here's 14 year old holly. she's certainly not super skinny like most of her peers, but she's not fat either. and she's working on growing out those annoying bangs:
sophomore year, 15 year old holly went to her first fancy dance - senior prom. shopping for this dress was a nightmare - i think it's a women's 12, which was the BIGGEST any department stores carried back then. i remember having a hell of a time. and sizes fit smaller back then, cuz i still have the dress now, and it fits like a sausage casing.
this picture is the beginning of my junior year. i wasn't quite 16 yet. and man, i really pulled off that tiny tee! i still have this shirt. i couldn't part with it, it's everclear! but it's QUITE small. i WILL wear it again. i think i was pretty toned at this point because i was swimming year round, quite vigorously. i didn't watch what i ate at all though.
this is one of my favorite old pictures of me. i got those pants at a thrift store for like $3, the fit me perfectly, and i wore them to death. i'm not skinny by any means, but i don't have rolls either.
this is when i started to gain weight. summer after my junior year, i had a job and didn't swim as much, eventually quitting. then my parents divorced, i graduated and moved out of town, and i sat on my ass and ate. no job, no school, nothing. i had professional grad pictures taken in probably march-ish of 98, and you can see the difference in my face:
i went to my actual graduation and walked with my class in june. by then, i was swimming again, but not as much, and i think i'd lost a little. even so, you can tell i'm much bigger than i was when i was a junior. cooincidentally, my mom looks like a STICK, she kinda stopped eating after the divorce. (she's a size 18/20 now. :( sad.)
oops, i just realized i skipped the rest of 98 and 99 to show what i looked like. damn, i'll have to add those in someday to make this more complete. it looks like i gained during that time, you can see it in my face. here i am in december 2000:
the next year, i moved to davis. i started college and discovered i could eat ANYTHING, whenever i wanted. and exercise? psh. i remember having to get new pants to wear to go on a trip with the women in engineering in sept 01, but i think the bulky sweatshirt hides that i'd gained a bit more in the past year:
but in 02, well, that's when it got scary. about a month before i started dating david (we were friends/lab partners at this pont), i went to france to mooch a trip from the guy i was "dating" at the time. here's two terrible photos of how i looked on that trip:
 
yeah. wow. so i gained it all in 02, apparantly. maybe i should analyze 2002 by months and scan those. someday. ;) anyways, when i got back from france, david and i hung out a lot. he'd come over to swim. and we played with the underwater camera. and there is a photo of me that i don't even KNOW why i allowed in the scrapbook. it's just wrong. i'm almost embarrassed to show you guys, but i'm going with honesty here:
yikes. ok, so shortly after, david and i started dating, i whined about my weight, he offered to help me watch what i was eating, and we went on the aforementioned camping trip right before i started and i got my "before picture":
and then the weightloss began....... see the weightloss pictures page to continue!
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