BrunetteGirl
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Hi everyone... I just wanted to tell youa ll how much you have inspired me, and I just took some BEFORE pics, that I will be posting once I figure out how to do it...
I came across this site last night, I was deciding whether to go workout or not, and I did a Google search for weight loss before & after pics, for inspiration.... and the first result was this message board... I satrted clicking away and I was amazed.... I left the window open on my computer while I put on my workout clothes and headed to the gym.... ONE HOUR of treadmill/elliptical... Woo!
I have been struggling with my weight for years, I wasn't fat.... I just needed to tone and get rid of some extra chub... But then I started working at Starbucks... BAD IDEA... I was making myself lattes and Frappuccinos left and right, and of course, trying the pastries... I remember I had a pair of black pants that fit when I started working there that fit fine, by the end, I wore them completely unzippered under my apron, and I WONDERED WHY!!
Anyway, I reached my fattest when I saw pics of myself at my friend's wedding April 2005, and I was disgusted. MY FACE WAS SO ROUND, I couldn't believe I showed up looking like that...I lost weight, don't remember how much but I took pics a month later and my face was back!
I've gained it back and lost it over and over, until my wedding last summer, I regrettably wasn't as thin as I would have liked.... Anyway, being newlywed, we ate out SOOOO much, and one day we looked at ourselves and said, "We're fat." I was my heaviest at 144 (being 5'1", I carry all my weight in my midsection). We began the South Beach Diet, and began exercising 1 hr. every day (Sundays too!) I lost 12 lbs. in one month.... Then Thanksgiving came...
I never got back to working out and dieting, in fact, I ate out even more thinking that I had "room" to eat more. Eventually, my comfort jeans (you know, that pair that you can always count on to fit just right when nothing else does) were tight and uncomfortable when I was just standing, I couldn't breathe sitting in them!! Haha.... I gained 4lbs., then another 2, and all of a sudden, I was up back to 149!!! I had hit a new high....
I couldn't even get my comfort jeans to even zip up with out the help of my hubby, IT SUCKED, I had to buy new jeans to wear....
Anyway, my hubby has agreed to start with me, (he wants to lose a good 30 lbs., from 199 to 170, 5'9"..) and we have change dour eating habits. I buy groceries now and I make all of our food, no eating out at all, until we lose some significant weight... we bought YOU ON A DIET, and that book is full of great info on how your body works and how to eat the right way!! I am working out at least one hr. a day, and so far I'm down to 146.5, in less than a week... I know the weight will come off fast at the beginning, but I always plateau at 130.... My goal is 110, because I am only 5'1" and that is a healthy BMI for my height.
Sorry for the SUPER long post, but it is very therapeutic to write all this out, even if no one reads it all I am set on doing this, all thanks to all you guys who posted pics!! Very brave of you to do so, and very soon I will be one the brave ones too!! Hopefully, with some new pics showing progress.
Thanks again!!! I'm off now, to workout!!!! woo-hoo!!
JP
I came across this site last night, I was deciding whether to go workout or not, and I did a Google search for weight loss before & after pics, for inspiration.... and the first result was this message board... I satrted clicking away and I was amazed.... I left the window open on my computer while I put on my workout clothes and headed to the gym.... ONE HOUR of treadmill/elliptical... Woo!
I have been struggling with my weight for years, I wasn't fat.... I just needed to tone and get rid of some extra chub... But then I started working at Starbucks... BAD IDEA... I was making myself lattes and Frappuccinos left and right, and of course, trying the pastries... I remember I had a pair of black pants that fit when I started working there that fit fine, by the end, I wore them completely unzippered under my apron, and I WONDERED WHY!!
Anyway, I reached my fattest when I saw pics of myself at my friend's wedding April 2005, and I was disgusted. MY FACE WAS SO ROUND, I couldn't believe I showed up looking like that...I lost weight, don't remember how much but I took pics a month later and my face was back!
I've gained it back and lost it over and over, until my wedding last summer, I regrettably wasn't as thin as I would have liked.... Anyway, being newlywed, we ate out SOOOO much, and one day we looked at ourselves and said, "We're fat." I was my heaviest at 144 (being 5'1", I carry all my weight in my midsection). We began the South Beach Diet, and began exercising 1 hr. every day (Sundays too!) I lost 12 lbs. in one month.... Then Thanksgiving came...
I never got back to working out and dieting, in fact, I ate out even more thinking that I had "room" to eat more. Eventually, my comfort jeans (you know, that pair that you can always count on to fit just right when nothing else does) were tight and uncomfortable when I was just standing, I couldn't breathe sitting in them!! Haha.... I gained 4lbs., then another 2, and all of a sudden, I was up back to 149!!! I had hit a new high....
I couldn't even get my comfort jeans to even zip up with out the help of my hubby, IT SUCKED, I had to buy new jeans to wear....Anyway, my hubby has agreed to start with me, (he wants to lose a good 30 lbs., from 199 to 170, 5'9"..) and we have change dour eating habits. I buy groceries now and I make all of our food, no eating out at all, until we lose some significant weight... we bought YOU ON A DIET, and that book is full of great info on how your body works and how to eat the right way!! I am working out at least one hr. a day, and so far I'm down to 146.5, in less than a week... I know the weight will come off fast at the beginning, but I always plateau at 130.... My goal is 110, because I am only 5'1" and that is a healthy BMI for my height.
Sorry for the SUPER long post, but it is very therapeutic to write all this out, even if no one reads it all
I am set on doing this, all thanks to all you guys who posted pics!! Very brave of you to do so, and very soon I will be one the brave ones too!! Hopefully, with some new pics showing progress.Thanks again!!! I'm off now, to workout!!!! woo-hoo!!
JP
