40lbs/18kg down in 3 months! Progress Pics!

This is my first post ever here, so please bear with me if it doesn't work properly! I love seeing the success story pics, so I thought I'd post my own!

At the end of April I decided to get serious about losing weight. I had never been really unhappy with the way I looked, but thought it couldn't hurt to try something new. I had been working on my fitness for months prior, but had not been serious about my diet, which meant I had seen limited results. A friend had been using MFP and told me to use it and the rest is history.

I would say my highest weight would have been between 85-90kg (187-198lbs) in September of 2011. At the time I was super stressed about university, money and my relationship. I was doing a full course load at university, working over 30hrs a week and generally not looking after myself. I lost some weight over summer, so was smaller in April when I started on MFP.

Here are some before pics from September 2011 (in India):




From April I started upping my running by 10% timewise every week, starting from 30mins. I used an iPhone app to track my runs and calorie burn. I was netting 1200, mostly eating back my exercise calories, depending on how I was feeling. I would run almost every day, 5-6 days a week. I love to run.

By mid-June I had lost about 11kg/25lbs. Here are some progress pics from then (on the island of Crete in Greece):



Pics from last week minus 18kg/40lbs- Please forgive the selfies:



I have been plateuing somewhat for a while. I am not worrying about this. I am just going to let my body have a bit of a rest. I have started to change up my workout routine. I have started the New Rules of Lifting for Women, upped my cals, changed the focus of my macros. I am now lifting and doing interval training. I also play netball twice a week, usually climb the mountain behind my house once a week and enjoy lots of walks around the lake in the Australian winter sun. I love being outside and being active. My most recent NSV was finding out my resting heart rate puts me in the athlete category for my age and sex! I would like to lose another 5kg/11lbs to get down to my goal weight, but I'm going to do it slowly and try and put on some muscle mass in the meantime.

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