dizzojay | Snowflake Challenge

Challenge #8

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

In Autumn 2020, I was desperate to have something positive to come out of a truly shitty year. I knew I had to think of something that was totally in my control so that it couldn’t be postponed or generally buggered up because of Covid. So, I decided to undertake a bit of a self-improvement exercise. I began in mid-October 2020 following the Noom programme and finished mid- April 2021, and over the course of the six months I lost 47 pounds (23.5 kilos) in weight.

Before

After

So, yes, I’m not ashamed to say I’m proud of myself. I’m just working on maintaining that loss, and making sure the little bit I’ve put on over the festive season doesn’t get out of control!

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muccamukk

Wow, you look great! Congrats on hitting your goal <3

dizzojay

Thank you :)

spikedluv

Holy moly, that's fantastic! (I've always wondered how Noom worked irl.)

I was on a low-carb eating plan for about 11 months and lost ~45 lbs, but then I fell off the 'wagon' for a handful of years, borked my blood sugar, and am not on meds and walking. I've lost a bit more weight with the walking, but it would be excellent if I could sync up the exercise and eating. Meals aren't the main problem, in-between snacking is. o_O

Congrats again! And good luck keeping it off.

I know what you mean, I think keeping it off is even harder than losing it! And I definitely agree with you about the snacking weakness...

Good luck to you - I hope you can get your head in the right space again :)