Hit Onederland today! Pics~

Prepare for too many pictures hahah!

I just really wanted to share with some people so here seems like a good place! Dunno if everyone really wants to hear my story, so I'll keep it short. I started using Myfitnesspal (for real this time hahah) around July 30th 2011. Almost 1 year ago. I was at about 255 lbs, only 5 down from my highest weight.

Here's a picture from right after I moved back to Oklahoma in July 2010. I would guess I was around 235-240



And at my high weight in April 2011 260-265 lbs not sure



By September my boyfriend had started working at subway instead of in a deli with greasy food and accidentally lost his first 10 pounds. It got him thinking "this is easy" and we started taking walks and trying to jog together at night. I say Trying because at this point, jogging for a whole minute gave me a painful sidestitch and stole my breath away.

By October we had joined a gym and I was walking on the treadmill for about 20 min and playing with the free weights mostly at random. I remember the first day I managed to jog 7 minutes nonstop at 4 mph. I felt like a huge success! I was back down to 135 lbs around this time



By December I was at 220 and jogging for almost the whole 20 minutes



And in January I bought myself a 1x Jacket. I was so worried about starting to buy things that weren't 2x sizes. I had dropped my pants size from a very tight 20w to a comfortable 16 (no w!)





My weight loss really started slowing down around this time. I was getting impatient with myself. Not having a better idea and being unable to get myself to eat lower amounts of calories, I started pushing the cardio harder and harder. I was still netting close to 1800 calories a day, but It really wasn't working for me. I started to drop the lifting all together and would just jog nonstop for the hour that I was at the gym with my boyfriend. I didn't feel bad about the jogging though. I still feel the most amazing after jogging a long distance (furthest so far was 7 miles one day when I was angry with myself for binging again =( ) but anyway!

starting in March I hit a plateau. I was 208, and I stayed there for about a month and a half. During this time I was running about 6 days a week for at least an hour a day, and had stopped logging my food. some days I was eating way too little, and others I was way over, but the scale wasn't moving at all.

I finally got myself together about halfway through May and started logging again. I finally dropped a little to 205. And that's when I decided I needed a drastic change and started New Rules of LIfting for Women.

Here I am the first night before I went, please excuse the incredibly stupid expressions in these pics





I've been following the program for about a month and a half and today was the first day of stage 2 for me so I took comparison pictures. It was also the first day I weighed in at under 200! You can imagine how excited I was this morning when I saw that =D





And one final comparison because I love side by sides!



Okay, done spamming pictures at you guys. lemme know what you think!