Success Story

Hey so a friend of mine was asking for sucess stories for a project she is doing, and i realized that all this time, i had never actually written mine out with pictures showing progress, so i decided to write mine up for her, and once i put it together and read it..... i cried. for the first time ever, i looked at my progress from day one to now, and it's pretty crazy that that person was me... so here it goes..

Hi, I am thecanface and this is my success story:

Growing up, My mother was a single mom, with 3 daughters, no education and mediocre job that didn’t pay nearly enough money to raise 3 daughters, so we didn’t have a wide variety of food choices, and we sort of had to just eat what was available and what my mom could afford, I'm not saying we didn’t eat enough - because we are Mexican, we can make a whole lot with just a little money LOL. but that was just the problem, it was a whole lot of rice, and a whole lot of cheap meat, and a whole lot of beans and a whole lot of tortillas ALL THE TIME! it was just so cheap and could feed 4 mouths- so that’s what we did. My mother wasn’t educated enough on nutrition to know that there are some healthier choices out there she could have made. It was all she knew. and really weight was never an issue in my house hold. My mom, my sisters and I were always "average".

....... OR SO I THOUGHT........

All this time I thought I was average, I knew I wasn’t skinny, or sexy, or had a perfect body, but i NEVER thought i was overweight, unhealthy, or even FAT. Knowing it wouldn’t hurt to lose a "few" pounds I would go on these fad diets with my mom - she had a new crazy diet every week - I would be like okay, I lost 3 lbs, I’m good.. then I’d gain it back. well 3 years ago I heard of this medicine a friend of mine was taking called Phentermine. I had to go to a doctor in order to get it, and they had to do test on me to make sure I was in the range to take it. well the whole time in the waiting room I was thinking "ugh, they aren’t going to give it to me, I’m not fat enough, they are going to put me on some diet, they won’t give it to me" well when I went in they did the tests, and weighed me.... I weight a whopping 140 lbs!! and on top of that they gave it to me with no hesitation, I was so shocked!! then they told me the news... they used that one word I had never heard or thought of in my whole 19 years of living......they said I was…… OVERWEIGHT....................... WHAT?!?! ME??!!! OVERWEIGHT??? BUT I AM ONLY 19!!! THATS IMPOSSIBLE!!! WHY DIDNT ANY ONE TELL ME? WHY DIDNT I NOTICE?? HOW I DID I THINK I WAS "AVERAGE"????? THIS HAS TO BE A MISTAKE RIGHT????

WRONG......

this was me before, when I thought I was at a good weight, and completely oblivious that I was a fat hog at 140 lbs.





after 4 months i lost 35 lbs, i was at a tiny 105 lbs in January 2009:




That’s when i started getting "wow you're too thin" and "you need to eat", and "oh my gosh where did you go?" I had to keep a picture handy on my phone just so I could remind them what I used to look like Then i would get "oh... yeah... you were kind of chunky.." and "whoa! I didn’t even notice you were that big!" and "you weight HOW MUCH???" The saddest part, is that I didn’t notice it either, and it’s because I was overweight my whole life... all this time I was supposed to be this cute petite girl, and I was just accepting that I was "big boned". I regret it. I should have been at my prime in my teen years and I had the body of a 45 year old mother of 5.

In January 2011, I was going through pictures and saw one where my stomach was completely flat.. when I looked down, I realized I had a huge fat roll hanging over my pants! I jumped on the scale and saw that in over a year and some time I gained almost 20 lbs! I knew exactly why - didn’t maintain my weight loss, I didn’t even try. I ate what I wanted when I wanted didn’t touch the gym, or my tennis shoes for that matter. I knew I had to make some changes, and I refused to go back on pills, I was going to do this the right way, because I wasn’t going to let myself go back to being overweight. I got a gym membership, I googled how I could track my exercise and found My Fitness Pal. There hasn’t been one day since January of this year that I haven’t logged in. I log everything i eat, good or bad, and I make sure I get my work outs in at least 5 times a week. Since January I’ve lost 10 of the 20 lbs. I am okay with the weight just as long as I lose the fat, and let my mucles show, and I think it may be working

January 2010 at 123 lbs






Now at 111 lbs – July 2011






I can’t imagine my life without My Fitness Pal, and I can't imagine myself ever being overweight again. I will not be overweight again. i promise.



-C