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Weight Loss Success Stories - Holly Lost Weight By Diet & Exercise
First Name: Holly
Age: 46
Family status: Married
Occupation: Personal Trainer/Pilates Instructor
Hometown: Surrey, B.C.
Pounds or inches lost: Overall, I have lost 157 pounds!
Starting Weight: 305 (in high school - age 18)
Current Weight: 148 (age 40)
Holly's Weight Loss!
When did you become unhappy with your weight?
I was unhappy with my weight for as long as I can remember, I
was heavy from grade 6 onward, after my father died I consoled
myself in food
What made you decide to lose weight?
I was nearing my 40th BD and walking with a cane on major medication
for pain, fibromyalgia, osteo arthritis and raynoids. I was NOT
going to be fat and fourty. The wheelchair the doctors told me
was coming was getting closer every day
What were the most important changes you made to lose weight?
My mental and emotional attitude. Food was there, but it was
my choice to stuff myself or make a healthier choice. Two to three
chocolate bars a day were no longer an option. I learner to exercise
properly for my physical conditions,I have had 18 surgeries and
slowly how to eat right. I was and always had been my choice,
but with God's help and a lot of prayers, I now had the strength
and determination to change
What was most challenging about losing weight?
For me,the mental change, that I did in fact have control over
my future and how I treated my body. I could change the outcome
of the rest of my life. Having to change my eating habits was
probably the most difficult. Yet now I can not imagine eating
the way I did 8 yrs ago. One of the most important things I learned
and one of the most challenging was to eat 5-6 times a day. I
was used to eating 2X and what I wanted.
How long did it take you to start to see results?
I started walking in the spring of 98, and then joined a gym
in the fall of 98. I didn't see a lot of results until Feb of
99 when I found a trainer and really started to work out with
weights and do cardio {lot's of it}. That is when the weight really
started to come off, with in 3 month of working with Dave things
were moving. The walking really helped me get disciplines in being
consistent, but I was still eating anything I wanted. So if you
want by the calendar it would be 9 month but from when I really
got serious about training and my eating 3 months.
How long did it take for you to reach your current weight?
Though I started to walk in the spring of 98. I didn't get serious
about it until the end of Jan. 99. From then until the summer
of 2000. My all time high for many years was 305, my starting
weight in the spring was 255, and I went down to 143, stabilizing
at 148. So total of 157 lbs from heaviest to now.
How long have you maintained your weight loss and how do you do
it?
I have kept my weight off for 6 years now. It is not easy, I
work out 5-6 times per week and I watch everything that goes in
my mouth. It is very easy for me to gain weight so I have to be
diligent about my eating and exercise. My Mom passed way last
year and I started menopause, so with that I gained some weight,
I have lost all but about 5-7 lbs which is being worked on as
we speak.
How has your life changed now that you've lost weight?
My life, never in a million years would I have expected to do
what I do now. Since my weight loss, I have become a Personal
Trainer and Pilates Instructor. My goal and passion in life it
to help as many people have the same success I have had. I work
mainly with people that have either weight issues and or joint
problems. My greatest joy is to watch them find the freedom that
comes with being fit and healthy. I can honestly say I LOVE my
job.
How did ShapeFit help you reach your weight loss goals?
I read ShapeFit to learn more about new exercises, hear of the
success stories and keep up to date with what is going on in the
fitness industry I love to read stories about other people that
overcome obstacles to reach a life of health and wellness. I never
would have thought I would be one of those success stories but
I am.
Holly's Weight Loss Tips!
 Weight
loss tip #1:
Eat 5-6 small meals times per day
Weight loss tip #2:
Crdio and weight training combined
Weight loss tip #3:
One mistake does not give you license to have a bad day or worse
yet a bad week
Weight loss tip #4:
You are doing this for YOU
Weight loss tip #5:
Work in short term goals the long ones could be to hard especially
if you have a lot to lose
Holly's Weight Loss Eating Plan!
 Breakfast:
3/4 cup go lean 8oz dairy milk and or yogurt.
Lunch:
Whole wheat tortilla can of tuna low fat mayo mixed with tuna,
a little low fat cheese and heated on a grill fro a tuna melt.
With a large salad, and low fat dressing.
Dinner:
Chicken breast fresh vegies salad with low fat dressing.
Snacks or Mini Meals:
Apple, with 4 oz yogurt or 1/3 to 1/2 of a protein bar carnation
light hot chocolate for my chocolate fix .
Holly's Weight Loss Workouts!
Weight Training:
Always warm up for about 10 min on recumbent bike, upper lower
split back, chest, biceps and triceps, with abs during my rest
45 min 2x per week Quads, H.S calf and shoulders with abs for
my rest 2x week 45 min .
Cardiovascular:
35 min to usually 65 min on Elliptical 3- 6 xs per week, Depending
on the weights and time.
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