00:00Sarah scrolled through her camera roll after her vacation and hated what she saw.
00:06It wasn't the trip, it was how she saw herself in every single picture.
00:11She weighed 234 pounds.
00:13Every photo I took, I was just looking at it and I was so upset with myself.
00:18And I knew that it was in my control.
00:20It was the one thing that I could change for the better.
00:23It was impacting not only my mental health, but my physical health as well.
00:27Instead of dwelling on it, Sarah chose to transform her life.
00:32The approach was simple.
00:33First, tracking calories and what she was eating.
00:36She embraced intermittent fasting, restricting her eating window from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
00:42My first goal was to reach 190 or 180 pounds.
00:46But besides that, I didn't have a really, really big goal.
00:49The first few weeks, I took things extremely slowly.
00:52I remember I was just trying to eat less and I started to cut off when I would finish eating.
00:58So usually around 7 p.m., I would tell myself, that's it, you're not eating anymore for the day.
01:03It was rough.
01:04I'm not going to lie to you.
01:05I think the hardest part about weight loss is that first month where you're switching your habits.
01:10You're going from being like, oh, I can eat whatever I want to restricting yourself and telling yourself, I can't eat that.
01:17I'm sorry.
01:17And when it came to exercise, 40 minutes of daily cardio, hitting the stationary bike, elliptical, or Stairmaster.
01:25Even at my heaviest, I was always very active.
01:28I was actually at the gym, like, lifting weights seven days a week.
01:32I just wasn't eating right.
01:33When I noticed that I lost the most amount in a month was the months that I was the most active.
01:38It was like the months where I switched my job and I was just, like, on my feet more.
01:42It's not even about going to the gym.
01:44It's just about moving more.
01:45Fast forward a year, the results are incredible.
01:50By January 2025, Sarah weighed a healthy 140 pounds, a staggering 94-pound weight loss, almost half her body weight, entirely naturally.
02:02I feel amazing.
02:03I feel 100 times better.
02:05Honestly, one of the biggest motivators I feel for weight loss is, like, not only your clothes being looser, you feel more good about your body,
02:12but it's also when other people are like, hey, like, did you lose weight?
02:15You look really good.
02:17Like, that for me was very motivating.
02:19Sarah shares her weight loss journey and weight loss tips with followers on social media.
02:25People were saying that this was really inspiring to them.
02:27So I just decided to, like, keep posting, posting every day.
02:31I feel like for me and my age, when I was starting to lose weight, I didn't see a lot of people, like, my age lose the amount of weight I have.
02:40So I feel like for others, it's very motivating to know that they can do it, and it is possible.
02:46When people think about losing a really big amount of weight, they always think of, like, I'm not going to be able to do that naturally.
02:53I'm going to have to take a GLP-1 or a Zempick.
02:56I have nothing against them.
02:57I think they're very useful tools, but I just want to let people know that it is still completely possible to lose a really big amount of weight naturally.
03:05Looking back when I first was starting to lose weight, I would never imagine I would have lost 90 pounds in one year.
03:12I would have never thought that.
03:13I would have been, like, maybe 40, maybe 30, but not 90.
03:17I still can't believe it sometimes, you know?
03:19I lost the weight of a 12-year-old boy.
03:21Not even just mentally and, like, how I felt about my body.
03:25Physically, too, though.
03:26I'm able to walk 30,000 steps a day if I please.
03:30I don't have heartburn anymore.
03:32I don't have back pain.
03:33And it's like all these symptoms of obesity were really affecting my life.
03:37And now I don't have that anymore, and it feels awesome.
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