How Far Have You Come?

IRun4Me_12

Unofficially - Thursdays are my official weigh-in days - I have lost 28 pounds since the beginning of January. I currently weigh less than I have weighed since the 3rd grade. THIRD GRADE. That totally amazes and disgusts me at the same time.

I feel like a different person now. I can do things I always told myself I couldn't do before. I am a much stronger person both physically and emotionally. I have my bad days (heck, even bad weeks!), but I just keep on chugging along. I never want to go back to who I was before. I am finally having some confidence in myself and my self-esteem has greatly improved. For once, I can look in the mirror, and in general, like what I see. I am setting a good example for my kids, and that makes me feel so good to know that I am giving them the tools to not go through what I have in my life when it comes to being overweight.

I have to ask - you really only gained 28 pounds since you were 10? That seems unusual... Congrats on the weight loss and the strength you've gained!

To answer your question honestly - no. When I started MFP and getting serious about my weight loss, I was 197.5 lbs. At my heaviest (non-pregnant weight) I was 218 in 2004. So - technically, from my highest weight, I've lost 47.5 lbs, but I was counting from when I started.

Meganne1982

in 1999 I weighed 320 pounds. Now I weigh around 160. By my 30th birthday, I want to weigh 140. That is my final goal

I didn't lose my weight fast- It took me 6 years to get from over 300 to under 200, but now I've been under 180 for the past 6 years...

Losing this last bit has not been the easiest, but mostly I'm proud I've lost half my body weight and kept it off!

lisasch67

This is awesome!! Great job everyone and keep up the good work!

iuew

started at 270 in late 2003 / early 2004. dropped most of the weight by 2005; finished by '08. have been exercising, toning, and maintaining since then. current weight : 160.

Amber50lbsDown

Im 25 lbs down since the begining of Jan and have 30-35 more to go then a lifetime of maintaining.
Im hoping to get that off by my 28th b-day in October but if it takes till Jan Ill be ok with that too.

CoryIda

24W pants to 6 pants, 56% body fat to 21(ish)% body fat. I topped out at 294 pounds, and now I sit somewhere around 155-160 pounds.

Dietz27

21 pounds since March 7, 2012!!! Need to keep this up as I have a ways to go.

laurasimmons

I have lost a total of 113 lbs!

Hollyjd1019

I downloaded MFP on my iPhone in 2011 but didn't pick it up until Jan 17, 2012. On the night before a switch flipped for good and I said I am truly going to do it this time. Before 1/17/12, I was very sendentary. I have a desk job and at home, i would spend a lot of time on the couch. After 1/17/12...at first I concentrated on staying under my calorie goal and drinking more water. I guess about a month or so in I started visiting the forums and getting more involved by adding friends. Then I started exercising using our Wii. Seeing friends exercise daily helped motivate me to get moving. As of last weekend I'm down 35.8 lbs and I exercise at least 6 days a wk. I alternate 25ish min days w 40ish minute workouts during the week. Then do 60+ minutes on the weekend. I mostly do cardio but I do incorporate some handweights. I'm starting to look toward doing more with weights now. And I have found I love incorporating boxing type moves into my workout! So many new things that I never thought I would do or achieve!!

I still have a long journey ahead of me but I KNOW I will get there and never go back again!!!

jgood21

75 lbs and 27 of that thanks to MFP!

belgerian

I went from about 260 lbs not sure exactly, long story, Now I average 185 im in better shape physically mentally and lifestyle wise than I was at 22 when I got out of the US Army. Oh yea and smoke free for about 16 years.

babybird5

Hi everyone!! I haven't been on this very long. I started this journey on March 13th, 2012 when my Personal Trainer told me about it. So far in the 8 wks that I have been on here, I have lost 15lbs and 6in!! I have never been able to lose the weight like this. My husband started the same time and he has lost 22lbs. We both have alot of weight still to lose, but we are on the right track!! Congrats to everyone on their success!!!!

HappilyLifts

44lbs is amazing! Well done!
I'm a real slowcoach, but here's where I've come from:
Nov 2010 211lbs:


Mid April 2012 205lbs

This week, 203lbs

Still got a long way to go....

HappilyLifts

44lbs is amazing! Well done!
I'm a real slowcoach, but here's where I've come from:
Nov 2010 211lbs:


Mid April 2012 205lbs

This week, 203lbs

Still got a long way to go....

having trouble with that second photo...I'll retry...

fixed!

ericborchert

30 lbs since Feb. 2012

mogletdeluxe

Just posted a status about this I was rummaging through my desk drawer in work earlier and came across my old organiser diary. I log my weight once a week, and out of curiosity I looked at this time last year. I was 3 stone (42lb) heavier, and by that point I'd lost just over 2 stone (28lb) and was dead proud of myself!

In less numerical news...plainly put, I used to be the girl in the lesser-known Millennium Trilogy; i.e. The Girl Who Hated Her Reflection. Now I'm the girl who assists with zumba classes, hurls around a kettlebell like it's going out of fashion and can look in the mirror and feel bloody proud.

Oh, and the ten years added onto my life is a nice bonus too.

christyd4

Last year at this time I was pretty close to 260 lbs (if you look at my pictures the one with me in the pink shirt is me at 260) and Tuesday I weighed in at 227 (my profile picture was taken last weekend)
. My goal at the moment is to get back into the 190's then readust my goals.

So in total I have lost 33 lbs

Strobins05

OH that is great! Well I started this journey four years ago (Spring 2008) and I like you, am PROUD to say that I am 59 pounds lighter! I ballooned after having my son ten years ago and by 08' I was fed up with it. Took some time learning how this would work for me but I got it! It's not a fast process to lose but the results are all worth it! I was just thinking the other morning how I once could not get a normal bath towel to wrap around my body, boy oh boy the memories...and when I noticed that I could, that moment felt GREAT! :flowerforyou:

shannairl

I know there are literally thousands of posts like this, but I really have to say this somewhere.

It's been exactly 3 years and 6 months (to the day) since I stepped on the scale at a Weight Watchers meeting and was shocked and disgusted by who I had become and what I weighed...

This morning I stepped on the scale at the gym and am proud to say that I am 44 lbs lighter than that terrible moment. And realizing I was able to wrap the stupidly small towels they have at the gym around myself just made me feel so good.

How far have you come?

THE TOWELS!!!! I've only recently noticed this too. Only it wasn't gym towels, it was my home towels - I could NOT get them fully around me and now I can tie a little knot in there ;-)

I stepped onto that dreaded scale the week before my 28th birthday in June last year, and remember thinking "that can't be right?! I couldn't be that heavy?!" - I don't think I honest to god realised how big I had gotten until I found an old driving licence last week. I posted a picture here in the face comparison thread - I am appalled that I let that happen to myself.

Still - just under a year later and 33lbs down - I'm only sorry I didn't do it sooner.

Congratulations and well done to you, you've done amazing x

acg1305

From St Patricks Day of this year I have lost 28 lbs.

Lifestyle change, bit of gym, better choices and addressing the issues behind my eating.