The Last Straw

28 Jul, 2008

The moment of truth.

Posted by: getupnow In: General

Alrighty, here come the before and sort-of-after pictures. I say sort of because I still have about 10-15 pounds to go. But anyway, I seriously have practically no before pics. I did some serious camera dodging. And how fitting that the one I did find has me hovering over the makings of ice cream sundaes! Actually, I don’t even like ice cream that much. We had made these for some little visitors from the International Children’s Choir that we hosted. And next, a pic of me at Chincoteague last year.  It is hard to see because it was taken at a distance, but I put it on here just to show the shapeless blobbishness of it. My posture looked horrible and it probably was, but the problem was also from BACK FAT. Ugh.  Both of those pics would have been at about 197-202 pounds. Can’t remember.  And then there is today at around 156. The kids and I had lunch by the stream and then went on a 50 minute hike. It was not a loop, so it was about 25 minutes climbing the steep incline and 25 minutes coming back down.

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12 Responses to "The moment of truth."

1 | angela

July 28th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

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absolutely inspiring! Way to go!!!!!!!!! I was 230 lbs when I began my life change..not diet…lol….and I am down to 153.5 so this really hits home….awesome!

2 | tiny2b

July 28th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

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You look incredible! So awesome! You are brave with your before pictures. I don’t even like to look at old pictures of myself much less share them. And there are very few because I have uncanny hide-from-camera skills. Congratulations : )

3 | oslogirl

July 28th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

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Amazing! You look incredible! Such an inspiration to me right now :)

4 | katy2101

July 28th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

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I just wanted to congratulate you, you are looking absolutely fantastic; so healthy! Well done for reaching such an achievement through all your hard times. Be proud of yourself - you deserve to be!

5 | m3at49

July 28th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

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getupnow! Tell me seriously now, are those ‘befores’ actually you? WOW!!! And look at your little legs that don’t touch at the top! I want those touchless legs! :lol:

You’ve done an amazing job of turning it around. They say we’re treated differently when we’re overweight and I can see in part why that’s true just by looking at how differently you carry yourself in your now photo. You are smoking, girl!!!

6 | bigprof

July 28th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

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You look beautiful & so damn healthy & sporty &, well, you just gave me a picture of everything I want to see when I look in the mirror! & mostly, I want to be able to stand there in front of the camera smiling…not dodging the damn thing & praying it’ll never get turned on me.

Showed hubby & his only comment was “woooowwwwwww” & I’ll second that, WOW!

:)

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July 29th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

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[...] if any one hasn’t seen getupnow’s before and now photos I tell ya you’ve got to go take a look. You’ll be inspired by [...]

8 | brseay

July 29th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

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Fantastic! You have provided me with the inspiration to keep my butt moving in the right direction.

9 | feathers

July 30th, 2008 at 1:09 am

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Oh wow oh wow oh wow. You look like a million dollars. You know what? I’m secretly imagining my face on your body, because your “before” photos look so much like me. I hope some day I will get an after photo that looks like you.

10 | soclose

July 30th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

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You look like a teen-ager!!!!! FABULOUS!!!!!!

11 | grabthebull

July 31st, 2008 at 7:10 am

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oh. my. gosh. that is awesomely awesome. you inspired me NOT to nuke that biscuit i’ve been craving this morning. thanks for sharing!

12 | eryn76

August 4th, 2008 at 11:59 am

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WOW!! You look great!!!

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triglycerides: 1008 before diet, 57 now cholesterol: 290 before diet, 126 while on lipitor, currently off of lipitor and cholesterol is 176.

  • round: Very cool chart, I agree! And I cant wait to see the next pic either
  • round: Yum that recipe looks good - and what's interesting is that yesterday at the store I bought organic sausage and some whole grain pasta and didnt have
  • tiny2b: Cool chart. You asked how I can do it, the running in the cold weather. Um, when I say it's "cold," so far that has been 45 at the worst. The 20s?