This is my first before and during.
Today is the first day I’ve felt thin and pretty since my low weight last summer.
17 pounds down and counting. I know it may not seem like much, but this is the lightest I’ve been since sophomore year and I couldn’t be happier. I know they say the scale is just a number, but the scale helped me see there the progress I was making, even if I couldn’t notice it in the mirror. And yet… Today… For the first time.. When I looked in the mirror, and put on this dress, I felt and saw the difference in my body and all the progress that I’ve made.

Height: 5’ 4”
Right photo: May 2012-150 lbs
Left photo: April 6th, 2013- 133 lbs

Alright guys. Lets sit down and have a little chat. 
If you could see the entire graph of my weight loss from February 2012 to now you would see that July 2012 I weighed 134 lbs which was the first bench mark for my weight loss because that’s how much I needed to weight for rowing. I was the lowest weight I had been since before freshman year of high school. 

And then you’d see August when I gained 5lbs back and then gave up. 

Well you know what? I’m not giving up anymore. I slip up. Look at my last 3 months. My weight shifts around. I’m not perfect. When I started this journey I was around 150 lbs…. And I couldn’t stand looking myself in the mirror, because I hated my body…. 

And I thought I could harbour that hate and use it to lose weight. Well here’s the thing. 
That.
Doesn’t.
Work.

I got angry and gave up….

Well I’m done with that. 

Sure my weight shifts around now, but I have accepted that this journey is not easy, and I have accepted I am human. 

I am losing weight because I love myself and therefor I deserve to be in great shape. I’m now love driven rater than hate driven and the journey is a million times easier. 
And you know what? I’m almost back at my low weight. I feel great. And no matter what the scale says…

I love myself.

Alright guys. Lets sit down and have a little chat.
If you could see the entire graph of my weight loss from February 2012 to now you would see that July 2012 I weighed 134 lbs which was the first bench mark for my weight loss because that’s how much I needed to weight for rowing. I was the lowest weight I had been since before freshman year of high school.

And then you’d see August when I gained 5lbs back and then gave up.

Well you know what? I’m not giving up anymore. I slip up. Look at my last 3 months. My weight shifts around. I’m not perfect. When I started this journey I was around 150 lbs…. And I couldn’t stand looking myself in the mirror, because I hated my body….

And I thought I could harbour that hate and use it to lose weight. Well here’s the thing.
That.
Doesn’t.
Work.

I got angry and gave up….

Well I’m done with that.

Sure my weight shifts around now, but I have accepted that this journey is not easy, and I have accepted I am human.

I am losing weight because I love myself and therefor I deserve to be in great shape. I’m now love driven rater than hate driven and the journey is a million times easier.
And you know what? I’m almost back at my low weight. I feel great. And no matter what the scale says…

I love myself.

How long did it take (or how many lbs) before you saw weight loss in your arms?

I am so tired of this jiggly arm flab and I want it to go away NOW.

Does anyone have good tricep workouts?

Just remember that somewhere, out there, someone bigger or smaller than you is wishing they were your size.

Let me just start by saying that everything about this outfit is everything I want to be. 
The sweater with the tiger— stellar.
The red pants— fabulous.
The collared shirt— my life.
The hat and boots— perfect accents. (though I’d probably wear my vans and lose the purse.

Let me just start by saying that everything about this outfit is everything I want to be. 

The sweater with the tiger— stellar.

The red pants— fabulous.

The collared shirt— my life.

The hat and boots— perfect accents. (though I’d probably wear my vans and lose the purse.

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I would never take these leggings off. They are so great.

I would never take these leggings off. They are so great.

Anon

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Love the collared shirt.

Love the collared shirt.

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