From thick to thin... :)

live-wild-crazy-and-free asked: Wow! Your super pretty!!! What workouts did you do! You look amazing!

Thank you! And I just did a lot of walking, running, weight lifting and bike riding! That’s all!

And this is how it started…

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I had always been the big girl, my entire life, and I was completely immune to it by the age of 17. I had heard all the secrets about me, knew that I was bigger than the rest of my friends, but I came to terms with it. Elementary school and high school were not bad years for me, but some of the stuff that my friends were doing, little things, I couldn’t do, killed me the most. Initially I started my weight-loss journey saying that I wanted to “be able to wear booty shorts and a tank top and look hot”. I am so proud of myself and how far I have come, but I realize that I have a few more pounds to go, and some toning to do, but I can only take it a day at a time. I have my occasional cheat day, it’s a must, but maintaining a healthy lifestyle is what I am looking for…. 

I have never been skinny, my entire life, I have always been a bit chubby, and before I knew it, my chubby self had turned into a complete mess..

^ Here is a picture of me in sixth grade, in the Hooters shirt. I was about 170 pounds.

^ This is from 8th grade, I was pushing 195 pounds. 

^ By the time I got into high school, I was well into my 200s, but I was still growing height wise, so I held my weight much different than some people. I was big and I knew I was big, but I believed that my friends, family and everyone else knew me as the funny big girl who was always making jokes, and I was completely ok with that. 

 

^ By the time I was a junior in high school I had gotten up to 215 pounds, I played no sports, had no physical activity besides my high school Physical Education class that I was forced into.

Don’t be fooled, I wasn’t shy about myself, I found ways to make jokes about my weight and I fit in very well at school. I was a class officer of my grade all four years in high school. I was never in prom or homecoming court, but that didn’t matter to me. I made good grades and was proud of my accomplishments. 

In 2009 I found my wonderful boyfriend that I am currently dating now, and we hit it off. I began to gain more and more weight, because I became comfortable in my skin. At one point I ended up losing about 10 pounds, on accident, but soon gained it back. 
 

 

A few weeks after high school graduation I decided that I was going to go on a diet… One day.. And that diet began the first of July, 2011. I wanted to move away to a university college instead of the community college I am currently at, and I didn’t want to be known as the “fat girl”.

Here is a picture of me at my heaviest, 235 pounds, the day before I began my diet. 

I slowly began to lose the weight by dieting and exercising 5-7 times a week for 20 minutes to an hour each time. People always ask me “what was your diet” and honestly, I have no answer. I wasn’t on a “diet” exactly. I just ate better. Grilled chicken became a main chunk of my food intake, as well as low calorie snacks such as 100 calorie cookie packs, 90 calorie cereal bars, baked chips, and Special K Red Berries cereal. The first thing I did was take out all junk foods. In the last five months I have not ate or drank soda, diet soda, sweet drinks such as sweet tea and certain juices, no snack cakes, no sweets, no desserts, no ice cream, no popsicles, NO FAST FOOD, limited eating at restaurants and I limit bread! I began to workout often and ate limited portions and only when I was hungry. One day I was at work talking to a friend and she said that her mother once told her, “do you live to eat or eat to live?” and I took that into consideration. Most people eat at 8am, 12pm and 6pm, because that is when they are told and taught that they should eat. I don’t do that anymore, and it helps so much. I eat when I AM HUNGRY, not just because “it’s time to eat”. I also love to bake and cook dinner for my boyfriend, but I also found out that by “taste testing” food and licking the spoons, etc, can add up so many calories, and so fast!! So take that into consideration!

Below are some transformation pictures…

 ^ Down 14 pounds. Month 1. 

 
^ Week 6. Down 18 pounds.

The rest of these pictures are chronologically in order from mid-August to current. I wasn’t logging, as I should, how much I weighed each time, but I knew that I was losing and that’s all that mattered to me.  

 

^This picture was the start of when I could really start to tell I was losing weight… It then began to fall off and became dramatic to myself and to others. 

And then I got hair extensions to go along with my new look!

 

^ This picture was the start of October and I had lost about 60 pounds. 



 ^ Down 65 pounds.

^ This one is of down 65 pounds as well. 

^ Down 70 pounds and into a size 10 jeans, and medium shirts.

^ Another picture from down 70 pounds.

^ Down 75 pounds. Within the first two weeks of December is when this was taken.

 ^ Christmas day. Down 80 pounds!

^ Down 80 pounds as well. December 30, 2011.

And the rest are just some pictures of how I have changed!!

It’s hard to look at these pictures and believe that is actually me, I look so completely different than I did, and I thank God, my family and especially my boyfriend, every single day for helping me become who I am today. I am so much more happy, confident and in love with life! I can’t wait to move away in July with Jacob to our apartment!
There is much more to come to this blog, such as recipes, workouts, tips, inspirational pictures and so much more! 

Thanks again to everyone reading this, you can do it, just stick to your goal and it will be worth it in the end! :)

-Corinth