Won my work weight loss challenge! (with in-progress pics)

Around the same time I got serious about losing weight in early February of this year, my office started a biggest-loser-esque challenge. I figured I would sign up as some extra motivation to keep me on track. About 10 weeks later, we had our final weigh in, and it turns out that I had the highest percentage of weight lost in the group at right around 11%. The competitive part of me loved winning (plus the free gym membership that came with it!), but more importantly, for the first time it made me feel like this is really happening and I can actually accomplish my goals. I know the scale has been going down for the past few months, but somehow in my head it just seemed like a fluke. This finally made me see that it was for real, and I am more determined than ever now to get to my goal and make it stick.

I was going through some photos on my phone recently and saw that I had taken a picture of myself right around the time I started losing weight. I did my best to re-create it today (same clothes, etc.), and I was surprised at what a difference there was. It isn't really obvious in the photo, but those jeans that were probably a size too small in the first picture are now literally falling off. I've never been so happy to need a belt :happy:



(also, this is my first attempt at posting a photo, so my apologies if this doesn't work!)