Without Thrive

Last Saturday I went to a Thrive class at my local center.( If you don't live in NW Georgia you will not have a local center but you can go to the Thrive website to learn all about the program and even join for yourself. The online community is awesome and you will find tons of support for your lifestyle journey.) So anyway, at the meeting we had a guest speaker Vince. He is a Thriver and has done an amazing job losing weight. He brought up something that hit home with me. Instead of having "before" and "after" pictures he had "without Thrive" and "with Thrive". The reason behind this is because Thrive teaches you how to change your relationship with food and make a lifestyle change. It isn't a diet, so once you get going with it you will want to stay with it forever. There are steps and once you reach your goal weight they teach you how to eat to maintain that weight but you are still eating healthy. So I am going with Vince's way and calling my "before" Without Thrive. I really meant to get these up a while ago as I've not been on my journey for a month but I just haven't had time. However, these were taken at the beginning and I wanted to share them here so you can follow my journey and help keep me on track.


I don't know what happened with the lighting but Hubby did his best. You can definitely see that I can stand to lose some weight, even in the blurry pictures. Here is my starting weight:
215 pounds! I remember when I hit 200 and I wanted to hide in a closet and never come out. I think at my very heaviest I was 220 or 225. Now the 215 is on my very unreliable home scale. At the doctor's office I was 218 so I normally say my beginning weight was 218. And now I will share the really really embarrassing stuff: measurements. I didn't think to measure my arms and calves but I'll share the measurements I took.
Waist: 46.5 in Hips: 51.5
Thigh: 27 Chest: 49.25