The MUCH Anticipated "Before & After" Pictures

Well, I don't know how anticipated the pictures are, but I thought I would post some pictures that show my progress over the last year especially.  Now, some of the pictures show me in a wedding dress. LONG story!  You may be wondering, why would she post fat pictures of her in a wedding dress? So, here is my one Dr. Phil moment.  That wedding dress or rather what it represented is partially responsible for my weight gain.  Also, it is, ironically, the least amount of clothes I have ever worn in public and properly shows my hot messiness! Not only that, but it highlights how beautiful my best friend/sister Amy is! This blog is all about losing weight and becoming beautiful from the inside out, so why not let other's look good in the process??  So here you go! The BIG and I do mean BIG reveal is here!!

The next pictures are ones that were taken about 2 weeks ago and are super hard on my fragile ego. In my defense, the work out pants I was wearing are super big on me and I have since gotten a smaller size.  Ok, Ok...enough with the flimsy excuses.  Here are the newer pictures: 

Since these pictures were taken, I have lost 10lbs.  Hopefully those equate to inches sooner rather than later!! I have to admit that these pictures are a bit demoralizing and I can only hope are the result of bad angles and the fact that I had just finished working out when they were taken. It is just hard for me to believe that after already losing an insane amount of weight, that I still have so far to go.  Add to this my frustration with having a hard time getting all my calories in, and today I have felt like a big fat failure!  Oh well, I was bound to have a day like this.  I guess the only thing to do is shove a protein bar in my mouth and head back to the gym for my second work out of the day, when all I really want to do is hit the Cheesecake Factory!!