119lbs Lost 74.5 Since September Picture heavy

Thanks everyone

How have your family and friends responed to your weight loss?

My mom has been so inspired that she 2 is doing this and is a member here on MFP. She has lost 21lbs since her last weigh in. My friends well most my friends I didn't get till after the weight was off. I didn't get out much when I was obese. The friends I went to school with, I've seen a few recently and I'm smaller now than I was in high school so they have responded quite nicely about it. I've had a few people who seem to be jealous I guess that's the word? Like they will pick apart things like "Great weight loss, but you're gonna gain it back" or "Great weight loss, but you still need to fix this." than I have had the "You look good and all but you still have a gut." and also was told once "You can lose as much weight as you want, but you are still ugly" so yeah I get a little bit of harsh and a lot of good compliments. I find people are ruder to me now than before when I was over weight. Also my husband is loving it. He thinks I"m gorgeous and can't keep his hands off me lol.

My story:

Started weight: 250lbs
Restart weight: 205.5lbs
Current weight: 131lbs
Goal weight: 115-120lbs (which ever I like best)
Ultimate body image achieved weight: 130
Height: 5'3
Age: 30

My story has been around on this site so long now but I'll go ahead and cover it all.

Started MFP 2 years ago, closer to 3 year's ago, it was in late 2009, I lost the access information for that account and didn't feel like trying to find it, so I made this account. Started this account I believe in Feb of 2011. In September of 2011 is when I really pushed to start all this. Let's back up to 2009. I was 250lbs and in complete denial of my weight. What I seen in the mirror and what was really there, were 2 totally different things. I seen a girl who was chunky but not fat, a girl who was mildly obese not morbidly obese. I did not believe how big I was till I saw a photo of myself, than I thought the girl who took the photo just put my face on someone elses body and some how photo shopped 3 chins to me. I refused to believe it was me.

I'm a mother of 2 and have had 2 c-sections



Early 2010 I found out I was pregnant with my daughter. I thought "Oh freaking great, if I really am 250lbs I'm gonna be 300 after this is over with." Well little did I know I was a diabetic, I knew before I was pregnant I was a diabetic but I refused to get tested so I didn't really know, ya know? Stupid me that's all that was. Well I get tested for Gestational diabetes in first trimester because my dad is a diabetic. Sure enough I had it. I thought my world was flipped upside down. It was a real blessing to be honest. I lost 70lbs in my pregnancy, because for the first time in my life I put myself first and took care of myself before everyone else, and my unborn child. I believe I did it for her more than I did it for myself. Either way it came off and after she was born I put 25.5lbs of it back on. Looking in the mirror seeing it, all I wanted to do is dig a hole and not let the world see me. I hated how I looked I hate everything there was about me. I remembered how great I did under doctor care, I remembered how it felt to get that support and the "Well done, great job" from them. I needed that. So I begged my husband to let me go see a weight loss doctor. I felt I couldn't do it without someone pushing me and guiding me. So I started seeing him in September of 2011.

This was the day before I went to see the weight loss doctor.


I first thought the man was off his chain, he did blood work and other things, we also found out that the reason my hair is falling out and I'm so tired and feel faint like sometimes, and the reason
I am always short of breath (I thought it was over weight thing)the reason I bruse so easily, get dizzy all the time and my periods would last nearly 2 weeks, was because I have a b12 deficiency. So I get a b12 shot once a week with my weekly visit. It's helped with so much. No I do not think it helped me with my weight loss but it has helped me with my energy and my hair doesn't fall out like it did. Periods are straighten out, instead of nearly 2 weeks, its about 4-5 days. I no longer feel faint like or dizzy. Everything seems better. When he told me that I needed 1200 calories and to not eat back my workout calories, I thought he was off his chain. I said "Ok" but for the first month I didn't listen to him, I came on MFP and followed MFP's guidlines for me and ate back my workout calories, that didn't work I gained, so decided to just eat 1200 and eat back my workout calories. Did that for a month and gained. So I quit eating back my calories and I have lost.

Since Sept 2011, I have lost 74.5 lbs. I have not hit a plateu. I thought I did, but I didn't, I started reading around on the forum and trying to follow the advice of others and tried upping my calories and I stopped losing and stopped gaining. So I was stuck, but than I decided to go back to 1200 and it's moving and hasn't stopped moving. I now lose between 1 and 2 pounds a week. Once in awhile I won't even lose a pound. It just depends on how my week has been. This is proof that not everyone can eat back their workout calories and not everyone can eat more to weigh less. If that were so than I should have never had weigh issues lol. I use to consume a lot of calories before I lost weight. Anyways, my workout started out with just walking and zumba, than I started doing 30 day shred.Than I did some yoga, now I jog and Monday I'm starting p90. I have gained some noticable muscles. So again the "You can't gain lean muscle on 1200 calories and not eating back your workout calories" is bolonie. I am not saying it works for everyone but it works for me. I believe we are all created differently and all our metabolisms run differently.



Here is me after pregnancy with my daughter

















Yup that's about it... Question's?

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