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    Squee. I've reached my goal. Before and after pics...

    Posts: 314 Member
    edited September 2024 in Success Stories
    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).

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    After:
    At just under 150lbs

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    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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    • Posts: 227 Member
      You look STUNNING! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Posts: 637 Member
      You look amazing!!! great work-truely an insparation/motivation to keep at this -thanks for sharing :)
    • Posts: 1,758 Member
      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)
    • Posts: 531 Member
      You look gorgeous... and quite stylish!! Grats on meeting your goal.
    • Posts: 265 Member
      Wow Great job! You look so good and so happy! What an inspiration!
    • Posts: 324
      BEAUTIFUL......congrats!!!!:smile:
    • Posts: 416
      That is awesome.....How did you reach that goal? natural? surgery? etc....
    • Posts: 167 Member
      That is wonderful, and thank you for sharing your success. It is truly an inspiration. Congrats!!! :flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 314 Member
      Thank you so much for your good wishes, guys :love:

      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.
    • Posts: 24,482 Member
      Very inspirational! You look AMAZING!
    • Posts: 68
      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!!!
    • Posts: 18 Member
      Awesome!
    • Posts: 190
      Oh my goodness. You seriously SERIOUSLY look fabulous.

      And I love the success story forum. It's SUCH a source of motivation!
    • Posts: 190 Member
      That is a staggeringly awsome transformation! You look simply great!
    • Posts: 2,166
      Amazing! You look great and so much younger now! Thanks for sharing your journey with us all!:flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 30
      You look really good! I bet it feels so nice to be so fit! Congratulations!
    • Posts: 459
      Absolutely amazing!
    • Posts: 288 Member
      WOW!!! What an amazing transformation! HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to you and maintain that rocking body :wink:
    • Posts: 101 Member
      Wow! Congrats on reaching your goal...you look amazing!
    • Posts: 859
      That is so awesome! Congrats! You look fabulous!
    • Posts: 1,171 Member
      CONGRATULATIONS! that is awesome, what a great job!!! You should be yelling from the rooftops!!
    • Posts: 15 Member
      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 .
    • Posts: 314 Member
      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!!
    • Posts: 435
      Congratulations! You look amazing - so much healthier and younger! What an excellent achievement and thanks for wanting to encourage us!!!
      Gail
    • Posts: 522 Member
      congratulations you look absoulutly fantastic and the happiness shows in your pics you have good reason to be proud
    • Posts: 758 Member
      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:
    • Posts: 66
      You look SO FAB! Congratulations! Enjoy your new body!!! And KEEP SMILING because you did it! WOW, WOW, W-O-W!!!!!:bigsmile:
    • Posts: 77
      Wow!! You look amazing congradulations on your weight loss!!!!
    • Posts: 416
      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.
    • Posts: 1,130 Member
      amazing, you look totally different, you should be very proud!!
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