48 Times People Decided To Make A Change In Their Lives And Shared Pics Of Their Progress

Therapy and my wife have been a life saver though and we’ve been working on taking care of myself now that I’m in a good headspace!

I’ve been recovering from anorexia on my own.
Lately I’ve been struggling with my difference in weight and appearance, wanting to go back to being underweight. But I try to look and remind myself that I felt terrible in the before pic, could barely function and was basically not alive. Can’t say I’m a whole lot happier right now but it’s also hard to see the light within the dark. I did the thing and I did it on my own!

Lost >220 lbs, went back to school and got my BSN, lived in 3 different cities, dyed my hair for the first time, had my first kiss, developed several meaningful friendships, took a last minute solo trip to Hawaii. Survived the daily battle of wanting to give up and evade all tomorrows.

Used to really dislike how I looked but slowly and bit by bit I started to treat myself a lil nicer, didn't realize the difference till I saw it like this.

5 years ago, I finally got sick of the way I was living. Mentally/emotionally and physically I was at my worst. I had split up with my kids’ dad, became a single parent, and was dealing with some other unfortunate circumstances at the time, which was the catalyst for my change. I used intermittent fasting and keto to lose weight, and made some major mental shifts. Just a reminder of how far I’ve come!

The left picture was from my senior year in high school. I hated my curls and my boring, not-brown-but-not-blonde natural color all through my teenage years, so I did my best to destroy all of that. I got a relaxed curl perm, bleached it blonde, and straightened my hair 5-6 days a week, without using quality heat protectant. When I left for college, I stopped frequently using hot irons of any kind, only straightening/soft curling my hair every few months. I let my bleached blonde and the relaxed perm grow out and cut the dead and dry parts off every 3 months. I read up on what products were good and experimented with what worked for me! The right picture is today, and I've never felt more in love with my hair.

Crazy how much stress and unhappiness affects your body. Lost around 40lbs within 4 months after I filed for divorce. Feel like myself again.

Regime 1mg finasteride per day Switched from 5mg minoxidil to 2.5mg a few months ago and gains still been fine.

There were a lot of ups and downs in the years between but I finally took this past year to focus on myself and my mental health and finally feel like I am in a good place!

Didn’t lose it the healthiest way and it’s left me with a few problems but I’m getting better every day.

So I've been holding this in for a while. I used to weigh 86 kg, and now I'm around 60. I've lost 26 kg after months (honestly, years) of struggling with my body, food, and confidence. I even made a little glow-up video, but I can't bring myself to post it anywhere. It's not that I'm not proud | am. It's just that I keep thinking people will judge me, make fun of me, or think I'm showing off. I know it shouldn't matter what others think, but it still does. Part of me wants to celebrate how far I've come, and another part of me wants to hide because I still feel like that insecure version of myself. I don't know if anyone else has felt this way after a big transformation, proud but scared at the same time.

I fell in love with running, and I'm doing another half marathon on November 1, plus training for a full in 2026!

I was super overweight my entire life. Mocked and shunned as a kid, tormented by mean little children, and then by my own mind.

I decided to drop some weight and become healthier and happier vs being tired, sad, overweight, and down on myself.

Overall, this transformation took a little over two years, and through that, I became vegan, I hyper-focused on my diet, and I became super active.

It was finally time to come to terms with my past and for the first time, I began to accept who I was, who I am, and who I'm determined to become not just for myself, but for my family.

Here's to 2025!

AI predicted age of before picture: 51 AI predicted age of after picture: 39 Actual age: 45

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