My story

AmandaMarie916

I'm sorry I have no picture to share. I don't know how to add them yet. If someone could help me out that'd be awesome. This is just my story.

When I was a little kid I was "chubby". I weighed around 160 in my middle school years and was wearing misses jeans already. For a little kid that's a lot of weight. But my mom still insisted I was just "chubby" It was so embarrassing. I was picked on in school and never had a boyfriend like my other "skinny" friends did. I was depressed but never showed it. When I was 13 or 15 I decided to quit eating meat. I actually dropped a lot of weight from that. I started growing into myself and taking care of myself. Lost the glasses and braces..learned to tame my frizzy curly hair and put on some make up and wha la a new me. Things kept getting better. Boys started noticing me now and it was great.
Fast forward to after high school. Still flirting with the boys and making them chase me. Then I finally dating the guy who is now my husband. During our relationship I put on what I call comfortable pounds. I was comfortable with him and let myself go abit. At our wedding I was weighing around 150ish. After the wedding I gained 10 lbs outta no where.
Moving on to the pregnancy. Man did I have fun eating. The cravings were pizza hut and red slushies all the time. The pizza hut delivery people knew me on a first name basis. Every doctor appointment I watched the scale go up 170 175 180 185 and so on. At the end of my pregnancy I weighed 210! Holy cow! 210! That's ok I'll lose the weight no problem. My sisters just dropped right off I'm fine. Wrong! 6lbs of baby came out plus some other stuff. That's it. People told me it's ok it takes time. Well time past and past and the weight was still there. I tried diet after diet. I tried exercising but I had a baby that never wanted to sleep and a husband that was always working. When I did get a moment to myself I slept and then I went back to work. Working didn't help. I worked overnights and we were constantly ordering out for pizza or hoagies or calzones like everynight. When I quit my job to be a stay at home mom I was 186. Got down to like 171. Went back up to 176, Then 184. Found out I had only one working kidney and my kidney doctor was on me and on me to lose weight, but when I looked in the mirror I didn't see an obese person as their chart put me at. I was fine. Or so I made myself believe. I started covering myself in sweatpants and sweatshirts. Oversize tees and long light pants in the summer. Wouldn't take any pictures from the waist down.
Feb 2013. Kidney doctor appointment. Diabetes warning. My doctor told me I would head there if I didn't lose some weight. My cholesterol was already high as it was. Scared me a little, but I was fine. Valentines Day I told my husband no chocolates. I was getting really depressed now because of this weight. All these doctors are on me and on me and I'll just the pshh whatever. I had a 2 year old. He needs me. I need to take care of myself! My husband showed me some pictures he took of me on his phone. I almost cried. How'd I let myself stay like this. I made excuse after excuse why I couldn't lose the weight. Enough excuses!
The doc said it's recommended to exercise a half hour every day. I'll do you better doc and walk an hour everyday. And I did and still do 3-5 days a week. In the freezing cold and all. I'll work out in front of that tv until my legs are begging for mercy.
I started my journey at 184. I have lost 20 sweet lbs so far. I wear the jeans I wore on my honeymoon again. I'm not so lumpy when I sit down. And I'm not afraid to be in pictures. Which I'll get on here someday.
I got 20 some lbs to go I think to my goal and then some after. I want to thank all my new friends on here for helping me. For letting me know it's ok to screw up as long as you get your butt back on that wagon and focus. You guys rock!

keriberi9

Awesome ????

Viva81Diva

My weight is quite similar to yours! I'm 5'5 and currently weigh around 173. I was fit as a child, then started noticing the flab in my belly and thighs around age 13. I was around a size 7 to 9 at age 19, and then after a near-death accident I was put on a liquid diet where I lost weight and then gained it all back plus some! At 21, I was around 161 and wanted to lose to around 130. After being married twice I gained comfortably, rather not so emotionally because I felt frumpy with nothing that fit anymore. When I found out I was pregnant, I was around 174, then right before having him I was at 212! I lost almost 30 pounds the month after from nursing, but it crept back up. Last year, when he was 1, I weighed 186. After joining MFP, I dropped down to 160, and now I am back 6 months later in my 170's...

Keep up the great work!! I believe you will reach your goal in no time! Thanks for sharing your story!

BTW - I have frizzy hair too! It took me a long time to figure out how to fix it. I feel so much better when I straighten it. :P

Viva81Diva

As far as your pics, you can set up a free account with PHOTOBUCKET. Upload your pics there, and then resize them so when you post them here they will fit.

The way you post them is to click on the picture you want, then look on the right side of the screen. Find "Image Links" and beside the "IMG Code" you will see a link that starts with [URL=http://

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Just click on it once and it will say "copied".... Come back or start your post here on MFP and once you begin typing, PASTE (or press CTRL and V at the same time) and the link will be here.


You do need to change the at the end to this: in order for it to appear. If you don't, then the picture will not show up. It will only look like everything I typed on this reply.

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Viva81Diva

Sorry about the X. It is just changing the to lower case img and /img in brackets.

Viva81Diva

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this is what it looks like when pasted,

and THIS is what it looks like when I use lowercase img in the 2 brackets....

Viva81Diva

I believe you can take out the

part of it...

Viva81Diva

Maybe not... Sorry! You do get the picture in there, though!

If it is too large, you need to RESIZE it to fit. When looking at the picture on Photobucket.com, you will see a few icons above it. Click EDIT! and then you will be able to Resize it. You are going to have to go back and click on the link after resizing it and come back to the post and either Edit it or just Paste the new link.

Good luck, and hope that this helped!

OH yeah! ALSO make sure you are not Private on Photobucket! If you are, people may not be able to see your picture.

AmandaMarie916

Thanks! I'll try it. I got to get the pics off my husbands phone.

Viva81Diva

You're welcome! I just realized that in order to get the URL part out of it, lower case that too!