5'8-5'11 women before/after pics?
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Agree, I wanna see afters!2
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5'11" here and just getting started.
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I don't have any good before pics because I avoided the camera, but the past 7 years has been an up and down for me. I'm 5'11 and my highest was 192. I initially lost 40, then gained and lost 30 pounds three times with three kids. Currently I've gained 12ish pounds back and I'm here to lose them again to be my normal weight of 160.
Three pregnancies have definitely wreaked havoc
Current weight loss journey
175 pounds on the left and 171ish on the right
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So many amazing and inspiring transformations!4
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You are all awesome!!1
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I've finally gotten to the point where I feel like there's an obvious difference.
5'10"
SW 248
CW 203.8
GW 185
Note the creepy photobomb mask on the left.20 -
5'10-11 just starting CW 230 Goal 1700
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Goal reached! I'm 50, 5'8", large frame, SW 300, GW 175. It took 17 months, 17 days. I know I could stand to lose a little more, but I was so sure I would never actually reach this goal! I may slowly try for about 10 lbs more, but I'm pretty satisfied here. This is what I weighed on my wedding day, 27 years ago, but have been obese ever since then.
Clothing sizes: Tops-26 Women to 10 Misses, Bottoms-24W-12M
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Wow ! You look less then 175. What a change ! Congrats on your determination ! Inspirational . What have you been doing to achieve these result ?1
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Wow ! You look less then 175. What a change ! Congrats on your determination ! Inspirational . What have you been doing to achieve these result ?
THanks! For the first 60 lbs I just cut out carbs (<25 g/day). I have PCOS and am insulin resistant, so I've known for a long time that carbs were a problem. Then that stopped working weight-loss wise. That's when I joined MFP (and Planet Fitness) and started counting calories. That got things going again and I lost the last 65 lbs over the last 8 months. I still keep carbs lower than normal, but not nearly as restrictive (<125 g/day).
I've struggled about that 175 number. The BMI calculator puts me at a max of 164 for "normal". Once as a teenager, I got down in the 150s (high normal) and people said I looked way too thin. So even though it doesn't match up with the weight charts, I think for me 170ish is probably where I should be.3 -
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I've struggled about that 175 number. The BMI calculator puts me at a max of 164 for "normal". Once as a teenager, I got down in the 150s (high normal) and people said I looked way too thin. So even though it doesn't match up with the weight charts, I think for me 170ish is probably where I should be.
You carry your weight so well! I'm also 5'8" and currently weigh 179. I still wear size 16/18 pants and M/L tops and definitely look overweight.
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@JulieSHelms - You really do look fantastic. And you can tell it's you because of your smile.
I have a similar issue with goal weight. The BMI charts say that 175 is the top of my healthy weight range. But according to body fat testing, 185 is actually fine. I'm large framed and women in my family have unusually dense bones (the doc says my 70-year-old mom has better bones than most 30-year-olds). So I'll get there and then decide what to do.3 -
You carry your weight so well! I'm also 5'8" and currently weigh 179. I still wear size 16/18 pants and M/L tops and definitely look overweight.
What size frame do you have? I'm large framed which shows up in wide shoulders and huge rib cage, but I think my lower half is probably average. Don't know if it's related but I have a long back and extra vertebrae too.@JulieSHelms - You really do look fantastic. And you can tell it's you because of your smile.
I have a similar issue with goal weight. The BMI charts say that 175 is the top of my healthy weight range. But according to body fat testing, 185 is actually fine. I'm large framed and women in my family have unusually dense bones (the doc says my 70-year-old mom has better bones than most 30-year-olds). So I'll get there and then decide what to do.
Dense bones...never thought of that! How did you have that measured? So maybe the BMI chart isn't the bible on weight loss But it was helpful at 300 lbs and 3 decades to even figure out what I should aim for. Because I do weight training daily, I'm hoping I've got some heavier muscle now too. I'm definitely in better shape than probably at any other time in my life.
Btw, losing weight also cured my aortic aneurysm, left ventricular hypertrophy, arrhythmia, and gave me a solid normal A1c and cholesterol. Only problem is I'm struggling with a blood pressure that is too low now (80/40) which makes me dizzy a lot. (I'm on a bp lowering medicine off-label to treat a hormone issue with my PCOS, but now that I've lost weight it is actually impacting my bp.)
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@JulieSHelms - Just through family history; no hard evidence, unfortunately. My grandmother had very dense bones all the way until she died at age 94. My lean 13 y.o. daughter is the same weight as her equally-lean but taller 20 y.o. step-brother. Zero osteoporosis, going back many generations.
I read an article last year about a family with very dense bones that were the subject of a multi-generational scientific study, and I wondered if we were related.3 -
JulieSHelms wrote: »
What size frame do you have? I'm large framed which shows up in wide shoulders and huge rib cage, but I think my lower half is probably average. Don't know if it's related but I have a long back and extra vertebrae too.
I thought I was large framed, but I don't think that's true. I have long legs and arms and thinner shoulders. My wrists are pretty slim, given my current weight. I wear a small fitbit and I only have three holes left on the band. I am pear-shaped though, so my hips and legs are larger. Right now my goal is 150.
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JulieSHelms wrote: »Goal reached! I'm 50, 5'8", large frame, SW 300, GW 175. It took 17 months, 17 days.
You have truly ispired me! I'm 59 and this helps me see this journey is so worth it!1 -
So, I've posted here before but I figured I'd add an update. In addition to weight training, I have fallen in love with running. So I have been attempting to work on intense food cravings that I previously did not have with the addition of long runs.
So I'm 5'9".
Pictures on the left are ~165-170lbs.
Right are 155lbs from this morning.
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