I actually didn’t gain the freshman 15, I lost 3 lbs my freshman year.
I waited until my junior year in college to gain the Junior 50! Hello pie face. 1994 was the fattest I have ever been. EVER! I didn’t actually have a scale in college so I have no clue what I weighed here. (that’s my sister)
I was a bit freaked out when I saw that picture and by my first senior year (I was on the 5 year plan) I lost a significant amount of weight.
By 1996 I was nolonger obese, and just overweight.
I graduated college around 195 lbs
I continuted to lose weight after graduation. (175)
I skinned out the summer of 1996. I don’t have any super skinny picutres. This is new years, I had gained around 20 lbs from my thinnest. I was around 155.
I maintained 155 for a long time.
I’d go on vacation and lose a few lbs (149 with a slight washboard abs) (this is a really awkward picture b/c I’m hold on for dear life in a waterfall)
I’d slack off for a while and gain 5 lbs (160 ish) (that’s my mom)
Hanging tight at 155. (I made this entire outfit by hand. I sewed on coins at the bottom of the skirt and made the top. When I get to 150 I will wear this …hopefully this halloween!)
I was 160 on this trip. But I was so tan I looked 150 🙂
Proof I ran back in the day. Around 155 (and wearing the most unflattering exercise clothes ever made)
And then I started to travel for work…I gained 25 years on 2000. Around 175.
I got freaked out and dropped 10 lbs in 2000. Around 165. To put context to how big I am. The girl next to me is around a size 6.
But really it was all down hill from there.
I was on road, eating in restaurants 5 days a week. 911 happened, travel was really stressful in 2001. I continued to gain 10 lbs a year for several years.
I tipped the scaled at my second highest in 2005 (227 lbs). I was miserable at my job. I left my consulting job for a job with a 3-5 hour commute each day. My quality of life actually went down. I then changed job and after almost being layed off (I got promoted…story for another blog post) I changed jobs again (now holding strong, almost 4 years!)
Needless to say, it took me 4 years to get my shit together. Don’t get me wrong, I knew I was fat. I did make a few attempts to lose weight. In 2006 I lost 23 lbs and got down to 201.
So 150 is my goal. As you can see from the pictures above (I tired to get in photos of more than my face) 150 is a good weight for me.
I love this post! And as far as I can tell, you don’t look like you were that big in high school. After years of never looking at old pictures of myself I recently found a box of old photos and it was such a revelation to see them. I was always feeling fat (and very unhappy) as a teenager, but the pictures don’t show a fat kid. An unhappy one, for sure, but I wasn’t as big as I thought I was.
One of the great things about your pictures is that you’re smiling on most of them! And it looks like being overweight didn’t stop you from doing things and enjoying yourself either.
Great retrospective. Thanks for sharing! I’m curious about a few things. First of all, how tall are you? You seem to carry your weight well. I’ve got a similar type history where I’ve been as small as 130 and as heavy as 193 (where I am now) . How do you remember how much you weighed when? I can’t seem to remember the exact years for my weight fluctuation, but I do know that it all started to go downhill in my mid thirties (metabolism hit a wall). Of course, my forties are even more challenging trying to lose the weight (so much harder).
Anyway, I’m enjoying following along in your journey.
You have come a long way Delane!
I have to say that you do not appear fat or overweight to me in your high school picture.
I am amazed at how you actually know just about how much you weighed in each shot.
My heaviest has been about 150, but then again I am small – my lowest about 115 when I was in my teens and then 119 about 6 years ago when I went on a plan with a nutritionist.
I slack off a lot. I had KFC yesterday and a huge amount of food this morning.
I have to stop.
Sara I’m exactly 5’8″
Monica one of the very odd things about me. I can’t remember people names, but i can tell you how much I weighed the day I met them. I also have kept a log online since 2001. And on paper since 1993, when I put in my fat gym class.