52 lbs so far... before and after!
treeeee
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Hi everyone!!! I'm brand new to the forums, I've lurked on here ever since I first started MFP, but never posted anything. I think I am finally comfortable enough with myself to show off some before and after photos. Just thought I would share my story and hopefully it will give someone the little boost of motivation they were looking for. Because seriously.. If I can do it, ANYONE can do it.
So.. my whole life I was the "chubby girl". I've always been overweight. From about 5th grade on I wore a size 12. In my first year of college I gained about 5-10 lbs and was barely squeezing into my 12s, then I started dating my boyfriend. That was in 2008. I went from about 160 to 178 in our first two years together, also in those first couple years I moved out of my Mom's house and in with him, we ate out a lot, and ate super unhealthy, I mean SUPER unhealthy. And humongous portions. I also quit college and got a desk job about 6 months after he and I got together. So I was completely inactive and eating everything in site. It wasn't pretty. We both gained weight, but my bf runs at work all day, and rides bmx bikes for fun, so he didn't put it on quite as quickly as I did, and I was so disgusted with myself, I didn't want anyone to see me. I quit going out and became a homebody, which made me even more inactive and more likely to overeat.
SEVERAL BEFORE PHOTOS:
That last photo was taken on the day he and I decided we needed to take some action and join a gym, it was August of 2010 and I weighed 178. That morning we had gone to Gold's Gym, signed up for memberships, then proceeded to go to Moes (the burrito place) and eat burritos covered in queso...lol.
Either way, the first 6 months of working out were brutal. My body wasn't used to it, I didn't know what to do, I was embarrassed to be seen at the gym, and I was clueless about what I should be eating to aid weight loss. We joined the gym in the beginning of August and I set a goal to be 10 lbs lighter by Christmas time. Well.. I'll just say that the only reason I was 10 lbs lighter on Christmas morning was because I just got over a nasty bout of the stomach flu. Seriously though, by the new year (2011) I was at 175, I had only lost 3lbs since August.
This kept up until about March 2011. We got invited to a friend's wedding in mid June and I had my heart set on weighing 140lbs by the time the wedding rolled around. I got SERIOUS about losing weight. I finally started doing some research on nutrition, weight loss, metabolism, and work outs. Right about this time I randomly found myfitnesspal on a message board. I checked it out and it made sense. I put in my weight in, set my goal at 1 lb a week, and it told me to eat 1360 calories. I became a little obsessed with counting calories, and making sure the calories I did get were healthy ones. I started hitting the gym 6-7 days a week for about a hour a half each day, two-three hours on the weekends. The weight started falling off. I was losing 10 lbs a month! I went from 170-140 in 3 months, and I met my goal. These are some photos from right about that time:
By the time fall 2011 came along I was at around 135 decided I would maintain my weight of about 135 through the winter. Then I set a new goal for myself that by THIS summer (2012) I would be at 120lbs and that would be my stopping point. Well, I maintained all winter, and started really going at it again about a month and a half ago.
This is what I looked like around Christmas, at about 133lbs:
Right around the beginning of March I picked up where I left off. So far I have lost another 8 lbs and am on track to be around 120 for the end of May. I have never looked better, or felt better about myself, and not just the way I look, but the way I feel. I have so much more self-confidence now, something I had hardly any of my whole life. I have a positive outlook on life, and I can't wait to feel like this for the rest of my life. It's wonderful. I am admittedly a bit of a gym rat. I spend a lot of time at the gym, and currently am really starting to get into weight training and toning. It's making a huge difference in my body, and it's crazy to watch my body change. I am happy with the way I eat, I am ALMOST a vegetarian but I can't fully give up meat. I eat as much veggies and fruit as I can squeeze in though. I eat around 1500-2200 calories a day but I burn anywhere from 500-1500 calories in exercise, so I adjust my food intake accordingly. I look at food more as fuel for my body then for comfort. But I do LOVE food.
This is me now, although it's not the best photo, I really should take one that shows me off a little more:
If anyone needs any tips, or help or motivation please let me know. In my free time I research food and exercise as much as I can and I'm a wealth of low-calorie information! I'd be happy to help or talk with anyone who is looking for advice.
Also, MYFITNESSPAL RULES!! I could not have done it without this website!!
So.. my whole life I was the "chubby girl". I've always been overweight. From about 5th grade on I wore a size 12. In my first year of college I gained about 5-10 lbs and was barely squeezing into my 12s, then I started dating my boyfriend. That was in 2008. I went from about 160 to 178 in our first two years together, also in those first couple years I moved out of my Mom's house and in with him, we ate out a lot, and ate super unhealthy, I mean SUPER unhealthy. And humongous portions. I also quit college and got a desk job about 6 months after he and I got together. So I was completely inactive and eating everything in site. It wasn't pretty. We both gained weight, but my bf runs at work all day, and rides bmx bikes for fun, so he didn't put it on quite as quickly as I did, and I was so disgusted with myself, I didn't want anyone to see me. I quit going out and became a homebody, which made me even more inactive and more likely to overeat.
SEVERAL BEFORE PHOTOS:
That last photo was taken on the day he and I decided we needed to take some action and join a gym, it was August of 2010 and I weighed 178. That morning we had gone to Gold's Gym, signed up for memberships, then proceeded to go to Moes (the burrito place) and eat burritos covered in queso...lol.
Either way, the first 6 months of working out were brutal. My body wasn't used to it, I didn't know what to do, I was embarrassed to be seen at the gym, and I was clueless about what I should be eating to aid weight loss. We joined the gym in the beginning of August and I set a goal to be 10 lbs lighter by Christmas time. Well.. I'll just say that the only reason I was 10 lbs lighter on Christmas morning was because I just got over a nasty bout of the stomach flu. Seriously though, by the new year (2011) I was at 175, I had only lost 3lbs since August.
This kept up until about March 2011. We got invited to a friend's wedding in mid June and I had my heart set on weighing 140lbs by the time the wedding rolled around. I got SERIOUS about losing weight. I finally started doing some research on nutrition, weight loss, metabolism, and work outs. Right about this time I randomly found myfitnesspal on a message board. I checked it out and it made sense. I put in my weight in, set my goal at 1 lb a week, and it told me to eat 1360 calories. I became a little obsessed with counting calories, and making sure the calories I did get were healthy ones. I started hitting the gym 6-7 days a week for about a hour a half each day, two-three hours on the weekends. The weight started falling off. I was losing 10 lbs a month! I went from 170-140 in 3 months, and I met my goal. These are some photos from right about that time:
By the time fall 2011 came along I was at around 135 decided I would maintain my weight of about 135 through the winter. Then I set a new goal for myself that by THIS summer (2012) I would be at 120lbs and that would be my stopping point. Well, I maintained all winter, and started really going at it again about a month and a half ago.
This is what I looked like around Christmas, at about 133lbs:
Right around the beginning of March I picked up where I left off. So far I have lost another 8 lbs and am on track to be around 120 for the end of May. I have never looked better, or felt better about myself, and not just the way I look, but the way I feel. I have so much more self-confidence now, something I had hardly any of my whole life. I have a positive outlook on life, and I can't wait to feel like this for the rest of my life. It's wonderful. I am admittedly a bit of a gym rat. I spend a lot of time at the gym, and currently am really starting to get into weight training and toning. It's making a huge difference in my body, and it's crazy to watch my body change. I am happy with the way I eat, I am ALMOST a vegetarian but I can't fully give up meat. I eat as much veggies and fruit as I can squeeze in though. I eat around 1500-2200 calories a day but I burn anywhere from 500-1500 calories in exercise, so I adjust my food intake accordingly. I look at food more as fuel for my body then for comfort. But I do LOVE food.
This is me now, although it's not the best photo, I really should take one that shows me off a little more:
If anyone needs any tips, or help or motivation please let me know. In my free time I research food and exercise as much as I can and I'm a wealth of low-calorie information! I'd be happy to help or talk with anyone who is looking for advice.
Also, MYFITNESSPAL RULES!! I could not have done it without this website!!
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Hi everyone!!! I'm brand new to the forums, I've lurked on here ever since I first started MFP, but never posted anything. I think I am finally comfortable enough with myself to show off some before and after photos. Just thought I would share my story and hopefully it will give someone the little boost of motivation they were looking for. Because seriously.. If I can do it, ANYONE can do it.
So.. my whole life I was the "chubby girl". I've always been overweight. From about 5th grade on I wore a size 12. In my first year of college I gained about 5-10 lbs and was barely squeezing into my 12s, then I started dating my boyfriend. That was in 2008. I went from about 160 to 178 in our first two years together, also in those first couple years I moved out of my Mom's house and in with him, we ate out a lot, and ate super unhealthy, I mean SUPER unhealthy. And humongous portions. I also quit college and got a desk job about 6 months after he and I got together. So I was completely inactive and eating everything in site. It wasn't pretty. We both gained weight, but my bf runs at work all day, and rides bmx bikes for fun, so he didn't put it on quite as quickly as I did, and I was so disgusted with myself, I didn't want anyone to see me. I quit going out and became a homebody, which made me even more inactive and more likely to overeat.
SEVERAL BEFORE PHOTOS:
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That last photo was taken on the day he and I decided we needed to take some action and join a gym, it was August of 2010 and I weighed 178. That morning we had gone to Gold's Gym, signed up for memberships, then proceeded to go to Moes (the burrito place) and eat burritos covered in queso...lol.
Either way, the first 6 months of working out were brutal. My body wasn't used to it, I didn't know what to do, I was embarrassed to be seen at the gym, and I was clueless about what I should be eating to aid weight loss. We joined the gym in the beginning of August and I set a goal to be 10 lbs lighter by Christmas time. Well.. I'll just say that the only reason I was 10 lbs lighter on Christmas morning was because I just got over a nasty bout of the stomach flu. Seriously though, by the new year (2011) I was at 175, I had only lost 3lbs since August.
This kept up until about March 2011. We got invited to a friend's wedding in mid June and I had my heart set on weighing 140lbs by the time the wedding rolled around. I got SERIOUS about losing weight. I finally started doing some research on nutrition, weight loss, metabolism, and work outs. Right about this time I randomly found myfitnesspal on a message board. I checked it out and it made sense. I put in my weight in, set my goal at 1 lb a week, and it told me to eat 1360 calories. I became a little obsessed with counting calories, and making sure the calories I did get were healthy ones. I started hitting the gym 6-7 days a week for about a hour a half each day, two-three hours on the weekends. The weight started falling off. I was losing 10 lbs a month! I went from 170-140 in 3 months, and I met my goal. These are some photos from right about that time:
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By the time fall 2011 came along I was at around 135 decided I would maintain my weight of about 135 through the winter. Then I set a new goal for myself that by THIS summer (2012) I would be at 120lbs and that would be my stopping point. Well, I maintained all winter, and started really going at it again about a month and a half ago.
This is what I looked like around Christmas, at about 133lbs:
<img src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa82/treerulez/400537_2507313284550_1304580106_32269138_1873647097_n.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket">
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Right around the beginning of March I picked up where I left off. So far I have lost another 8 lbs and am on track to be around 120 for the end of May. I have never looked better, or felt better about myself, and not just the way I look, but the way I feel. I have so much more self-confidence now, something I had hardly any of my whole life. I have a positive outlook on life, and I can't wait to feel like this for the rest of my life. It's wonderful. I am admittedly a bit of a gym rat. I spend a lot of time at the gym, and currently am really starting to get into weight training and toning. It's making a huge difference in my body, and it's crazy to watch my body change. I am happy with the way I eat, I am ALMOST a vegetarian but I can't fully give up meat. I eat as much veggies and fruit as I can squeeze in though. I eat around 1500-2200 calories a day but I burn anywhere from 500-1500 calories in exercise, so I adjust my food intake accordingly. I look at food more as fuel for my body then for comfort. But I do LOVE food.
This is me now, although it's not the best photo, I really should take one that shows me off a little more:
If anyone needs any tips, or help or motivation please let me know. In my free time I research food and exercise as much as I can and I'm a wealth of low-calorie information! I'd be happy to help or talk with anyone who is looking for advice.
Also, MYFITNESSPAL RULES!! I could not have done it without this website!!
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AHH!! I don't know, I'm using photo bucket I guess I should be using something else. How annoying. I was using the img src code, I tried all of the others. Any now I just resorted to using the links. I wish you could delete topics, I would delete and restart.
If anyone knows how to fix it let me know please and thank you!0 -
The last pic you pasted should work if you change the IMG to lower case img. Not sure about the other pics.0
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AHH!! I don't know, I'm using photo bucket I guess I should be using something else. How annoying. I was using the img src code, I tried all of the others. Any now I just resorted to using the links. I wish you could delete topics, I would delete and restart.
If anyone knows how to fix it let me know please and thank you!
Well, I used the 'image code', starts with. All you have to do, after you copy it, you just change it to lower case letters.
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I wish I could help more - I'm anxious to see these pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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OKAY I GOT IT NOW!!! thanks for the help, I appreciate it!0
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you look great! i hope i can do what you did.0
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Thanks for sharing and inspiring!
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wow, congrats- you look great!0
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Amazing journey!! Thanks for posting!!0
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Awesome! You look awesome. That's all I can say. Just one question: what kind of snacks do you have? Thanks for sharing 0
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Great job! You are so inspiring!0
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Seriously great progress, so adorable and such a great choice to get fit and healthy!0
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Congratulations!! It's so inspiring to see someone's hard work and motivation pay off
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This is TREMENDOUS! What a wonderful chronicle and story, and I'm so glad it's from someone who's in it for health and has concentrated on nourishing yourself right from the start, rather than focusing on calories and being uneducated about nutrition. You're a wonderful example and inspiration!0
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Congrats!! What an amazing transformation! You look really great!0
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you look great and so much happier!!!0
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome pics. Gosh you're a very pretty gal (before & after!).
Love that pink bike. :happy:
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Awesome transformation... of both your body and your attitude towards food. LOVE the pink bike... SS, go you! Keep it up! Feel free to add me if you're looking for other biking buddies... I'm more MTB than BMX, but hey, we've all gotta stick together here!
Great work!
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Great job... I am at 52 lbs right now as well... But I certainly am not ready to show off like you since I have so much further to go... Great job though. Keep it up. Glad to see you have made a LIFESTYLE change... Keep at it! :glasses:0
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You look so great and so happy!! I love your pink bike, what brand is it?0
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You are beautiful and look like you are bursting with energy! Congratulations! You have done a great job transforming your life, knowledge, attitude and your body.
By the way, over five years of gradually reducing my meat intake and being drawn more and more to fruits and veggies, I woke up one day a vegetarian.
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Awesome! You look awesome. That's all I can say. Just one question: what kind of snacks do you have? Thanks for sharing
I switch it up quite a bit, and it also depends if I'm aiming for a high calorie or low calorie day but some of my favorite snacks are: 100 calorie almond packs, clementines, carrot sticks or celery sticks with a little homemade guacamole or hummus, low Cal/low carb tortilla roll ups filled with hummus and choppped veggies, Luna protein bars, banana, Gnu foods flavor&filbert bars, and Greek yogurt mixed with fresh fruit0 -
You look so great and so happy!! I love your pink bike, what brand is it?
Its a schwinn road bike!!! It was a surprise from the boyfriend for my last birthday. I love it and ride it every chance I get!0 -
Thank you to everyone for all of the kind words! It seriously made me tear up a little. You guys are toooo sweet 0
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I love the photos and seeing your transformation! My goal is also 120. I'm 140.8 right now, and very anxious to get to my goal, but am having some trouble with my diet past few weeks. ANYWAY, question for ya--do you do the whole high calorie/low calorie switching of days thing? I've heard very little about this but I'm curious. Also, how tall are you, if you don't mind my asking? You're inspiring & motivating me to kick my *kitten* into gear and get these last pounds off! 0
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You look fantastic, well done and congrats on your weightloss! 0
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Wow, truly amazing and very inspiring. Thank you for sharing, you really look incredible!! :happy:0
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