I don't know what you're looking at Curvaceous, but I can definitely see your weight loss in your before & after pics! You have lost weight all over your body! Maybe you can't see it b/c you see yourself every day, but everybody else sure can! And how do you think you fit into a 20-22w pants today as opposed to a 26-28w? It's b/c you've lost weight and inches off of your body. You are getting smaller! You should be proud to have lost each and every one of those 69 lbs. Keep on going and before you know it, you won't even recognize the girl staring back at you in the mirror.
Before - Close to my highest weight of 216 lbs. After - I lost a bunch of weight from 2002 - 2004 and got down to my lowest weight of 152. This is a pic of me at around 157. July '05 - So I lost my mind and started to gain a bunch of weight last year and went to my highest of 186 lbs. which is around where I am in this picture
It sucks because I know I can lose the weight because I did it before. Now I'm just losing the same weight that I worked so hard to do take off before. Oh well I did this to myself. This is the last time I'm going to take off this weight. I'm making a lifestyle change. The weight will be gone for good!!! I am so pumped up to do this. So far in my new start I have already lost almost 4 lbs!!! Yayyy.
Ladies, you all look amazing! I'm searching my photo library to see if I have any good before/after pics . . . Most of my pics are just from the waist up. These are the best I could find (I had some others but they were too big to attach).
The first one is from June 04, at my high weight around 185. The second is from the end of September/beginning of October 05, at around 135. The sad thing is, even though I can see a huge difference between the two, instead of thinking "I am thin now" I think "I'm still chubby, but man was I fat before!"
Paperclippy and Jess you guys both look great! And don't worry Jess, you have the advantage of KNOWING you can do it since you did it before...it won't be long before you're right back down there again!
I have included some pictures. The first one, with the brown shirt, was taken back in June. That was about a month after I started my diet, I was 188. The other photo was taken on November 5th, I was 155.
I feel so much better, both physically and emotionally, than I did back in June. I am not so lazy anymore. I also am not having as much heartburn, I barley get it now. So the loss has helped me in so many ways.
It is scary looking at old pictures of myself. I don't even have that many, but the ones I have are brutal. Especially bathing suit pictures!
My Before, After and Current
Woo hoo!!! Keep up the good work.
