Before--way before.

There once was a girl who decided to better herself. She started out a size 3X:

(sorry, no full body shots, I'm sure you can guess why)

Dec. 2006

that shirt is a 3X and was the only thing comfortable/fashionable I had to wear

Then, 6 months later she was an XL/1X and looked like this:

Things were getting better! Self confidence was blossoming, she wasn't as depressed and unhappy as she once was, and soon, she found Muay Thai...

Then she started looking like this:

April 2008

And This:

April 2008

And that was her skinniest, but not the peak of her fitness...that came later.