20/06/2022
The 1 Simple Thing That Finally Worked to Lose 70 Lbs After Failing for Years
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When I gained 60+ pounds after marriage and having my first son, it was 3 years of trying over and over again and failing before I finally got it off. Here’s how I finally lost 70 lbs after trying and failing for years!
FROM 207 TO 137
MY WEIGHT STORY.
I had maintained 130-140 lbs all through high school. But after getting married, having a kid, and developing super unhealthy eating habits in that first year after, I wasn’t even close to 140 lbs anymore.
It was the summer of 2017 when I had my big, rude awakening.
Due to horrible eating habits I developed after getting married and being pregnant, and a non-active lifestyle, I had gained quite a bit of weight very quickly. But after returning home from a family trip to Costa Rica in the summer of 2017 and seeing all the photos, I truly realized just how much I had let myself go.
I didn’t even recognize myself. I had gone from a 145 lbs at marriage to now 207 lbs and totally sedentary. I didn’t eat well, I didn’t go to the gym, heck, I didn’t even go out walking.
Seeing myself, I knew something needed to change.
But that was much easier said than done.
ATTEMPT 1: SUMMER 2017
That next month I committed to meal planning and eating better. I stuck with it for 3 whole months! Then gave up when family came to town to visit. I had lost almost 20 lbs (yay!) and was weighing 190, but still far from my goal of just getting back to my pre-baby weight of 155lbs. Only to gain it all back.
ATTEMPT 2: DECEMBER 2017
I tried again that winter to get ready for my cousin’s wedding, getting down to 185 (go me!) but with the holidays and a horrible miscarriage, I gave up again.
ATTEMPT 3: APRIL 2018 AND…. STUCK.
In the spring of 2018, after another miscarriage, I decided to have another go. Only to be stopped again that May when we moved to Vegas for the summer and got pregnant again.
I remember feeling so hopeless. What was I suppose to do now? I can’t lose weight while pregnant, and after two miscarriages all I wanted was a sibling for my son and a baby that I wouldn’t have to bury, but I was so miserable with myself. I felt gross and ugly, and not ME!
Up until this point in my life I had never stuck with any fitness/diet regimen for longer than 3 months. Which meant that I literally had ZERO evidence that I was capable of losing the 60+ lbs that I had gained since getting married.
And now being pregnant I felt stuck again.
I didn’t even have an option to lose weight, and the possibility of losing another baby was enough to make me never want to try again. But also, I was terrified at the idea that I started this pregnancy at 180lbs! What would I be delivering at?! 220lbs??
I had tried over and over and over again to lose weight for 2 years only to gain most of it back. So I decided to give up and focus on my pregnancy and I’d try again in 2019 after my baby was born.
But that Christmas (2018) at 33 weeks pregnant with Mickey weighing 197 lbs, that I came up with a game plan.
I was 2-ish months away from delivering my son and decided enough was enough. No more excuses. No more starting when it was most convenient. No. I was starting my health/weight-loss journey then.
Until I used DETO FITNESS. My body has clearly changed.
I was able to reduce it as much as I wanted. I feel very excited and happy. It does not require diet, nor exercise.
Thank you Deto fitness.
