First weigh in 🙂 How’d you guys do? Well, by looking at the spreadsheet… you guys are flipping ROCKING this!!!!!there will be a total of 14… and we’re just getting started.
Only about a third of you have reported your loss, but here are the top 5 biggest losers:
Jill Pollitt 7.47%
Michelle McDonnell 5.33%
Kylene Gay 5.25%
Kathleen Stivers 4.9%
Stephanie Wortley 4.8%
ARE YOU KIDDING ME JILL?! 7.47%?!? WOWWWWW TO THAT!!!!!!!
Oh, and my weight loss: 2.03% 😀
On a side note… pleeeeease sign into the google spreadsheet first thing Friday and add your loss (on weigh in days). Makes things SO much easier on me 🙂 Oh, and one more thing… please don’t edit anything but your number. Someone accidentally deleted an entire row with someones name and reported loss… and it took me a long time to figure out whose name was missing there… So, Aaron Nelson… if you could please sign back in and update your %, that’d be great… I feel like it was top 5 material… 😀 Okay… enough about that!
As I was talking with my friend Dane at our healthy train dinner a couple of weeks ago… he was saying that if you dig through Facebook, there are still photos of him at 400+ lbs floating around. He said it was hard for him to see. I thought… hmm… I would think it’d feel good to see them because you know that’s in the past… and to see how far you’ve come!
That got me to thinking… why don’t I find some of the photos of me from 40 lbs ago and post them here on a weigh in day… just to show you all how far I’ve REALLY come. BOY OH BOY WERE YOU RIGHT DANE!!!!! Seeing these was REALLY tough… like, REEEEALLY tough. Just because I’m no longer that weight… I still feel like I’m very much that person still… the feelings of rejection/poor self image/lack of self worth/etc. haven’t really 100% gone away… it’s just faded. Seeing these brought ALLLL of those feelings back. But, I committed myself to showing you… so, I’m going to. 🙂
:::::: ENTERING THE JUDGMENT FREE ZONE!!!!!! ::::::
This one as at my max weight. This was about 15 lbs difference from my original “before” photo. 
This was taken the day I met my friend Nate. We’ve both since lost nearly 40 lbs. I told him last night that we needed to take a new “friend after photo” It’s amazing how different we both look now. So, between us… 75+ lbs are gone. WOWZAS!
Could I look any less confident in myself. You can tell by my smile, my posture… my EVERYTHING that I did NOT want to be in this picture. I really wasn’t a fan of me…
Taken in July 2007. My mom had just lost like 60ish pounds while I’d gained 60. While I was happy for her… I couldn’t have felt worse about myself. 
You know those photos that you see on the back of your camera…. and you delete immediately before anyone can see them? The ones you see and think… “I know I don’t really look like that… it’s an unflattering photo.” Well… Mike was VERY good at shielding me from what I really looked like… as I’d get majorly MAJORLY depressed. Well, Vegas, 2008… Heather needed to back up her memory card and I had my computer there… so I helped her out. WELLLLL… there were a few photos on that card that didn’t go through the Bobbi screening process. As in… I’ve never seen these… and about died when I pulled them up last night. MAN OH MAN it’s hard for me to share these here. It’s hard for me to see… hard for me to go through the feelings of remembering what this felt like. I was NOT a fan of me. AT ALL! 
Here, I was showing my model how to pose. I was being silly to make her laugh. If you’ll notice in the bottom left hand corner… a photographer was taking photos of me. So, I did what I knew how to do in these kinds of situations… I made fun of myself. Whoever that photog was… thank you for never posting them. You’re my friend. Oh, and about the outfit. I was at a weird weight (I still am really…) where clothes from cutesy places like J.Crew were all WAY too small for me… while clothes at plus sized stores were WAY too big. So, I REALLY didn’t have much to wear… and well… still don’t. Wow to this photo. WOW!
SOOOO… I can’t leave it like that… I HAVE to end this on a happy note… FOR ME! BLEHHHHH!!!!
Here’s my all-time favorite photo of me. Lauren Chapman took it a few months ago. 🙂
February 2010… 
Mom’s birthday unboxed photobooth… March, 2010. Though, admittedly… there’s a bit of camera trickery to this one. It’s unusually flattering 😉 But, I’m not mad about it… I’m CLEARLY embracing it 🙂 🙂 🙂
SO… just know that it’s a journey…. and we ALLLL have to start some where. 😀 If I can do it… damnit… YOU can do it!!!!!
- Next official weigh in is May 14.
- If you’re a twitterer, be sure to add the hashtag #healthytrain to your HT tweet.
- Join “bobbi’s healthy train” group on Facebook… ANYONE can join… not just the people with the before pics. My trainer is also a member… so if you have fitness questions, ask ‘em there! We’d love to have you… 😀
- You don’t have to be officially competing to participate.
- If you haven’t measured yourself yet, DO IT!
- We’ll be taking optional “progress pics” July 23 to keep the motivation levels high… OHHHH YESSSSSS!!!!
- New finale date is October 29th. It seems that I’m not good at math… and THAT will be 6.5 months.
Thanks for being SO ridiculously supportive friends. Much love!
~bobbi ❗
1.6% for David and 1.3% for Cathy. 😀 Crazy busy week didn’t help us. Next week we’re going hardcore and the weights are coming out! 😀
You are SO AWESOME to totally put yourself out here on your blog today. That is EXACTLY what your healthy train friends need! I am a HUGE fan of people keeping it real and exposing their true feelings. You rock. That was so inspiring to see you share yourself AND your transformation!!! Yea for you and all the Healthy Train peeps!!!!
Lots of love to you girl!
Hey Bobbi! I’m so happy you’re doing this again. Not sure if you remember me. Timco introduced us (and my fiance Nate) in Vegas but it was late and I think you and Mike were leaving in the am. Anyways…
I just wanted to say yay for you being awesome. I’d be terrified TERR I FIED to post any “before” photos of myself. I just started training for a half marathon in Jan and I love that it’s corresponding with the healthy train. I’ll def be checking in, but I can’t join in because I’ve found weighing in only messes me up but count me in for getting healthy. I’ll try and pop in on the facebook page too. 🙂
xoxo
Awesome for you! These made me cry (big heavy tears) because I know so many of us can see us in your before photos.
I always tell people that’s why I’m behind the camera I don’t want to be in the photos. 😉
Keep up the hard work and Thanks for motivating people!
Y’all just kick ass. Truly. Rock on!
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Bobbiiii….thank you for posting these before pics. Such an inspiration!!! Your words of encouragement at the bottom of your post helped more than you’ll know. Choo Choo!!
I know I say it all the time bobbi, but thank you for doing this. I very rarely post pictures of myself on my blog, only the ones I HAVE to do. After you posted my before and after for the first round here on your blog, I was determined I was going to suck it up and share them on my blog. It felt like standing in a room of strangers totally naked, but I did it (after a week of thinking and some prodding from hubby). It was one of my hardest things but one of the things that has offered me the most encouragement. Thank you for sharing yourself with us again. It is apprecaited and you are beautiful, whatever size you are, but it is about feeling good in our own skin. So keep rockin- great first two weeks! You all have inspired me to kick it up a notch these next two weeks when I entered my small number in there! THANK YOU!!!
Great post. Love the pics! Very inspiring. Thanks, lady!
You totally make me want to dye my hair some fun color, too. 🙂 Totally.
One of my favorite qualities is your honesty and now even more because it’s most difficult to be honest with ourselves BUT you’ve done it here. This quality is something that will never ever go away even when you reach your goal and rock JCrew’s latest. Awesome job friend and keep up the hard work to everyone on the Healthy Train!! Can’t wait to watch your progress:)
Bobbi, it’s been amazing to watch how your confidence in overcoming your weight is making you more confident to step up for yourself in other ways — to say, I need to step away from the computer and make time for my husband, my self, my friends, my hobbies, my interests.
Congrats on that amazing metamorphosis girl. SOOO proud of you!
I definitely feel like a failure! I lost 0%. In fact, I gained 3 pounds. I am determined to turn that around though!
I am a long time fan, but have never posted…. but today I just couldn’t NOT comment…. You look SO amazing! What a wonderful job you have done, bobbi! Just so fabulous! I am having a hard time staying motivated, but you just re-motivated me to keep on going. Thank you so much for sharing all your pictures! And GO YOU!
It takes a lot of courage for you to post those photos, so good for you! Look how far you have come, that is so amazing!
AWESOME job everyone! Love seeing all the progress. I know I’m sure starting too feel great and definitely more motivated than I have been in a long time! 🙂
I think you are adorable no matter what, but I understand. I have struggled for a long time with up and down weight. Then a few years ago I lost 40 lbs and I managed to keep most of it off for several years, but lately (last few months) I’ve been creeping back up, and now I am feeling really unhappy with myself. I am still only about 10-15 from where I want to be, but it seems like such an obstacle sometimes. You are doing awesome Bobbi, I love hearing about your progress!
that totally made me get a little misty eyed!!! (ok, a lot misty eyed…but i’m the kinda drama queen who cries watching the biggest loser).
you’re awesome, and you know it, so CLAP YOUR HANDS!!!! 🙂
(also, i’m down 0.6%. baby steps.)
You are amazing. That is all. 🙂
You look amazing. I sent you a quick e-mail!
I think I’ve said this before.. but you are so INSPIRING Bobbi!
I think you are a beautiful person inside and out.
Way to go! I am really proud of you and your hard work!
Bobbi,
You are gorgeous! I just wanted to give you a shout out for being so unflinchingly honest…well, maybe you flinched a little ;0). But you are so brave for being so honest and for getting on this journey that can’t be easy. It’s obvious that you have a cheering section rallying behind you. So, way to go! Keep on keeping on and thank you for being such an inspiration both behind the camera and in front of it!
So, so, so, so, so, soooooo proud of you! Mwah! 🙂
Bobbi, seriously, I think you are amazing! I could easily put together a photo collage matching yours. This post made me tear up as I was reading it to Ken. You continue to inspire me. Thank you, Bobbi.
Bobbi – seriously that takes SOOOO much courage to do what you just did. I, myself would probably never have the guts to do so. major props for that! So encouraging! Thank you!Thank you thank you!
although i didn’t lose as much as i would have liked this time around, I’m sure as heck not gonna give up AND I’m measuring myself Monday! was just now able to weigh-in and post on the document…BUSY ALL DAY w/ a wedding I’m in this weekend – off to bed for the busier day tomorrow!
THANKS AGAIN! YOU’RE beautiful!
I’m like the tortoise out of the starting gate… but look out, I’m gonna be hard core in May 🙂
You look amazing Bobbi!
Hey Bobbi Michelle,
You are so loved by many. I am sure the unflattering photos you posted of yourself has motivated many, as well as your Momba. You go girl…
Love you,
Momba
This was an awesome entry! You look gorgeous in your new healthy train before photos compared to the older photos you posted. Can you imagine how you are going to look now in another 6 months if you continue this trend. I love this train! For me I am at 2.7%. I thought I was going to do better but any positive number is a great number to have!
you are beautiful!
you are so beautiful and brave.
I never got the email for the spreadsheet. Could someone please send me the link?
So too many ones with me in it that we are heavy. Can’t wait to have pictures of us SKIINNNNAAYYY!!! LOVE YOU! P.S. Thank you for always speaking from your heart. That’s why I love you sooo much.
bobbi, my dearest, you are just amazingly inspirational, you know that? LOVE how much of yourself you put out there in the internet world! so very very inspiring. you’re making me feel like i should get on that healthy train too… beginning with NOT eating the twix bar sitting at my desk. GO YOU and all the healthy trainers!!! TOOT TOOT!
Thank you for sharing your story. You are an inspiration.
everything you do is inspiring…and this post is no exception! thank-you for being brave enough to share it!
You guys are doing fantastic! Between the inspiration on this blog, and that bridesmaids arm reaching for the bouquet in the “Sam and Sarah” reception, I’m literally heading to the gym NOW! 🙂
Bobbi you have the most amazing eyes. #justsayin!
Bobbi, I think you are crazy. You have always been beautiful, but it’s really important that you think so yourself and if that means a healthy train, then healthy train it is. And, I totally have pictures that I don’t ever want people to see…..props to you for that! Congratulations too on your awesome weight loss, I did nutrisystem for a long time before my wedding and I’m still down 35 pounds from my ultimate high, but up 10 pounds from the low. Good for you proud of you!!!!
you know what i love about you…you are every bit as honest and amazing in person as you are on your blog. truly, a wonderful and inspiring woman! thank you for sharing you! oh and girl…you look FAB!!! congrats!
It really is nice to see you make a post on this issue, I should bookmark this site. Keep up the great work.|