Women with larger frames, share your before and afters!

My heaviest was 252 lbs. I saw this pic and got my butt to the gym in January of 2011. I am now at my goal weight of 125 lbs.




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The photos of me with the jeans were taken Friday, April 12th 2013. The face shot was taken in March.

24, SW: 203 CW:155



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These pictures really are motivational. It can be done.

i am 5'8" very barrel chested. broad shoulders and hips. i would certainly call my frame large. heck even at my high eight of 274 you could see my collar bones. i'm 220.8 (yes that .8 is important...mostly because it isn't 221). i lost my first 40 pounds super fast then gained back 10 then lost 20 more and sat there for almost a year. i started back up a couple of weeks ago and have dropped another 4 so far. i've found some new motivation in needing to build our savings back up from a bathroom remodel, vacation, and a broken stove and in that i am worried about my husband gaining back all he has lost. gotta stay on top of these things :-)

this is him and i on our wedding day. about a month before i started here


and though not a full body shot here is a head shot of us last august in mexico


i'm not sure what my goal is yet. i'll know when i get there i guess. when i started i wanted to be thinner than i was in high school, i passed that probably 30 pounds ago. at the moment i am thinking at least 25 more pounds. then i will reevaluate.

I'm 5'8" I use to think I had a large frame, but I'm no longer sure. I do have broad shoulders I think.

Before February 2012 256



This past week in Hawaii April 2013 156

Super job

best transformation ive seen! congrats

Not yet a success, but I started @ 247.6 Size 18/20
This month's weight is @ 217.6 Size 15-14
My current is 170 Size 9/10
That’s my happy medium!
5'5 exactly and I’m curvy.

My heaviest was 252 lbs. I saw this pic and got my butt to the gym in January of 2011. I am now at my goal weight of 125 lbs.




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The photos of me with the jeans were taken Friday, April 12th 2013. The face shot was taken in March.

Wow! You are stunning! Great job!

Great job -You are an inspiration. Did you eat right and exercise. How much exercise did you start out with?

Sure :happy:
I started out right after having my middle daughter. I went to the YMCA and I rode the recumbent bike for 20 minutes at a time. Nothing major. I couldn't even do 3 minutes on the elliptical. It was very, very hard for me, I didn't feel tired, I just felt like I couldn't breathe, was horrible! I got the weight watchers points book from my godmother who was a die hard member. I counted my points, which basically was a lowfat low cal diet of appx. 1300 calories. The weight melted off me. I lost 60 pounds in 4/5 months.
Here is a pic of me when I had her

not three months later here is when I as about 200


I lost ten more pounds and left my partner. I hovered right around 185/190 for a long time. Though I shot up into the 200s for a few months Here is a pic of Newyears 2008


I had yet another baby in 2009. His weight came off fairly easy. I dropped down to 180 in 2010 after my sons (the babys) father died. I metmy husband when my son was little over a year old, I got pregnant by my husband and shot back up to 230 lbs, My starting weight was 176.
This is a pic from my final bambino, I was probably about 220 here


I worked really hard just eating according to what I used to be able to eat on weightwatchers. I got into p90x and Hiit workouts. I finally broke 170 again about 5 months after having the baby. I then got a very stressful job and quit dieting and working out. I took a bout a year break and maintained around 175. Again I went though a super stressful life event and stopped eating for three weeks, went down to 155, once I started eating again I shot up to 174. I started insanity in February but couldn't finish it due to tearing a ligament in my ankle. I only lost 5 pounds in the 4 weeks I did it.
I am lifting heavy now, on a 4 day split. ( I will tell you my schedule if anyone wants to know it) I swim on Wednesdays and do light cardio after my weight sessions. I keep my cals between 1500-1700 cals a day. High protein. Since February I have only lost about 10 lbs, but I lost a total of 12.5 inches now.
My family keeps me going, I want to have my kids be proud to call me mom! I want to be the hot mom!


Here are my kiddos and my stepdaughter (my kiddo too) We are a crazy bunch but it goes to prove that just because you have kids or are short on time you CAN make it work for you! Even with an unsupportive spouse YOU CAN DO IT!

Sorry this is so long!

I haven't got any progress pics apart from my face in my profile one, but I have quite a large frame with big hands and feet and broad shoulders despite only being 5'6".

I started at 210lbs and a UK size 20, am now 159lbs and a UK size 12.

My shoulders are still very wide and that makes it difficult to buy fitted tops in smaller sizes! Also my calves are really muscular and so haven't really got any smaller despite losing 50lbs+. And my feet have got narrower, making finding shoes even harder when you are a UK 8.5. Some things you just have to put down to build rather than being fat.

I haven't got any progress pics apart from my face in my profile one

OK, scrap that, I need to man up and post more pictures. I need to be more proud of what I have achieved!

I still have a way to go, but I am getting there

I'm 5'8" and fairly large framed. I think I've gotten a little too thin and am trying to build some muscle and perhaps gain a few pounds in the process.

I'm 5'9 and larger framed (my ankle is 10") My start weight was 265 currently weighing in around 174. I have a % of body fat goal more than a weight/size goal, I'd like to be under 20%. I'm in a size 12 now. I have pictures on my profile but I've got to get to work at the moment.

I haven't got any progress pics apart from my face in my profile one, but I have quite a large frame with big hands and feet and broad shoulders despite only being 5'6".

I started at 210lbs and a UK size 20, am now 159lbs and a UK size 12.

My shoulders are still very wide and that makes it difficult to buy fitted tops in smaller sizes! Also my calves are really muscular and so haven't really got any smaller despite losing 50lbs+. And my feet have got narrower, making finding shoes even harder when you are a UK 8.5. Some things you just have to put down to build rather than being fat.

This is really awesome to read! Sounds like we have very similar body shapes! I'm 5"8 and was 203lbs when I started (just about squeezing into a UK16), i'm now down to 177lbs and a solid UK14, sometimes a UK12. My original goal was to get down to 152lbs, but I would be happy to just lose another stone and be a solid UK12.

I also have very broad shoulders, my collar bones now stick out (yay!) but man are they thick, I also have a really wide rib cage!! also my calves are ridiculously muscly, always have been, and even when I lost 59lbs 10 years ago, I think there was maybe a half inch difference.

If i'm honest, for me anyway, having fluctuated between 223lbs and 164lbs all my adult life, I have, well, lets just say, although I've never had kids, a Dr has asked me how many I have, thanks to all the stretch marks and saggy skin. I think that sometimes that is just a hangover of being fat. I don't expect that I will ever be smooth and svelt and will probably just have to embrace looking good in clothes and more like a melted candle without.

But... that's just me!