First before n after pics 27 lbs
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CoderGal
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I'm not a crazy success story, but here it is. I wanted this up before I started on weights to compare for later. The below pic was me a few years ago before a dance performance...
somewhere between there and now I ended up getting into a motorcycle accident, leaving dance due to money restrictions, essentially stopped moving and was getting incredibly stressed out and ended up at 150 lbs. Still in the healthy range for my height, but going from dancing 5 days a week to not doing anything, it sure didn't feel like it. My resting heart rate was about 110 bpm (it was probably about 60 before).
~150lbs:
I'm a full time student with a bad back and a sky rocketing heart rate, so I basically lost all my weight with very little exercise. Though before winter and semester hit I started hiking a bit to get my back strength up. Below is a unrelated image because I'm kinda in the background, but everyone should hike Newfoundland...so many blueberries.
140 lbs:
That started and quickly fizzled out when winter and semester started. I try to park my car about 20 minutes away from my classroom on week days (rain or blizzard). That's about the exercise I got for the day. I increased the amount of vegetables I was eating, but I didn't restrict my diet. I still had my cake and ate it to.
130lbs (20 pounds gone):
Sometimes I'd do a few sit ups or lift a few light Avon weights (they're 5 or 10 pounds) for 5 minutes a day. MFP put me on a 1200 calorie diet. I felt fine but read a lot of threads talking about BMR so I upped my calorie intake. I've been eating between 1670-2400 calories a day. Today I'm 123 lbs, 3 lbs away from my goal.
The sedentary lifestyle blows stuff so after this semester is over I'm only going to be taking a few courses and trying to get my back strength back! I wanted the first before pic to be before I started working out to see the changes.
150 lbs -> 123 lbs:
Current measurements (taken today):
5'7
chest: 34 inches
waist: 25 inches
butt: 36.5 inches <-I've lost pretty much nothing from here. It'll be interesting to see if my chest and butt disappear with exercise
somewhere between there and now I ended up getting into a motorcycle accident, leaving dance due to money restrictions, essentially stopped moving and was getting incredibly stressed out and ended up at 150 lbs. Still in the healthy range for my height, but going from dancing 5 days a week to not doing anything, it sure didn't feel like it. My resting heart rate was about 110 bpm (it was probably about 60 before).
~150lbs:
I'm a full time student with a bad back and a sky rocketing heart rate, so I basically lost all my weight with very little exercise. Though before winter and semester hit I started hiking a bit to get my back strength up. Below is a unrelated image because I'm kinda in the background, but everyone should hike Newfoundland...so many blueberries.
140 lbs:
That started and quickly fizzled out when winter and semester started. I try to park my car about 20 minutes away from my classroom on week days (rain or blizzard). That's about the exercise I got for the day. I increased the amount of vegetables I was eating, but I didn't restrict my diet. I still had my cake and ate it to.
130lbs (20 pounds gone):
Sometimes I'd do a few sit ups or lift a few light Avon weights (they're 5 or 10 pounds) for 5 minutes a day. MFP put me on a 1200 calorie diet. I felt fine but read a lot of threads talking about BMR so I upped my calorie intake. I've been eating between 1670-2400 calories a day. Today I'm 123 lbs, 3 lbs away from my goal.
The sedentary lifestyle blows stuff so after this semester is over I'm only going to be taking a few courses and trying to get my back strength back! I wanted the first before pic to be before I started working out to see the changes.
150 lbs -> 123 lbs:
Current measurements (taken today):
5'7
chest: 34 inches
waist: 25 inches
butt: 36.5 inches <-I've lost pretty much nothing from here. It'll be interesting to see if my chest and butt disappear with exercise
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You look fantastic!
Great job! 0 -
w00t.... awesome job CoderGal.
Way to go.
You look amazing.
Someday I'll make it from BC to NF, I'd love to ride my Ninja across country, see the whole thing. NF looks amazing too.0 -
Congratulations, my friend!!! Well done Great pics... really shows your personality as well ) You look great, can't wait to see you pick up the weights now! 0
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I love love love your story!!!! You look fantastic, congrats:flowerforyou: 0
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Yay!!!! Super well done my friend. You look fantastic...you've still got great curves! Don't worry about losing them, more likely you will enhance them. Cheers to oreos!0
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I LOVE biking here (we changed from NF to NL years back btw :P)w00t.... awesome job CoderGal.
Way to go.
You look amazing.
Someday I'll make it from BC to NF, I'd love to ride my Ninja across country, see the whole thing. NF looks amazing too.
Check out the iceburg
Love the sign on this one lol:
We are definitely not the square cookie cutter place
Here's a pic of me and some of my friends lol:
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You look great! I used to dance so I know how you felt. Cheers to you :drinker:0
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wow that's amazing! Crazy that you didn't lose from your hips! I'm exactly the same weight and height and my measurements are 33, 25, 35. I think its all in the proportions, as I have short legs and a very long torso - but would much rather have your long legs and wider hips. Are you still eating 1600-2400 a day? I also want to lose the last 3 pounds but was thinking of eating 1400 (plus my exercise cals)0
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Thanks for the comments everyone.
shows personality? Is it the t-shirt :PCongratulations, my friend!!! Well done Great pics... really shows your personality as well ) You look great, can't wait to see you pick up the weights now!
Wow you're a lot closer to me then I thought! How on earth do you find clothes? My legs are long but I find it's hard enough to find shirts that are long enough for me. Pants aren't bad in length, I can manage to get a 33 inseam but like to wear heals...my problem with pants is where I have a butt all my jeans stick off in the back. I'm obsessed with yoga pants now but they're hard to get long enough. And yep, you should be able to see my dairywow that's amazing! Crazy that you didn't lose from your hips! I'm exactly the same weight and height and my measurements are 33, 25, 35. I think its all in the proportions, as I have short legs and a very long torso - but would much rather have your long legs and wider hips. Are you still eating 1600-2400 a day? I also want to lose the last 3 pounds but was thinking of eating 1400 (plus my exercise cals) I'm just going to bottom out at whatever weight I bottom out at...but I'm determined to at least temporarily get rid of 3 pounds so I hit goal. 1400 isn't to bad, still above your BMR. Hard to live there for any amount of time though. You may be at a weird Plateau that might go away eventually. 0 -
Great job your looking awesome0
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LOVELY pics... seriously gorgeous there!!! They all show your personality :P0
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AWESOME! It is easy to get off track, but it takes courage to face the facts and do something about it.
Well done!!0 -
I celebrated with recees today lol.Yay!!!! Super well done my friend. You look fantastic...you've still got great curves! Don't worry about losing them, more likely you will enhance them. Cheers to oreos!
And for those who don't know, I haven't had a oreo since I started loosing weight, after 3 pounds are gone, I'm eating a box lol.0 -
Wow, you look great!0
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I LOVE biking here (we changed from NF to NL years back btw :P)
hee hee.. oops... :blushing:0 -
You looked great before and you look great now! Congrats
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You look fantastic!! Great work I can't imagine the lifestyle change and how it must have bugged you to go from dancing all the time to sedentary. But everything happens for a reason eh?!
On another note, we have LOTS of awesome trails here that you can hike... the only problem is choosing which one to do first!! lol.0 -
Aww thanks :flowerforyou:You looked great before and you look great now! Congrats0 -
Thanks buddy! And it was mostly devastating, but at least I got into motorcycles at the same time (new joy).You look fantastic!! Great work I can't imagine the lifestyle change and how it must have bugged you to go from dancing all the time to sedentary. But everything happens for a reason eh?!
On another note, we have LOTS of awesome trails here that you can hike... the only problem is choosing which one to do first!! lol.
Went on a hike today (27+1 pounds gone):
Apparently there were some divers I missed by a few days that were climbing the ice bergs and jumping off of them near by:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vHbdakzPPU 0 -
I hit goal after (30 lbs)
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/579575-today-i-hit-goal-doing-this-5-7-sedentary-female0
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