Hi! :)

I’m Shaelynn. I’m from outside of Toronto, Canada and smiling is one of my favourite things. 

As cheesy and as over said as this is, I have struggled with weight a lot of my childhood and young adult life. I’ve never been the pretty girl or the thin girl or the girl that everyone admires. But at the same time I’ve never really been picked on because of my weight. I kind of just blended into the background. 

This is a little blast from the past:

(Second from the right)

(Second from the left.)

(Far left)

So as you can tell, I used to be a “big girl”. Now, being 5’10 and weighing 187+ pounds isn’t what very many girls would call ideal. For a while I had been very unhappy with my weight, but I almost accepted that there was nothing I could do to change it. I thought “I’ll always be the big girl. That’s just who I am.”

March 2011 rolled around and I finally decided that my life was passing me by. I was tired of hiding behind sweatshirts and shying away from boys and crying in front of the mirror. 

I was FAT and I knew I needed to do something. 

This was the first progress photo I took of myself:

This picture really drove it home for me; I was putting my health at risk. Things needed to change. 

Since March 2011 I have been leading a healthy, active lifestyle. I now enjoy running, biking and swimming on a regular basis as well as replacing all of the junk food in my diet for healthy alternatives. 

Here are some more recent pictures & a few before and afters: