5 Women Share The Moment They Knew They Had To Start Losing Weight


“I’ve always been a tad bit on the curvaceous side compared to my peers. I gained 30 pounds in college, but I was popular and six-feet tall, so nobody ever referenced my weight. It didn’t seem like an issue to me. When I moved to Atlanta, continuous late nights and early mornings pushed the scale to 320 pounds. But I didn’t initially notice the weight gain until I saw a photo of myself and thought, ‘Hmm, she’s wearing the same thing I wore…wait.’ After I saw that picture, I called my mother, and she basically said, ‘You know what you have to do.’ When I was younger, she lost a significant amount of weight, so we both knew what it took to get in shape. After that, a friend took me to LA Fitness and bought me a gym membership. He basically told me, ‘We’re going to do a lot of big things, but I need you to be here to enjoy them.’ The weight loss started from there. So far I have lost more than 110 pounds and have been on my weight-loss journey for more than four years now. Although I had a gym membership, I lost a majority of the weight by working out at home with YouTube videos and different variations of high-intensity interval training workouts. I also stopped eating fried foods, began drinking a gallon of water a day, became a vegetarian, and started drinking healthy fresh-pressed juices.” —Lola Sims, lost more than 110 pounds

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