M/19/5'9" [210 > 177 = 33 lbs] (year and a month) 30 pounds doesn't seem like a lot but I actually have self esteem now and I think I look tons better for it but I'm still not where I want to be, would like to be down to 170.

I started out really depressed and overweight, I was drinking 4 rockstars a day, eating whatever I wanted, not working out. I have struggled with major depressive disorder most of my teens and, about 4 months before the first picture was taken one of my oldest and best friends killed himself I had known him since I was five.

I was with this girl, and at that point had been for about 3 years, that I really thought I wanted to marry and love. During highschool when we started dating, I was a lot skinnier, around 185, I'm the lightest I've ever been right now, but I looked in the mirror one day and was like I'm depressed all I have to look forward when I get home is my computer, I barely play basketball anymore and my relationship with this girl is struggling, which at the time and for the next year I would completely put all of the blame on myself and she would let me but that just wasn't true, more about that later, I thought if I wanted to marry her and give her this life we talked about I wanted to work on myself and be this great person for her. So I started going to the gym and shedding the fat and feeling good about myself and taking a picture everyday for my eventual progress picture but it still wasn't enough for her. So I started really working through my problems, dedicating my life to her more, and going to the gym. I ended up selling my built pc that I probably had 2 grand for 500 bucks into because I thought it was hindering my relationship with her and affecting my life negatively. She cheated on me about 4 months before that, which was about 7 months into me beginning to lift and eat marginally better. Again I blamed it on myself, because I didn't give her enough attention though in the three years we were together it was the 2nd time she had cheated on me and she always had multiple other guys that were texting her and flirting with her, so I used that and hit the gym harder blaming it on me, and worked on myself harder. Then about a month ago she broke up with me because she had "lost herself in the relationship and wasn't happy" and since has hooked up with her complete stoner highschool, "bestfriend." that she said she never wanted me to be like. So this last month I've hit the gym even harder deciding if that if that bitch didn't want me I'd keep working on myself for the person that was right.

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