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Sarah scrolled through her camera roll after her vacation and hated what she saw
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It wasn't the trip. It was how she saw herself in every single picture
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She weighed 234 pounds. Every photo I took, I was just looking at it and I was so upset with myself
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And I knew that it was in my control. It was the one thing that I could change for the better
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It was impacting not only my mental health, but my physical health as well
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Instead of dwelling on it, Sarah chose to transform her life. The approach was simple
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First, tracking calories and what she was eating. She embraced intermittent fasting, restricting her eating window from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m
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My first goal was to reach 190 or 180 pounds. But besides that, I didn't have a really, really big goal
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The first few weeks, I took things extremely slowly. I remember I was just trying to eat less and I started to cut off when I would finish eating
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So usually around 7 p.m. I would tell myself, like, that's it. You're not eating anymore for the day
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It was rough. I'm not going to lie to you. I think the hardest part about weight loss is that first month where you're switching your habits
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You're going from being like, oh, I can eat whatever I want to restricting yourself and telling yourself I can't eat that
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I'm sorry. And when it came to exercise, 40 minutes of daily cardio, hitting the stationary bike, elliptical, or Stairmaster
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Even at my heaviest, I was always very active. I was actually at the gym, like lifting weights seven days a week
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I just wasn't eating right. When I noticed that I lost the most amount in a month was the months that I was the most active
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It was like the months where I switched my job and I was just like on my feet more
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It's not even about going to the gym. It just about moving more Fast forward a year the results are incredible By January 2025 Sarah weighed a healthy 140 pounds a staggering 94 pound weight loss almost half her body weight entirely
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naturally. I feel amazing. I feel a hundred times better. Honestly, one of the biggest motivators I
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feel for weight loss is like not only your clothes being looser, you feel more good about your body
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But it's also when other people are like, hey, like, did you lose weight? You look really good
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Like, that for me was very motivating. Sarah shares her weight loss journey and weight loss tips with followers on social media
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People were saying that this was really inspiring to them. So I just decided to, like, keep posting, posting every day
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I feel like for me and my age, when I was starting to lose weight
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I didn't see a lot of people, like, my age lose the amount of weight I have
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So I feel like for others, it's very motivating to know that they can do it and it is possible
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When people think about losing a really big amount of weight, they always think of like
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I'm not going to be able to do that naturally. I'm going to have to take a GLP-1 or a Zenfik
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I have nothing against them. I think they're very useful tools, but I just want to let people know
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that it is still completely possible to lose a really big amount of weight naturally
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Looking back when I first was starting to lose weight, I would never imagine I would have lost 90 pounds in one year
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I would have never thought that. I would have been like maybe 40, maybe 30, but not 90
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I still can't believe it sometimes, you know. I lost the weight of a 12-year-old boy
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Not even just mentally and like how I felt about my body
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Physically too, though. I'm able to walk 30,000 steps a day if I please
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I don't have heartburn anymore. I don't have back pain. And it's like all these symptoms of obesity were really affecting my life
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And now I don't have that anymore. And it feels awesome
