Out With The Old, In With The New (With Pics!!)

Hello there, right - ive just been looking thro old pictures on my netbook as i have lots and lots from 2009. and i came across some good ones which made me think WOAH!, did i really used to look like that?! I showed my mum all the pictures and she is really shocked at how far i have come just in 1 year of a strict diet and excercise plan. I thought i will share my pictures on here with you all.

A bit of info -

I decided to loose weight for goood January 2011! when i was free from high school + college, and i can concentrate more on what was going in my mouth without friends in college shuving naughty foods in my face all the time ha! 1st Jan 2011, i tipped the scales at an incredible 16stone 6 (230lbs), i thought this has got to stop NOW, before it was too late and i would eat myself to death no doubt. i found this awsome website in January 2011 - and i actually dont think i could of been 3 stone lighter today without finding a calorie counter to help!! I have lost 3stone since january 2011 when i started. its been hard work, of saying no to chocolate and saying yes to more excercise! but it has totally been worth it!! i feel physically more energetic - i am now able to run up and down the stairs without getting out of breath! Clothes shopping used to be a nightmare!! All the really nice clothes never had my size. I was a size 18-20 (UK), and now i am a 14-16 (UK) - mostly a 14, but a 16 in the odd shop as sizes vary in different shops!.

Here are the piccies:

September 2009 - full image picture of me and the little brother those jeans were tight on me!!


November 2009 - ignore the funky colours and clothes ha! it was for Children In Need that we did in college


January 2010 - was about 16 stone here.


October 2010 - this was at Alton Towers Theme Park (UK), was a struggle to get the bar down past my stomach!


December 2010 - we had inches and inches of snow!! =D


August 2011 - Alton Towers Theme Park (Again =P)


August 2011 - On a ride at Alton Towers Theme Park


November 2011 - random pic before i was going to the gym


December 2011 - this was taken last friday the 30th december!! I was in a changing room in a clothes shop - i tried on this stripy top - size 14!!! fitted perfectly.


theres probably not much difference at all, but i was very camera shy back in my obese days - i used to avoid cameras at all times! unless i HAD to have the piccie taken. soo i dont have many of myself at all. I should of taken before pictures in January 2011 when i started - so then i can look back at them when im at my goal weight. But the reason why i didnt take before pictures is because i didnt think id be able to stick to a diet and i defo didnt think i would be 3stone lighter a year on from when i started! But i have these other pics soo i guess i could use these as before pics

I am only halfway thro my weightloss journey - my ultimate goal is 10stone, i currently weigh 13stone5.. Im hopeing that by christmas 2012 i will be at my goal weight and will fit comfortably in a size 10 (UK)

ps - i hope the pics work! im no good with all this adding pictures things hahaha. xx