“There were many nights I would break down and think about giving up on life. I had to go back home for my sanity because at least my parents were there. They have always been accepting, and having that reassurance saved my life.”
‘I hit rock bottom at 18 years old. I was paralyzed. I had no motivation, no direction, no hope. I had to set myself free.’
‘There were two types of girls: skinny girls and fat girls. Being fat was the worst thing we could be.’: Woman loses 100 pounds after ‘the perfect storm’ in college, immerses herself in world of fitness
“After graduating, I packed my bags and headed to college. There, I found a college meal card, 24-hour Dominos delivery, and a party lifestyle. What I didn’t find? My running shoes. Lack of activity, poor food choices, and a very skinny ‘eats anything he wants’ college boyfriend created the perfect storm. I’d gone from heavy to morbidly obese.”
Teacher dad goes from ‘Shamu’ to SUPER JACKED ‘to be the father my daughter deserves’
“Would I be able to walk my daughter down the aisle? Would I see them graduate from high school? It was time for a change!”
‘I was putting away two cases of beer each week’: Man decides to shake his ‘dad bod’ on Father’s Day, loses 70 pounds one year later
“I was bloated, fatigued, and increasingly unhappy with my situation, financially and emotionally. I felt like I was coming up short as a husband and father.”
‘The red numbers flashed 302. I felt the bottom of my stomach drop. I thought I was going to throw up on the scale. The way I was living my life was killing me.’ Woman credits a ‘single, random conversation’ with her 95-pound weight loss
“A friend asking me to dinner could send me spiraling. What if they want to sit at a booth instead of a table? What if I don’t FIT in the booth? What if my stomach rests on the table? Every single moment of my life felt this way. The entire world felt like it was made for someone else. There wasn’t a single place I fit or felt comfortable.”
‘I thought it was in my genes to be obese’: Mother and son lose a collective 330 POUNDS after striking a ‘deal’
“The one thing we didn’t get right was eating.”
‘I was killing myself. I didn’t want to die’: Man loses 140 POUNDS naturally after confronting his ‘addictive personality’
“I made an appointment to have a physical done. When I saw my lab results, I knew I was in trouble.”
‘Eating was encouraged’: Man drops a whopping 77 pounds after deciding ‘enough is enough’ about being a ‘very fat kid’
“I had never kissed a girl, I was scared to meet people out of fear of what they’d think of me, I refused to look at photos I was in because I felt disgusted. It was time to make a change.”
‘I shouldn’t have met him in a public space. I thought he was safe. He ‘knew me well enough’ to engage in a physical relationship.’: Woman shares incredible weight loss journey after ‘tumultuous’ breakup, sexual assault
“In high school, I was healthy. Then suddenly at 16 my world turned upside down. I began dating my high school boyfriend. The beginning was like a whirlwind. I felt so in love, I was positive I’d spend the rest of my life with him. I’d like to say everything was his fault, but we were both to blame. I was suffocating but couldn’t imagine living a life without him.”
‘I was going to die before I turned 30’: Woman loses incredible 155 pounds to be ‘someone people could look up to’
“I thought I could never lose weight, that I would always be miserable with myself and never change. But I did.”
