52 pounds down, with pictures! (some in undies)

Hey everybody!

Here's a sum of why I started this process below! If you wish to skip, just scroll and look at my progress through pictures!

I've posted on here a few times, updating everyone on my progress bit by bit so I can hopefully inspire others or even get some tips along the way! I'm a mere 18 pounds away from my goal and I'm on cloud 9! I must say, being 148 pounds down from 200 (well, I would say more than that seeing as how I was 200 after a solid month of eating well) and went from a bulging size 14 (probably a size 15/16 in denial, especially since my 14's were disgustingly tight) to a size 9/10!
Something clicked inside me in the later summer/early fall of 2011 where I decided that being obese for my 5'5" frame was enough. I have never been small in my entire life, and I'm known to tell myself I'm going to lose the weight and immediately lose track at the sight of a bag of chips or a small offering of McDonald's. If you read my profile already, the worst year of my life was 2011, when I lost the most important man in my life; my dad. After a long, cruel, painful battle with cancer, he lost his life to it and I knew from then on I had to make a change. There's nothing more eye opening that watching a man who took care of his body, ate well, exercised, built his own home gym, and then developed a tumor in his stomach that quickly spread.. then losing him. I miss him more than anything.
From that moment, I dedicated my life to making him proud. The one thing I have to stop now is having the occasional cigarette, because, no offense to those who smoke, it makes no sense to do so and it's just... wrong.. especially after everything my dad went through.
There are also vanity reasons as to why continuing to lose weight is easier. I thoroughly enjoy checking out my butt in all of my new jeans. I enjoy trying on clothes, I enjoy looking at all these marvelous perfumes that makes me feel even more confident. I enjoy dressing to the nine's when going out or even to the grocery store, because I'm no longer confined to sweat pants and a pony tail because I feel bad for myself. I enjoy going to the gym because I love it, I enjoy breaking a sweat because it makes me feel marvelous, I enjoy talking to people because I no longer worry if they're thinking about how my stomach is huge. I enjoy my life so much now, and I'm so happy to just keep living! The only thing I wish is that my dad was here to share in this experience with me, but I do have a large family and every single one of them is extremely supportive so I'm doing okay.

Pictures!!

Me (on the right) with my cousin Cindy, 200 pound fat face.


Me with my sister (again, on the right) at 158 pounds with a smaller face!


More of me at 200+ pounds.




158 pounds!



148 pounds, yesterday!