Wedding day successes!

My wedding is 12.08.12. A little over four months away. Its been slow, but I do got to the gym alot and enjoy life. I did a protein diet right before xmas and got down to 159 and then balloon back up because I ate/drank more than working out and got back up to 175 around spring break. Then I have been losing and am back down to 160. I want to be around 145 for my weddding, which is not a hard goal to reach, but the weight is so slow coming off. I know that inches and muscle tone has changed which is awesome - just would like to see the scale do the same thing. This is a life style change but its nice to have small goals to achieve!

Holy transformation, Batman!

GOregous!

Thanks!

Sorry to keep re-posting the pictures. I'll take them out next time. my bad.

There was about 6 months between these two pictures. I'm happy I lost some of the weight, but I know I could have done more! Oh well, the pictures came out great and it was such a fun day! I's 5'2" and 180 when I started down to 160ish for the wedding.

Thanks for the inspiration!!! I am getting married in 8 months and really want to lose 20 pounds before that. I really wanted to get down a lot before our engagement pictures but we are getting those done next week so I guess I just have to be happy with the 10 pounds I have lost for those.

Wow to all those pictures! You all look stunning and I love love the transformation!! Beautiful dresses!

I got engaged a couple of weeks back and we have set the date for next year August, so there is plenty of time for me to lose as close to 100lbs as possible :bigsmile: I have started MFP a couple of weeks before my SO proposed, but it definitely has given me more determination to look good on my wedding day and finally get rid of all this weight. Especially seeing as we would like to start a familie soon after as well, and that certainly will be easier with less weight!

Apart from setting the date and booking the venue in Germany (my hometown ) we have not made any more plans - so all the exciting times lie ahead of me - can't wait to hear what you're all are planning for your big day (or for the ones that are married: what was the best part of your day, what would you do differently?

Good luck to all of us! :happy:

I just returned from my honeymoon this past Monday and just got back on the MFP site/boards...not because I'm not interested in finishing my weight loss journey...

...but because I thought my mother was going to kill me if I didn't maintain my size when she fitted my wedding dress! Yes, the blessed, holy saint that she is, my mother made my wedding dress by hand when I could find nothing in the stores that I liked. (Everything was too froofy for a simple country princess like me...)

I started my weight loss program in July 2011, after I saw photos of myself at my family reunion:



Here's one from February 2011; I think I may have been even heavier then:



The second is the one showing off my engagement ring (I was engaged on March 31st, 2012, so we could tell everybody on April Fool's Day and see who believed us.)

I would post pictures from the wedding, but unfortunately Facebook is blocked at work, so I'll get back to you...

I did not expect to get married when I began the weight loss, but I knew it was probably coming. My goal then was to reduce a lot of the health risks I had at the time (and am now medication-free!). As I got closer to becoming engaged, my focus definitely shifted to looking good on the big day, and 65 lbs. down was simply phenomenal (even though I didn't reach my goal of 90).

The family who had seen me at the reunion in 2011 saw me 65 lbs. lighter in 2012. THAT was the feeling I was going for!

I just returned from my honeymoon this past Monday and just got back on the MFP site/boards...not because I'm not interested in finishing my weight loss journey...

Welcome back! Congratulations to you and your new hubby on your wedding!:drinker:

I hope you had a great time on your honeymoon! I can't wait to see the pictures of your success! Congratulations on your successes so far. That's a great accomplishment!

I went from 134 lbs to 120 on my wedding day. Granted I gained it all back and more, at least I looked good that day ;-)

You ladies all look beautiful!!
I managed to lose 55 pounds before my wedding and was the smallest I'd ever been in a long time, 50 pounds may not sound like much but I'm only 5'2" so it was the difference between being quite overweight and being thin. (there is a picture in my profile)