When I was 15 I weighed 125 pounds, I gained about 45 pounds in a year. I always tried to ignore it, I’d say to myself “You’re not gaining THAT much weight” and “On Monday I’ll start a diet to lose the extra pounds” that never happened. I’ve tried every diet in the book, I tried eating the book… it tasted better than most of the diets. Trust me when I say THEY.DON’T.WORK! I wasted sooo much time trying to find a quick fix, I was too lazy to do things right I spent so much money on diet pills, massages, liquid diets, etc… that don’t work. So if you want to lose weight my BIGGEST advice is, don’t waste your time on that kind of things, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. 

Now, about motivation. I tried a billion times to lose weight the “healthy way”. I went to the gym, I ate right but no results so what happened? I went back to my old habits. I wanted to lose weight FAST and I had no patience. When in reality, weight loss is a slow journey. Its frustrating to do everything you need to do to lose weight and still see no change, I understand. But the change is not going to be noticeable for a while, just trust me that every single thing you do, every workout you do and every time you say no to junk food… there is change. Its making a change on your body that if you keep doing it constantly, it WILL be noticeable. 

I started to lose weight on May, but I wasn’t doing it right. I was starving myself, skipping meals and using laxatives. Every time I stepped on the scale it seemed like my body was playing yo-yo with my weight. I wasn’t able to lose weight and keep it off. Why? Because my body is not stupid, it knew that something wrong was happening and what I was losing was not fat. I was losing muscle and water. In July I went back to my highest weight after gaining back the 10 pounds I lost in May and I honestly just thought that I would never be able to lose weight, I thought something was wrong with my metabolism and just couldn’t do it. Denial, classic. I asked my mom if I could have surgery (lipectomy) and she said yes, later on she changed her mind and convinced me to try losing weight by eating right and working out one more time, since surgery is freaking expensive. I agreed and decided to try one more time and to stick to it for at LEAST a month. 

I set a daily calorie intake of 1200-1600 calories. My workouts were not intense at all, just walking for 30-40 minutes. Burning around 150 calories a day. I slowly got results, my pants were a little loose and the number on the scale was dropping. I told my mom to forget about surgery, something about being able to lose the weight on my own made me more motivated. I then decided to make my workout routine a little bit more intense, adding a jumping rope to my workouts, doing Insanity and running for 20 minutes helped me lose the weight so much faster and the results were pretty noticeable. 

Losing weight is extremely hard even though the things you have to do are pretty simple. You just have to eat right, everything in moderation and workout! The hard part is sticking to it, is getting up and trying again after you had a bad day. Believe me, I had horrible days when I just wanted to get back to my old eating habits, I mean.. who doesn’t like to eat Oreos? But right now I believe changing my lifestyle is the best thing I’ve ever done. I know now, that I can still have my favorite foods once in a while, I still have Oreos… I just eat 2 instead of the whole package. I still have cake, ice cream, popcorn, chips and Mexican food like I used to, but eating them only once a week makes a HUGE difference than when I used to eat them every day, all day. I’m talking about a 50 lbs difference!