Goal Reached! 135 lbs down--please be encouraged if you have 100+ to lose!

provence9

Any particular way of eating? Low-carb, clean-eating, vegetarian etc. or just counting calories? A lot of PCOS patients have success with low carb. I was wondering what worked for you. You look great!!

JulieSHelms

provence9 wrote: »

Any particular way of eating? Low-carb, clean-eating, vegetarian etc. or just counting calories? A lot of PCOS patients have success with low carb. I was wondering what worked for you. You look great!!

I did low carb (25g/day) for the first 30 lbs--no counting calories, no exercise--lost about 2 lbs/week. That worked really well till it didn't anymore. Then I started working on low carb and portion control and lost about another 25 lbs. Then came my 7 months of nothing happening. I found MFP, learned the importance of counting calories, and got going again. I also learned from people here, how important strength training was for helping insulin resistance--I took it to heart and have been lifting ever since! I pretty much maintained 2 lbs/week, up until the last 5 which were slower...

JulieSHelms

Thanks so much everybody for the kind words. Probably my biggest (unspoken) goal, if I'm honest, for weight loss was to just feel normal again. To feel like a regular person. I know being overweight doesn't make me less of a person, but being 'different' in that way is always hanging there, every time I walk into a room and am the biggest person there. I NEVER anticipated what a psychological thing losing weight would be. But this MFP community, where like-minded strangers encourage you on, is just amazing.

lauravv2

What an inspiration! Thank you for sharing and giving us all hope and a vision!

Dinger2017

You look SO healthy and SO happy...and if I may say, much younger!!! Way to go and good job sticking to your goals! I can't wait to post my "after" pictures

ggeise14

Definitely - cheers to you! Talk about commitment. And congrats on your 5K

londell16

Congrats on your major life transformation. Thank you for sharing that it is possilbe to get it done and you are living proof.

bizgirl26

Holy ! Well done

KittyInBoots17

I gotta say you are just INCREDIBLE! Thank you for sharing your realistic, awesome story and pics! You will truly inspire others! Wonderful!!!!!! And thanks for giving me hope!

ruthhowellwriter

Wow! Congratulations. You look amazing and I'll bet you feel great.

orangegato

Congrats on this wonderful transformation. I love seeing stories and pics like this.

jammied21

That is wonderful. Very happy for your success!

I've lost almost 100 myself and have 60 more to go.

Watch_Me_Rise

So inspiring! Amazing work!!

2wise4u

How amazing! You are truly an inspiration. Congratulations!

skinneeme007

Wow congratulations, and thank you for sharing! You look incredible!

Cindyt1987

WOW! you look great!! What an inspiration!!

LadyLilion

Amazing and so inspiring! I'm 53 myself - 54 in 3 months - and started losing in March at 305. Sadly, this is my second go-around. I lost 100 lbs back in about 2008 but gained most of it back. Unlike you, I've never been a normal weight - so I just have to imagine what that would be like. Like you I'm larger framed too.

You mention your blood sugar a time or two. Was it high before you lost weight?

All in all, amazing. You deserve to be SO proud!

lizzybee22

Well done. I know first hand the hard work and dedication it takes to lose even a few pounds let alone over 100 lbs. I'm sure you are proud and you should be! Congratulations on meeting your goal.!

JulieSHelms

LadyLilion wrote: »

You mention your blood sugar a time or two. Was it high before you lost weight?

I wasn't diabetic, but insulin resistant and considered pre-diabetic. I was told years ago that I had a 50% chance of becoming diabetic. (I'm now considered at no risk for it.) My sugar never got really high--maybe 165 (normal is 80-120) was the most I had ever measured it. But I bombed the 5-hour glucose tolerance test. It spiked to about 160ish, then plummeted to under 40. The nurses had to feed me at that point so I wouldn't go into a coma, thus invalidating the rest of the test. So not so much high sugar as very insulin resistant--when it finally kicks in, it REALLY kicks in, sending it way low. My A1C has always been high normal (5.9). Last time I was tested, it was at a good 5.4. I take Metformin to help regulate sugar/insulin and will be discussing with my doctor this week if I can lower it.

bigaussieguy71

Wow, Wow and WOW!