Need a little weight loss inspiration? I loved this woman’s compelling story of finding her healthy place once she changed her motivation from wanting to be skinny, to wanting to be healthy …
Here is Jessica Anderson, 26, above, before her weight loss, and here she is after:
That’s Fit featured Jessica’s story, and I wanted to share it here because I think there’s elements that we all can identify with:
Once a 4.0 student and a “size 0,” Jessica, who is 5’ 5” tall, says in a period of two years, after being married twice, she dropped out of college and found herself at home frequently falling victim to sugary and fattening food cravings like chocolate and French fries.
“I weighed in at 189 pounds the day I had my second child but even then, I wasn’t motivated to get healthy,” she says.
Her breaking point? “I noticed how unhappy I was. I didn’t want to leave the house because I was sick all the time. I don’t mean postpartum, I seemed to be constantly afflicted with colds, flu and fevers. I knew that the pop tarts for breakfast, the burger and fries for lunch and the burger and fries for dinner were actually making me ill. When you’re sick you’re bound to be unhappy.”
One day, she says, she got up off the couch and declared her revenge on skinny: “The source of my anger was all the magazine articles, fashion sites and high school girl comments that made me believe my education and health didn’t matter as long as I was skinny and beautiful.”
In the period of a few months, Jessica began transforming her goals from wanting to be skinny again to wanting to be healthy—period. “I decided that in order to really be beautiful and healthy I’d have to be smart and eat smart. Nutrition, not diet, is what has fueled my progress. That’s how I’ve kept it off and kept going.”
Jessica says she started jogging, which has helped improve her fitness dramatically, and began a weight training program. She also credits Glamour’s Bikini Blast program for helping her tone up.
Congratulations Jessica! And thanks for the inspiration for all of us.
-via glamour.com/vitaming
Need a little weight loss inspiration? I loved this woman’s compelling story of finding her healthy place once she changed her motivation from wanting to be skinny, to wanting to be healthy …
Here is Jessica Anderson, 26, above, before her weight loss, and here she is after:
That’s Fit featured Jessica’s story, and I wanted to share it here because I think there’s elements that we all can identify with:
Once a 4.0 student and a “size 0,” Jessica, who is 5’ 5” tall, says in a period of two years, after being married twice, she dropped out of college and found herself at home frequently falling victim to sugary and fattening food cravings like chocolate and French fries.
“I weighed in at 189 pounds the day I had my second child but even then, I wasn’t motivated to get healthy,” she says.
Her breaking point? “I noticed how unhappy I was. I didn’t want to leave the house because I was sick all the time. I don’t mean postpartum, I seemed to be constantly afflicted with colds, flu and fevers. I knew that the pop tarts for breakfast, the burger and fries for lunch and the burger and fries for dinner were actually making me ill. When you’re sick you’re bound to be unhappy.”
One day, she says, she got up off the couch and declared her revenge on skinny: “The source of my anger was all the magazine articles, fashion sites and high school girl comments that made me believe my education and health didn’t matter as long as I was skinny and beautiful.”
In the period of a few months, Jessica began transforming her goals from wanting to be skinny again to wanting to be healthy—period. “I decided that in order to really be beautiful and healthy I’d have to be smart and eat smart. Nutrition, not diet, is what has fueled my progress. That’s how I’ve kept it off and kept going.”
Jessica says she started jogging, which has helped improve her fitness dramatically, and began a weight training program. She also credits Glamour’s Bikini Blast program for helping her tone up.
Congratulations Jessica! And thanks for the inspiration for all of us.
-via glamour.com/vitaming