15 pounds lost!! share your success story and pictures!

I'm Missy and I am 19 years old. I just decided to start my weight loss journey and now I am on my fifth week and I've lost 8 pounds using MFP so far! I did lose 7 pounds the first week I was trying to lose weight before I started my fitness pal but I know that was mostly water weight and you always lose the most in the first week.
I am a very big skeptic of diets because they seem unrealistic, I just want to be healthy and have a more healthy lifestyle. I am 5'6'' and I weighed 174 pounds coming home from college. I am at my current weight of 159 and I could not believe the difference. My goal is 125-135 and I am willing to be patient and wait as long as I need to in order to lose the weight and keep it off forever.
It should never be about diets or being skinny it is about trying to be the best you, healthy and fit. It is also not all about the scale and how much weight you need to lose but for me it is about how I feel in clothes and the muscle I am gaining. I am not a crazy healthy eater and I do not go to the gym everyday but I know that if you want something so badly you have to put in the work but honestly that does not mean change everything about yourself. I have learned over the past 3 weeks that you need people in your life to support you. My motto is.. If YOU ARE NOT MY SUPPORT SYSTEM THEN YOU ARE MY MOTIVATION.
People are always going to have something to say about you but it is what you think about yourself that matters. So don't lose weight for the haters in the world lose weight and be fit to make your life happier. You can be 200 pounds and if you are healthy and active and happy with your life then everyone should respect that. I love my fitness pal because it is a way to vent and be able to have that support system to get through this journey and that is what it is a journey, an adventure that will last a lifetime and one that will make a better you.

These are some pictures of myself from my starting weight at 174 and then at 166 then again at my current weight of 159. I am nowhere near where I would like to be but seeing the difference in pictures is my favorite part.

Please share you success story and pictures cause everyone should be able to show off the new you!


Me at 174 -180






Me at 155-160





THEN 174 AND NOW 159