I actually planned to post here a handful of days ago but I didn't have the nerve, I wanted to elaborate on an exchange w/my mom. Long story short, I was on my Facebook page, and I saw a couple of pictures of myself, 1 was old (taken years ago when I was well into the 300's probably 320 or higher), and 1 new (taken within the past few weeks) and I couldn't believe the difference, so I went to show my mom. As I showed her, she saw the bigger picture and said
"That's not you!" lol I loved my mom didn't recognize her own child lol, but I digress, anyhow I told her, I wasn't sure when or where it was taken, but within the past 7-8 years, and yeah that was me. She later went on to say "You've come a long way baby!" and "I don't even remember you big." To which I replied "I'm still big!" but I knew what she meant. That meant so much to me, especially as someone who hasn't gotten a lot of recognition outside of family, close friends, and friends on the internet (shoutout! lol). Thank you guys for all of your support, I am so blessed to be here, this site really does work! Since I have been a member of this community I've lost around 70+ lbs. (I joined about a couple of months after beginning my journey and up until this site I couldn't lose 10 lbs.).
I wish I could hug each and every person who posted in support, good advice, or anything that helped keep me moving forward, your help is invaluable, even if you're struggling too, sharing is caring. There have been times, even recently where I couldn't stop overeating/binging but I kept coming here, and I kept posting, it helps, there is light at the end of the tunnel, keep going, because it is all you can do to get out of this.
Below are some pictures of me taken at various weights. The red top photo was taken March/2009 on a family trip to Michigan & Illinois (I weighed around 330-332) and the next 2 photos in the dressing room with the grey top on were taken sometime in June/2015 and I weighed in the mid 220's (I was trying on the XL Juniors top which I later bought and wore in the 4th picture lol). The last picture also in the same grey top I weighed 224.8 which was my lowest weight in all the pictures (taken in a messy & different JC Penney dressing room *sighs*).
Lastly, I nearly forgot, where do I go from here? Well obviously Onederland!! But beyond that, I believed I would get to 150 lbs, now I am thinking about 165 lbs. and just stopping there for a little while, before restarting my journey. I don't know, I guess it depends on how I feel over the next 60 lbs. or so. I will not revert back to how I ate before, I still eat unhealthily here and there, but when I say "stop" I just mean putting up my scale, and working to "maintain" as opposed to creating a deficit. It is too soon to call it, but it is something that has been on my mind lately. I would like a healthy BMI which means 150 for me, so we'll see.
You look great!!!! Thanks for inspiring me today!!!
). One of my favorite quotes recently that Clusie L said in one of her videos on Youtube (she had VSG surgery, awesome girl, very motivational & funny channel for ANYONE regardless of your weight loss method), she said "If you can't stop thinking about something, don't stop chasing it." or something to that effect, because that desire won't go away, and in my case it shouldn't. We all deserve to be healthy & happy and feel good, don't give up on your dreams!
GrlRedBalloon, I appreciate you!