So back on April 24, I decided I was going to lose weight. My ideal weight is about 150, and I hadn’t weighed that little since 2012. I had gone up since then until at some points I was up to around 185 at my heaviest. Today I hit my target weight of 150.

Alongside the weight loss, I was also cleared to stop taking a leukemia medicine I had been on since 2014. That medicine had caused my face to swell around the eyes, so I was looking pretty puffy around that time.

I’m posting my original picture from April 3, a day or two after I stopped the meds, and I weighed nearly 179. And then today, 5 months later and almost 30 lbs lighter.

The pic below was where I started from on April 3.