5 Year Success Story - Before & After

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  • mskari77
    mskari77 Posts: 142
    Thank you for sharing your story! Congratulations on all of your accomplishments. How very inspirational!
  • amyy902
    amyy902 Posts: 290 Member
    amazing and very inspirational..... outstanding, everyone around you, and yourself i imagine must be brimign with pride due to you AMAZING success! :):)
  • Hoppymom
    Hoppymom Posts: 1,158 Member
    Heroic comes to mind. What a great story and it sounds like you are a great role model. I am very impressed with the way you turned your life around. I hope that you live a long healthy life.:flowerforyou:
  • JoniBologna
    JoniBologna Posts: 653 Member
    Bump. I want to read this again and again. :happy:
  • srdeaver
    srdeaver Posts: 38 Member
    Incredible transformation - congrats! You give a wonderful gift to your family. God bless you!
  • BPayton27
    BPayton27 Posts: 626 Member
    Your story had me tearing up a bit. Congratulations to you for not only getting fit, being sober and smoke free, but for getting your life back. Sometimes the only way to find yourself is to be completely lost.
  • emmelean
    emmelean Posts: 7 Member
    You are amazing! Your story is the most successful and amazing one I have ever read. Thank you for sharing your incredible journey with us. I agree with others - your story should be published! Congratulations to you for choosing to live and accomplishing so much! LOVE your dog!!!! :heart:
  • AmberLiscous
    AmberLiscous Posts: 644 Member
    This is truly an amazing and touching story! So glad you turned your life around!!!!
  • RuthlessB
    RuthlessB Posts: 38 Member
    Absolutely AMAZING!!!! GOD Bless YOU, your family, and all of your endeavors!!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!!!! Folks like YOU and your life stories of success....... with the ups and downs give me and sooooo many others inspiration to keep working hard!! THANX!!!!
  • FabulousFifty
    FabulousFifty Posts: 1,575 Member
    :happy: God bless you for sharing your story. There is no telling how many lives you have touched by being bold enough to share. Congrats on this wonderful success. And so happy for your wife and kids...they can enjoy you for a long time. You are an inspiration indeed!:heart:
  • PDVanG
    PDVanG Posts: 5 Member
    Wow! You have a very inspiring story! Congratulations on turning your life around, getting healthy, and losing weight!
  • ChristineS_51
    ChristineS_51 Posts: 872 Member
    Beautifully written, thank you for sharing your story with us. You look great, but best is how you feel about yourself, your life, and your attitude. :flowerforyou: a million times over
  • Bekzness
    Bekzness Posts: 122
    This is the most inspirational story I have seen to date on here... thank you for sharing it with us :)

    Thank you also to your dog for protecting you that night so that you could begin your journey!!
  • RuthlessB
    RuthlessB Posts: 38 Member
    One of the BEST and PROFOUND comments I've EVER read...."Sometimes the only way to find yourself is to be completely lost."......Thanx for posting this!!
  • GlassslippersAndFairyDust
    GlassslippersAndFairyDust Posts: 518 Member
    I was very happy to read your success story. I only wish some of my relatives had learned this valuable lesson too but unfortunately they won't ever have another chance to. My Uncle was killed instantly when he wrapped his automobile around a tree in the middle of the night. In his drunken and drug-induced stupor, he lost control of his car and went airborne. The car was in the shape of a horseshoe and was half way up the tree on impact. His autopsy revealed a very high level of alcohol and drugs too numerous to mention.

    My brother followed him in death a few years later. His body was found in a cow pasture nine days after he was reported missing from his home. The only thing left of him was his skeletal remains. The animals picked him clean. He was a raging alcoholic and drug abuser and had been since early childhood. Alcohol and drug abuse was the cause of his death. He was only forty nine years old.

    My cousin died shortly thereafter from an alcohol-induced motorcycle accident......he was only in his early thirties.

    My son is a recovering alcoholic/drug abuser.......just celebrated four years clean.

    You see we come from a long line of abusers.....it definitely is in the DNA, a fact I used to scoff at until I took a good look around my family tree. Good luck to you in your journey and congrats! :flowerforyou:
  • serenity216
    serenity216 Posts: 512 Member
    Thank you for sharing your amazing story! You truly are an inspiration.
  • mctiernan
    mctiernan Posts: 51 Member
    You are a true inspiration. Thank you for sharing.
  • StacyX582
    StacyX582 Posts: 30
    I now realize that so much of what we do in life to avoid doing the right thing is more work than it would take to do the those right things (and the avoidance comes with zero or even negative benefit!).

    WOW, is that ever true. Also, holy moly on your 5 years of accomplishments - what an amazing story! You ROCK!
  • fromaquasar
    fromaquasar Posts: 811 Member
    Tearing up here too - what a fantastic inspiration you are
  • KBGirts
    KBGirts Posts: 882 Member
    Wow!!!! I am so happy for you! WHAT A JOURNEY!!!!

    What dam is that in your picture?
  • sunnygal1
    sunnygal1 Posts: 39
    Had to keep going back again and again to read because I couldn't see through all the tears! Thank you for sharing and congratulations on all that you have accomplished. :flowerforyou:
  • SparkleShine
    SparkleShine Posts: 2,001 Member
    Thank you so much for sharing your story. You have turned your life around 100%, so amazing! Congrats on your new, healthy life!
  • angelltn
    angelltn Posts: 20
    WOW! I'm completely speechless. A true inspiration! A true celebration that you are alive and living life to its fullest! Congratulations!
  • pucenavel
    pucenavel Posts: 972 Member
    You don't mention your wife again after the beginning, but I'm hoping she is still in your life.

    Yes - still married. :love:
    Where's that dog???

    Oh, yeah! I should have put a picture of Rosie in there. She's still here - she was only about 2 at the time.

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    What dam is that in your picture?

    Grand Coulee in Central Washington - I have family in the area.

    Today has shown me what an INCREDIBLE community MFP really is. I'm blessed to have signed up. Thank you to everyone.
  • misslee79
    misslee79 Posts: 2
    What an amazing story! Thank you for sharing. I am glad that you found hope and strength, and look forward to your update on your half iron man. The iron man is one of my ultimate goals, your story is truly inspiring!
  • kellykelz86
    kellykelz86 Posts: 23 Member
    That is truly an amazing story. Thank you so much for sharing!!
  • KathyEarhart
    KathyEarhart Posts: 94 Member
    Absolutely amazing and inspiring. As a daughter of an alcoholic father (who has been sober 20 years now, but didn't stop until I was 10), you have given your child the best gift ever of a sober, present and healthy father. You should be very proud of yourself and the example you are setting for your family. Congratulations.
  • jschm947
    jschm947 Posts: 84 Member
    Congratulations! You are doing awesome things!
  • gayatrik
    gayatrik Posts: 173
    The best narration ever read on MFP.... Congratulations and have a beautiful life ahead :)
  • fatgirlzrule2
    fatgirlzrule2 Posts: 162 Member
    Thank you for sharing your story, and congratulations on all of our accomplishments! You are truly inspiring!!

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