100 lbs down from my highest weight *pictures*

I'll try not to bore you too much with my "story". My name is Amber. I'll be 26 this Tuesday. SAHM of 1 year old twins. I recently hit a major milestone of 100 lbs less than my highest known weight so I thought this would be a good time to share my progress so far. I started MFP on June 1st of last year; about 4 months after having my twins. I lost the majority of my weight following MFP suggestions of 1200-1500 calories and hit a major wall after about 9 months straight of that. A very sweet MFP friend ran some numbers for me and I am now losing weight again by eating around 1700 calories a day and really focusing on my carbs, fat, and protein. I really feel this is a much more sustainable way to lose weight than the 1200 calories I started with. Go here if you're interested http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/538381-in-place-of-a-road-map . I'm so overwhelmed by all of the info so I'm just thankful for my dear MFP friend who was willing to do the math for me. Ok, enough of me talking about things I don't even fully understand.....here are my stats and pictures
Oh, as far as exercise goes... I started out slow with Wii Fit, I still love burning calories with Dance Central and Dance Central 2 on XBox with Kinect (SO fun!!), I've done 30 Day Shred twice in the last 3 months, I go to the gym 2 days a week for a spin class and elliptical and/or treadmill.

5' 7" with a medium-large frame
HW- 286
MFP SW- 257.4
CW- 186
Next goal- 157.4 (100 lbs down from MFP SW)
UGW- 143 (HALF of my highest weight)

April 2009 at my highest weight.


From around the same time


May 2011 257 lbs


October 2011 214 lbs


December 2011 203 lbs


A few weeks ago 190ish


Yesterday 186


So that's my journey so far. Thanks for reading.