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Squee. I've reached my goal. Before and after pics...
somigliana
Posts: 314 Member
It has taken me since September 2008 [with a six month maintenance break from June 2009 to Dec 2009] to get here.
Now, my new challenge is to keep the lifestyle going and to find my happy maintenance calories :happy: Having been here before and put it all back on again, I'm not quite willing to trust myself not to track my food with a diary.
And I'm happy! Yes, I feel healthy and fit, but I was reminded again today how much this means to me in terms of mental wellbeing--clothes shopping today was a pleasure, not a tears-inducing outing. For me, being overweight and being depressed went hand-in-hand, one feeding (hah!) the other.
Before:
Over 232lbs (I avoided the scale like it was poison).
After:
At just under 150lbs
No matter where you are on your own lifestyle journey... good luck to you and may you reach all your goals. :flowerforyou:
Now, my new challenge is to keep the lifestyle going and to find my happy maintenance calories :happy: Having been here before and put it all back on again, I'm not quite willing to trust myself not to track my food with a diary.
And I'm happy! Yes, I feel healthy and fit, but I was reminded again today how much this means to me in terms of mental wellbeing--clothes shopping today was a pleasure, not a tears-inducing outing. For me, being overweight and being depressed went hand-in-hand, one feeding (hah!) the other.
Before:
Over 232lbs (I avoided the scale like it was poison).
After:
At just under 150lbs
No matter where you are on your own lifestyle journey... good luck to you and may you reach all your goals. :flowerforyou:
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You look STUNNING! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!0
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You look amazing!!! great work-truely an insparation/motivation to keep at this -thanks for sharing
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Congrats. :flowerforyou: You've done great. I found that I have to continue to track my calories or I loose track and can put the weight on far easier than it was to take off.
Here's to the future. :drinker: (water in the cups)0 -
You look gorgeous... and quite stylish!! Grats on meeting your goal.0
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Wow Great job! You look so good and so happy! What an inspiration!0
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BEAUTIFUL......congrats!!!! 0
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That is awesome.....How did you reach that goal? natural? surgery? etc....0
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That is wonderful, and thank you for sharing your success. It is truly an inspiration. Congrats!!! :flowerforyou:0
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Thank you so much for your good wishes, guys
selbyhutch -- Thank you! It's much more fun to shop now, and I will admit that I make more of an effort to dress better nowadays.
Preciousoohnana -- I reached my goal the natural way: a calorie-controlled eating plan (I averaged around 1450cals before exercise calories), exercise and eating most of my exercise calories.0 -
Very inspirational! You look AMAZING!0
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Thank you so much for sharing this!!!! Very well done and to know that you did this all with diet and exercise, sure gives me hope that I too can do this!!!
WTG!!!0 -
Awesome!0
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Oh my goodness. You seriously SERIOUSLY look fabulous.
And I love the success story forum. It's SUCH a source of motivation!0 -
That is a staggeringly awsome transformation! You look simply great!0
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Amazing! You look great and so much younger now! Thanks for sharing your journey with us all!:flowerforyou:0
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You look really good! I bet it feels so nice to be so fit! Congratulations!0
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Absolutely amazing!0
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WOW!!! What an amazing transformation! HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to you and maintain that rocking body
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Wow! Congrats on reaching your goal...you look amazing!0
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That is so awesome! Congrats! You look fabulous!0
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CONGRATULATIONS! that is awesome, what a great job!!! You should be yelling from the rooftops!!0
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WOW!!!! you look great well done to you. ::flowerforyou: Was feeling low & fed up when i woke up but after seeing what you have achieved has made me feel positive again .0
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Thank you so much--all of your comments have really given me a case of the smiles :happy:WOW!!!! you look great well done to you. ::flowerforyou: Was feeling low & fed up when i woke up but after seeing what you have achieved has made me feel positive again .
:flowerforyou: I'm so thrilled to hear that I could help you in some small way. Keep at it!!0 -
Congratulations! You look amazing - so much healthier and younger! What an excellent achievement and thanks for wanting to encourage us!!!
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congratulations you look absoulutly fantastic and the happiness shows in your pics you have good reason to be proud0
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What an amazing achievement. You look fantastic. You have inspired me to keep going as I only have 12lb to lose. Thank you and well done :glasses:0
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You look SO FAB! Congratulations! Enjoy your new body!!! And KEEP SMILING because you did it! WOW, WOW, W-O-W!!!!!:bigsmile:0
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Wow!! You look amazing congradulations on your weight loss!!!!0
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thats very inspiring...now trying to pry but just curious as to whether it was natural or what not.....definitely something i can now use as inspiration.0
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amazing, you look totally different, you should be very proud!!0
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