watch me shrink!

current comparison:
weight: 244	weight: 170

starting pictures:
weight: 244	weight: 244	weight: 244

i'd lost 5-10 lbs: alright, this picture was taken when i was at 230, that's actually down nearly 15. but YIKES. i'm still pretty darn big. (and it was halloween, don't hate.) my chart leads me to believe this next one was taken around march/april 2003. however, soon after i took the first picture of me wearing my old shorts. there was already a lot of space in them. this weight is 214 and i was feeling good that day. i remember. i'd just dyed my hair to brownish to start growing it out, i felt hot, and i got a ton of compliments. i'm wearing the same shirt as in a few pictures up. the next 15 pounds made a big difference, appearance wise. i took new pictures one day when i felt like i looked cute, i'd done my hair. i weighed 206 lbs this day, so it must have been mid-may: i hit 199 lbs on june 4th, 2003. right before graduation. i was THRILLED. we took a new photos that day: but here's a week or so later (one pound less), at our graduation party:
i LOVED that shirt. still have it. might try to alter it to make it smaller. a week or two later, i was down to 194, 50 lbs lost. i took new pictures in my old shorts, this time wearing a bathing suit so the space was more obvious: i found one where i estimate i was 188 (by looking at my weight chart for that date), so you can see a little difference: we moved to santa rosa in the summer, and by the fall, i'd reached 183 lbs and was feeling pretty good about it. we took new pictures in our new place: that december, david's company had their christmas party, and i'd reached 180 lbs. i felt fabulous in my new party dress: i got stuck at the 180 barrier for 6 months. i couldn't lose past it, it seemed. so i tried a fast. i did it for 2 days. then i ate normally for one day, and then i did phase 1 of south beach. i lost 7 lbs in a week and hit 174 lbs. i took new shorts pictures, in the same bathing suit, and i felt really, really small: i lost a teeny bit more on south beach, and i also got the stomach flu. i hit 171 lbs, my lowest weight ever, right before i had knee surgery in august 2004. this picture was taken on july 17, 2004, my second anniversary with david. the flattering angle makes me look pretty good. i had knee surgery. home all day, couldn't exercise, ate... i was back up to 180 in no time. cut to a year later. bouncing up and down, 185 to 180, that was the story of my life. however, i feel that i got more physically fit in this time period. my face and upper body slimmed a little, though my lower half did not. here i am in june 2005, around 185 lbs: in august, someone took this picture of me singing karaoke, and i like it because it's such a comparison to the old karaoke picture (scroll up to check it out!). i was still about 185: after august, i started gaining again, and hit 191 on my home scale before turning to weight watchers. jump forward to november, when i'd gotten back down to 185 but was feeling quite good about it: and the last photo i have for you is from december, again before david's christmas party, in which i reused the same dress from two years prior (i wore a differenet dress the year in between! i swear!). i happen to think i look better in this picture, even though i possibly weighed 3 lbs more than when i wore it in 2003. also, face interesting comparison, looking at my YMCA card. from about 2.5 years ago. i weighed in on 11/26/03 at 181 lbs. this face shot was at 172 lbs - not even 10 lbs lighter! but look at the difference:

i recently (4/06) hit 170lbs, which called for new pictures...

... and new jeans!

i bought my first ever bikini!

i'm about 169 lbs in these photos.