A while back I showed this photo on my blog...
...for the purposes of illustrating where I decided the Mom of The Week thing from CHBM could kiss me in the many months it took me to finally win that suckah.
After posting it, I got an e-mail from Jake And Ellie's Mom saying that she recognized my exquisite taste in fashion and that she had the very same skirt from Le Target.
I e-mailed her back sharing how much I liked the skirt and how sad I was that mine no longer fit and that Le Target was no longer selling it.
She asked me what size I wore and when I told her she... SENT ME HERS!!
Too cool!
Her only stipulation was that I post a before and after post.
See, I lost a buttload of weight counting the effing points.
I agreed to this condition, but then she took a break from blogging, so...
[No one is surprised that I didn't post the before pictures, right?]
Well, she's back so here I go.
This is me in May of 2006 wearing my original skirt.
After posting it, I got an e-mail from Jake And Ellie's Mom saying that she recognized my exquisite taste in fashion and that she had the very same skirt from Le Target.
I e-mailed her back sharing how much I liked the skirt and how sad I was that mine no longer fit and that Le Target was no longer selling it.
She asked me what size I wore and when I told her she... SENT ME HERS!!
Too cool!
Her only stipulation was that I post a before and after post.
See, I lost a buttload of weight counting the effing points.
I agreed to this condition, but then she took a break from blogging, so...
[No one is surprised that I didn't post the before pictures, right?]
Well, she's back so here I go.
This is me in May of 2006 wearing my original skirt.
This is me this morning wearing the skirt formerly known as that of Jake & Ellie's Mom.
I have kept the weight off for eight months so far and I'm here to tell you...
Now The Lady Flabina can kiss me right here:
Now The Lady Flabina can kiss me right here:
Lotta has a post up celebrating bloggers that have lost weight so go give them the virtual high fives.
92 comments:
WOW!
okay...first i'm very happy to be the first...
BUT more WOW...
Congrats on the weight loss! That is amazing....
And how wonderful the world of sharing...
Okay now you'll have to email me your size...as i'm packing and moving...i'll send you other skirts! ;oP
Jou look mahvelous dahling. Jou really, really do.
I think I may need WW. I've been losing steadily over the last six months working out, but I've hit a plateau. I think I need to be more disciplined about counting calories.
What a sweetie she is to share her stuff with you!
You rock. The points make me crazy - I always ate my share before lunchtime.
But you've inspired me to really keep my promise to myself that I will: 1) Not gain 50 pounds with this PG; and 2) Lose what I do gain (plus the extra from the first two).
first of all, i never saw before picture before and actually you looked quite lovely then-- not a victim of Lady Flabina at all! But you do look pretty rockingly fabulous after!
did i ever tell you that after reading your points post i did WW myself and lost 10 lbs (5 baby lbs + 5 extras)? so, uh, belated thanks for the push.
You look fantastic! Congratulations!
I love seeing inspirational posts like this. It makes me feel motivated to start being more disciplined and lose the weight I've been carrying around for far too long.
You're hot. But that's stating the obvious. :)
You go girl! My neighbor does a weight watchen site, its amazing.
www.weightwatchen.com
Someday, when we become the best of friends, I will show you my fatty had a party and nobody came photos. Congrates on 8 months! As Priscilla my old point counting coach would say, "Good Fa You!".
You look great. And I love that you now have a skirt with history.
Aren't you one hot little chickie!
And I mean that in a total girl-crush kinda way...
You do look marvelous and congratulations on keeping it off.
Well, I've seen you in person & I must admit you look fabulous! I had no idea you'd lost so much weight. Go you!
Nice! Hubba,hubba!
The skirts are nice, but what really amazed me was the change in your face. It is like your whole face changed shape.
You look lovely and it is inspiring. It makes me want to try harder...
Congrats, you have done the impossible feat...dropped the baby weight. Now send a little motivation my way, Lord knows I could use it!
I am so impressed! (And newly motivated.)
Um ... how long did it take to see progress? I've also hit a plateau and am very frustrated.
You look fabulous!
You look fantastic! Congrats on your success! You must be very proud of yourself.
I'd scare off half of the blogging world if I posted a photo of my butt. Ok, I'll take that back. I'd scare off about 11 people if I posted a photo of my butt.
when I came by here earlier, I couldn't post a comment.
Congrats. You look gorgeous. You must feel so proud. What an accomplishment.
I need to follow your example.
I have about 20-30 that need to be gone.
you look great!
You look hot. Totally! Congrats on sticking with it!
We joined the Y today and took the girls to the pool and there I was, white and flabby in my solid blue tankini standing by the kiddie slide and talking to ridiculously tan, tall, not an ounce of fat on her body mother in a bikini (also with her 2-year-old.)
At least it gave me a little extra boost of motivation to go back.
Fantastic, dahling, just absolutely fantastic!
You look absolutely wonderful (not that you didn't before..) and many, many congratulations!
you. are. hott.
wanna be my girlfriend?? hehe
I don't even think my old, old stuff would fit you, you sexy thang!
And though you look gorgeous at your current weight, I look at those older pictures and I'm all "But look at that RACK!"
As one who has never been boobagely endowed, I do sometimes suffer from boob envy. Or benvy? Or boonvy?
Having only stumbled into blogging within the last six months, I didn't know about the weight loss thing. You look amazing. I can't get over how different your face looks.
Put me on the "Inspired by Oh, the Joys to Dig Out My Cheek Bones" list. It's time to commit to this.
That is so awesome. I am inspired to continue with the damn counting.
Have I told you that I started a fitness journey to get my damn body back? And did you know you freaking inspire me to no end? And now? I will get up and run tomorrow. Because one day I'll be as hot as you. Ok, not really, but maybe like your less-hot friend that you'd take to a bar so all the guys stare at you but you'd be seen with me. Or something.
You look fabulous! You are a brave, brave woman to post not one, but TWO pictures of your butt!
Congrats on the award, and CONGRATS on the weight loss! (And seriously, it is awesome that she sent you the skirt; God, I love the internet.)
Congrats.
Totally rocking the skirt, my friend. Glad to see it enjoying the good life in the South.
And, fair readers of the Joys, it was her sweet way with words that had me thinking, "how could I possibly keep this skirt to myself?"
Every time feel myself slipping on WW, I think to myself, if J can do it, I can do it.
sweet, fancy moses, you are freakin hot!!
Wow!
You look years younger in the second picture too. Inspiring!
Wow! Good for you, hottie mama!
I'm inspired now to quit slacking on my running program.
High five to you! It's the timing here that freaks me out. I was just at my sister's yesterday and she got her 50 lb. star from WW this week and looks awesome. I was feeling more inspired to give it another go. And there is your post this morning. I suppose I'd better get after it.
Ugh.
BTW - you do look wonderful!
You look absolutely fabulous. Congratulations on lots of hard work and awesome results.
Congratulations! You look great. That's impressive.
Here's a BIG high five to you OTJ!! And what a nice @ss that is!! Haven't been around to visit much, lots of things happening at our house. Glad to be back though!
That's awesome!!
That's awesome. I love blogging because you never know what kind of skirts and friends you might get!
I think you look beautiful in all those photos! Congrats on the weight loss and revving up that fabness to the umph notch!
You are right, that skirt is awesome.
Wow! Congrats!
That's great. I'm currently doing the same thing re: points counting.
Congrats to you!
Zoinks! That's incredible!
Good for you. You look fab.
LMFAO I Have the same skirt from Target!!
Before I started reading the part about you saying where it was from, I thought it looked like the one I have. And then my thoughts were confirmed when you mentioned Target.
I LOVE that skirt. I have it in khaki green. It's soo much better than shorts...and my husband thinks it's better than skorts ;)
Congrats on the weight loss!
You look fan fucking tastic!
And is it lame that I just realized you included me in the original weight loss email? Lame me!
Although, sista, I weigh now what you weighed previously. You are my inspiration. You look healthay and sexay.
Watch out for the PARK RANGER INVASION!!
You are a sexpot in the before and after pictures lady!
I feel inspired to post a picture of my butt now.
Or maybe not...
You look amazing!
Congrats- you look fab.
And I have a Target skirt I bought ages ago, and every time I wear it people compliment it. It looks tres expensive. Maybe I'll post my ass in the Target skirt that lives forever!
OMG - Congrats on the 8 months! As a person who gains and loses the same ten pounds each year, I know what it means to keep your weight down for that long.
Lookin' good! God bless le Target
High Five to you! You look awesome.
I could be glib, or I could write down, verbatim, what just came out of my mouth:
"-GASP- Holy shit! Jessica, you look BEAUTIFUL!"
So, there ya go. I am so thrilled for you! And it gives me some hope. How do you get hold of those point thingies?
You look fantastic. Congratulations on keeping the extra weight off.
Hells to the yeah lady!! Nice job and you look great! :)
I have it too! I said it as soon as I saw the pic...that is too funny.
Way to go, Honey! You look wonderful. And props to your great friend too :)
Ha! What a fun, brave post. Way to go!
Hooray! Congrats to you--you look gorgeous!
And I love the skirt story--just wonderful.
You give new meaning to the term MILF
You look FLABuLESS!
Congrats on the great look, and smaller sized skirt!
I have about 10 more lbs to lose, then I will be asking for your tips on keeping it off.
Hot-cha-cha! You look great, my love.
you are sublimely gorgeous. inside and out.
Hey, this afternoon I had a pretty funny dream about you and K. You were like over 6' tall and K was over 7' tall. You two were strolling down the aisle of a supermarket arm in arm together! Anyways, just thought I'd let you two know and say Hi at the same time.
You go girl!
My sad, flabby booty envies your fab, diminutive booty.
Sigh.
I tried to comment on this the day you posted it but it wouldn't work for some reason. Anyway - just wanted to say congrats on the weight loss, and on keeping it off - the hardest part.
Now to get my fat ass in gear...
Rock that skirt sistah!
nothin' like a half-size heinie in a fab skirt to make a gal feel good. congrats, you look great.
You have totally inspired me, Jess. Thanks!
What's you gonna do wit all that ass,
All that ass inside your skirt?
Ima gonna make you work
Make you work work, make you work
You look fah-bu-licious dahling. You're looking bottylicious.
And I see this on a day I've slept through my morning workout?!? Waaa!
You look fantastic and fabulous and amazing. Congrats on the hard work paying off big time! (Or, paying off small time, really. You're tiny!)
You are HOTT. You got the goods, J.
You look fantastic! Congrats on losing the weight! I keep trying and keep falling off. But, you inspire me! : )
Wow. I generally don't notice when people lose weight unless it's drastic, but the before and after together like that really show it off. That's awesome. And a bit inspiring... hmm. May reconsider enormous dinner I have packed.
Congratulations on your weight loss! You know how to rock a skirt!!
You are hot tamale in that skirt!!!!
wow! someone actually made that system work for them?
i hope my hubs can make it work, too. i do the non-trendy, anal-retentive, count-every-calorie-on-a-spreadsheet method.
worked for me last year...gotta get on it again when i stop being the milk matron.
um, by the way, congratulations!
you do look great.
Hooray for your skirt and you!
Hey you, psst, yeah you, c-mere.
Nice fanny.
;)
You have inspired me. Congratulations to you on your incredible achievement.
Woo-hoo, you a hot mama!
You are HOOO-OT! I wish it were me!
You look great. Can I have your secret?
You are hotness and you inspire me! Love the skirt! How cool that she sent it to you!
What a great inspiration, just what I need to read. I just restarted "counting the points" for the third time a month ago. I have a 10 week old boy and am bound and determined to lose the baby weight of him and my 8 year old son. So far the weight loss has been slow going, but this is motivation. You look fabulous!!
OH!!!! I Counted the effing point tooooo! I have kept off my nearly 50 lbs since Oct of 2005. BLESS THOSE DMAN POINTS!
Congrats on that skirt action!
DDDAAAAAYYYYYYY--UUUUUMMMMMMM!!!!
you look GGGOOOODDDDDDD!!!!
Way to go, baby.
Now, I DEFINITELY need a cig.
and a spank.
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