How Far Have You Come?

Good job everyone!!!

For me, i started in Mid February and i'm down 26-27 lbs right now. I'd be happy with another 40 lbs. But i'm so proud of myself, this is the first time i've ever really tried and gave it my all.

Here's my story...
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/536100-my-story-with-photos

Since last summer, I've lost 46 pounds. That was bad. I remember having a hard time getting out the couch (literally). I feel a lot better now, but still not good. Still feel fat and uncomfortable, but there's definitely been progress. My fitness has also increased. I remember when I first started Power 90 and I would get so winded. Now sometimes I feel like I must not be trying hard enough because it feels so much easier. I still don't really do the Plyo(jumping) stuff because of my weight, but even with modifications 2 months ago I was struggling.

I'm 5'4"

HW: 252 (August 2002)
SW: 178 (January 2012)
CW: 160
GW: 140

I'll be 39 tomorrow and my goal is to be as sexy as possible by the time I turn 40 in 2013! I'm on it! :drinker:

I started on Jan 11- so it will be almost 4 months and I have lost 32 lbs, but it's not just my weight lost- I have gone from cutting out refined processed foods to a lean protein & veggie diet to now a 90% raw diet. I feel so amazing!
This picture is from 25 lbs lost. I have 3 lbs to get to my half way point!!!

Unofficially - Thursdays are my official weigh-in days - I have lost 28 pounds since the beginning of January. I currently weigh less than I have weighed since the 3rd grade. THIRD GRADE. That totally amazes and disgusts me at the same time.

I feel like a different person now. I can do things I always told myself I couldn't do before. I am a much stronger person both physically and emotionally. I have my bad days (heck, even bad weeks!), but I just keep on chugging along. I never want to go back to who I was before. I am finally having some confidence in myself and my self-esteem has greatly improved. For once, I can look in the mirror, and in general, like what I see. I am setting a good example for my kids, and that makes me feel so good to know that I am giving them the tools to not go through what I have in my life when it comes to being overweight.

I have to ask - you really only gained 28 pounds since you were 10? That seems unusual... Congrats on the weight loss and the strength you've gained!

To answer your question honestly - no. When I started MFP and getting serious about my weight loss, I was 197.5 lbs. At my heaviest (non-pregnant weight) I was 218 in 2004. So - technically, from my highest weight, I've lost 47.5 lbs, but I was counting from when I started.

Im 25 lbs down since the begining of Jan and have 30-35 more to go then a lifetime of maintaining.
Im hoping to get that off by my 28th b-day in October but if it takes till Jan Ill be ok with that too.

21 pounds since March 7, 2012!!! Need to keep this up as I have a ways to go.

I downloaded MFP on my iPhone in 2011 but didn't pick it up until Jan 17, 2012. On the night before a switch flipped for good and I said I am truly going to do it this time. Before 1/17/12, I was very sendentary. I have a desk job and at home, i would spend a lot of time on the couch. After 1/17/12...at first I concentrated on staying under my calorie goal and drinking more water. I guess about a month or so in I started visiting the forums and getting more involved by adding friends. Then I started exercising using our Wii. Seeing friends exercise daily helped motivate me to get moving. As of last weekend I'm down 35.8 lbs and I exercise at least 6 days a wk. I alternate 25ish min days w 40ish minute workouts during the week. Then do 60+ minutes on the weekend. I mostly do cardio but I do incorporate some handweights. I'm starting to look toward doing more with weights now. And I have found I love incorporating boxing type moves into my workout! So many new things that I never thought I would do or achieve!!

I still have a long journey ahead of me but I KNOW I will get there and never go back again!!!

I went from about 260 lbs not sure exactly, long story, Now I average 185 im in better shape physically mentally and lifestyle wise than I was at 22 when I got out of the US Army. Oh yea and smoke free for about 16 years.

44lbs is amazing! Well done!
I'm a real slowcoach, but here's where I've come from:
Nov 2010 211lbs:


Mid April 2012 205lbs

This week, 203lbs

Still got a long way to go....

30 lbs since Feb. 2012

Last year at this time I was pretty close to 260 lbs (if you look at my pictures the one with me in the pink shirt is me at 260) and Tuesday I weighed in at 227 (my profile picture was taken last weekend)
. My goal at the moment is to get back into the 190's then readust my goals.

So in total I have lost 33 lbs

I know there are literally thousands of posts like this, but I really have to say this somewhere.

It's been exactly 3 years and 6 months (to the day) since I stepped on the scale at a Weight Watchers meeting and was shocked and disgusted by who I had become and what I weighed...

This morning I stepped on the scale at the gym and am proud to say that I am 44 lbs lighter than that terrible moment. And realizing I was able to wrap the stupidly small towels they have at the gym around myself just made me feel so good.

How far have you come?

THE TOWELS!!!! I've only recently noticed this too. Only it wasn't gym towels, it was my home towels - I could NOT get them fully around me and now I can tie a little knot in there ;-)

I stepped onto that dreaded scale the week before my 28th birthday in June last year, and remember thinking "that can't be right?! I couldn't be that heavy?!" - I don't think I honest to god realised how big I had gotten until I found an old driving licence last week. I posted a picture here in the face comparison thread - I am appalled that I let that happen to myself.

Still - just under a year later and 33lbs down - I'm only sorry I didn't do it sooner.

Congratulations and well done to you, you've done amazing x