My Weight Loss Before and After pictures
These are my weight loss 'Before' and 'After' pictures, taken almost 2 years apart. Believe me, finding a 'before' picture of myself was quite a project. Back then I avoided having my picture taken or at the very least I made a point to sit if I couldn't avoid the camera. I was THAT embarrassed about showing my belly fat! In the beginning....At 35, I blamed my excess belly fat, low energy, and random bouts of depression and anxiety on the demands of motherhood. My doctor had assured me that this was all ‘perfectly normal’. After all, I was a full time mom - all very taxing on the body and the mind. I went back to my sedentary lifestyle believing that running after 2 children all day was stressful and provided plenty enough exercise. By age 39, nothing had changed (other than an ever increasing waist circumference) and my doctor assured me once again that it was ‘normal’ and suggested I try cutting calories. After all, I was in peri-menopause...the prelude to menopause. I went back to my sedentary lifestyle now blaming my belly fat, constant exhaustion and the Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde-like bouts on peri-menopause. Other people's weight loss success stories....One day I came across a magazine article about people who had lost half of their body weight and were successful at keeping it off long term. Aside from the impressive changes in their before and after weight loss pictures, these people had one very important thing in common. Their dietary approaches and weight loss stories were all different, but there was one recurring theme that tied their stories together. Each one of these people had tried and failed to lose weight many times, but they didn't give up until they found what worked for them to accomplish their weight loss goal. Six people...different weight loss diets... but each one successful. Here's what I realized. There is no "one size fits all" diet and each of us is as unique as our fingerprints. The diet plan that was working like gang-busters for one person may be a dismal failure for another. Other people's weight loss before and after pictures...It was truly a major turning point in my life. I began researching and designing my own healthy diet plan. I documented everything I ate in a diet journal. Some things worked better than others and some didn't work at all...I just kept tweaking it. My results told me what to keep doing and what to dump. Essentially, I became my own 'guinea pig' and created my own belly fat diet plan. It was a mish-mash of many great ideas from all the reading I had done, but custom designed for me and my body type. Belly fat be gone!My once embarrassing fat belly became a flat belly, as you can see in my weight loss before and after pictures. My energy level soared and the mood swings that were considered 'normal' all but disappeared. I enjoy sharing what I’ve learned with other women – particularly those of us past the big 4-0, when menopause weight gain begins to take hold because I can SO relate! At this stage in our lives, excess belly fat becomes a more serious health issue. Apart from aging us THAT much faster, it can take away from the quality of this wonderful phase in our lives - that we SO deserve. I truly hope you're inspired to make the necessary changes in your own life so that you too can create your own weight loss before and after pictures and tell your own weight loss success story.
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