Hit a huge milestone want to share

I am currently 34 years old, 5'1 and overweight.

Starting when I was about 13 years old, same height I am now and weighing 120lbs my mother constantly told me I was fat and should be dieting. Three years and 8 different types of birth control pills had my weight skyrocket into the 160's by graduation. My mother was still cooking for me for those years and cooking terribly unhealthy. Her idea of a vegetable was corn and potatoes. I was heavily asthmatic from a very young age, it probably didn't help that everyone smoked in the house while I was growing up. I wasn't allowed to take gym in elementary school because of my asthma, I wasn't allowed to play any sort of organized sport as a child because of both asthma and no money to put me in anything. In high school I failed every fitness test, I failed gym. I didn't know how to exercise, I didn't know how to cook healthy, I didn't know anything about health or fitness.

16 years later... at my heaviest I was 206lbs.

Part 1: One year ago both me and my spouse decided to work on starting to get healthy. On May 2nd 2018 I quit smoking. In the beginning of June 2018 I started looking into cooking healthier meals but not watching portion size or counting calories. In late June I got a Fitbit and started swimming 30 minutes twice a week. My weight slowly started to come down. By the end of December 2018 I was down 12lbs, not a ton in 6 months but probably the first time I had lost weight ever. All while this is happening my mom kept telling me I should get weight loss surgery. 'Her friend had it and the weight just fell right off of her'. No thanks, I don't feel like the surgery is necessary for me (Her friend was over 500lbs) nor is all potential complications and long term effects. Nor do I believe it is some sort of magic solution if you don't change your lifestyle as well.

Part 2: The beginning of January 2019, I began counting calories (1500-1600 a day) and controlling portion sizes. Increased the swimming to 30 minutes 3x a week. From January until March 23 I lost another 12lbs.

Part 3: On March 24th I signed up for a gym and started going 5 days a week before work for an hour. I signed up for a trainer I meet with once a month to give me a new routine. I did that for routine for a month and lost another 5lbs. On April 18th I started power lifting 2 hours a day 2x a week, going to the gym 1 hour a day 3x a week, swimming 30 minutes 2x a week, and playing badminton for 45 minutes 1 day a week. Been continuing to eat around 1600 calories a day except on days I lift I add a 120cal protein shake. And have been doing that almost a month now, I have only lost 1lb but I feel much better and stronger. My spouse plans the power lifting routines I do and I plan and make the food we eat in a divide an conquer approach because life is busy and him nor I have the time to focus on both. We research our specialty areas and relay pertinent information to each other.

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But I have now hit 30lbs lost! It's been over 10 years since I weighed this little. It's very exciting!

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