60+ Pounds

Oh boy is this scary. The natural inclination is to pick the MOST FLATTERING fat pictures you can find. I had to go to my friend's pictures to get a little honesty.

Obviously, I still have a long way to go. I'm about halfway to comfortably within my healthy weight range, but I've been meaning to post pictures for awhile. I started this March of last year at 262 pounds. Right now I'm clocking in at 197. The important stats are I'm 5'6" and 27 years old. I use Mederma lotion for my skin and I've been pleased with the results. I strength train and do about an hour of cardio most days.

When I'm behaving myself I go to the gym 5-6 days a week, although I've had months where it was much more sporadic than that. I've also had months where I lost nothing. I want to say between Halloween and Christmas I pretty much maintained. I live on Staten Island... so Hurricane Sandy was an experience.

Let's open it up with unabashed unflattering, I am in the purple. My sister is in the middle in black. Her species is Cheeto, presumably she was nervous around me given I liked them so much.


Blue shirt!


We may call this picture the "Hungry Fairy Godmother."


A few weeks ago:


I still have a ways to go, but I'm proud of how far I've come. My best advice to everyone is to be kind to yourself. I've dieted before, sometimes 20-30 pounds level success and sometimes in the way that immediately gets moved to next Monday because I put sugar in my coffee. I think the biggest difference now is I didn't really give a **** about being perfect. I started aiming to eat healthier, not just once a day and junk when I did, and incorporated exercise that was fun I'm still clearly unqualified to advise anyone on anything, but seriously, just be kind to yourself. Also, forgive me if I don't immediately respond to anyone. I'm going to post this and go run away so I don't have super massive regrets about some of these pictures.