195 pounds in two years! What a difference! With pics.
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OP states:
From now on, I refrain from:
Negative thoughts
Critical or gloomy people
Whatever stops my smiling
Whatever keeps me from sleeping at night
Whatever darkens my mood
Whatever undermines my self-confidence and causes me anxiety
Whatever throws a spanner in the works!
Good list! It really will help you in everything you do! You look fantastic! I'm glad you're happy (even if a bit nervous) to start a new, healthier chapter in your life!0 -
Wow! Wow! Wow! What an amazing accomplishment. You look fabulous!!0
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Fabulous job! You look so much younger! What a great inspiration you are! Thanks so much for sharing.0
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wow - you look amazing.0
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Congratulations! Such a wonderful post very honest and inspiring. Good luck on maintainance :flowerforyou:0
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WOW!! You are one beautiful lady, and you look so happy and so incredible! Way to go!
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You look AMAZING!! Congratulations on your accomplishment! :flowerforyou:0
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Amazing job! Thank you for sharing. You look fabulous and I hope you feel it, too.0
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Thank you for your honest and encouraging post. There is such a spark of vibrancy, courage and love in your eyes...they are wide open & awake...it must be a little adjustment to say the least from the outside looking in, Im for sure the inside too is catching up with all the changes of heart and otherwise. Be proud you have accomplished your goals and have much life to live!!! Be Blessed, Lisa
I hope to show the same courage, vibrancy & love with my own challenges--weight & life in general. Awesome, and so inspiring You are the real deal! Your post is a gift --it suffering & joy to get results and maintain...0 -
Really amazing. Hearing about your journey is inspiring and heart warming.0
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Fantastic work! You've accomplished an amazing journey, and I'm inspired. Thank you for posting this.0
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You are AWESOME!!!!!0
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Can only say, OUTFREAKINGSTANDING!!! I am encouraged and humbled by your words and journey...0
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What an inspiration to all of us. Congrats . on creating the NEW YOU.0
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I asked the question to all my friends on my MFP site, was there anyone who hit the mark and was maintaining? I asked, how did it feel, and what were their thoughts. I guess I hadn't any friends on my site that had succeeded. You have gotten to the end of the rope and you were true to your feelings. I read every word on the edge of my seat.
You did succeed and I want to learn from your message. I need to retrain my feelings about myself starting today. I hope you can bring yourself to the joys of life in that is all around you. My husband is a true believer in positive thoughts. He thanks the Lord every day he wakes and thanks him every night. He looks outside and enjoys the grass, plants, sky, sun, and even the rain and snow! For the last 20 years, I always thought he was a bit crazy. I felt my weight was my problem as well as many on this site probably do.
Being successful allows you to share with others. Being successful allows you to fit in with the critical skinny world. Being successful will allow you to find the true you and leave the weight issue behind. You did succeed! Thank you so much for sharing and giving all of us inspiration.0 -
You would think I would be ecstatic to have reached my goal. This how I had figured out that day anyway but I was not. I was proud of course but very sad because my body is not looking the way I thought it would, or should or could. Should I lose 5 pounds more? Would that loss fill the hole in my heart? Where is the stop line? There is a beast in me that is called low self-esteem and it is still very hungry, famished and ugly. Appeasing that monster was one of the goals that I had set up on my MFP profile on May 6, 2012, and it hasn’t been achieved yet. So I was sad…
First off, congrats. You have done what some many have set out to do and are an inspiration to all of us.
You look fantastic!!
Secondly, quoted above - I get it, 100% and I haven't even lost the half of what you have. Your heart will fill, your self esteem will come, and you will fight all those demons. I thought all my issues were because of my weight, and boy they weren't. Times were hard as I realized this and worked on myself - I cried, I smiled, I laughed.. but I got thru it and you will too!!!! Good luck!0 -
Amazing transformation in the whole you. Congratulations.0
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Congratulations and thanks for sharing!0
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Oh my goodness! What a transformation! Incredible job! Congratulations! You look amazing!0
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For the third day in a row, I saw this number on the scale, 135! So I guess this is it. Today, May 16, 2014, I must make it official. My two-year quest has landed. My goal was to lose 195 pounds and it is done. For those who are just starting and those who are stalling, and for the ones that have tried every diet in the world but don’t believe they can do it, there’s hope! Yes, it is doable…
Just dieting and exercising.
And persevering.
And trying out things.
And going on,
and on.
And reading.
And observing.
And writing.
And sharing.
And listening.
And encouraging others.
And loving.
You would think I would be ecstatic to have reached my goal. This how I had figured out that day anyway but I was not. I was proud of course but very sad because my body is not looking the way I thought it would, or should or could. Should I lose 5 pounds more? Would that loss fill the hole in my heart? Where is the stop line? There is a beast in me that is called low self-esteem and it is still very hungry, famished and ugly. Appeasing that monster was one of the goals that I had set up on my MFP profile on May 6, 2012, and it hasn’t been achieved yet. So I was sad…
But I was first and foremost scared to death that I have to change something I feel familiar with, losing weight. Maintaining, I have never done before, not even tried. I have always been obese except for 2-3 short periods of my life when I was probably “just” overweight. I say probably because I spent years not looking at myself, avoiding mirrors and scales. And I am still a BIG girl in my mind. At 52, can I really change my behaviors and attitudes? Probably so, to some extent. Some of the changes have been underway since 2 years. For the rest, I will just try to do what I did when I started this journey: I will aim for small steps, and forgiveness, and enjoy a healthy life, one day at a time, one day after the other…
Very suddenly, today, I felt like if I were flying solo, leaving home for the first time, free in the BIG adult world. Like when I got off the bus a very long time ago, at 6 o’clock, in a BIG new town, with a huge handbag on one side and my horn on the other. But I am a big girl now (well, not so BIG, pardon the pun), and I know I am ready for a new and beautiful life tailored just as I want it to be. I am the master of my destiny. I just need to time to adjust...not being BIG… anymore…
Anyway, borrowed from a friend, there is a part of my lifetime maintenance diet:
From now on, I refrain from:
Negative thoughts
Critical or gloomy people
Whatever stops my smiling
Whatever keeps me from sleeping at night
Whatever darkens my mood
Whatever undermines my self-confidence and causes me anxiety
Whatever throws a spanner in the works!
In 5 weeks, if all days are the same
I will have lost 10 pounds in discomfort and illness.
I will have gained 10 pounds in quality of life and happiness.
And remember: If “A” plan fails, there are 25 more letters in the alphabet!
Thanks to all my dear MFP friends for your support day after day! Without you, I don’t know if I would have succeeded! The journey was so much more interesting and inspiring with you. I drink to your health and happiness. Santé!
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SUCCESS.... now get out there in enjoy life more! although comeback here once in a while to help out other people doing the same journey you did... BUMP FOR MORE PEOPLE TO SEE AGAIN GREAT JOB!0
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