From 205 to 155 *I think i'm a success story!*

wowowwwww is all i can say!!! so how long did it take and how often did u exercise and what about ur eating habits?? DEETS please!

haha i wrote a brief overview of this in the initial post but here's a few more details:

It took me approximately 10 1/2 months to lose the weight.

For the first 2 months I was just walking 1-2 hours per day and eating 1,200 calories per day. I only lost 4 lbs and decided I HAD to kick it up, so I convinced my husband to join a gym with me!

Once we started working out at the gym I stuck to the ellipticals and cross trainer for the most part, but tried to jog and lift a few weights from time to time. We also started playing basketball at the gym because they had an indoor court! So then I was working out at the gym about 5ish hours a week, playing basketball, biking or walking a few miles everyday and I managed to lose about 20 more lbs in the next 4 months and that's when I finally started to believe in myself.

After a few more months I started also doing the 30 day shred at home along with going to the gym. *By then I had also upped my calories to about 1500-1600 depending on my exercise for the day.

It really just took alot of hard work! I didn't make excuses to not workout. I worked out MILLIONS of times when I wasn't in the mood to, because if I waited to "want" to workout, I would still look like my before pictures (although I actually really do enjoy exercising now) Also, I ate pretty much whatever I wanted to eat (pizza, popcorn, pasta) as long as I could fit it into my calories for the day and I made sure to get about 80 oz of water too on a daily basis.