-40 lbs in one year (4'11")

koalahugs

I began my "hard core" weight loss journey on February 9, 2012 and now that it's February 15, 2013, I decided it was time to take a look back. I don't believe I'm quite at the body fat/muscle ratio that I set out for myself, but that's okay because I know this is a lifelong, ongoing progress. I'm just happy to see that I told myself a year ago that my long term (one year) goal was to get to 110 and I'm nearly there!

Anyways, not every day was perfect and on more than one occasion I ate my fair share of unhealthy food but I told myself never to give up and that every day was always another new day to make better choices. I found that the biggest struggle in this journey was making excuses. As soon as I realized that I'm the only one paying for my poor choices, I started making better ones and since then it has made life so much easier.

I don't follow any specific diet, I just try to stay within my calorie allowance for the day and I weight train about six days of the week with at least two days of cardio (specifically Zumba, since that is what started this whole thing for me). I continue to plan on working hard and have a new goal weight of anywhere between 100-105 lbs depending on how I feel when I get there and when I get there I plan on building muscle mass (so I honestly don't mind gaining weight for that).

I hope this motivates you all to do the best you can in your weight loss journeys because when you look back a year from now, wouldn't you want to be proud of yourself?

Follow me on instagram for more updates & progress pictures: @abellafit

countrygal02012

Wow!!! Great commitment... you look great!

phillinnz

Amazing. Thanks, it is very encouraging to see how fantastically you have done.

Nickiii_123

Congrats! You look great!

MeIShouldB

FABULOUS!!

HealthWoke0ish

Wow! Your "after" looks like your "before's" little sister. Nice work!

squigglypuff

So nice to see success stories from other people my size! How many calories do you eat & also burn per day?

purplecharm

Awesome results. You look terrific!

TheStefanieJ

Great job! Your so little!

koalahugs

Thanks everyone! I eat 1200 calories a day or a bit more.. It's all an estimate so I never really closely watch the numbers. I also don't log in calories burned from weight lifting so I can't really tell you how much I burn every day. As for the two days of cardio, I can burn anywhere from 300 - 500 calories per session since I get really into the moves for Zumba. Hehe.

zoukeira

Wow! You look amazing :happy:

janten

you don't even look the same anymore!