Progress! Feeling Good Today. (PIC)

Hello Lovely People!!
I just wanted to share with you the success I have had so far. This was my first legitimate, for realsies, attempt at losing weight. Of course I had dabbled in exercise, periodically watched what I ate, but never put any real effort in. Any weight I ever lost was entirely by accident, for my entire adult life I have been heavy. Heck, I was a chubby preteen and teenager, too. Ever since I was a child my family always just told me we were a heavier bunch and that it was just in our genes...this set me up with a defeatist attitude from the start. I never thought I could lose the weight, so I never even really tried. I don't know what made me start this exactly, but I was just so sick of being heavy. My hip kept getting a pinched nerve, my knees hurt, I was out of breath just going up one flight of steps...all of this already, and me, only 25 years old. So I started looking at this app, which I had used for like 2 weeks years ago, and decided to give it a go. The numbers and logic behind it appealed to me. And, surprise surprise, it is working!! It hasn't been fast, but I didn't really expect it to be...

I started at the end of July last year, so I have been counting pretty much everything I have eaten for 287 days now. As of today I have lost 42.2 lbs, so just about 1lb./week. When I added it all up I have lost over 29 inches all over, 4 of them from my waist, 6 from my hips. I can see my collar bones, my hip bones, the bones in my back, all of which may as well have not existed for all I could see of them until now, lol. I am currently less than 20 lbs. from my original (admittedly modest) goal. When (not if, WHEN) I get to that goal I will re-evaluate, but for now I am just pleased as punch to be where I am now. I never thought I could.

Thank you for reading my ramblings, lol. Here's my comparison picture (that's my dog Moose in the back, ha!). The before is Spring 2015, the after is today: