you look fantastic! You must feel great to have such awesome results! :)

Thank you! I do feel great, physically and mentally. Congrats to you too-- I just found your minigoal post (WOW!) and am headed over there... :)

Wow! You look fantastic and thanks for letting us know how you did it.

I have been giving weight training some thought and know I need to incorporate it at some point. I am so intimidated by just entering a gym! As much as I'd love to do some workouts like P90X in my home, it's just too small for me to move around comfortably for a workout!

Thanks! If it helps, I live in a tiny apartment, and my workout space is literally 6 feet long by 4 feet wide--just large enough for 2 exercise mats side by side. I find that I can do pretty much any video workout with minimal modification, including P90X. This is especially true for strength training videos, where you're usually not moving around a great deal.

You're making great progress already! Good luck getting to the finish line. :)

Hey, i'm new here! I am 5'4 and i used to weigh 170 and now im 145, im really trying to reach my goal of 125 which is a similar weight loss to yours. I'm just trying really hard to stay motivated! :D

Cupcake75, you're doing fantastic! I remember how good I felt getting into the 140s. Keep at it, and the time will fly by--the last 14+ months feel like the blink of an eye to me!

Thank you. I really needed to read this today. I agree that I love strength training, too! It's nice to know that bodies can get stronger even if you don't think they could.

Amazing post. Absolutely amazing. Congratulations!! the pictures are an inspiration.

You're progress is amazing, keep up the awesome work!

With all the love you have for P90X and Beachbody, I was just curious, are you in their Coach program?

Wow, love your blog. F YEAH, ANOTHER SALAD?! So True..

Your hard work has paid off you look AMAZING!

Update: Life has gotten super busy, but I'm happy to say that I have maintained my loss. During the fall I took up running and neglected my strength training, but now I'm back to lifting (just finished stage 1 of The New Rules of Lifting For Women program) and enjoying that again. I stopped counting calories for a few months and ate intuitively; it was a relief to find that this worked for me, at least for a short period! I am back to keeping a very rough calorie count now, to make sure I'm hitting the calorie range (i.e., a maintenance range) that the NROLFW book recommends. I think I am seeing a bit of body recomp, as my measurements have gone down slightly during these first several weeks of NROLFW, but the scale has held steady.

(And in response to Wayne_W's question, no, I am not affiliated with Beachbody--hate the multi-level marketing thing--nor am I affiliated with NROLFW or anything else. :) )

WOW, WTG! I love your before and after photos...so motivating! I bet you feel great eh?

Thanks, lcard! I do feel really great. Sometimes when I'm lugging around a 40-lb sack of cat litter, I think, man, life is easier now that I'm not carrying this around all the time! :)

Congrats on maintaining your loss!

Your story is truly inspiring! Congrats u look amazing =)