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Weight loss surgery has dramatic results with a total loss of 190lb (86kg) in just two years!
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Weight loss surgery has dramatic results with a total loss of 190lb (86kg) in just two years!

This is a story about weight loss that started with weight loss surgery (gastric band) and sometimes weight loss surgery is looked at as 'the easy way to lose weight' and that couldn't be further from the truth. Weight loss, no matter how you do it, requires discipline, determination and an ability to see that the short-term pain will bring long-term results. Evie* lost 190lb (86kg) and changed the way she viewed her relationship with food. Food addiction is just as real as a gambling or alcohol addiction. It is all consuming and can't just be turned off and it...
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Losing 39lb (18kg) reveals a gorgeous hourglass figure
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Losing 39lb (18kg) reveals a gorgeous hourglass figure

This is a story about genetics and hard work. Having always been overweight, Chloe* lost a lot of weight (50lb / 23kg) in year 8. However, she lost the weight through calorie depravation (which is very different to calorie restriction, known as the Calorie In, Calorie Out [CICO] method). As it usually happens, she gained back all of the weight that she lost. Below is her story of how she met her fiancé and changed her eating habits, her life and the way that she looks (that hourglass figure omg). There are lots of places on the internet where you...
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PCOS weight loss. How calorie control and exercised reversed PCOS symptoms.
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PCOS weight loss. How calorie control and exercised reversed PCOS symptoms.

Most of the time, weight loss is only focussed on the number on the scale. And sometimes, whether it goes up or down, determines how you might be feeling that day. That's why I love the concept of 'non-scale-victories' (NSV). Things like being able to do the button up on your jeans or a colleague noticing that you look smaller. This story is incredible. The NSV for this user is PCOS weight loss. For anyone that has PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome), you know that it can can be difficult to lose weight. (more…)
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What exactly does petite mean?
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What exactly does petite mean?

I have always struggled with using the word 'petite' to describe myself. Feeling ashamed if someone used that word to describe me, because clearly, being overweight, I was not petite. I always thought that it meant that you were both short and thin. I haven't been at a 'normal' BMI for 20 years now, so I've always felt embarrassed to call myself petite. Turns out, I was wrong. Big time. Petite doesn't care if you are thin or not. (more…)
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