Down 37 lbs in 230 days!

Hi all! I felt it was time to share my story.

Little bit about me. I'm 5'5, 26 y/o female. I found myself gaining a massive amount of weight right around the end of 2013 due to a million crazy things happening all at once. Life hit me hard with the end of a relationship, job loss, no income, and my only car got totaled out all within a month of each other. I put on about 40 pounds because I got really depressed about my finances, lack of job prospects, and the future looked bleak. I tried losing weight in the past by joining programs like Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, etc as well as meeting with a personal trainer. Nothing worked and I thought I was just destined to be fat. It wasn't until I had my annual physical sometime in 2015 and my physician told me I was considered Class I obese and pre-diabetic that things started to really set in. Diabetes and obesity runs in my family. I was unknowingly eating like 3,000 to 5,000 cals a day. I couldn't believe I had let myself go.

I started this journey in December 2015 tipping the scale at 191 lbs which was my heaviest weight. I was stunned. Frustrated. Confused. That scale had to be lying. But no, it was me...Let's be real. I started walking and bought a treadmill. First days were hard because I could not walk or run for long periods without getting winded. My body ached. I had no fitness background. I just felt like giving up. But I didn't. Not this time. Invested in a food scale, fitness DVDs, and started doing those...Jillian Micheals, Beachbody. Got frustrated when the scale barely moved. Changed those eating habits...limited my fast food intake. The weight began to drop off slowly then gradually. I'm happy to report that in 230 days, I have lost 37 pounds and I'm not done yet. My goal weight is 140 lbs and I believe I can and will reach this by the end of the year. This journey has not been easy. I had days where I wanted to just give up because it was so hard and my motivation wavered a bit when I felt like I wasn't losing weight. What a difference 7 months can make! I feel amazing. I have so much energy and I can do so much more. I can run 2 miles in 25 minutes now when at first I could barely move 10 steps without feeling uncomfortable and winded. But I had to learn to love that burn because pain is temporary but quitting lasts forever.

SW: 191
CW: 154
GW: 140

Chest: 37>34
Waist: 38.5>31
Hips: 45>43

US pant size: 16>8/10
US shirt size: XL>Small/Med