{"id":124,"date":"2014-01-04T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debralwallace.com\/a-weight-loss-story-rochester-ny-weight-loss-photography-before-and-after\/"},"modified":"2014-01-04T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T21:23:00","slug":"a-weight-loss-story-rochester-ny-weight-loss-photography-before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debralwallace.com\/a-weight-loss-story-rochester-ny-weight-loss-photography-before-and-after\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weight Loss Story ~ Rochester, NY Weight Loss Photography, Before and After"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Debra Wallace<\/p>\n

My scale and I became enemies when my type A personality railroaded it into starving me.  I didn’t weigh myself for 10 years.  As long as I worked out and felt good, my weight was irrelevant, dangerous even. When I went to the doctor’s office I proudly stood backwards.  Ditto for three pregnancies.<\/p>\n

I gave birth to my third biological child the year I turned 29.  A few pregnancies had twisted my appetite into an aggressive monster while my metabolism betrayed me as it aged.  I was tired and perpetually dissatisfied with the way I looked in photos, but I chalked it up to my busy life.  It didn’t occur to me that I had some pounds to shed and I mostly hid behind the camera anyway.<\/p>\n

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May 2011.  I made Jason take about 200 pictures before there was ONE that I liked (it wasn’t this one!).  I barely even recognize myself in these photos now.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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By that summer my sister and a close friend each lost at least 30 pounds and I flew into the 8 week postpartum phase with pants that didn’t pretend to button.  It jolted me.  I signed up for Spark People<\/a>, and set my goal weight at minus 10 pounds. <\/p>\n

The first month was a harrowing experience of desiring chocolate but eating carrots, and marrying myself to the Y.  As I became reacquainted with my scale, it encouraged me that I was, in fact, making progress.<\/p>\n

By Christmas my pants buttoned.  A few months later, I was down nearly 50 pounds.  And I looked awesome in photos (even bad photos like this one!!!).<\/p>\n

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I hadn’t realized that the extra cells clinging to my body were also nursing my energy, and in many ways also my joy.  During my fourth pregnancy last summer, I managed to gain only 30 pounds.  I could have stayed pregnant forever.<\/p>\n

I still have about 10 to lose from number four, so I’m working on it again, but that initial experience was formative.  If I lost 50 pounds once, that makes me an official superhero.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking to reinvent yourself in this cookie free time of year, the Rochester YMCA has 50% off joining fees this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or if you don’t have enough time to go to the Y and are looking for something to do at home, I have a special offer from Primal Belle<\/a>.  Sign up for the newsletter (below) during the month of January and receive a $15 off coupon for one on one Kettlebell training.<\/p>\n

Also be sure to check out the 2014 Portrait Give Away, happening now<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Happy New Year!!!<\/p>\n

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