160 to 125 with pics

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  • maloryanne
    maloryanne Posts: 44 Member
    wow thats amazing!! kudos to you!! :)
  • Stephinow
    Stephinow Posts: 273
    Congratulations! You are beautiful!
  • Lilsquirt64
    Lilsquirt64 Posts: 4 Member
    Congrats! Great job!
  • jesseBYAH
    jesseBYAH Posts: 446 Member
    You look beautiful!!! Congrats on reaching your goal!
  • rachaels7
    rachaels7 Posts: 20
    Good for you-you look fantastic!!
  • cafeteriagirl
    cafeteriagirl Posts: 267 Member
    wow you look great!!:smile:
  • cubanita28
    cubanita28 Posts: 42 Member
    Congratulations! Stories like yours inspire me to continue on my on and off journey. Thanks and keep up the great work. You look beautiful!
  • schieca
    schieca Posts: 16 Member
    You look 10 years younger! Great job :flowerforyou:
  • Congratulations!!!! Im around 160lbs myself and can't get to the gym. no one at home eats healthy. i just can't do it for some reason.
  • Jenn316
    Jenn316 Posts: 21
    Wow ! You look great!!!!
    I am at 166 and would love to get down to 130. What kind of work outs did you do? I have been thinner and feel so much better about me when I am and your success is great motivation!
  • Wow! I am 5'6 started here at 156 and my goal is 125! How funny! I'm currently at 135 and everyone is telling me to not loose more but I feel like I need to loose a bit more. I'm going to show everyone who says I don't need to loose anymore your pic to show them how GREAT you look! Congrats! You look gorgeous and SO happy!
  • Elle_Jamaicangirl81
    Elle_Jamaicangirl81 Posts: 418 Member
    u look great! Nice looking family too :) Congrats to u!
  • murfto
    murfto Posts: 29 Member
    WOW!!!! Great job and what a happy family!!

    Have you been on a certain workout plan? It seems like a short time that you have reached your goal.

    Congrats and very motiviational for sure!!
  • Congratulations! You look fantastic!
  • marilou32
    marilou32 Posts: 19
    Wow...very inspiring. I have fallen off the weight loss track so many times and now I am trying to really stick to it. It's still challenging but MFP has totally changed my perception on keeping track, staying fit, and eating healthy. I hope to have great pics too! Keep up the awesome hard work!!
  • Setof2Keys
    Setof2Keys Posts: 681 Member
    You look great. Your kids have a wonderful rolemodel now. You all look like such a happy little family.
  • tukrainets
    tukrainets Posts: 119
    you look amazing :) you look so much happier! :) great job!
  • getfitdiva
    getfitdiva Posts: 1,148 Member
    You have done such a great job and look great.

    Wow how did you get those last 10 off? I'm struggling w/ the last 8 lbs.
  • TOYGRRRL
    TOYGRRRL Posts: 251 Member
    Incredible! ! ! ! You look fabulous! I needed to see this. I have 3 lbs to go to reach 125 (my goal) and it is NOT easy right now. I was ready to give up on losing and just concentrate on toning this tummy that won't go away. You have given me motivation and regained hope. Thank you.
  • fuminator18
    fuminator18 Posts: 89 Member
    congratulations! you do look great :)
  • gatorgirl7
    gatorgirl7 Posts: 103 Member
    congratulations!! all of your hard work and dedication paid off! enjoy it!
  • erzille
    erzille Posts: 524 Member
    You look awesome! Thanks for sharing!
  • sandybeach11
    sandybeach11 Posts: 198 Member
    Great job! Thanks for sharing! :)
  • Your an inspiration!:smile:
  • daisymaegreen
    daisymaegreen Posts: 50 Member
    You look great! Your numbers are so very similar to mine, that you are giving me hope! Thanks so much for posting.
  • JThomas61
    JThomas61 Posts: 892
    Great job on your transformation!
  • What a great feeling to know YOU DID IT! HUGE accomplishment! Congratulations!
  • Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • cweiler4
    cweiler4 Posts: 374 Member
    You look great! Very inspirational!! Congrats!
  • up2me2lose20
    up2me2lose20 Posts: 360 Member
    Some of you are asking how I did this and how I did this so quickly.

    I woke up on Jan. 1st, 2011 knowing I had to change something in my life. I took a good look on the inside of me and saw that I was depending on others to make me happy. My children, my husband, my work, my church etc....I was trying to make others like me in order to feel a sense of self-worth. And it dawned on me...THIS IS UP TO ME! No one will "like" me if I don't like myself first.

    So I decided that I would start a workout and eating regimine on the following Monday, which happened to be Jan. 4th. I decided 5AM was the only time I could fit some ME time into my schedule. My days of using family and work as my excuse of not having enough time were officially over. And let me tell you, that was so liberating! Really, there are no excuses. If anyone has them, I do. But that's another post. :)

    As far as what I did to succeed? I used MFP! YEAH!! I set the guidelines to lose 1lb per week. And that really worked for me. As I look back, I've lost roughly 32lbs over 5 months. That's less than a 1lb loss per week, so I don't think I lost too quickly. And toward the end when I started ramping up my exercise to lose, I also upped my calories by setting my goals to lose 1/2lb per week. I recorded my exercise everyday and was honest in recording my food intake. Calories in -- calories out. I changed my eating a little bit in that I eat much more "fresh" than I had before. I also eat a lot less "white" than I had before. But I didn't nix anything totally out of my diet. Fridays are a family pizza night and I never once skipped that outing. Instead I loaded up on the fresh fruit & veggies and only had 1 slice of pizza and sometimes I skipped the dessert. I still drank a beer or two or even a glass of red wine or two. But all those calories were recorded. I usually ate back my exercise calories. Most of them, anyways. There were a few days I went over, birthday celebrations or other family-type parties, but really, I never totally lost control and binged or lost my way on this journey.

    Exercise? I started the 30 Day Shred in January and stuck with it. THen I did the JM 30 Day Slimdown. And I stuck with it. Then I started the C25K program and am sticking with that (3 days/week -- just having completed week 8) and mixing up my JM DVD's on my "off" days. I rest on Sundays. The Lord rested on Sundays so I can too. :wink: Only it's not a cheat day. It's a rest and non-recording day.

    I went in this with the goal of a life-time change. Not a diet to lose weight and go back to my regular old eating habits. I've measured and counted food. I've enjoyed my foods. I've found out that I LOVE exercising and am excited to get out of bed in the morning to go workout. I know that sounds weird, but it's true.

    Some people say 10, 20, 30lbs isn't a lot. For me each LB was huge! Consistant losing was motivation in itself. But I really feel that I'm finally in the right frame of mind and the right place in my life to make it happen. Sure, I want to look nice and maybe even try being a little sexy once in a while, but for this 35 year old mom of 3 -- it's really about me and finally doing somethign for myself. This makes me happy. This puts me in wonderful place where I can take care of others without the guilt and shame that I was always heaping on myself.

    Oh, and I want to be clear -- none of this is "baby weight". My last bio daughter was born 12 years ago, lol. We are an adoptive family also, so that little munchkin you see in the "after" photo has nothing to do with any weight needed to be lost. The only culprit to blame is me. And I'm done with the blame. Life has so much more to offer when you take the lead and don't sit back and watch things pass you by. :happy:
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