(PICS) 25% of my body weight down and about 15lb to go
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evelynwhitelaw wrote: »Thanks so much everyone, the forums are such an encouragement. I've been at this for 4 years!! Yep, 4 years. Slow and steady wins the race.
Could not agree more! I'm on the same journey, though not as far along as you and i feel like a slower loss is going to be way more sustainable because it's incremental change and your mind can keep up better with your body and lifestyle.
congrats again!
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So pretty!! Congrats.0
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Wow girl looking good, congrats0
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One word: WOW!0
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You look great! What an inspiration!0
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That is amazing! I hope I can be as motivated as you and achieve goals I never thought possible0
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Good work0
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Wow. Just, wow.0
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evelynwhitelaw wrote: »Thanks so much everyone, the forums are such an encouragement. I've been at this for 4 years!! Yep, 4 years. Slow and steady wins the race. I've taken a long time to learn to be kind to myself and I'm not looking to rush this, I've changed my lifestyle over the last 4 years and my weight loss has been a side effect of that.
It's been a long hard road and just hope someone sees these and goes you know what, I can do that too!
My stats:
Age - 28
Height - 160cm / 5'2"
SW - 91kg (2012)
CW - 67.4kg (2016)
GW - 61kg? I don't know, I will stop when I'm done!
Calories per day: 1400ish at the moment
Currently playing around with meal timing and trying 16:8 just to mix things up a bit
Did you experience any setbacks/plateaus over those 4 years? If so how did you manage those? Just curious because I think it's amazing that you stayed focused for that long. You rock!0 -
Wonderful work! Love the blonde hair on you. Thanks for sharing your story and progress pics with us.0
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You look great, and I love your hair!0
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Awesome job! U look sooo good0
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IdLikeToLoseItLoseIt wrote: »Wonderful work! Love the blonde hair on you. Thanks for sharing your story and progress pics with us.
Although it just dawned on me that your profile pic is different hair, cute too! I was looking at the before/after pictures at the top (I don't want you to think I'm dissing your current style).0 -
IdLikeToLoseItLoseIt wrote: »IdLikeToLoseItLoseIt wrote: »Wonderful work! Love the blonde hair on you. Thanks for sharing your story and progress pics with us.
Although it just dawned on me that your profile pic is different hair, cute too! I was looking at the before/after pictures at the top (I don't want you to think I'm dissing your current style).
Thanks for the compliment! I change my hair pretty regularly (see new profile pic) and like it both ways so I didn't feel any dissing0 -
Did you experience any setbacks/plateaus over those 4 years? If so how did you manage those? Just curious because I think it's amazing that you stayed focused for that long. You rock!
Good question - The answer is yes I certainly did!
I guess it all started 4 years ago when I decided that I was healthy and happy on the inside and I wanted my outward appearance to reflect that. It's taken so long because I haven't missed a single piece of birthday cake, or a romantic dinner out or farewell drinks for friends or anything like that. Life is what happens while we are making other plans! I'm not going to wait until I've reached goal weight to live the way I want. I climbed Mt Kilimanjaro when I was at my heaviest because I had the opportunity and I wasn't going to let being overweight stop me from achieving what I wanted to do.
I go through plateaus but I refer to them as "practice maintenance" periods. There is no mystery reason we stop losing weight on our journey. If we are honest with ourselves we can see the reasons for it. I know in advance when I'll be stressed out (I'm an events/exhibitions planner for a living!) or have lots of social engagements and I know that that month or so I will be practicing maintaining weight. That's a win for me! None of us want to lose weight and then put it all back on again so we have to practice what it will be like to not log calories and not put weight on. I guess I look at it as a life long game plan.
Thank you all for the support and encouragement, you're all wonderful!
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evelynwhitelaw wrote: »I go through plateaus but I refer to them as "practice maintenance" periods.
I like that!
Did you use MFP for the whole 4 years?
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Congrats on your success you look wonderful.0
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evelynwhitelaw wrote: »I go through plateaus but I refer to them as "practice maintenance" periods.
I like that!
Did you use MFP for the whole 4 years?
On and off yeah, every time I wanted to start seeing the numbers on the scale go down I would come back to MFP. I also used a fitbit for a while and I go through phases using Runkeeper to track exercise, but yes, always using MFP to track what I ate... I'd just like to add that I certainly wasn't staying under my calorie goal the whole time otherwise I would have lost the weight a lot faster! haha
My journal is open by the way if anyone wants a sneak peak. You'll see that I don't log all the time and that I've gone through periods of not logging for a month or two.0 -
U look like a different person! And im a sucker for curls!!!!!0
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Thanks so much to everyone for the support. I hope you all kick butt on your own journeys! Xx0
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