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So three years ago my Grandpa died and I consoled myself with food.  I managed to lose the weight, and then my other Grandpa died within the year, so the pounds came back.  After that, I committed myself to trying to get down to my freshman year weight (I avoided the freshman fifteen, but after that, there was no controlling it.) I lost 30 pounds and then injured myself so 10 came back.  I'm trying to re-lose those ten, because I was pretty happy at 140.  

The first shot is a picture from 3 years ago, and the latest one is at the running of the brides in April.   I didn't buy this dress (although it was very flattering, and the one I bought is a little small - so I'm trying to lose the weight so I can save the cost of altering it :-p.  

Oh wow. I guess I love the hive because I'm going to post one of the most god awful pictures ever. I'm 5'10 and was around 198 when the first before pic was taken.  The heaviest I've ever been. In college I was around 140-150 and was happy with that weight given my height. Then after college I began gaining weight. Too much drinking, anyone? So, back in November I decided that I definitely needed to lose weight. I hated how I looked in pictures and felt in clothes. Since then I've lost about 25 pounds. I still don't like to take pictures so that's why the majority of my pics are from the boobs up. Still I think you can see the results just by looking at my face. It's crazy. I still want to lose about 15 to 20 more pounds. I'm around 175 now and think that 160 would be a healthy weight to be at. So without further ado....fat face pic from last summer...and not so fat face pic from a few weeks ago. Please excuse my hilly billy looking man...he'd spent the day at the river fishing...cut off sleeves are not his wardrobe staple.

Darn. I"ll repost those later.

Wiglet...loved your half-marthon 82 day post. loved it!!!

and congratulations on the run, that looks seriously beautiful.

Where are after pictures?

I was never fat, but I was 5'2 and around 130 lbs.  I tend to gain weight evenly all over my body, even in the face, as the before pic shows.

Over the last two years, I've slowly lost about 17 lbs.  I feel good, and I still have some curves to show off.

 

Well, started out at 291 this October and am down to 215 right now. I still have 50 pounds to lose total, but my goal was to lose 100 pounds by the wedding, so I have 24 pounds left to lose by September 25. The more current photo was taken about a month ago...unfortunately, it's the most recent photo I've got.

I drink a gallon of water a day, work out three times a week, and eat two meal replacements (protein shakes) a day and have a "sensible" low fat low carb dinner. It's been working, so I plan to keep with it. Thanks, GaBGal! I'm discouraged because I can still wear some of the same clothes I was in a year ago despite having lost 76 pounds. I went from a 22/24 to a size 18. I'm stubborn...I just wish I was in smaller clothes NOW! LOL

Wow, D. Marie! I remember that pic from a post you started about how you should style your hair for your wedding, if I'm not mistaken. You look fantastic. I had a public speaking professor in undergrad who ALWAYS told us that we were our own worst enemy and that we needed to fire the critic in the back of our heads. I will extend that to all of you bees in your weight loss endeavors. We are definitely too hard on ourselves. Congrats to everyone--this is such a wonderful accomplishment!

D. Marie, I love your haircut, by the way.

To Sparklez - I've been working hard on my lower half because I'm like you - my top half is naturally toned, but my legs definitely aren't!  Can I blame genetics?  I've been doing a LOT of squats and lunges with 8-12 pound dumbells on each arm.  Sometimes I do them onto a step, sometimes I just do them on the floor.  The higher the step, the better.  My booty has perked up quite a bit after a few months of this.  I devote one day per week to legs and butt and I try to run a few days per week, too.