"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

"Before" Picture!

Okay, so I am all into being healthy with my weight loss but I also wish it would go faster. I keep finding these three day diets or these week diets and wish I could do them. I don't think three days will kill you and I wouldn't do it over and over. But the problem is that I'm picky.

Yeah, I could do the day of just fruit just fine--but not the vegetable day. Or the meat and vegetable day. I'm feeling at a stand still and a few pounds that fast would kick-start me feeling better about it all.

So I was looking through pictures the other day to compile the best ones from 2012. I came across one that I can't stop looking at. I've said before that I didn't take a before picture. I didn't really want to see what I looked like and I didn't want to remember it and I didn't have a bikini to wear so I could see the changes :)

Well, now I have one. Spencer took a picture of me with my nephew when we were babysitting him in April. I remember seeing it and thinking I looked gross but I didn't look too hard. Didn't really want to see. Looking back I can't believe I didn't see how bad I looked. Haha, it's making me self-conscious now that I think I look better but I really still look bad...

The following picture was taken the last week of April. I didn't really start dieting until July 9th. Ew. I really couldn't find very many good pictures of the last year because I was so chubby for so many months. It's hard for me to think about.


This is my before picture. My pants are too tight. My stomach hangs out. I  have a double chin. I was not comfortable in my own skin. I am ashamed of this picture.

So, I decided to take a new picture. I am not one to take pictures of myself in the bathroom mirror. Believe me. But it was my best option. I took the following picture November 26--Monday afternoon. Dieting and exercising 4.5 months and having lost 24 pounds.


I am still not where I want to be but I think it's an improvement. I am wearing a belt that sticks out--so it's not all stomach :) But I have lost the double chin and my stomach has improved greatly. My pants button without a problem--the belt isn't necessary to keep my pants up but it helps that annoying pucker in the back...
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