The Lose Weight Inspiration Thread. (post your pics!)

any one who is, or has been, over weight knows how much it sucks!

one thing that inspired me to lose my weight was when i was at a restaurant with my mother and her and this beautiful waitress started talking about weight loss (for some reason...) and she went and pulled out a picture of her from her purse from 3 years ago. she had went from being close to 300 lbs (136 kg) all the way down to 155 lbs (70 kg) and had been keeping it off for nearly a year and a half. i could tell how much it made her happy and changed her life. I wanted that badly and just seeing a normal every day person doing it is what convinced me to get healthy.

so if you have any inspiration, tips, or pictures of your personal success with weight loss, post it here.

please, no douche bag replies.

peace and love, my friends.

 

im sure she was happy on plenty of levels.. one because she probably tripled her daily tip intake...

im on the far right... this is '06


and here is me as of a month ago...


in '06 i was around 270-280... now i'm under 220.. the past summer i jumped back on the bike and lost 40+ lbs

 

At first I wanted to get in shape for football. Now, all my friends are gettin mad bitches, and I'm stuck getting hit on by ones I have no interest in. I need that to change. Also, I want to go into college as a completely different person from the person people know me as now. Getting into tremendous shape would make this happen. I'm doing great, lost a fuck load of fat, and gained a decent bit of muscle, but not enough of each. I am on the right track, however, as something inside of me changed over the past two weeks, and I have no more desire for any type of junk food and I am exercising 6 days a week.

Here is me in '08



And as of a few weeks ago (tanked but still classy)

 

At one point I was 210 pounds, I was depressed, I was bored, I was generally indifferent to everything around me. Then I developed an eating disorder. I'd eat 336 calories a day, id go on my tredmill for an hour to 30 minutes daily along with crunches and whatever else that day. I was 145 quite tall, and fainted infront of a bus stop. People from highschool were walking up to me, oh you're getting so thin! you look great. Constantly hit on, for what, an image. An image a disgusting society has molded, we have to be stick thin, your hip bones have to press against your low riding jeans. Think thin, you can never be to rich or too thin. Drink ice water, sit up straight, burn more calories every second. Be fake, be skeletal because apparently thats attractive. FUCK that....I gained weight again. I became depressed, romanticly I was sophicated, unrequited hell. Wanting to be free from him, wanting to be independent, thinking about whatever strikes my mind that day. Not a man, someone I wanted to be perfect for. Here I'am again, after winter, In canada. 300 calories a day, an hour a day on my tredmill. Same pattern, I dont weight 210 thats for sure. But eventually this will kill me. My heart will fail. Ill die. All to be some stupid fucking image society has molded for me. So what? So I can fit into a smaller dress size? So stupid fucking men who only look at women for there image, that adoreable light weight feminine features. Rolling out of bed, tiny. Rib cage showing just for him. Bullshit. I'm slowly killing myself. Depressed as fuck again, not taking my medication now because its an ssri, those are famous for putting on pounds. Lose the weight if you so please, know the limit, be free. because apparently im not strong enough to fucking realise this. to let it sink in.

 

Sounds like you need a better diet instead of thinking that its either junk food or no food. You can eat whatever and however much you please, as long as its a LEAN meat, fruit, vegetable, whole wheat, not artificially processed/flavored/sweetend, and has no partially hydrogenated oils or high fructose corn syrup.

 

You know I appreciate your advice, but its nothing I havent heard before. I'm a good weight now, it's just never good enough.

 

Wild Flowers...apparently this is a *inspirational thread* remember?

I'm inspired by the folks here who have posted their pic.s of their weight loss. Thank you for that!

 

Don't really have any pictures, but I did go from being over 220 lbs. down to the 160 lbs. I'm at right now. I lost the 60 lbs. in just under a year by giving up fast food, becoming vegetarian, and giving up soda in favor of water. I really dont even exercise that much due to the fact that I'm so busy, but by making healthy changes in your diet the weight will fly off you!

 

you're gonna kill yourself... i wont elaborate because previous comments to other replies has shown that you have an eating problem and some mental stability issues and nothing that we say will change that

 

well it seems people are posting in this thread

heres my before and after photos.
I'm the dude.
before


after

 

this is pretty much exactly what i did , gave up meat in jan 2009 and also gave up milk/cheese/eggs in august. ive recently started exercising and im trying to cut down on bread/pasta intake. i agree with the seeing someone else whos already done it can be inspiring, i think its also good too talk with others who have already been on this path , when i first started out i had the help of a friend who had been living this way for years and i have friend who is kinda right where i am and has been making a transition for more than a year but was/is also much heavier than i am , just my opinion that might also help

 

Hmm. Today is Sunday and I haven't eaten a full meal since Monday. I have, however, eaten small bits: a piece of bread, 4 chicken nuggets, two french fries, six nachos, 5 M&M's, and a hamburger patty. I've lost 16 pounds since Thursday.
I can certainly feel and see changes in my physique.
I should also make clear that I am not doing this purely for weight loss. I mean, yes, it's nice, and I've always wanted to slim down, but the spiritual benefits are great as well. Meditation is more intense, and I even feel better about myself for being able to apply such great self-discipline.

 

I was overweight when with an ex. We ate shit loads and stayed in and I managed to become around 13 and a half stone (which I think is like 190 pounds), with myself also being 6 foot tall.

Now I am 11 stone 6, and metrically that is 160-ish is my math is correct.

I became inspired because of the break up first and foremost, but then by seeing a photo of my back in secondary school with a couple of friends. I was slight, like I am now again, and was sort of the guy girls chased after. I was ashamed of how I had let myself go and vowed to tone up again, so went to back to playing sports and zipped it off in about 8 months.

I didn't change my diet, I just ate a little less.