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165 to 125: 40lbs down, huzzah!
So yesterday I officially hit the 40lbs down mark. It's taken me since January to do it, but hopefully slow and steady means the weight has come off and will stay off! And now for some pictures. I don't know my exact weight in any of the older ones, but the highest I ever saw on the scale was 165. I could've easily been…
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People have finally stopped mistaking me for older than I am
So, I'm nineteen and a half, so by all accounts pretty damn young. Back when I was overweight at eighteen, people perpetually mistook me for someone in at least my mid 20's. Which is still young by all accounts, but I was barely 18 and being mistaken for someone 7 years older. At this age that's not that bad of a thing (it…
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Face comparison!
Y'know how you never really realise how much some things have changed about your appearance until you go back through old Facebook photos? I've been having one of those days. That's me in the middle, September 2011, weight unknown. The highest I ever saw on the scale was 165, but this could've easily been heavier: Me with…
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NSV!
So, in my spare time, I spend a considerable amount of hours trawling through charity shops/thrift stores. Cheap clothing, woo. Anyway, I recently came across this lovely dress for only £3.30 - bargain! But, it's a size UK 8 (US 4). Looking at it, I thought no way in hell am I going to get in that yet. I'm typically a size…
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NSV - Borrowing my skinny aunts work out clothes!
So I've had the same old, crappy work out clothes since I was about 20lbs heavier and 2 sizes bigger than I am now. Today my aunt was going to an aerobics class and asked if I wanted to come with. I of course said yes, but that I had no work out clothes that fit properly. She said she'd lend me some of hers, but I was…
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Do you buy clothes in your "goal" size?
I've heard of some people doing this, but I just wondered how many did. I find having goal clothing always helps me stay motivated, but at the same time, I've never actually bought an item of goal clothing. When I was bigger, I just used my old clothes that no longer fit as my goal clothes that I wanted to fit into. Now…
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Shrinking clothes!
I've been feeling pretty down and unmotivated recently, and I've found one of the things that reminds me that I AM making progress is comparing the clothes I used to wear with the ones I do now. I bought a brand new pair of shorts today (UK size 10/US size 6, yay!), and I'm also in the process of getting rid of all my old…
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Swimming + new piercing?
So I usually go swimming 2 - 3 times a week. However, I got my nose pierced yesterday, and I didn't think at the time to ask my piercer how long to leave it before swimming again. I was thinking that a few weeks would probably be enough, but I wasn't sure; anyone else have any experience with this? (Oh, and just in case…
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Friends trying to sabotage you?
I know, I know. "If they were really your friends they'd support you in this," "get better friends" etc. But the thing is, I'm not sure if they're aware they're doing it. I've lost a lot of weight over the last few months. I've gone from a size UK 14/16 (US 10/12) to a UK 10 (US 6). I'm now roughly the same size as the…
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How on earth do you maintain?
My entire life, I have always been either gaining weight or losing weight. As a child, I just kept getting bigger and bigger. And then as a young teenager, I suffered with EDNOS and my only goal was to keep shrinking (I think I got down to 104 and my goal was 88, ouch). And then when I was recovering, no one taught me how…
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35+lbs down, 11 - 18lbs to go!
So I'm currently 130lbs (or at least that's what I was last week, I'll find out what I am now tomorrow), and I've been having one of those "I can't see the difference" days. So I thought hey, why not compare it to some old photos. Now this is harder than I first thought, because there are very, very few photos of me when I…
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New! (well, ish)
I made this account a few months ago, but I've never really gotten around to using it until now. I go by G, I'm 19, and I've struggled with weight pretty much my whole life. From childhood obesity to EDNOS to binging my way back into obesity, I've yoyo-ed all over the place in terms of unhealthy eating patterns. But now…
