx :flowerforyou:

somigliana · June 2010

Thank you -- you guys are all wonderful motivation to keep strong and keep logging!

Congratulations! I love hearing how you took 6 months to maintain and were still able to get back on it.

PS love the profile picture I have that print in my living room.

Grin. I have the print in my living room, too :happy: There's just something about the light on the sand and the arch of her back that makes it my very favourite.

somigliana · June 2010

thats very inspiring...now trying to pry but just curious as to whether it was natural or what not.....definitely something i can now use as inspiration.

I didn't think you were prying at all -- I'm 100% willing to share what worked for me :flowerforyou:

ambraroberts · June 2010

I am inspired!! thank YOU!!

XoXoCountryGalXoXo · June 2010

You look so great!! Congrats to your sucess!

yankeegrl · June 2010

You look awesome, congrats!!! I hope I will be as successful as you are.

fowlmeli1093 · June 2010

Amazing! I just showed my 6 year old daughter your pics....I'm trying to teach her what it means to be healthy! Great job!

fchopin42 · June 2010

WOW! You look awesome! Great job!

LoveMy4Kids · June 2010

You look great, simply amazing!

peggyann47 · June 2010

Whoo-hoo! Awesome job.

Lisa0711 · June 2010

You look great!

pitanita · June 2010

Absolutely amazing transformation! You are such an inspiration, thank you so much for sharing!

ardaniels0417 · June 2010

Congrats!!!! You look totally awesome, you should feel so great about yourself. YOU DID IT!!!!! All the days of cutting calories was worth it. Keep it up!!!

Scncartist · June 2010

My jaw dropped! You look FANTASTIC!!!!!

JeanneTops · June 2010

You look great!

Even more impressive, I read through a lot of your posts and your slow approach into maintenance has been very inspiring to read. I'm hoping that you'll keep posting now that you're fully on maintenance. IMHO, the hardest part of this journey is the goal and I've yet to learn how to stay there despite successfully reaching it more times than I want to think about.

I hope that you'll keep posting and sharing with us your experiences with maintenance. I'd especially like to hear how you deal with the "permissions" problem you've mentioned before.

In fact, I wish that MFP would set up a separate Board just for maintenance. It would be so helpful to the maintenance "newbies" and so inspiring to those of us terrified about maintenance to keep hearing the stories of people who have successfully kept their weight off.

somigliana · June 2010

Again, thank you all so very much for the lovely comments!

You look great!

Even more impressive, I read through a lot of your posts and your slow approach into maintenance has been very inspiring to read. I'm hoping that you'll keep posting now that you're fully on maintenance. IMHO, the hardest part of this journey is the goal and I've yet to learn how to stay there despite successfully reaching it more times than I want to think about.

I hope that you'll keep posting and sharing with us your experiences with maintenance. I'd especially like to hear how you deal with the "permissions" problem you've mentioned before.

In fact, I wish that MFP would set up a separate Board just for maintenance. It would be so helpful to the maintenance "newbies" and so inspiring to those of us terrified about maintenance to keep hearing the stories of people who have successfully kept their weight off.

Thank you--I think easing into maintenance mode was the right decision for me, and I'm convinced that slowly adding 50cals every few weeks has tricked my body into giving up those last stubborn pounds.

Yes, we're on the page page on this: the hardest part of the journey (for me) is maintenance. This time around, though, I've got MFP as a tool and all the wonderful people here on the boards here to talk to and to absorb inspiration from :happy: I'll be sticking around, keeping my diary and contributing to "maintenance" posts, absolutely. I'm not the world's most dedicated blog writer, but you've given me food for thought (so to speak, lol) about sharing my experience with it. I have searched the boards for maintenance posts before, and there are lots of people who have kept off the weight successfully here--it's very encouraging. It would be nice to have a "home" for maintenance, though, nods.

*headed in the direction of your maintenance blog link

JeanneTops · June 2010

I posted a request on the Request Board for a separate Maintenance Board. I think it would help if anyone who is also interested could post a confirming reply there as well. Thanks.