I started January 6 2020 at 245 pounds. My height is 5' 3". I'm counting calories and doing some strength training, since the weather warmed up I've been swimming. As of the start of this thread I've lost 53 pounds and am currently at 192. I started out at about 50% body fat, and right now I'm a little under 40% body fat. I started at BMI of 40 and now I'm at around 35. Muscle mass is currently 25.5 percent and hasn't dropped appreciably.
I'll update this thread as I make significant improvements.

Anyway, here's my starting picture, taken in the middle of 2019:
June 18, 2020 8:15PM
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If anyone wants to know more about my process I have a blog on MFP - personally I see a fair bit of difference between the photos and maybe these will be interesting to someone else. I think I'm roughly halfway through the weight loss process and my goal is to build more muscle as well as losing fat.
Blog on MFP:
https://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Sand_TIger
Great! More energetic, and like I can do this.
Sorry about you being late, ha ha, but thank you for the sweet comment! :-)
So my updated numbers as of this morning are weight: 292 pounds, body fat: 37.7%, muscle: 25.7, BMI 34.
My goal calories are 1400 plus half of exercise, and I sometimes come in lower than that. Scale says my basal metabolic rate is around 1920, so that's around right for weight loss. I'm 41 years old in a few days. I'll keep posting my progress on this thread as I go. I've never had the guts to set up my own progress thread before, ha ha!