Success Story with Belly Fat Loss - Lost over 100 lbs

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So, this is Susan. I just want to um explain a really interesting great success story. Susan um has um Well, I’ll just let you say just kind of tell us a little story about when you were junior high school and what happened. Okay. Uh I gained weight during high school.

I started when I was 104. I was 152 when I graduated. So, I went from being quite thin to really being a little too heavy. Uh summer before college, I got a job that required me long walking a long distance to and from work. Um and without realizing it, I lost about 15 pounds that summer, maybe 20 pounds.

Uh then in college, the weight loss continued and I graduated from college at 104 again. Uh got married a year or two after that. Um over the course of my 25 year marriage, I went up to 298 pounds. Wow. Now, um, you just kind of steadily went higher and higher and higher, right?

Yes. And you you did Finn Fin. You tried that. I did. I did, uh, go to a weight loss specialist and be on Finn Fin for a while, which I think was somewhat helpful to me, but I I don’t know.

I didn’t, uh, go back. So, I didn’t keep having them prescribed. Um, I did Neutri Systems and I did other other programs more or less. And then when you um were at your peak, how did how did people view you? Um can you feel that they look at you differently?

Uh I think my children were a little embarrassed or maybe more than a little. Uh they sometimes made comments about uh so and so thought you were pregnant or thinks you’re pregnant. Yeah. Uh, and I felt uh, treated a little bit like a non- entity or somebody who maybe wasn’t very bright or very smart or very ambitious cuz I was weight a lot. It’s amazing how people look at people differently if they’re overweight almost like you’re their IQ’s lower or something like that.

Um, or they’re lazy or if you just exercise more and eat better. Um the other point is um there was a turning point I think it was around Christmas time that you decided that you have to turn things around. Tell me a little bit about that. Um I was uh well I didn’t like the fact that my weight was never stable that it was on a constant going up. That was pretty scary.

Um I have a son and three daughters. One day I looked up when they were teenagers and said, “My daughters are all looking a little chubby. What is going on? ” Oh my gosh, Susan, what are you doing? You know, you’ve been hiding your head in the sand.

You have to do something about this. Um, other than that, it was a good point in my life. Uh, and I just decided to start eating healthy and walking. Uh, which I did. And, uh, after a few months, I got this idea that, um, maybe I should try a trainer, which I did.

It’s been fabulous. Um, I love, uh, my trainer. I love uh working out and uh I lost over 18 months I lost about 160 pounds. Now she’s um she has some um consistency and she she enjoyed it um as compared to you didn’t look at as something that was very painful. You look forward to working out.

I did. I’m very lucky in that way. I don’t I didn’t have any preconceived notions that oh I’m going to hate this and in fact I I don’t hate it. I I like it a lot. And I’ve always um uh in addition to the strength training, um I’ve done a variety of cardio, but my main cardio is walking.

And it’s the most satisfying to me. And I think the you know, as they say, the cardio or the exercise you’ll do is the best one cuz your body type was more of an adrenal body type, the midsection, right? Definitely. So the walking would be the best thing. And you walk.

just tell tell them how how long you would walk um per time and then how many times per week. Okay. Um well I walk five or six times a week. I started off I think doing a mile or two miles but then my standard walk became uh six miles and that May or or June after um having a healthier lifestyle for six months and having lost about 100 pounds I signed up for a 17-mi walk. Uh, and I did do that.

It was a 17-mi one-day walk and I did do that. So, about 6 months after I started. So, you were walking also um six times a week, right? And you were walking two hours each time, right? Yes.

In your spare time. That’s right. That’s right. And you were Were you working at the time, too? Uh, I worked for myself, so yes, I was working and I did have four children at home.

So, kind of squeezed it in there. Um, but it’s but it’s pleasurable for me and tension reducing and I made it a priority. Definitely. Great. Now, your your viewpoint, and I’m really interested in your attitude because it’s so positive.

You never really had any doubts. You didn’t have any anything. You’re just going to go for it and it’s just going to happen, right? Is that the viewpoint? That that was my viewpoint because um I knew that I was lucky with a basically healthy body.

I didn’t think I had any um issues or physical things that were really stopping me. I knew that I ate horribly and I knew that uh I didn’t really exercise. So if I change some of those things, I had to have results. See that that’s just the thing. If um if you remove any other barriers someone has like sleeping, she didn’t have that.

So you just need to plug in the right type of workout which is not intensity at first and then you’re not then you got into intense type interval training. Yes. Mhm. Because I continued to work with the trainer. And then how do people look at you now when um people see you walking down the street?

Like tell me what they say. Um well we happened to move uh change neighborhoods a little bit at the time that I started. So, um, over the years I run into a lot of people who haven’t seen me in a long time. And generally, if I say hello to them, they have no idea who I am. Just totally clueless.

And then sometimes from the voice, they’ll say, “Susan, and yeah, and they’re just overwhelmed uh, and uh, extremely supportive, thrilled, impressed. It was uh, certainly very motivating and very gratifying. It is it is today. I met I met a really good friend recently who I haven’t seen in about 10 years and she had no idea who I was. No idea.

Wow. And then you feel better um energy wise too. A little bit better. Oh, I do. Um I I feel great all the time.

I uh I know my body will do whatever I ask it to do. I never think about it one way or the other. That’s exactly the attitude that someone needs. So she’s and she’s actually 42 and she’s doing pretty good for 40. I’m just I wish I was 42.

I’m 54. I’m going to be 55 in 2 weeks. It’s incredible. So, you can see that she’s so alive and that really helps out. And then what would you say to someone who is struggling in their 50s um to give them a little help?

I would say you can do it. Uh you know, don’t pay attention to the articles that say you’re post-menopausal, you’re middle-aged, uh it’s harder, blah blah blah blah blah. Just ignore that. just ignore that. Yeah.

Well, really just ignore it and do do what you know you should do. I mean, make your diet healthier and uh do some exercise that you enjoy. Great. Thank you so much. And I just want to just stand up and just um so we can see um you don’t have a stomach anymore.

And if you you need to push that back a little bit so you can see. Can you see her waist? It’s like nothing. I’m going to take it down. So there’s absolutely no waste and you’re not sucking in your stomach.

Not really. No. No. So this is uh this is fantastic. So well done and thank you very much.

Thank you very much.