Almost there.....

bkw99508

Firstly, let me say that there were times when I wanted to ditch the whole counting calories thing. However one of the things I would do to get me out of that funk, and still do, was to read all the Success Stories. So a shout out to everyone who has posted on here!! :drinker:

A little history. I was always the chubby girl growing up. When I hit high school I wasn’t fat, but I was stocky. I played a lot of sports and was pretty active. I remember that I stood 5’ 4” tall, wore a size 7 and weighed 145 lbs.. I went up to a size 11 a year after graduation and it didn’t stop there. On my wedding day (29 yo, 1998) I weighed 201 lbs. It seemed as if I was constantly trying a different diet. I would lose some weight but then gain it all back plus some. It got to the point where I figured it was my lot in life to be fat and I stopped trying and told myself that I looked beautiful no matter what the scale said. At my highest, I weighed 230 lbs.

My journey started because I missed being active and wanted to move more. A friend of mine, who is a personal trainer, always offered his services to me and I finally took him up on his offer on July 6, 2013. I remember thinking to myself that I was only going to start exercising, that I was not going to “diet”. I could not and would not give up my favorite foods. After a week of literally busting my backside, I decided that all that effort and pain (OH MY GOD THE PAIN) was useless if I was going to hide all of it under layers of fat. So a few weeks later I found myself creating an account on MFP.

Once I made the decision to do this thing, I needed to set goals. So I set a goal of fitting into size 10 jeans. I figured I would be about 175 lbs when that happened. Well I reached that goal when I hit 190, albeit they fit very tightly. So I figured I would keep 175 as my goal and see where I would end up. Well I finally reached that goal on April 9th and have gone down to a size 8 and am just a pound away from crossing into the BMI overweight category from the obese category.
So now I have set my new goal to 160. I realize that losing the last 15 lbs is going to go much slower than losing the first 15 lbs so I am not going to get discouraged and will keep in mind that regardless of what I do, time is going to pass, so I might as well do it at a deficit. :ohwell:

I don’t have too many pictures of me before but I wanted to show you all the difference. :happy:

EDIT...couldn't get the pictures to show up so will update it tonight. But you can see the pictures on my profile page.

PolacaFL

Great job! I love reading success stories :drinker:

LinDiSm26262

Awesome job!! You look fabulous! Thanks for sharing.

msaestein1

Great job!

rwieber

You look terrific! Great job :-) thank you for sharing....success stories are inspiring for me too!!!

Hiker_Rob

Awesome work! You look great and I'm sure you feel so much better now too! Congratulations, way to go!

bkw99508

Thank you all for the kind words.

For some reason I couldn't edit my original post so here are the pictures.

This is me at 230 lbs:

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Me on the first day of my working out:

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And here is me from the 9th at 175 lbs:

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pusheen12

Now that is a TRANSFORMATION! :noway:

Congrats, you look amazing.

p.s. The success stories motivate me too, so thanks!

elisa123gal

wow! great work. So inspiring..thanks for sharing. You look wonderful.

bkw99508

Just wanted to add that as of this morning I am no longer obese (according to BMI chart). When I started I was categorized as obese class II.

Woo hooo!!!!

branbuds

Wow! Good for you! You look amazing!!