SV I felt disgusting in my graduation photos and I knew I had to change something/20 lbs lost in 3 months

I posted here before a few months ago, but my first post didn't get much attention so I'm copying/pasting the back story with a few edits

I'm a 22F who graduated college in May. In February, I was chilling at a friend's apartment and I needed to use the bathroom. I noticed that there was a scale in his bathroom. I hadn't weighed myself in a pretty long time because my roommate keeps her scale tucked away under the bathroom sink, so I used his scale

The scale said 143.6 lbs

It took all of my willpower to not burst out crying in his bathroom. I'm 5'2, so that weight would put me at a 26.3 overweight bmi. The weight on my driver's license was 120 lbs, and I couldn't believe I was this oblivious to my weight gain. Despite this, I kept up my poor eating habits because I had a very stressful last semester of undergraduate.

After seeing a prominent double chin in most of my graduation pictures in May, I knew it was time to make a change, especially since I'm starting graduate school in the fall. If I didn't make the effort to fix my habits now, I'd have no time to do it when school starts back up.

A few days after graduation, May 16, I began counting my calories and working out. My roommate had moved out of our apartment for the summer, and she took her scale with her, so I don't know what my starting weight was. I'm assuming somewhere around 142-145. I was still on campus for part of the summer, and I had no clue that our spring tuition still paid for gym admission during the summer so I didn't start to actively weigh myself until a few weeks after working out/dieting.

Here's a before and after, with the left picture being from yesterday and the right picture being from late April. I went from about 144 lbs to 124 lbs.

• I want to note that I was smiling in the right picture while I wasn't smiling in the left picture which is why my chin looks drastically different

This weight loss was about 90% CICO. I talked about exercise a lot in my first post, but I didn't have access to a gym after I went home for the summer and I sucked at exercising at home. Now that I'm at a much healthier weight, I want to start exercising more after I go back to school and I have access to the school gym again. Even though I'm not active a ton on this sub, I still read all of your posts and they still inspire me to keep going on a daily basis, so thank you ❤

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