Wedding Dress before and after 40lb loss (pics)

WOW, AMAZING!! Great job. I'm the same height as you and need to lose about 50lbs. Would love to hear how you did it and what your fitness goals are. very inspirational.

Thank You!!! I count calories and usually stay between 1200-1500. Some days I will eat back my exercise calories and some days I don't. I just go on how I feel that day. If I am super hungy and I know it isn't just a craving, I will eat! Also, I workout 6 days a week. I run 4-5 days a week and I do Jillian Michaels 30 day shred workouts almost every night. I love those workouts because they are free on youtube and only 28 min long.

My goals right now besides reaching my GW of 135 are to:
1: Tone my body for this summer to wear a bikini
2: Run my first full marathon in May
3: Improve my 5k and 10k times. Right now my PB on 5k is 28 and on 10k is 58. I'd love to get down to 26min and 55min
4: Tighten my stomach. I want to try Jillian Michaels 6 week to 6 pack
5: I want to get my body fat % measured and start making goals based on that. But I am going to wait til I am at 135 for that.

Amazing!!! Can you tell us more about your journey with your weight loss? You look fantastic!

Thank You! Yes, I can.. I have been overweight my entire life and never had any confidence to do anything about it. I never had a boyfriend in highschool or did sports or wore shorts. I wanted to do all the simple things that I felt every normal girl should be able to do. In college I started to try to lose weight. I had some success(10lbs maybe) and started to run a little (1 mile here and there) but it wasn't until I got marriend and had my daughter that I became serious about losing weight. After I gave birth I weighed in at a depressing 220lb! I knew I needed to change. I dropped the first 35lbs with basically just breastfeeding and cutting portions. Then about 6 months ago I got serious about working out. I started running alot (I'm now training for a marathon) and I started doing a lot of Jillian Michaels workouts (I've never had so much definition in my life!!). With that and counting calories through mfp, I have lost about 40 more pounds.

I owe most of my success to my mfp support group and seeing the ppl I know lose weight before me. Seeing some of my friends be able to lose weight made me realize, "Hey, I could do that too!" and now with the running I just keep telling myself that I CAN do this! I started at 3 miles for long runs and now I am up to 10 miles. I am so excited for all the things my body is able to do now and I have come so far from the chubby, insecure, sad high school girl that I used to be.

I've just been sitting here thinking that I'm not sure I can stay on track today....that I want to go bake cookies and eat half the batch. Then I saw your post and how beautiful you look and feel. Thanks for the inspiration to stay on track.