Is that you??? Wow - you are to be commended for your perserverance! Ya know...looks like you were still a wonderful person in the lives of those children.
I'm going to chime in with everyone else. You have done something amazing and inspirational. You can see from how much those kids love you that you are a beautiful person on the inside. Now your outside matches your inside!
A picture of me from June of 2008... three months before the start of my new lifestyle...
and then one of me from November of 2009. Just 1.5 years after that.
Crazy.
Sometimes I amaze myself.
WOW! good for you!!!
and thank you for posting this.. my partner has about the same amount to lose.. so wonderful to see, in person, that it can happen! Keep up the good work!
That FABULOUS feeling of self amazement, self pride, self respect in and of itself makes this whole thing worth it.
And then of course there's all those other TONS of reasons why this is SO worth it.
It again reminds me of how we used to say how "hard" it is to "eat well" and resist all of those "other foods". Hindsight. A wonderful, funny thing. As if THAT was hard. No offense meant, I was right there with you, that first picture, to me now THAT was hard. I know it was. I lived like that and nothing, nothing about adhering to a healthy lifestyle comes close to the hard of "living that way".
You truly are amazing. And what you've done with your life is amazing.
