I didn't do any formal exercise routine - that is a "gotta go to the gym now and work out for an hour" kind of thing. I am very active with my kids around the house and outside at playgrounds and on walks or whatever. I walk my dog daily as well...having said all that I do want to make exercise more of a priority, specifically weight training. My daughter was (is) high needs and likes to be carried around much of the time, so I constantly have 20 extra pounds in my arms, but I want to do more targeted exercises....anyways something I am working on!

Super-super-super!!!

Me too! Congratulations!
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Congratulations!!! I'm in the same boat as you. I have a 20 month old daughter and want to get my weight under control now while she's little. I want to be able to pass along good eating habits to her so she doesn't have the same issues I grew up with. Thanks for re-inspiring me!

WOW! You look fantastic. Congratulations!!! All that hard work paid off.

you look so youthful! congratulations~! thank you for the story and inspiration!!

You look amazing, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

Wow!! Congrats, you look amazing! :carrot:
Such an inspiration!!

You look fabulous! Such an inspiration!

You look great & so healthy!! Congratulations!

Congrats to a job well done! :carrot:

You are an inspiration!

:spin:What an inspiration you are, your starting weight and goal weight are very close to mine and to see it can be done in one year has got me motivated

You are stunning! Congrats!

You look amazing! Congrats! :)

Thank you so much ladies!! :D

You look amazing!!! Congratulations! :)

Congrats! You look fantastic! I too,struggle daily with wanting to be the best example for my daughters.

CONGRATS GiRL YOU LOOK AMAZiNG!!! <3

You look so young and vibrant! Congratulations!

congratulations. You look great and I bet you feel great too!

What an accomplishment!!!! I noticed you've been around for a few years. What really got you going?

Liz- just WOW. Thank you for sharing your beautiful photos and story. Hopefully by this time next year, being at your goal weight will be second nature.

Beautiful beautiful beautiful! Amazing job! We're all proud of you here at 3FC! Thanks for being my inspiration and motivation today! WE CAN DO IT LADIES!

Amazing! Sooooo welldone!

How wonderful for you... I do believe that losing weight will give us more years on Earth to be around the people we love... Congrats and God Bless..

Congrats to you..You look awesome...

I am always amazed when I see before and after photos like yours! In your afters, you look like you've always been a small person, but even in your before picture, you look like you're carrying the weight well. I keep thinking that I'm just "big boned" and will always be a heavy-looking person, that there's a not-very-far-away limit to my weight-loss, but when I see pictures like yours it makes me realize that that's just not true- you carried your weight when you were bigger a lot like I do, and now you just look so TINY! Congratulations and best of luck!

Loved reading your story. Congratulations, you look wonderful!

I always thought that too! It was such a shock to find that I wasn't actually big-boned at all. I'm actually quite small - who knew?? haha I still have a hard time wrapping my brain around the fact that I'm small, it takes a long time for the mind to catch up!

carol - What started me was the fact that I couldn't conceive due to my weight, so I initially lost about 60 pounds (from 260-200) in 2006-2007 and conceived my son. Fast forward a couple of years with another baby thrown in there, I was finally ready as I started to contemplate my future and my children's futures....I really want to be active and involved with them. I didn't try to lose any weight between pregnancies...I just was never ready I guess...but then something clicked a few months after my 2nd child, my daughter was born.

Thanks everybody!!

Congratulations! I'm reading all the success stories for motivation.

Congratulations! You look beautiful. What a story!

Congratulations. You look amazing!

Congrats! You look amazing and your story is very motivating to me... I am the same height and am starting at 225... so you show that it is possible with hard work!! Keep up the good work!

What an awesome post! Congratulations. You DO look so young! And I like that you didn't starve yourself in the process and it was so simple...just counting calories! I am jumping on the bandwagon again...3fatchicks goal stories are so inspiring, it makes me feel like I CAN do this. Thanks for sharing.

Hey just felt like posting on this again, I am at one year at maintenance! I landed on June 22, 2012 at 135 pounds....very comfortably in my maintenance range of 133-138. There's definitely been a learning curve in maintenance but so far, so good! Anyhow just revisiting my post and all of your lovely comments!! :D

You do look amazing! Congrats!

I was wondering how your maintainance was going and it is great to hear that it is going so well! You look beautiful! An inspiration for all of us - Thank you!! Keep up the great work!

YOUR STORY iTS SO BEAUTiFUL i EVEN STARTED TO CRY! iT iS SO SiMULAR TO MY LiFE! AND i JUST HAD MY DAUGHTER AND FEEL THE SAME WAY!! i HAVE READ YOUR STORY MANY TiMES AND YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE iNSiRATiON FOR ME!!! :) ThANK YOU!