Lost 35 lbs in 3 months :) W/ Pics

I was always a thin child but my body caught up to my crazy food habits midway through high school. My size 4 body when to a size 12 in a year it would seem. I didn't have very good self esteem to begin with so it hurt me to see that i didnt embrace myself at my best.

After high school my parents and I lost everything. I was unable to go to college and I had to work to survive. When things seem a little stable I ended up quitting my job to work out. I worked in a deli so food was everywhere and I hated it. I quit my job in April of 2011 and I would jog in the early AM and I would also jog in the nighttime. I added inline skating into my routine and DDR. I didn't really focus on my looks or anything. I was happy to be sweaty and not wear makeup for once. I would through my hair in a pony tail and lose myself in my music while I ran. When I started in April I couldn't even manage a mile. I went from that to jogging at least 3-5 miles a day. I even started jogging without music and started chatting with friends while we jogged the neighborhood.

I became a bad *kitten* without even knowing it. After 3 months my body changed. The cellulite I had was almost gone! I was able to dress up and look like a young girl and not a middle aged chubby lady. It was awesome. Most importantly, I took control of my life during such a bad time. Especially because we were losing our home yet again and I had no friends or family who could take me in. For months my runs were the only thing keeping me together. Realistically I had to work again and I did. It was a nice break especially because I worked since I was 14. In august I stopped working out because I ended up moving 300 miles away to live with a friend of my fiancee. As I adjusted to the new area and work and having a place of my own I stopped running. Before I lived like .5 miles from a track so it was easy for me to go workout.
this made me super sad because i worked so hard for it. Instead I started cycling. Within two years I gained back my weight.
So now I'm telling you that I started my routine again. I run on pavement and a track. I think treadmills are a joke. I feel like i dont get as much out of it.

This is what I looked like at my heaviest weight:



In those pictures I weighed somewhere between 180 and 190.

After 3 months of jogging in hot weather and occasional inline skating This is how i looked after I shaped up.



The thing I noticed that toned the most was my legs of course. Which is fine by me. In this weird photo below you can see how much my legs toned up.





( i know I look the i could be the female version of dean Winchester in my after photo.)

My ending weight was in the 150's. I think I got lower than that but I didn't focus on my weight. I never weighed myself until December that year.

I do not count my calories. I just use my best judgment. I feel like counting calories and logging things is like watching a pot boil. It doesn't boil fast enough and you become impatient.

I'm sure all of you are like... " why post this if you gained weight back from not working out..."

well because even though i gained it back from being a fatty I know I can always look back at this time and see when I kicked *kitten* and it helps me want to see through to it again. I mean.. I was on the verge of being homeless with no place to go and I still found myself working on my fitness. It kept me from going insane.

Another thing i try to keep in mind is that just because i stopped doesn't mean i need to start all over again you know? Just because your car got a flat doesn't mean you need to change all the other tires too. This journey doesn't end when you lose the weight. it goes on and on.

It also helped me realize I was wrong. I thought that when I was a size 4 that It was my best. Now I know that's now true. When I worked my hardest to change myself I was at my best. I earned it.

For my food intake all I can say is I drank so much water which for me is a miracle because I NEVER drank water. I drank like 2 liters of coke in 2 days. For my food I would go by acmes and get a salad or something or if i was craving bad food I would get Chinese.

I hope all of you got something positive out my post and I hope to continue this journey and this time maintain it.

This is what I look like now BTW for anyone curious. I'm still thick in the arms and hips/legs.


Im super pumped to create something wonderful and I hope you all feel the same way too.