Weight Loss Story: Tiffanie lost 30 pounds. She had a lot on her plate being a mom of 2 in college and dealing with relationship and anxiety issues. After years of trying diets and fads, she committed to working out, found a supportive coach and community and started eating clean. She shared with us about the steps she took.
I was a single mother of 2 and college student dealing with bad relationships, bouts of anxiety, depression, weight struggles and working a full time job that I hated. And then……I quit the job that was stifling me. I started to focus on becoming a better me, because I owed it to myself and my children. I was TIRED of everything, mentally physically and spiritually!!
Yes, I still struggle and I fight myself daily not to go back to the person I was. I’m still not where I want to be, but I’m far from where I was. I recently finished my bachelors degree with a 3.49 GPA. I’ve lost 30 pounds and even in my struggles I have peace! I’m 5′ 2″ tall and started out weighing 173 pounds after the birth of my second daughter. Now, I weigh 143 pounds.
Over the course of 3 years, I tried everything the lose weight quickly…Things like fat burners and detox diets, but nothing worked. I would lose a few pounds and then gain it all back. The only thing that worked was consistency. I cut back on eating fried foods and fast food. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t deprive myself, I just indulge in moderation. I eat clean most days, having things like fish, chicken and turkey with veggies and other complex carbs of some kind.
I became fully committed to working out in June of 2014. I joined a gym and started attending Zumba classes on Saturdays. A friend of mine in the class told me that since I love to dance so much I should try Dance Fusion on Monday nights ,because it’s a much more intense class involving cardio and light weights. It took me a month to actually attend the class. I went one Monday night in July and haven’t stopped since. The instructor Rhondrea (Rhonnie) Jennings has an online Facebook group that she added me to and announced that she was going to be starting a focus group for about 12-14 ladies working out boot camp style. I volunteered to be a part of the group. That was in Nov 2014. It wasn’t until this time that I noticed a real change. The first month I saw results. My body was changing. Even though I couldn’t see it on the scale I could see it in my clothes and I knew I couldn’t quit. It became my therapy. I completed 3 rounds of 6 week sessions with the focus group, but I continued to workout on Mondays at Dance Fusion and on my own after that. It took me about 6 months to see a change on the scale. 30 pounds was my goal. My focus now is to stop losing weight and start increasing my muscle tone.
Nothing feels better than progress. Whatever feels good to you…Do that! Don’t give up on yourself or your dreams. Life is good, you just have to live it!
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Starting out on November 26,2012 when I woke up and joined Lifetime Fitness my life has not been the same since. I walked into Lifetime weighing a hefty 260 pounds, the largest I had ever been in my life. I started off going to the gyms twice a day as well as training with a personal trainer so that I could get my technique right on how to lift. They also told me what I needed to do to get this weight off of body. I had just gotten out of a abusive relationship and over the past two years. I had gained over a hundred plus pounds and something had to change. I came to Lifetime once before and I knew I wanted to come back but I was in a financial bind and that was not in my budget. Once my financial situation turned around I knew I had no more excuses. I love to dance and so I did every chance I got. Every Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon I took all Dance Jams and Zumba classes I could do. I am a chef so food was not the problem but proper eating was. We often think to lose weight we must starve ourselves but contrary to popular beliefs you must eat a clean proper diet in order to lose weight. By Feb of 2013, I could see my hard work paying off. I was almost out of the 200’s and those around me could see me melting away as well. When the seasons changed, I joined Bootcamp and lost more. I did a 90 day challenge in spring/summer of 2013 and I believe I placed in the transformation section of the competition. I tried my hardest but I never gave up. In December of 2013, I have decided to get into bodybuilding. I lost over half my bodyweight and I knew that from a lifetime of my weight being up and down that this was now a lifestyle change, It has been the best change I have ever made. I am now at 16% body fat and I don’t care about what the scale says. It’s about how I look and feel. My ultimate goal is to train others and utilize my cooking skills as well as my found knowledge of body transformation and lifestyle changes to help others being out there inner healthy person. I am now known as Mia Blaze of Blaze Athletics – “Blazing a trail to a new beginning”. Follow me of Instagram at 
Hi my name is Sha. I have been overweight most of my life. It was mostly because of a medicine called prednisone. I ate like any other regular young teen or young adult. I always loved dance and basketball so I leveled off at around 220 – 250 pounds at 5’7, which I thought was not so bad at first because I could still do the things I always did. I just figured that it was my destiny to be a plus-size girl forever so I just accepted it. I was able to start a career in acting in 2005 and what was even more awesome was that it was a dance movie called “Take the Lead”. Anyone who knows me knows how much I LOVE DANCE so this was an awesome blessing and I thought I would do more.
