[jennybee]

Wow, you look fantastic! Your face is so much slimmer I agree, you have a lovely smile!

[SmallSteps]

You look amazing! Keep up the great work!

[Madame Souza]

Good for you! Amazing progress shots. You look great! I like your shirt and heels.

[Arctic Mama]

Madame Souza - I LOVE your new avatar! If we want to talk about transformations, you have had a huge one of your own

[SarahFairhope]

You look terrific!

[guacamole]

You look beautiful! You also look about 10-15 years younger in your recent pictures.

[Arctic Mama]

I looked forty instead of twenty five? Awe

On the upside, it's a positive change! I should have probably done apples to apples, as that was a no-makeup face shot used to find a foundation color in an online forum, and my recent shots are in normal makeup

[berryblondeboys]

Originally Posted by Arctic Mama

I looked forty instead of twenty five? Awe

It's so funny you say that because people say I look 15 years younger and I KNOW I don't look 27, so they though I looked almost 60! (can be eye opening, huh?)

[Arctic Mama]

Yes it can! I do look older in my real before pictures - I was twenty or twenty one in most of them and looked closer to thirty (which was a good guess since my husband was in that range, as were almost all my friends), and I know I look younger now. But forty?! That's just more motivation to never gain excess weight again, because forty will come soon enough!



I definitely look ten years older, that was a huge part of my motivation to loss - my fifty year old mother in law was in excellent shape and I looked like I was about ready to pop! *cringe*

[berryblondeboys]

Originally Posted by Arctic Mama

Yes it can! I do look older in my real before pictures - I was twenty or twenty one in most of them and looked closer to thirty (which was a good guess since my husband was in that range, as were almost all my friends), and I know I look younger now. But forty?! That's just more motivation to never gain excess weight again, because forty will come soon enough!



I definitely look ten years older, that was a huge part of my motivation to loss - my fifty year old mother in law was in excellent shape and I looked like I was about ready to pop! *cringe*

You were so young to be having babies! and wow... you are half the size you used to be! Good for you!!!! I'm sure your husband is loving his new thinner wife too! And what a great lesson for your kids to learn too.

[free1]

You look great!

[Arctic Mama]

Melissa - when I planned my life I wasn't thinking I would get married just shy of my 20th birthday at all, even though being a wife, mother, and homeschooler were things I was excited to do. But then I met my husband and we were married six months later, with our first baby just before our one year anniversary. And then I realized that I liked my kids spaced closely

I have a hard time looking at my wedding pictures, they are SO huge, but my husband loved me then and now, though he approves of the sexier, slimmer wife

We're trying for another now so I think this is a good place for a weight break and maintaining through another pregnancy - I don't think I'll feel so much like a walrus as I did the other three times!

[puneri]

Congrats,
Your face looks soooooo very beautiful. You look 20 years younger. Just see your face in high school, it may be closer to your current face.
Yesterday, I was also amazed to see that I could run at 4.7m/hr on the tread mill, 2-3 minutes though.

[Arctic Mama]

Thanks! And awesome job, Puneri! That is definitely an improvement in fitness, which is arguably more important than weight

[baker23]

You have such a beautiful smile and you look amazing.