My Success Story!

Hello! This is my first time posting in this community and I wanted to share my weight loss journey~





Starting weight: 161 lbs.
Current weight: 108 lbs.
Total lost: 74 lbs. (lost 31 lbs, gained 20, lost 43 lbs)
Height: 5′1′’
Goal weight: 100-105 lbs.

Top left picture is from almost 2 years ago, weighing at 151 lbs.- almost the heaviest I’ve ever been. At my heaviest, I was 161 lbs. around 2010-2011 (sorry I don’t have any of those pictures but top left was close enough), but when I moved back home from an abusive relationship, I lost 31 lbs. by literally starving myself out of depression. I almost gained it all back 2 years later when my husband and I met, dated, married, and got stationed in Guam. We ate out at a lot of restaurants and didn't really care what we ate, haha.

Though one day while my husband was on gone on deployment, I took a good look at myself in the mirror and said, “I don’t want to go back to being heavy again,” so I did a lot of nutrition study and exercising and I lost weight the right way. I cut out soda and junk food almost COMPLETELY (fast food, sit down restaurants, candy, chips, burgers, everything) and I went vegetarian for a little while. It didn’t last long though as I noticed my hair was thinning, so I just added lean meat and fish to my diet, as well as a biotin supplement to help with my hair. I’m still recovering from hair loss, but I eat in smaller portions with more fruits and green veggies as much as I can. I will have an ice cream, go to a restaurant, or eat some type of junk food once in awhile, but I’ve learned to live without it for the most part. To help maintain my calorie intake, I used MFP! I love it so much and I've gotten back into using it now!

I exercised by running with my dog around the neighborhood (usually takes about 30 minutes on my route) and doing home exercises (with an exercise ball, or exercise videos on YouTube) and weight lifting. I recently started taking up Zumba at home and it's a lot of fun!

Second pics are from July 5, 2016 after buying some new clothes now that all of my old clothes are too big for me! the skirt is actually a little too big for me at a size 3… >_< But now I can proudly say that I wear a size 0/2 jeans and a size X-Small to Small shirt from a size 18 jeans and Medium-Large shirt! I would still like to lose possibly 3-8 more pounds. c: Right now my weight loss is slowing down/plateauing, but that just means I have to work even harder now!