Two of my personal inspirations.......
Before............
And After.....................HELLO!!!
These are pictures of Suzy and Liz, two people who really inspired me to lose my extra weight from my second pregnancy and just from getting older! :) It has been almost a year since I lost my extra weight.....WOOHOO!! I just wanted to pay tribute to the two girls who were my weight loss inspiration. It's one thing to see people on TV or in magazines who have lost weight, but to see two people you know go through such dramatic change right before your eyes...it's amazing. Liz just blew my mind, and when Suzy came back from The Biggest Loser I was blown away. She was always beautiful....but I remember thinking "who the heck is that hottie!?" The first Sunday I saw her in church I was like..."that's it, I'm doing this". I saw both of their transformations, and I had no excuses, I knew I could do it too. I started to hear a lot about how both of them were eating and exercising and I started to follow suit and I eventually jumped on board with The South Beach diet. Here I am, almost a year later, at my ideal weight...and I truly believe a big part of that is due to these two. They are both amazing, exceptional and beautiful people. I'm so proud of them both and it's an honor to know them. Way to go guys and thank you SOOOOOO much!!!!
They both have myspace accounts, if you want to stop by and say HI to either of them...you can get to their sites through my myspace, they are both in my "friends".
posted by Cagle Clan @ 11:17 PM
9 Comments:
Wow! Those are amazing transformations!!! Thanks for sharing!
That is incredible. So, lets see your before and after pictures! :) Love you.
Yes, I thought about putting before and after pictures of me...but I am having a hard time finding some "before" pictures!! I guess I avoided the camera a bit for that year and a half...but I will try! :)
Wow! Amazing! I think I need to "get inspired", again. Why is it so much easier to get OUT of the working out habit? (IE: I haven't been running laps in my livingroom, lately! HA!)
Wow! How inspiring! It is so much work to lose weight. It takes incredible perseverance!
My inspiration is my wife. I now must refer to her as 'Mrs. Triathlon-Your-Highness'.
Oh, sweet Suzy and Liz! You've done an incredible job Jess! I'm so excited for you, to be at your ideal weight is awesome. I need to get back to mine! I'm thinking about getting a personal trainer, hey maybe you could do it, I could pay you instead of someone I don't know who wouldn't put the God-side into it! :)
Jess, I must say it is a bit of a struggle for me to think you were "overweight" before you got down to your ideal weight, however I say that in the understanding that it doesn't really matter where you start, so much as how and what you do to get to your own personal finish! I hope that makes sense... Even though I personally didn't think you needed to lose weight what I think doesn't matter - because you found yourself in losing your extra weight you found your happy place in that area of your life so I am truly happy for tou - and yes you look amazing. No you never said you were overweight... I do recognize that.... As I am working towards my goal of the triathlon, I am finding strength I didn't know I had. Thanks for sharing your journey Jess. I know Liz's journey very personally and have watched her over the past two almost three years, and I love that her inside and outside now match! She is the same bubbly person on the inside which now her outside shows. Yes she has undergone some wonderful changes on the inside too. I don't think you can go through thtat kind of a transformation and not change! So thanks for telling her story and Suzy's too! Although I am at a plateau in my own weightloss, (18 pounds so far) I can see my body shifting around at that is a fun thing to watch!!
Thanks Jess,
Emily
Em...I know, thank you for being honest with your feelings :). Yes, you're right...as I always say it's all about "feeling comfortable in your own skin" and that is so different for each of us. I didn't feel that way. I wasn't comfortable, and what I saw on the outside did't match how I felt on the inside. Also, I will say for the record though...my Doctor told me I needed to lose 15 pounds for health reasons. I did lose more then that, but from a health and medical standpoint I did need to lose weight...just for the record :).
Thank you for your kind words and I am also proud of YOU and your accomplishments!!! What you are doing is HARD work!
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