Losing Sixty Pounds After Pregnancy

Andrea weighed 207 pounds eight months ago after the birth of her second child. Today she weighs 145 pounds. She's tall, at 5'10".

She was motivated to lose the weight by wanting to enter a beauty contest for Mrs. West Virginia. She's worked out every day since October and has kept to a strict diet. She's been able to work out even though she works as a nurse and has two kids under the age of 2 at home. Check out her story and some larger pics here.

From Fat to Healthy

Roni Noone is 5'9" and she weighed 225 after giving birth to her child. Thirty-two weeks later she was down to 145 pounds. She's got a very inspiring blog. Check it out here.

Stephen Fry Loses 80 Pounds

Stephen Fry, a British actor, age 51, has lost 80 pounds in just six months.

He is elated about it. He says he feels so much better due to the new diet and exercise, he feels it's even cured his manic-depression.

He says that in the first month "I did without bread, potatoes and sugar, and the weight rolled off." Later he dropped red meat. He's going to the gym and doing a lot of outdoor walking. He says the audiobooks he listens to on his walks have helped enormously.

See his story and the wonderful before and after photos at the Daily Mail.

Flattering Bathing Suits for Plus Sizes

SwimSuits for All has some flattering bathing suits in plus sizes. Check them out at Amazon.

Men's Weight Loss Stories

The majority of the weight loss stories I discuss on this blog are about women but I thought I'd sum up the recent stories by men for any guys who are looking. Here's a few stories that will inspire men;

Micheal Loses 50 Pounds on the Diabetes Diet

John Quits Soda, Loses 45 Pounds

Timothy Loses Fat and Gains Muscle

Phil Loses 192 Pounds

Tim Loses 128 Pounds

Lucas Loses Only 7 Pounds (His amazing Before and After Pics are shown above here) - He lost 19 pounds of fat but gained 12 pounds of muscle.

And more Men's Weight Loss Stories here.

Michelle Obama on Eating Your Vegetables

Michelle Obama met with some school kids today and told them “Too many kids are consuming high-calorie food with low nutritional value."

“We all have to eat vegetables every single day, every day."

The kids helped her pick lettuce and snap peas from the White House garden. Afterwords they went inside to eat a healthy meal of snap peas, brown rice and baked chicken.

Read the story at The Wall Street Journal. Image via scardey kat.

Good Food Ideas for Weight Loss

I came across a good article today reminding me of some of the healthiest foods I haven't eaten for a while. They discuss foods that help promote weight loss and help us avoid bloating. Their list includes sardines, eggs, oats, lentils and blueberries.

Check it out here.

See also more about sardines and lentils.

The poached egg photo above is via jo-h at Flickr.

Weight Loss Pills - A Story

Janice, 30, has tried a lot of weight loss supplements, pills and gimmicks in her efforts to lose weight. At one time or another she's done Xenadrine, Hydroxycut, Stacker, Ripped Fuel, Detoxa Trim, Alli and a bunch of others.

Recently she ditched the gimmicky way to weight loss. She went to see a trainer who told her the only way to lose weight and keep it off is to drop the pills and gimmicks and exercise regularly and eat well.

She feels she is successful in weight loss for the first time in her life. Read her story here.

The photo above is by erix at Flickr.

Weight Loss Surgery Complications

I'm reposting a comment here about one person's horrible experience with weight loss surgery. It's a scary experience and needs to be heard. Thanks for your story!

I have been through 12 months of hell. I am pleased finally I have found someone who wants to hear about weight loss surgery gone wrong. I want to scream to anyone considering it, "DON'T DO IT".
I researched for 12 months before deciding on a Gastric Sleeve Resection. I decided a lap band wasn't for me as I trave overseas a lot and one surgeon said as I was not prepared to give up biscuits it would not work for me. 2 surgeons recommended the sleeve so I went for it.
Within 36 hours of surgery I began getting extreme pain in my transverse colon. (My diagnosis as that is the only realistic explanation, but who am I? I just live with the pain.)
I was told maybe I had kidney stones. Then maybe gall bladder. Then I had a leak (haematoma) from the staple line and the liver was affected.
Then my appendix was alledgedly gangrene.
Then I got a staph infection in the wound where the appendix was taken out.
Because of my constipation, I can't drink enough water in 24 hours, I needed a haemoroidectomy. Ohh the agony when I got 2 anal infections.
Hello, why all these infections? Ohh I have developed a blood disorder, Auto immune nutropenia (diagnosed by a bone marrow biopsy, more pain)and this means I am suseptible to infections.
Then my calcium levels in my blood are high. Oh hyperparathyroidism. We have to remove the parathyroid adenomas.
5 weeks later, anotehr staph infection. 10 days in hospital on antibiotic drips as I cant take oral antibiotics or a lot of tablets including anti arthritic tablets after weight loss surgery.
Was I told this pre surgery? No way.
Have I lost weight? Sure. I mena when you throw up at every family event and any time you eat more than 100 grams of food you sure lose weight.
I have lost 53kilos in less than a year, but have had months off work. I have had to use my holiday leave for sick leave.
Anybody considering weight loss surgery, talk to me at darlingwenda@hotmail.com
I will talk you out of it!!
The true story needs to be told. No one wants to hear it.