weighed in -1 pound this week YAY !!! Thinking about joining the gym to tone up some of these wanna be muscles.

BTW  in reading thru the posts I have to say....... ALL YA'LL ROCK!!!  Congrats to ALL !!

Thanks AG and DJ.  Just a wierd moment for me...will post pics for the before and after.  I just have never experienced the way I am currently feeling and am trying to psycho-analyze myself which is driving me even crazier...thanks for the support     Kristen

Kris! You are beautiful and HOT!!!! Congrats to you, it IS alot of hard work, both mentally to correct your thinking and physically to get 'er done! You should be VERY proud of yourself, we all are

And on THAT note... i"m not feeling it today AT ALL. Practice whatcha preach, eh?

Kris, you have not only lost a lot of wieght but also have dropped a few years off of you! I don't have to tell you why the guys are looking (you're hawt!) and the women are just glad to see you accomplish something grand. People are nice in general and always want the best for others... at least the biker crowd I run with!
Enjoy yourself and bask in the compliements you are getting. You deserve them all...

My 2 cents worth!

Amazing transformation I can see it even though you have more clothes on in the "after" shots! You are a knock-out! For the psycho-analysis, don't force it too hard. That kind of conditioning happened over many years so don't expect it to resolve over night. But that's just another way of Saying what DebraJo already did.

Did you check out the link to that show I posted? The one episode I managed to catch had the girl looking in the mirror and telling her reflection she was beautiful and she loved her (but the emphasis was on really meaning it).

The other thing they did, and you might want to try this, is to take some sexy boudoir photos. They were classy and tasteful and alluring. Have that done and you can't help but see yourself as a desireable woman...

Just a thought...

I agree! You do look younger too.

Geez...with a comment like that can I give you a dollar and you give me some more?  LOL.  I appreciate it.  Just my mindset that needs to wrap around what everyone else sees to feel it too.  I will get there...

I see we have a differene when it comes to the clothing thing. For me clothes are my personal protection. I feel safe hiding in big oversized tops with leggings under them. Heck, if I could manage my day from inside a pototo sack I'd give it a go.

Going to FL in the summer was an internal struggle for me. Going to a beach in a bathing suit at my size? Forget it! I've been avoiding that for years.  But darn it, it's hot in FL in the summer... long sleeves were unbearable (I tried though). I realized pretty quickly that I had to suck it up and wear summer dresses. That was my compromise, I wouldn't do shorts & a tank top because of my middle section and butt/thighs. The sundresses were close enough to big t-shirts in that they hid a lot of the parts that I was embarrassed over. Only they revealed my arms (hate those too)..  

And of course being in FL I couldn't avoid the beach either. Had a freind fly down from NY to visit me for a month while I was down there and she was a total beach bunny... I just kept telling myself it was ok, because the people seeing me didn't know who I was and I was never going to see them again. You won't catch me near a beach back at home until I reach my goal. *lol* 

I'm safely back home in winter time on a college campus where wearing my comfort clothes fits in perfectly with my environment. I'll keep working on the body that's hiding underneath and hopefully by the time it warms up in this region, I'll be at a point where wearing more revealing attire doesn't make me freeze up like a dear in the headlights.

OK Buffy...I have to agree with Rex. You are beautiful!!

I love you both for saying so... Guess I need to practice a little of what I preach.

I know how you feel Buffy, I would like to hide in clothes too. I'm not that comfortable in skimpy clothes even when I was skinnier. Hopefully we will look like bombshells by the end of this diet thing. I have only lost 2 lbs. since I started. IT SUCKS!!

I have been there. one time at 288. I have  not been heavy all my life, I have been fat. I decided to do me a favor and drop the weight not by pounds but by waist size. dropped 8 inches from tight 44 to 36 by taking care of me. I became my own friend. quit saying "YA BUT"....my feet are too big...my hands are giant size....i lost my hair...I don't have a six...ETC.

Girls and guys when someone pays a compliment, SMILE AND THANK THEM......Feel good about what they see and say to you.. Enjoy the strokes of kindness.. You can cut youself down all day with "YA BUTS" and it will hurt all day. When I say you are Hot, Beautiful, Sparkling, Glowing and more they are honest and straight. Carry those words and enjoy them.. It helps and makes all the efforts easier and life a lot happier.

If some one does throw a cut at you,, Say STICK IT !! THEY Think I"M HOT....And So Do I !!

DebraJo, i'm with you. I feel sexy when I'm naked, even when I don't feel I'm the right size etc. Because if my clothes don't fit great i feel pretty crummy about myself and my appearance, naked everything fits just right

Good Friday morning everyone!! It's that time again. Hopped on the scale and am happy to be -1... it's sloooooow going, but it's going. Total to date: -7

Holding steady, having trouble appreciating the image in the mirror though.
Hey, are we ladies already aligning our schedules closer to each others? lol

hahaaa, wonder if that works via internet. I believe you and I are close.