Mission Complete... Well, sorta! (lots of pics)

I have finally Met my weightLOSS goal. Now to sculpt and tone Here's my story.
I had my first baby in 2005. I think, at my heaviest, I weighed around 178.

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I never really tried very hard to lose any weight. Walked a little, tried eating a little better. Always made excuses why I couldn't workout. Biggest one was that I didn't have time cause I was a mom :huh: Couldn't eat healthy because the healthy food was too expensive and it always just went bad... (it doesn't if you actually eat it...everyday!) Anyways, long story short.... By the time I got pregnant for baby number 2 in 2010, I was down to 160. Just lost it from many failed attempts at eating healthy and whatever, it just came off on it's own somehow. Miraculously, came out of the hospital with him, weighing the same 160! By the time he was 1, I had lost 25 lbs. He was nursed and he had a dairy allergy, which meant I had to change my whole way of eating to fit his needs. No chocolate, no cheese :sad: , pretty much nothing prepackage! It sucked! Needless to say, as soon as I was done nursing, I ended up gaining weight from eating all the things I had to go without!

Fast forward January of this year, I was 149 lbs. I'm only 5' on the button. Was very unhappy with the way I looked. All my clothes were now too tight. Wearing heavy sweaters to "hide" my belly. My sister-in-law and I decided we'd challenge each other! Every Thursday, we'd take our babies to our local playgroup and afterwards we'd go for dinner. Our usual order is fries with the works! (Fries, ground beef, gravy, peas and we'd get poutine cheese added) She was tired of having a few extra lbs to carry around and I was very ready to do something about mine. So we decided to make a bet. Whoever lost the most weight in a month would get treated to our usual dinner! I got up every morning, 30 minutes before I had to wake my daughter up for school and I did Jillian Michaels 30 day Shred. Another friend suggested we try MFP too. I loved it. I felt so happy that I had finally decided to take some time out of my day for myself, and I was actually managing to lose weight and inches! By the end of the month, I had lost 7.5 lbs. and quite a few inches :bigsmile: That was motivation enough to keep going! I Decided to try Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30 next! I just kept finding Jillian Michaels workouts to try and trying to squeeze them in every day or mostly everyday.
Now that my daughter is home from school, I find it hard to find a routine that is working with our non-existant schedule but I'm sure once school starts back up I'll be fine!

Here are my results from the time I joined mfp and Started working out! I hope this works...







I tried lightening the "after" photo...I'm not a photo editor that's for sure!








Now to get to work on lowering fat % and increasing muscles!

Thanks for reading!