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DeAngela lost 76 pounds

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Today’s featured weight loss success story: DeAngela lost 76 pounds going from 215 to 139 by changing her eating habits and exercising.

DeAngela weight loss

 

Here is what she said about her weight loss journey:

“If I can do it, you can do it too!!! From 215 lbs in April 2010 to 139 lbs now. Hey, with God ALL things are possible. No pills, no surgery, just pure change of eating habits & exercise.  I started with small changes transitioning from fried to “mostly” baked & grilled foods & decreasing my intake of carbs. From there, I did a strict 6-month regimen of only seafood & veggies. During that time, I not only saw the weight coming off, but as I increased my cardio & added weights, I became leaner, decreasing my body fat percentage from 33 to 19.8%. Today, I still do some high intensity interval training, Zumba + other cardio (rope jumping, arc trainer, & some walking/jogging, & weights for lean muscle building. MyFitnessPal.com is a phenomenal tool to help u keep track of such things as calories, fat, sugar, protein, & carbs. I’ve been logging my food & exercise on that tool since March 1. As they say, “steady wins the race”, but ya gotta keep pushing….pushing beyond fear of failure, pushing past comfort zones, & pushing in spite of plateaus. With God ANYTHING & ALL THINGS are possible!”

LaKeitha lost 65 pounds

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Update 2015 – Not only has LaKeitha maintained her 65 pound weight loss for 2+ years, but this Delta Soror also had a child within that time frame.  That means she won the baby weight battle.

“Hello, I wanted to provide an update on where I am now with my weight. I lost the weight successfully in 2012 to have a healthy pregnancy. I continued to workout throughout my pregnancy 4 days a week until I was 8 months pregnant. That helped with maintaining and controlling my weight gain throughout the pregnancy. After having my baby, it took a few months to get my weight back down to my pre-pregnancy weight, but I successfully did it and I am striving hard to maintain it. I am proud of myself that after four years I have not gained the weight back.”

LaKeitha before and after

Original Post Dec 2012 – Today’s featured weight loss success story: LaKeitha (KeKe) lost 65 pounds by changing her eating habits and working out.

LaKeitha before after
Here is what she had to say about her weight loss journey:

“Hello BWLW I’m Ke’Ke’ I have worked hard to lose weight this year. I have been very successful in losing 65 pounds. My goal is to lose 10-15 more pounds. I workout 5 days a week. I am so happy that my consistency, motivation, and my hard work has paid off. This page is truly a inspiration thank you!!!!

I cut out fried foods, cut back on sweets, juice,and drinks. I started eating more vegetables, and drinking more water. Exercising I worked out for an hour a day. I have a gym membership. I did cardio treadmill, elliptical, bike, abs,everything, and some weights.”

KeKe weight loss

Regina lost 185 pounds with weight loss surgery

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10 years ago, Regina had weight loss surgery and has lost 185 pounds.   She says, “On December 03, 2002, My life changed forever. I elected to have WLS & experienced every complication you could imagine & today I believe that I’m a better me because of it. People ask me all the time do I have any regrets and the answer is and always will be no. From 360lbs to 175lbs #win

I had the RNY (Roux-en-y Gastric Bypass).  I’m very particular about what I eat. I do a lot of juicing , fresh fruits & veggies. I try to stick with all natural products and it’s rare that I eat out. I run 5 miles 4 days a week and hit the gym 3 days a week. The weird part is before surgery I was walking 6miles a day and eating pretty healthy.

 

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Amber lost 50 pounds

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Today’s featured success story: Amber lost 50 pounds by doing Zumba and changing her diet.

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My starting weight was 206 and I’m now155 and a licensed Zumba fitness instructor!  I lost weight doing Zumba, using portion control and by eliminating bread, white pasta, and sodas! That alone helped me shed 50 pounds.

amber before and after photos

La’Wonda lost 50 pounds

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Let’s show some BWLW love to La’wonda who has lost 50 pounds.  She said, “The pictures on the end were taken last December! I’ve lost a total of 50lbs since February. I use the myfitness pal app to monitor my calorie intake. I exercise at least 6 days a week and increased my water intake. I’m still working to try to lose another 25lbs.  I stopped drinking sodas, increased my water intake and I would work out at least 6 days a week for no less than an hour. I also used myfitnesspal app to monitor my calories intake!”

Thanks La’Wonda!

LaWonda weight loss

 

Nicole lost 23 pounds

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Today’s featured success story: Nicole lost 23 pounds.  She was not able to fit into her Navy uniform after returning back to work after the birth of her child, so she knew she had to so something.  She is now smaller than when she got pregnant.  Check out what she did below.

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“When i got pregnant I was 173lbs by the time I had the baby I was 210lbs. When I went back to work I was 188; struggling to put on my military uniform. finally I have lost a total of 23lbs. I tried on my own but it didn’t work. I love to exercise but my eating habits were horrible. I grew up being told to eat everything on my plate and happy when you asked for seconds. I finally decided to join Jenny Craig, where I lost 19lbs, I took a fiber supplement for two weeks while not being able to go to Jenny and lost an additional 5lbs. My exercise consisted of insanity, weight lifting and running 1.5 miles or more. Just when I thought I would never see the 160’s I’m here, thank you Lord! My goal is 150lbs. If I can you can too! Break those old habits.”

Kiesha lost 50 pounds

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Today’s featured weight loss success story: Kiesha lost 50 pounds after the birth of her 3rd child.  This is a great success story for those who are losing post-baby weight.

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Here is what she had to say about her weight loss journey:

“After giving birth to my 3rd child I was at the heaviest weight of my life: 208lbs! Immediately after giving birth, I lost around 20lbs of water weight from preeclampsia, but over the last 2 months doing P90x I’ve lost an additional 30 for a total of 50lbs!! I’m still not at my goal, but pages like yours REALLY help keep me motivated to keep going!! This black woman’s losing weight!!!!!

When I started P90x it came with a nutrition plan. I don’t follow it to a t because I’ve never been good at being told exactly what I can and can’t eat but I used it as an educational guide and it taught me how to clean up my diet. I’m now eating more protein than carbs and when I do eat carbs they’re complex rather than simple. I’m also eating clean now..if you can’t grow it or kill it I don’t eat it. I’m working out 6 days a week and just really staying focused on my goals.

I’ve also cut all beverages from my diet except for water and green smoothies. When I get bored with water I add flavor packs to change it up, but I’m not drining anything else.”

Natasha lost more than 25 pounds

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Today’s featured success story: Natasha lost more than 25 pounds.  She stopped weighing herself and threw out her scale after she lost 25 pounds.  She is focused on non-scale victories.  Love that.

Natasha weight loss
Natasha weight loss

Here is what she had to say:

“I wanted to share my success photo with you. I was hesitant in sharing because unlike most of the ladies I don’t know how much weight I have lost. I was always advised to throw the scale out of my house because it would become discouraging at times during my journey and I did not want any set backs.

I started this journey the earlier part of this year. After a visit to the doctor and him telling me that I was in the early stages of becoming a diabetic, for some reason that sounded like a death sentence in my ears. From that point on, after much prayer, I embraced this healthy lifestyle journey of eating better and exercises…my motto was move more and eat less. I did this with NO weight loss surgery…only the power of prayer. I’m one to get bored easy so I would change up my recreation periodically with things such as Insanity, Group Training, Racquetball, etc. I also would count my calories through myfitnesspal.com because I don’t like the restrictions of eating just certain foods. I cut out sugary drinks because I refused to DRINK my daily caloric intake.

The journey has not been easy, but it has been very rewarding. If I could encourage, motivate, and/or uplift anyone through this journey I have made myself available to do so for I also know how much support from those embarking the same journey as you helps along the way. Always remember, with GOD all things are possible!! xoxoxo #teamfit”

Rosie lost over 120 pounds

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Today’s featured success story: Rosie lost over 120 pounds, transformed her life and the life of her family, and is now a personal trainer.  An amazing transformation from 2011 to now.

Rosie weight loss
Rosie weight loss

Here is what she had to say about her amazing transformation:

“I just wanted to share my progress with my beautiful black women. In 2011, I was weighing in at 320 pounds with a size 46 waist. I stand before you now 193 pounds of muscle, 29 inch waist, size 8 in clothing. While I’m still a work in progress I have lost over 120 poinds and 17 inches of my waist with clean eating and strength training. I’m now a certified person trainer and I hold weekly boot camp workout sessions throughout Philadelphia! I changed not only my life but my family’s life.

I now change the lives of other through weight loss coaching and training. Looking forward to doing a fitness competition this spring!”

I currently 32 years old. Weight as you can see by this photo can make you age long before your time. As far as the skin goes…with weight training…I have no hanging skin…the trick is to start that right away. Also, my stomach the “mothers apron” is gone! so dont believe that you need surgery because u don’t. I’m heappier, healthier and my life has evolved. Information regarding boot camp/coaching can be found at teamxtremephilly.blogspot.com/

Rosie weight loss collage

Rosie weight loss collage

Jan lost 120 pounds

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Today’s featured weight loss success story:  Jan lost 120 pounds by switching to a plant-based diet.  Just another example that eating more fruits and veggies and less junk and processed food works!

Jan weight loss
Jan weight loss

She said,

“I lost 120 lbs from 310lbs to 190 lbs. since Janurary 2012 eating mostly plant based diet and green jucing. I had Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, Congestive Heart Failure and Sleep Apnea. I exerecise 5 days a week with body pump, spin bike, zumba, and nike training training. I’m no longer taking any medications.”