UM, WOW. Just wow. And thank you, Lisa!

That would be LisaN0415, who said WHY DON'T YOU POST SOME PICTURES ALREADY???

Okay, she didn't say it like THAT. But she did get me thinking!

But I was thinking, well, I don't really look THAT different, and I never took a "before" photo, so how can I really and blah blah blah...

So I was checking myself out in my size 18 pants on Thursday and thought, hey, I could take a picture with my cell phone. So I took some photos in the work bathroom (ha! It's the closest I can get to a full-length photo...).

Then I was flipping through pictures on my phone yesterday and found this one:




That's me, riding a carousel giraffe at the Indianapolis Children's Museum, April 1 2012. I am about 300 pounds here. Upper 290s at the lowest. Size 22 jeans. This was before I started my halfhearted attempt at Weight Watchers again in late spring/early summer, and before I started SparkPeople June 23rd.

Here I am on Thursday, at ~256, 44 pounds lost. (In my size 18 pants. Have I mentioned that I have some size 18 jeans? That fit? I feel like I should let everyone know about that. I have a pair of size 18 jeans. That fit. Rather nicely I happen to think...)




You guys??

HOLY FREAKING CRAP WHAT

I

Can't

Even.


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