Me, September 2004:
Me, today:
A year ago today I quit eating sugar for 40 days. I lost 7 pounds without making any other changes in those 6 weeks. Over the last year, I’ve lost a total of 33 pounds, gone from something like 37% bodyfat to 29%, gone from size 16 jeans to size 8s, and lost something like 4 inches from my hips, waist and bust. I’ve been weighing in fairly consistently at my lowest maintained adult weight for three months now, which is 50 pounds lighter than my heaviest. My asthma and allergies have disappeared entirely (though I wouldn’t want to put the latter up against long-haired cats, which bothered me before I got fat). My back problems are signficantly less problematic. Bending over to tie my shoes doesn’t wind me anymore. I *fit* into every piece of clothing I own, *including* the size 7 denim miniskirt I have left over from high school. (I can’t move in it, mind you, but it zips and buttons!)
In the past few months I’ve been pretty frustrated by not having reached my target goal yet (another 13 pounds down), but know what? Today I’m just pretty damned pleased with myself.
Wow! You look awesome! Congratulations!
You look terrific, Catie. :) Congrats!
Fantastic! Did you kick out sugar substitutes as well? Or just all sugar?
Actually, I really stopped eating sweets. I didn’t look for hidden sugars and I didn’t bother with artificial sweeteners. More about what I did here, if you want to read. :)
You look terrific, missy!
And well you should be pleased with yourself! What you did is awesome! Just wait ’til you get to Ireland– whole lot o’ walking to do in those parts!