Wow!! You've really inspired me, and you look FANTASTIC!!!!
Huge congratulations on your accomplishments!! xx

Congrats! You look absolutely beautiful! Just keep on eating right and stay active and you will keep the weight off.

WOW your story seriously inspired me, i could see myself looking at my before pictures thinking that this is the new me. you did an amazing job!

You look amazing! Your story hit close to home for me and was very inspirtational! Congrats on meeting your goal! I hope to one day have a story like this!

Thank you so much for sharing your story. You look so happy and so in love. May it always be so.

Thank you, again.

You are so beautiful! Thanks for sharing with us

you are really beautiful. You look so happy in the new pictures. I love your hair and you are rocking those jeans! You look awesome! what a transformation!

You look amazing! I hope I look half as good as you at goal!

Wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing.

You look amazing! Congratulations on changing your life!

Wow...5'4.5", ~150 lb. out of high school, eating out sophomore year up to 165, suddenly up to 190 in a year, training for a 5K then half marathon....this is my story! Except I'm at the ~190 mark right now, just starting training for a 5K with hopes to do a local half marathon in October 2011. Thanks for this story, I needed it as I (re)start my journey!

It is really important o have goals but you must have the determination and you know how to discipline yourself.

I definitely can relate to the comment about the wedding pictures. When I was married, I was at a very high weight (OK, 230- everyone else is being honest, so I will be too) , and although everyone told me I looked good, all I saw was the double chin and the big arms. I actually never even gave any of my family or friends any copies of my professionally taken pictures.

The marriage is over now, not related to weight-different story entirely, but I am joining this site because I am ready for a change too. I seriously could never think of putting the word marathon and my name in the same sentence, but we do have a 5 mile footrace in my hometown every spring called the Icebreaker. I usually walk the 3 mile. I am so not a runner, like seriously NOT, but I think it could be good to train to run the Icebreaker next year. Thanks for the inspiration.

Yep, that's pretty much how I felt, too. I felt like every photo just focused on all the flub and chub!

I was SO not a runner, either. I hadn't run since my freshman year of high school, so almost 15 years, and I'm pretty sure I failed the mile test when I did.