8 months & 40 pounds later: Before & After!

AngelaH10 · April 2013

Awesome!!! Congratulations on your weight loss! You look great!

jessilyn76 · April 2013

Gorgeous!!!! Amazing job!!!

beckkee · April 2013

Wow - great job. You look wonderful. I hope I do as well as you did. Congrats.

Greenlola · April 2013

Awesome, you look fantastic, thanks for sharing, love your hair by the way lol

wannabfitnevarez · April 2013

amazing transformation! you look great! keep up the hard work and yes it pays off slowly but eventually you will see results : ) as you did !

ohyousillygirl · April 2013

Um, you look anorexic. I'm gonna start telling people this now.

LUH YOU BBGURL.

Labrae90 · April 2013

Great job!!!! :flowerforyou:

sunlover89 · April 2013

Wow, huge difference and you are so beautiful!

asouza369 · April 2013

Great job! You look fabulous!

sugarlips1980 · April 2013

You look fantastic! Look at those slim thighs! Can't wait to wear short dresses one day again!

whoolerymicki · April 2013

You look great so excited for you! Hope to be where you are one day soon! Again congratulations and thank you for sharing.

smadacarlyle · April 2013

great job, and i agree with everyone else - love the hair (in both photos!!)
Can you tell us how you achieved your goal and if you dont my sharing your stats?

Svolt · April 2013

Congratulations on the weight loss! You look great, before and after

iwish123 · April 2013

well done you look amazing! and beautiful hair!

cbenj09 · April 2013

Ooohhhh!!! You're a HOTTIE!!! Loves the red hair... so cute!

KAbena · April 2013

Amazing!

babydiego87 · April 2013

lovely! well done

annapomegranate · April 2013

Um, you look anorexic. I'm gonna start telling people this now.

LUH YOU BBGURL.

Ahahaha don't even get me started on her saying that again! I swear, some people just always have to be negative. It kills me. Love youuuuu. Thank you for always making me laugh<3

MaliceWells · April 2013

Wow! You look great! Awesome style by the way

nicarey19 · April 2013

You look beautiful in both of them. Good job for losing that weight! I have lost pretty much at that same rate. PS I freakin love your hair!

annapomegranate · April 2013

great job, and i agree with everyone else - love the hair (in both photos!!)
Can you tell us how you achieved your goal and if you dont my sharing your stats?

Thank you! And it was sort of trial and error at first but I can certainly try!

As far as stats:
Height 5 feet 9 and a half inches
Starting weight: 198
Current weight: 158
Goal weight: 150

Starting dress size: 12-14
Current dress size: 6-8

Initially it was all diet starting in September last year---I ate around 1200 calories a day and cut out all beverages except water, and I bought a 2 liter water bottle from Walmart that I drink twice a day now. I had dropped about 20 pounds doing that.

Then once I hit a plateau around January of this year and FINALLY decided to get serious about what I was eating, that's when the rest came off. I realized that simply counting calories wouldn't get me much farther if I didn't restrict my sugar intake, so I now make sure that 30% of my daily intake consists of protein, and I load up on veggies! I also make sure to snack throughout the day on things like greek yogurt, almonds, string cheese, etc at least every 2 hours because it curbs my cravings and stops my blood sugar from dropping. In addition, I pretty much pre-pack my lunches and dinners on Sunday of every week so I don't have to think about it later, but still allow myself one "cheat meal" a week. Some people don't really do the cheat meal, but if I didn't I would surely have quit by now.

As far as exercise, I started with an hour on the cardio machines at the gym 6 days a week, but once that got old I went out of my comfort zone thanks to one of my best friends and joined a month long boot camp. That's what really kick started my desire to keep up with it everyday because I was being taught exercises I would NEVER have done on my own. Once the boot camp ended, another good friend of mine put Insanity on my computer and I haven't looked back. I'm almost a month in now and have dropped one dress size. In addition, I'd decided to start lifting weights and amped my calorie intake up to about 1600-1800 a day. My biggest recommendation is trying to get some sort of exercise in daily because once you get used to it, you'll feel hooked AND don't get stuck in a rut of eating the same things all the time and doing the same workouts every day. If I had stayed only on those cardio machines every day I would definitely not be where I am now! Hope this helps!

annapomegranate · April 2013

I have the same amount of weight to lose and was just getting discouraged. Thanks for posting.

No problem! I've definitely been there. Don't give up! Even if you have an off day just jump right back into it the next day. Slow progress is still progress!