Indulge me. Weight...

Hi Latrina,

Pre-tri weight:  223 lbs. / over ~40% bf

Current weight: 178 lbs. / ~25% bf

I have to give credit to Weight Watchers as well.  I was training for about six months and didn't see a single pound come off the scale.  As soon as I added WW, it all clicked.  That was 15 months ago. 

Good luck in your training! 

Laurie

Pretraining 264 June 2007

Current 220

Along with the training I found myself eating better, but not perfect. Back in 2003 I did the Atkins and was as low as 204, but on my 6'-6" frame was too skinny. Ideally I think 215 is right for me.

Even though I should have done this before training and tris, i'm goin in for my first physical in roughly 10 years next week. Hopefully everything is good.

Wow, that's incredible! Congratulations!

Start - 277 (10/2007)

Current - 230

I am stuck at 230 right now. I think I hit a plateau after tapering for the RI 70.3 as I have been this weight for the better part of a month now. Frustrated!

VM

I find inspiration and motivation in these, too... 

I weighed myself just prior going to visit my parents over the week of the 4th of July, and was at my heaviest ever--around 265.  The week after I got home, I started swimming at the local Y.  Googling for swim workouts led me here... and this site has been great for keeping my motivation up.

I'm down around the 250 mark, so far.  Still a long way to go, though... but I feel like I'm on my way there--and to who knows what, beyond?

April 2003 253 probably 50+% body fat
Now 157 down 97....19.5% body fat

Hope to drop down to 14.5-15% body fat by next tri season..but it is tough going now..my goal is to ride lots 5-6x a week 2-5 hours a day for a couple months and eat clean...makes a big calorie deficit.

Pre-tri (after 2 babies and post-partum depression) 230

Lost 30 pounds on weight watchers, increased exercise, started training for tri last year and lost another 20+ pounds, lowest weight 178 (one year ago today).  Now I am fluctuating between 184-187 which is really frustrating...but I am trying to keep looking at the big picture and knowing that it will eventually drop again. It's just been a long plateau!  I'm tall, busty and really muscular, so I look like I weigh less....at least that's what people say to my face!    I want to get to 170 before breast reduction surgery this off-season, although may settle for a healthy BF% which I am close to.

June 1, 2007 I was probably just over 260lbs

Today I keep bouncing between 180 - 183lbs, would like to be down to about 175, still working on it.

This should give you an idea of the progression. Progression Gif

Oh man is that gif awesome!  Talk about inspiring! Congrats, Wingsfan!  Really looking forward to being able to do the same thing someday with my before and after pictures.   

after 3rd (and final) baby was 287, then had foot surgery. Started working out again in nov 07 . . .  now 226 working for like 195.  Decided to enter a tri when I hit 240, hope to be a bit lower when it actually comes (sept 23).  Dont know BF%  but I am 5'11.  Oh, WW played a big part of the loss along with training

I am 42 years old and started training for my first Tri right after I turned 41.  I have struggled with weight issues since I was 14.  I think there were a few years, when I was 16 to 19 that it wasn't a problem.  I was a hostess and then a waitress in a restaurant and I was very active.  Then, at 19 I got an office job and weight has been a problem ever since.

Last Year:  I weighed 219 in January 2007 and got down to 208 before my first Tri in April 2007.  By the end of the year, I had gained almost all the weight back.

This Year:  I weighed 217 in January 2008.  I'm am currently down to 183.6.  So, that's over 33 pounds.  I had a Tri in June and I'm signed up for another one in October.  

The difference this year is that I have trained much harder, changed my eating habits and become much more serious about training and weight loss.  I bought a Bodybugg and started the program 2/29/08.  It's the most incredible tool and has truly helped me to succeed.  It tracks all the calories you burn, you download it to the computer, then enter all the food you eat and try to manage to a specific calorie deficit every day/week.  For those interested, I got it at 24 Hour Fitness.  You can go to their website and read about it and/or purchase one.  I know I will not repeat last year's gain back of my weight.  With my Bodybugg, I truly feel for the first time in my life that I will reach my goal and I will never be obese again.  

My goal is to get under 160 pounds (then re-evaluate) and I am on track to do that by Thanksgiving.  I will truly have something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving by taking better care of myself and getting down to a healthier weight and eliminating a lot of the risk associated with being obese.  I am so excited everyday!!

Here's a quote I read on this site a while back "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels."  I took a step further and my quote is "That donut will only taste good for a moment but being thin feels good all day."  If donuts aren't your thing, substitute cake, chocolate, candy bar, hamburger and fries, whatever it is that you love that is making you fat.  Truly, it is not worth lugging around all that extra weight for the short amount of time that you will savor that taste.  Getting thin and healthier is finally worth more to me than the taste of fattening food.

Good Luck to all of you in your weightloss efforts!!! 

2004 I was 220 after the birth of my third.  I started working out and cutting my calories in January/February 2006 and dropped to 165. Started to train for tri's in January of this year and went from 165 to anywhere between 150-153 depending on the day.