My 1st Before & After Pic

Hi everyone,

I am pretty new here and have been "lurking" around reading your posts. I love how you all are so supportive of each other. It's fantastic! Tam Tastic's before & after pic (which is just amazing I might add) inspired me to make one of my own. The before pic is from last fall just before my "lifestyle change" with food. I recently passed my 50lb mark and was surprised at the difference. I don't think I had stopped seeing myself as that heavy person. Doing this is such a boost to keep going to reach my goals. Thank you Tam Tastic!!! So-o-o here we go.............

Thank you guys!! It does feel good. :blushing:

I know I look really unhappy in that pic and I was, but I had also been working all day on a horse stall for my mom. Someone took my picture without my knowledge. Pretty sure it was my 8 year old. He's always trying to sneak my camera away. It doesn't matter. Even if I had known he was taking it, it wouldn't have turned out any better, :laugh: . I am so not photogenic.

I started last November and when I did a search online, I found a site that you could log in your food, weight, and measurements. It was a lot like MFP. If I had found MFP first, I definitely would have been here all along. It's so much easier to use. The calculations were pretty much the same.

I just watched my calories like a hawk and walked on my treadmill. I guess the one thing I did that some people don't do is not eat the calories that I burn exercising. I have always tried to stay within that core amount that doesn't include any exercise for the day. Well, the website I was using shut down in January for whatever reason. I just kept going but my weight plateaued. I had lost 35 pounds by the end of January.

Needless to say, I stopped watching my intake and started gaining weight back slowly. By the end of June I had gained back 10lbs.:grumble: I just didn't want to go back to feeling that way again. So I got determined and decided to get back to it. That's when I found you guys.:happy: I don't log in my food too much anymore because I eat pretty much the same thing everyday. I do log it in when things are different than usual. I now have my husband using MFP too.

I want to reach my pre-pregnancy weight from my 1st son of 135lbs. So I have 18lbs to go. Just reading everyone's posts is very inspiring and encouraging. I just want to keep going.

Thanks again you all!!