Lose 30 pounds

I’ve done it! I wish everyone on here who’s trying to lose weight the best of luck. It is pretty hard and requires so much motivation, which sometimes I just didn’t have but I kept trying and made it happen. I now have a healthy diet, I love exercising (which I used to hate) and I’m still able to enjoy my little snacks every once in a while.

As of today I need to lose one more pound to complete this goal! When I started this goal I could not see the finish…I can’t believe I’m almost there now.

3 to go! I’m getting so close now…

commences as of today!

Lost another 3 pounds. 7 pounds to go! Woohoo! My old clothes will fit me again!

but they’re the tough ones!

2 down, 12 to go!

This is getting easier by the week. It’s the exercise that still does the trick for me, nothing excessive, just 30 minutes of exercise every day and a diet that’s normal. I’m on this forum where everyone’s a bit stuck now and I don’t like posting of weightloss there so much now. Kinda feels like rubbing everyone’s noses in it when I want to support the other women.

so that would leave me with 14 to go

16 more to go! I let myself go for 2 weeks, but now I’m back on track again. I do want to do this, but I’m not uncomfortable with the way I look and feel now (even though my BMI still isn’t in the green zone). I see so many girls on here who are anorexic and/or bulimic that I really started to appreciate the healthy attitude I have towards food and for a few weeks forgot the fact that I want to get into the best shape of my life and be able to have a good stamina and for that I do need to lose a couple more extra pounds. But I am back to being really appreciative of my body again and the way it functions.

Why: at the beginning of this year my BMI was 29. I had gained 44 pounds in the first two years of living together with my boyfriend. Basically because we were living the good live, french cheeses, croissants etc. I have now brought this back to a BMI of 25,36, which is still slightly overweight. It’s not really obvious when you look at me, I’m a very tall person and never had a slender build, but I notice it allright when I take a walk, climb the stairs or exercise in any way: I’m all out of breath. I want to get back to where I was because I felt good and healthy at that weight and had a BMI of 21-22.
How: I’m more conscious of what I eat. I don’t overeat anymore and I snack less. When I do eat a snack I’m conscious of it meaning I enjoy it and try to really taste the food. I prepare healthy meals and always have a light salad with every meal. I exercise every day for about 30 minutes and I don’t eat anything after 9 o’clock in the evening. I drink a lot of water and green tea. This way I have lost 24 pounds this year (I started in march with a couple of relapses in the summer and over christmas), since starting this goal I have lost 12 pounds. I now need to lose another 18 pounds.