I am the largest in my family - my mother had struggled with her weight until about 15 years ago she lost the excess and has kept it off. The rest are all thin. I have two sisters and a brother which all got married this past year. In Feb this year, I was 310 lbs at my brother's wedding. I started losing weight shortly after this wedding when I really started getting the hang of CICO after years of work on my mental food addictions and eating healthier. There were so many things that I had been slowly improving, but did not lose weight.
This past weekend my youngest sister got married, and I was 86 lbs lighter. I was still the heaviest - but it is not obvious that I am in the photos. (A major goal of mine!) All weekend I had relatives tell me how pretty I was. And one Aunt kept telling me how much I look like my sister -- someone I had never been compared to before because I was so much bigger.
I still plan on losing another 50 or 60 lbs to where I actually wouldn't automatically be "heaviest", but I feel like I am finally at the "fun part" of my weight loss journey. And due to all the years spent to disassociate food with emotion, cut out snacking, exchanging junk for healthy foods, appreciating the flavor of healthy foods, and finally resizing my appetite and figuring out an exercise program I will actually do... I feel like there are many more photos where I am not the heaviest in my future.
Thanks to anyone who read this. Never give up on something you want. Eventually things clicked into place for me even after I was convinced that I was just not meant to be skinny and would never lose this weight. I wish the same for all of you.
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