Finding ME.

So.

Here I am.  In 2004.  They were my "before" pictures. I was going on a 6 week body makeover diet with my parents.

 I thought I was fat.  I was probably 160lbs.   (That is a lot less than what I weigh now)

Fast forward...I lost 16lbs and maintained that until Spring 2006.

I think this is summer 2004.

And then...

I started gaining weight...I had to buy all new clothes...I was starting a new job in the summer of 2006.  I thought I was fat because nothing fit me.  It was as if someone shrunk all of my clothes.  (shaking my head, I can't believe I thought I was fat here.  I was MAYBE 165lbs?)

And then I kept gaining until I had gained about 35lbs...

And then 40lbs.

And I started working out and joined weight watchers.  I lost 8lbs.

I was so excited to fit into these pants.  (By the way, I'm wearing those pants right now and they are loose.)

And then I put back on the 8lbs...and another 9lbs.

And I started working out again.  I lost the 9lbs.

In the picture above I felt so good but I couldn't lose more than the 9lbs.  

Then we decided to try for a baby.  I lost 6lbs.  I gained 20lbs.  I got pregnant.  I had gained almost 60lbs since 2006 and I was pregnant.  

I gained 30lbs during pregnancy.  I lost 38.  Then I gained 8.  Then 7 more.  And I honestly don't have any good pictures of me during that time.  I pretty much hid behind a baby carriage or big clothes.  

I spent the summer training for a 5k.  I was eating 1200-1500 calories a day and doing Couch to 5k 3 times a week.  

I managed to lose 8lbs?  I was back at my "just got pregnant" weight, but I wasn't pregnant.  And I was bigger--I couldn't fit into any of my pre-pregnancy clothes.  

By reading this blog, you know that I started Ideal Protein on January 11, 2013.  I've lost about 25lbs in the last 2 months.

I had a chance to pull out another tote of clothes tonight.  It was the tote of jeans/pants that I tossed together when I was pregnant in 2011...I knew I wasn't going to wear them and I hadn't been able to fit into any of them since some time in 2008.

The pants I am wearing in the picture below haven't fit this way since Fall 2006/Spring 2007.  They're actually big.

  

I don't know who that person is...

OK actually I do.  It's me.  25lbs heavier than that skinny girl in the tank top and 32lbs lighter than the girl in the orange shirt and 25lbs lighter than the girl who ran the 5k.

Looking back at the last few pictures and the pictures from tonight...If I hadn't taken them I wouldn't believe they were taken AFTER I had a baby...I just can't believe how quickly this diet is working and how the fat is just...disappearing?

I think that's all for tonight.  Weigh in tomorrow!!!  Hope to make an official 25lbs!!!