One Year

NH_1970

Wonderful wonderful! Thanks so much for posting it's so encouraging and Congratulations on your doing it!

AmberBarrios

WOW way to go!!! you look fantastic!!!!

lesleyuk

WOW you look amazing

akaDumbo

WOW you look fantastic, it's amazing what a year of hard work can do, well done

gingajoy

You look like a different person -- especially your face! I echo the request to hear more about how you managed it (mentally as well as physically).

well done, and thank you for the inspiration!!!!

BetterVersion

I just wanna send a big "Thank You" to everyone for your kind words and support! I never intend for these posts to be boastful, but helpful and encouraging, so it's great to see so many of you taking the inspiration from it. I know when I first started here I used to look at posts like these and say, "Yea, right. Like that could ever be me." But the more you see it happening, and you see it happening to ppl whose lives and situations can be comparable to your own, the more you really start to see that you have the power to make this happen, too. So I do hope you all see that- whether you have twenty or two hundred pounds to lose, there's no reason why you can't do it, too!

First I want to say this: YOU look AMAZING!

Second can I ask you this: what would you say was the thing that helped you the most?
What was the hardest thing?
What was the easiest?

Thank you so much for being such an inspiration.
I am so stuck at my present weight. It took me about 2 months to lose 25 lbs.
I have been stuck for over 2 months though: haven't lost any or gained any. I will not give up though!

Again: you look amazing girl!

These are really good questions, though they're difficult for me to answer. Pretty much the only questions I ever get asked are "How are you doing it?" and "What's your secret?" And to those I simply answer, I'm doing it the only way there is to do it, and there is absolutely no secret. I promise. I'm not just keeping it to myself! Believe me, if there were one, I'd be sharing that "secret" for a very high dollar amount. lol

The absolute hardest thing for me- and it's something I still struggle with- has been changing my relationship with food. I never realized until I began fighting against it that food was actually IN CONTROL of me, and not the other way around. That's a very hard concept to grasp, and once I did it was very hard to learn to change those behaviors.

The easiest thing? Now that's hard one. I can't say there's been anything outright easy about any of this, although I will say that once I learned to tell myself "no," and I got into the habit of saying "no" every single day, it did become much easier to resist the temptations.

As far as what has helped me the most, there have been so many inspirations and helpful habits along the way. Keeping short term goals in sight, staying on a schedule, varying both diet and exercise to keep it interesting, and having a supportive family around me have all been things to keep me going, for sure. I have an amazing husband who has been so ecouraging throughout this whole thing, as well as his family who is always thinking about my "needs" when I go to dinners and such. I even have one or two really great friends who have helped me, but that being said, none of that support means anything if you can't support yourself. I think in the end the only thing that can truly help you is believing in yourself. Had I never found a way to pull myself out of the self-hating mode I had long ago fallen into; had I not been able to fight through the self-disgust and the utter lack of confidence; had I not found a way to really forgive myself and learn to at least accept myself and then eventually come to almost like myself, I would not be here now. In the end, no one else can do this for you, and there is no miracle tool or magic drug. YOU have to do this for yourself, and in order to do that, you have to believe that YOU can.

So I don't know how helpful any of that is for those of you reading. But it's what I've learned in the last year. I put these success posts up, and I love this website, because it allows you see others just like yourself fighting the battle of their lives, and winning. And it's the most overused, cliched phrase ever, but I honestly am one of those "If I can do it, you can too" stories. I just hope a few ppl reading this get enough out of it to realize that they really can do it too, and then post their own success stories to keep feeding the inspiration.

Kath712

Wow, wow, wow!!! You look awesome!! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: I bet you feel great too!! WTG!!!!!

OnionCookie

You look amazing. Definitely an inspiration for those of us with more than 100 to lose. Wonderful job!

Paige1108

Congratulations and thank you for sharing. Very inspiring. You have done an incredible job. Good luck on your journey.

shannie_134

Emily
Congratulations and well done,an amazing change in a year
:flowerforyou:

joyce185

Great Job you are such an inspiration !!!!

trickyfoxster710

you are amazing congratulations for all your success you have definitely earned it! You give me hope that i can stay strong and keep on keeping on!

loopybec2002

You look way to go!

asedwards

You are amazing! You look wonderful!!! Congrats!

kyenne

Wow great job you look amazing and have come so far!

alwardt

Wow! Look at those collarbones! Congratulations on a job well done. You are so totally worth it.

VenturaGurl

You've had great success!!! You look amazing!

abyt42

Wowee, look how big your glasses got! Congratulations!

judswi

wow, wow, wow,:flowerforyou: you really look amazing and I know it had to be a long slow road.

Bermudabarbie

Fabulous job!

Mirabilis

WTG Emmie!

When I first joined this website, losing over 100 lbs seemed absolutely impossible to me, but yet...

LOOK WHAT YOU DID!

You give me courage to keep going. Thank you so much!

anang

Thank you so much for posting your results and your inspirational words, I think many of us fall into that self-loathing and have a hard time pulling out of it. I truly was touched by your words and will continue to remind myself that I'm worth it. Thank you so so much for sharing. :flowerforyou:

BernieMBurke

You look and talk fantastic! It is hard and consistent work. But you do get the rewards (looking fabulous). :happy:

mssnow

You look absolutely fabulous!!! Congratulations on staying commited and focused on the end result.....WTG

Ready4Changes

WOW !!! You look great !!!!!

MissingMinnesota

You look and I can tell you feel fabulous.

janna674

that is incredible, thank you for sharing and the motivation!

jcmc99

I Have recently joined mfp. i think that I am you a year ago. I have been saying that I have a goal to lose 100 lbs in a year. I would love to lose that much. Now I see that you have lost even more then that. You have inspired me. I now know that it is a possible goal. Thank you.... did you do this by diet and exercise or did you do it by surgery?

janemartin02

WOW!that`s amazing!!!
Thanks for sharing!!

anu_6986

You look fantastic! Keep going