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30/03/2023

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24/03/2023

“If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.” “The body achieves what the mind believes.” “Once you are exercising regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.” “If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness.”

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19/01/2023

"Follow your dreams, work hard, practice, and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise, and maintain a healthy lifestyle."— Sasha Cohen

22/12/2022

Jobity was always fit growing up, but when she was mistreated in a relationship, she turned to food to cope.

"I stopped caring for myself as much as I should have," the Toronto-based finance project analyst, 36, told PEOPLE. "I was depressed. I just kind of tuned out of the world, and food became my everything."

By 2015, Jobity had hit her highest weight of 260 lbs. and started feeling excruciating stomach pain.

"When I went to my doctor they explained I had a stomach ulcer, and that all those years of soda had damaged my stomach," she said.

Jobity decided to get healthy — mentally and physically. She started taking boot camp classes and sought counseling to deal with her emotional issues.

What She Eats Now: Jobity cut out fried food and soda and eats a diet focused on fruits, vegetables and lean protein. "I love salad and chicken," she said. "Salad and chicken are my everything!"

Her Workouts Now: Jobity works out six days a week.

Her Best Weight Loss Tip: "You have to fix what's going on inside before you can fix the outside. The mind is a powerful thing through the weight loss journey, more than anything else. A lot of weight loss is mental."

15/12/2022

When Brianna Bernard got pregnant, she "used it as an excuse" to indulge in comfort foods.

"In reality, you're only supposed to eat a couple hundred extra calories a day, but I was eating 1,000 extra," Bernard, 32, tells PEOPLE for the 2018 "How We Lost 100 Lbs." issue. "I assumed it would all fall off pretty easily after the baby was born."

But after giving birth to her son, now 5, Bernard continued her poor eating habits and "didn't take the time for self-care," she said.

Bernard eventually signed up with a personal trainer at the gym, Bodies by Burgoon, and started training two to three times a week in weight lifting, plyometrics, boxing and more. She also revamped her diet, ditching her processed, carb-heavy meals for lean proteins, healthy fats and vegetables.

A year later, she had dropped 100 lbs. and started powerlifting competitively. She even became a trainer at the gym that helped her lose weight.

"I feel like a completely different person, and I am in so many ways," she says. "Not just physically — that's obvious — but the way I feel in my mind. It's hard to even look back. It feels like a lifetime ago. Now I feel like there's nothing I can't do. If I can lose 100 lbs., I can do anything."
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29/11/2022

Rachel Saintfort had never let her weight be a source of stress.

"In high school, I hit 200 lbs., but I was blessed to be a confident person," the Lakeland, Florida native tells PEOPLE for the 2018 "How We Lost 100 Lbs." issue.

However, she continued to gradually gain weight and reached her highest, 291 lbs., after the birth of her daughter in 2007.

Saintfort decided to try dieting, but nothing stuck. Then, in January 2017, she got a wake-up call. Her daughter, now 10 years old, said a classmate had called Saintfort "fat."

"She looked so sad, and she's trying to act like it wasn't a big deal. At that moment it hit me that she's suffering, and she's being picked on or laughed at because of my laziness or my unhealthy choices," Saintfort says. "That definitely inspired me to get it together, because I didn't want her to feel that way."

The case manager, 32, decided to cut out fast food and soda and started doing daily 3-mile walks around the lake in her town.

She also started documenting her weight-loss journey on her Instagram account, , and set a goal to drop 100 lbs.

Less than 12 months later, she reached her goal. "I cried," she says. "It was an amazing feeling."

26/11/2022

Although she had a major sweet tooth as a kid, Jenna Leveille always considered herself to be fit and athletic. But after she became pregnant with her daughter in 2000, the global sales director at SpaFinder continued to put on weight.

"I started trying quick fixes and that's when the vicious crash diets really started," Leveille tells PEOPLE. "A few of them worked but just for a minute. I would lose 20lbs and gain back double."

When her weight hit 270 lbs., Leveille considered getting weight loss surgery, but first wanted to try her hand at losing it naturally. She adopted a high protein, low carb diet and began exercising. "I ditched the sugar and put on my sneakers," she says.

She reached her goal weight of 130 lbs. in 2014, and created a Facebook community called "Getting Closer Everyday," meant to inspire people's weight loss journeys and provide support.

"The change for me has been more than I could ever dream of in this lifetime," she says. "It's never too late to change your life no matter how long you've been stuck."

25/11/2022

fat2fit.women When 32-year-old Kara Cline started
experiencing panic attacks after having her second
child, she knew she needed to make a major life
change to be healthier for her family.

Cline told PEOPLE she worked out vigorously in high
school, but when she went away to college, her routine
changed.

"I became complacent and the weight just kept piling
on," the certified public accountant says. "I didn't really
work out, didn't go for walks and I just hung out with my
friends and ate a lot of food I shouldn't have eaten."

In September 2016, after spending a few months
reforming her diet, Cline discovered Daily Burn, a
health and fitness app that provides workout videos
and nutritional guidance.

"They've got a bunch of different programs you can
choose, but then they also have the Daily 365
workout," Cline explains. "It's a 30-minute streaming
workout that changes every single day. I really liked
that it kept me intrigued and I didn't get bored."

Cline says she did the workouts at home in her living
room three to four times a week while her kids, ages 5
and 2, were nearby.

"Since they were quick workouts, I fit them in whenever
I had time with little ones running around," she says. "I
focused on interval training as well as cardio and
body-weight exercises. The trainers always offered
modifications, so it felt more personable."

After losing nearly 100 lbs., Cline is now proud of her
185-lb. figure.

"That time was an emotional roller coaster. I moved to
a new city. I kind of completely redid my whole entire
life, but all for the better. I feel great and am no longer
ashamed by my weight," she says. "It really boosted my
confidence and my comfort level to just try everything
and live a more active, healthy lifestyle."

23/11/2022

Randi Vasquez was a "chubby" kid growing up, but it never bothered her — "I was always feeling myself," she says. That is until she hit a "post-grad slump" when she couldn't find a job she loved and started drowning her sorrows in boozy brunches and fast food.

"I was getting heavier and heavier," Vasquez, who eventually hit 240 lbs., says. "I started to notice that my confidence was going down, and I wasn't motivated to do anything. It started to click that if I didn't change my life that it would just get worse and worse."

Vasquez knew that a major diet and lifestyle overhaul wouldn't stick, so she started small, and in the fall of 2014 found a gym class at her local YMCA that she loved. Within a few months, she dropped 18 to 20 lbs., which inspired her to keep going. From there, Vasquez started cooking healthier meals and started doing Kayla Itsines' popular BBG workout plan.

"Year after year, month after month, I made small little goals and just kept going," she says. "I hit 80 lbs. down in fall 2017. That was such a big moment for me."

Since then, Vasquez nailed another big goal — running a half marathon — and focuses on maintaining her weight.

"I don't feel like my weight can hold me back anymore," she says. "I was happy before but there was so much I was held back from that I didn't even realize."

22/11/2022

When O'Toole got engaged in 2016, she was thrilled to marry her longtime boyfriend, but their relationship hadn't been good for her health. After six years of fast-food dinners and minimal exercise, she weighed 281 lbs. and was having knee problems — at 25 years old.

Plus, O'Toole was dreading buying a wedding dress at her size.

"I didn't want to buy a plus-size wedding dress, because they cost way more than straight sizes," she says. "I felt like I was paying this fat tax — I didn't have the ability to buy affordable clothes because I was bigger."

Along with her fiancé, O'Toole started tracking her meals and calories with the LoseIt! app. She dropped 75 lbs. in a year, and started incorporating exercise into her routine. By her wedding day in Nov. 2018, O'Toole had lost 135 lbs. and was able to buy the dress of her dreams — in a size 6.

"The ideal dress that I had in my head was cleavage-baring with a dramatic accent, and then I went with a long-sleeved dress that went up to my neck with a bare back. I had never pictured something fitted, but I felt awesome in it because I had done it and lost the weight," she says.

O'Toole has kept up her weight loss habits, and though she's frustrated with the loose skin she's accumulated, she tries to focus on the "non-scale victories."

"The biggest one is being able to shop out of my friends' closets — I had never been able to do that before," she says. It's so cool, it's like I have double the closets, and what I had always dreamt about doing in high school!"