Half way there, but still feels like a huge success

As of the past week or so I'm half way to my goal weight. Not the goal weight that I initially put into MFP, but half way to the weight I "should" be based on my height (150lbs). If I got down to 150, that would be less than I weighed when I started high school. When I started this process I thought such a number was completely unattainable, but after having lost 65lbs already I'm thinking it probably it attainable, it'll just take some work.

All my life I was scared to even try to lose weight. If I failed I knew that would just solidify my self image, that I was always destined to be fat. Thankfully I put on the weight fairly gradually, until I quit smoking and ate everything in site, after which I gained 20+lbs in 2 years. When I got to 275lbs I could feel it in my body that something had to change, if I didn't do something different I was going to end up like the World of Warcraft troll from South Park; I was already most of the way there.

So I joined MFP November 2015. I had several friends who had success with MFP, I figured it was my turn. In March 2016 I started going to the gym and making physical activity a priority, but 98% of this weight loss has absolutely been from calorie restriction alone.



Here's the only picture I have on hand from before I started losing weight. This photo is from about a year ago, I think I might have been around 265lbs in the pic (got to 275 before I decided to make a change)



This weekend I went clothes shopping. Very few things I own anymore pass as appropriately fitting. Thank goodness I wear mostly dresses and they've done a decent job contracting with my size, but I was really craving something that fit. So I went to Ross and splurged on three dresses. It was exciting shopping in the non-X sizes again!!! (Well, XL...but not 1x, or 3x like I started)

Here's the one I'm wearing today:



I have a long way to go, but I've made it much further than I would have ever expected.