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What....on....EARTH has happened to MiniMins in my absence? Huh? No more holidays for me- everything changes while I'm gone! 
I got back from Jordan today, very tired and a few pounds heavier than when I left (airline meal choices were potato or pasta...), but I figure this is a good time for some 10-months-in before and afters. I'm not finished yet, so these are not going in the "success" threads- for Atkins eyes only!
Hope this inspires you if you're struggling- this is what losing about 100lbs can do for your holiday snaps! (I only started weighing myself after I'd already lost some, so my total pounds gone is more than it says on my profile and ticker, I'm not sure exactly how much, but over 100lb).
3 before photos: January 2011, Santa Monica beach, Los Angeles:
<image redacted...I'm shy!>
April 2011, St David's Head, west Wales, and July 2011, Aveyron Valley, France (attachments, for some reason??):
...and 2 "during" photos, taken in the last week, in Jordan:
<pix removed so I don't end up on YouTube in someones before and after vid>
YES the seatbelt in the plane did up and had a "tail", and yes the tray table lay flat, not on my belly, and the arm rests stayed down, and YES I did keep playing with the seatbelt and tray in delight! My OH was laughing at me as I kept showing him the seatbelt, and slipping my hands between the arm rests and my body because there's a gap there now! I also walked for HOURS around Petra, it is HUGE and much of it uphill...lots of uphill- try 30 minutes of steps to get to the Monastery. Very glad not to have been lugging 100lb of blubber along for the ride!
I got back from Jordan today, very tired and a few pounds heavier than when I left (airline meal choices were potato or pasta...
), but I figure this is a good time for some 10-months-in before and afters. I'm not finished yet, so these are not going in the "success" threads- for Atkins eyes only!Hope this inspires you if you're struggling- this is what losing about 100lbs can do for your holiday snaps! (I only started weighing myself after I'd already lost some, so my total pounds gone is more than it says on my profile and ticker, I'm not sure exactly how much, but over 100lb).
3 before photos: January 2011, Santa Monica beach, Los Angeles:
<image redacted...I'm shy!>
April 2011, St David's Head, west Wales, and July 2011, Aveyron Valley, France (attachments, for some reason??):
...and 2 "during" photos, taken in the last week, in Jordan:
<pix removed so I don't end up on YouTube in someones before and after vid>
YES the seatbelt in the plane did up and had a "tail", and yes the tray table lay flat, not on my belly, and the arm rests stayed down, and YES I did keep playing with the seatbelt and tray in delight! My OH was laughing at me as I kept showing him the seatbelt, and slipping my hands between the arm rests and my body because there's a gap there now!
I also walked for HOURS around Petra, it is HUGE and much of it uphill...lots of uphill- try 30 minutes of steps to get to the Monastery. Very glad not to have been lugging 100lb of blubber along for the ride!
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