My one year anniversary, 124lbs in 365 days (pics)

Celuwen

Amazing work. Well done on your achievement. You look lovely.

eazy_

congrats on your amazing progress

Doster02

Congratulations, you look amazing and I am sure you feel fantastic. Not only have you given yourself a new life you are showing your kids how wonderful a healthy lifestyle can be by leading through example. Great job!

ayscrivener

This is amazing!! Your story is so inspiring. Great job, you look fantastic!!

hermione2010

Congratulations, I'm happy for you I'm 65 and am working on losing 100lbs. So far going is real slow any hints on how to rev up my metabolism?

mackemom

WOW!
Congratulations, you look absolutely great! :flowerforyou: :drinker: :glasses: :happy:

wshultz14

Congratulations

astralweeks82

that is fantastic! Did you have surgery? or was this your first time losing a lot of weight? You are young and that helps - but that is a LOT to lose in a year... how did you do it?

Nope, no surgery. You're certainly not the first to ask me that though, haha. I take it as a compliment

Missmeshap

Wow!! Congratulations...you did a great job

iwish123

Congratulations you should be so proud

Earthiegirl

AMAZING!!!!

jessieatomlinson

You look amazing. Thanks for the inspiration.

carriern2006

ABSOLUTELY incredible! Congrats on your weight loss and continuing healthy lifestyle!! You are a complete motivation to anyone that thinks they can not do it!

debrakgoogins

This is simply amazing. You look spectacular!!!

astralweeks82

Just curious, what exactly did you do? Not step by step but was it eating x number of calories per day plus treadmill x days plus (blank)? Just trying to figure out if I should change up something in the way I am doing it. You look absolutely amazing.

For me, what worked was keeping the calories at about 1400 a day (started out with a little more but it's come down with weight loss). I don't deprive myself of small treats, as it's important for me to be able to sustain this for the rest of my life, and eating clean all the time isn't something I find possible or realistic for me. That said, I try to eat a lot of fresh fruits/veggies, protein and dairy. My diet before consisted of all fast food and crap, basically. Now I cook more and eat many more fresh foods.

As far as exercise, I try to work-out 3-4 days a week, though lately I've fallen short. I did Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred, then I did the C25K program in preparation for my 5K. I hit the gym when I can and try to get 30 minutes on the treadmill but now I'm back to 30DS. In the meantime I walk a LOT and try to keep active. Just got a bike and I'm trying to use it to get around. Any way I can burn calories I do it.

Finally I just was honest and consistent. I think if you measure your portions (at least until you learn how to eyeball them), and are honest about what you're eating you'll go really far. It's worked well for me and it's really just about the math, calories in vs calories out. Good luck everyone, and I really appreciate all of the compliments!

Southieface

You look amazing! Congratulations!

bridget_i

That is absolutely amazing!!! You are incredibly inspirational to me! I just started MFP on January 17 this year, but I'm already noticing a difference, and I look forward to being able to post my own success story because of your inspiring one!

rhondakr14

Wow, you look great....thanks for sharing, very inspirational

ZombieSwimmer

You're an inspiration! I just joined today. I have a long road ahead of me but I hope one day I get to post MY success story! CONGRATS!!
:drinker: :flowerforyou: :bigsmile:

Tig_

That is an absolutely amazing achievement, well done you!