I’ve lost 50 pounds!

shw112 · February 2019

Today I weighed myself and found that I have finally got over the 50 mark after stalling for around a year 🎉
This feels like a massive milestone to me, even though my ultimate goal is to lose 60 pounds
The last few days have been hard. I’ve been eating a lot due to being home from uni and spending time with family- but I’m telling myself it’s ok to enjoy myself once in a while and that I’ve still come a really long way!

Here are a couple of photos- this morning vs August 2016
Hope you’re all doing well!

cds_momto3 · February 2019

That's awesome - what an amazing transformation! And yes, enjoy some comfort food with your family and then get back at it.

shw112 · February 2019

cds_momto3 wrote: »

That's awesome - what an amazing transformation! And yes, enjoy some comfort food with your family and then get back at it.

thank you! And I will haha

cmorris30316 · February 2019

Congrats ! This is inspiring!

shw112 · February 2019

cmorris30316 wrote: »

Congrats ! This is inspiring!

Thank you!

bkyoun · February 2019

Looking great. Way to go!

kellycz · February 2019

Congrats!

puffbrat · February 2019

That's fantastic! You look amazing!

LittleLightShine · February 2019

You look terrific! Congrats on a fantastic achievement!

Fivepts · February 2019

Congrats! You look amazing. That's my goal.

shw112 · February 2019

thanks for the lovely comments everyone

dontmel · February 2019

This is so Inspiring. I’m down about 25 pounds overall. But I’m looking to lose about 40 more. How did you do it? Any tips for me?

Bride2BeFit6119 · February 2019

This is amazing! How long did it take you to lose 50 lbs? And do you have any tips or things you did other than just following the calorie goals? You look great! I am in my first week and sticking to 1200/day... I've lost 7 lbs since Monday!! I understand this will slow down. Was it rapid for you at first?

Klahnemann · February 2019

Congratulations on your hard work; you look beautiful! 😄

shw112 · February 2019

dontmel wrote: »

This is so Inspiring. I’m down about 25 pounds overall. But I’m looking to lose about 40 more. How did you do it? Any tips for me?

Bride2BeFit6119 wrote: »

This is amazing! How long did it take you to lose 50 lbs? And do you have any tips or things you did other than just following the calorie goals? You look great! I am in my first week and sticking to 1200/day... I've lost 7 lbs since Monday!! I understand this will slow down. Was it rapid for you at first?

I first started properly losing around 2 years ago, but I lost the first 40 pounds in around 6 months, after that I maintained for ages (although i did go through a few cycles of gaining about 7 pounds and then losing it again), and then over the last couple of months i've lost another 10. It was very rapid for me at first, but yeah it will slow down i'm sorry to say!

I always struggle to answer when people ask me what I did, because honestly, I've done so many different things! i really suck at being consistent- at first i did count calories (about 1400 a day i think) which helped me to kickstart the whole thing, but i haven't been counting calories all this time! what i found was that after a period of really watching what i ate, I started to become more aware of when i was actually hungry and when i was full, and i'm now a lot better at eating intuitively and my appetite is much smaller than it was. I don't think i actually could go back to eating how I used to when i was bigger because i get full so much faster now. The one thing I have been consistent with and recommend to everyone is walking! I've tried a lot of different exercise regimes and never stuck to them, but the one thing i have always done is try to get in at least 10,000 steps a day, sometimes i do 15,000. This is honestly so much easier than it sounds, and doesn't even really feel like exercise at all if you find a good podcast/ audiobook to listen to while you do it!

And one more thing- don't feel bad if you screw up occasionally! I've literally screwed up a million times since i started, and it hasn't done as much damage as i thought it would. It doesn't matter how badly you go off track, you can always get back on again. And remember to treat yourself sometimes, because if you are too hard on yourself you will never stick to it.
Hope that helps a bit, and best of luck!