Reached my first goal!

lemonsnowdrop · June 2014

Okay, so I'm nowhere near done yet, but I am excited with how far I've come! It's been almost exactly five months since I started this journey, and I'm happier than ever.

Let's start with why I wanted to lose weight: I've always been unhappy with my appearance. Even now, I'm incredibly insecure and self conscious about myself, and I'm starting to think that I might always feel that way to some extent. However, even though I've never really loved the way I looked, it didn't compare to how much I hated the way I looked after I had my first baby. Worse yet, I gained even more weight AFTER I had him, as opposed to the mothers who lose weight after baby.

When my son was seven months old, I reached my highest weight: 155 pounds. This, unfortunately, was the same time that I got married.

(Note: I hate all of my weddings pictures because I can't get past my weight.)

Honeymoon wasn't any more pleasing, picture wise.

So after the honeymoon, I decided to make a change, and in February I did a complete turnaround with my lifestyle and have never looked back.

Two weeks in:

About two months in:

Four months in:

Today, I was going through old pictures, and what I found shocked me. Here's a picture of me a year BEFORE I had the baby, then a picture almost exactly a year AFTER I had him (taken a few days ago):

I still have work to do. I want to lose a little more weight and then work on lifting heavy to build muscle and maybe for once in my life have a nice tummy! Anyway, thanks for reading guys!

Starting weight: 155 lbs
Current weight: 120.6