So, I started this whole thing a year ago yesterday. At that point, I was steadfastly avoiding cameras. I didn't step in front of one until I was two and a half months in. Still, since it's been a year and 129 pounds, I felt like posting my first ever pics.

The first one is a picture of my family at my sister's graduation--mid-May of last year. I'm the one on the far right. I don't really know what I weighed at that point, since I hadn't started regularly weighing yet. Somewhere between 346 and 325. We'll call it 338. I started at 360.

The second is me today. I apologize for the poor image quality, as it was taken with my phone. I originally took these to go with my blog update (linked below), but I decided against including them due to the latter's crappiness. I figured I might as well post them somewhere...

What a huge difference! Great job!

Great job! Keep doing great!!!!! you are almost there :_)

Great job, you are a true inspiration!

Awesome job!

You. Look. AMAZING....and thats such an impressive amount of weight to drop in a years time...

WOW! You look fantastic and that is an amazing accomplishment! Congratulations!!

Wow, you have done a super job so far! Thats a ton of weight for a year. Great job.

You look fabulus. Well done...what method you have followed?

Thanks! You can still see where I need to do some work, though. My arms look the same--it's just that, while they were round before, they're now a very thin oval. Droopy skin for the win, but it's still better for me than the alternative.

Anastasia, I've just been calorie counting. 1200 a day, coupled with exercise. Anything more complex than that just freaks me out .

Wow, you are doing fabulous! You look great, Congrats!!

Gabe, very well done. And I looked generally like that at 230, I'm 5'7" too.

So awesome, so much in a year. Can't say I'm thinking I should drop my cals to 1200, LOL... I'm at 1600 now and losing about a lb a week. Would be nice to be at 2 a week, lol.

But none the less, GREAT WORK. And I totally heart your blog/writing style.

Looking good! Amazing that you made a goal and stuck to it - now you are reaping the rewards! Congratulations.

You look so great! WTG! That is a lot of hard work. Very inspiring.

you look great i can wait until i loss 100+ this site is great i know i can do it