This success story is from my client Christina, a student from Greece, so please excuse any grammatical errors. I was very fortunate to be able to help her and make such a huge impact in her life and how she feels about her body. I have chosen to not share her photos to keep her identity private.
I found your website one of the many times I searched on Google about fitness and diet and subscribed to your website.
I decided to sign up for #Commit2Fit because I made some attempt losing weight. I managed to reach my goal, about 72 kgs and the weight came back and I was devastated and knew that if I was to try again I could not do it on my own.
My goals were to lose about 20 pounds. Obsessed with the scale. And still I am.
The experience was really interesting. What surprised me more was that the people of the group were sharing their life struggles and how they manage to cope with that, except food. This is really awesome and takes a lot of courage to just post your problem on the group and not being afraid of judgment and get support instead.
The other thing that surprised me was the meal plan. Especially the fact that I should eat enough in order to lose fat. I was always being told you eat too much from parents, friends, family that really struck to me. Being afraid of food and getting fat, causes me a lot of stress.
Weight lifting was also something new for me. I did some HIIT, pilates and running in the past but weight lifting was something new to me. I usually used run as a way to lose weight, and although I like it, when I do it due to self hate, I hate it. Moreover,it is stressing me and nothing happens. Nothing.
I got stronger shoulders, arms, back and legs. I feel better about my legs. And my skin. I feel a lot better about my skin.
Mentally, I am less afraid of food. If I eat something unhealthy, still feel guilty sometimes but I overcome this feeling a lot quicker, now. It gets me down but I accept it.
I stopped running. Although I like it, really it does not work for me. A lot of stress for my body.
The greatest for me was stopping binge eating. Maybe I eat some sweets, not planned but not until I feel sick. This was huge for me. Especially, when I added more healthy fats and protein, cravings stopped. I used to have huge cravings, and felt awful about. Changing breakfast and added more protein made a huge difference. I am able to stop eating, now especially when it is emotional eating.
Emotionally, I feel stronger. There are still days that I want to give up but then tell myself no, stopped being impatient. Cannot change overnight.
I actually accepted my weaknesses and accepted my true worries. I have doubts about my career choice and really feel quite stuck. Every single time I returned from my college, I binged. Like literally every time, I was able to find all the sweets that were at home, even when my mom hide them.
This was really huge. I could not stop. I ended up always angry and hated myself, or cried. I blamed my weight, like if I lose it my life would be perfect. Wrong.
I realized that I am not perfect. Accepted this worry and try to figure out what to do. Stop having unrealistic goals and a huge to do list. Made me miserable.
This is when I stopped binge eating. When I accepted my insecurities that I should love myself more.
The education that was involved in this program was very helpful. I also found it great how easy was to access the workout plans from the calendar, how short are the workouts, especially HIIT – I mean 15 minutes? This was awesome! This was the best. I had the perception more is better, more more more.
#Commit2Fit is great. You get inspired from the group. You see real people dealing with life challenges and still get their workout done and eat right. It does not affect them.
From this I would advise my friends to avoid excess sugar because it makes you feel awful in the end. I would advice them to search within themselves and wonder why they want to lose weight so badly and achieve the end results now.
See overeating, binge eating as a teacher. Is there enough protein, essential fats on their diet? Overly stressed with work, life? Is there anything they want to do and be afraid about it? Why are they obsessed about it? Often the excess weight or even depression is an indicator in order to search within ourselves, grow and mature. And then a metabolic shift can happen. Finding our true self and accept it can often help healing with binge eating, overeating.
Last but not least, remove all the self imposed stressors in your life, or at least acknowledge them. This was huge for me. I cause so much stress. I cannot control and know everything no matter what.
Overall, it was a great experience. The other participants were great and open in the group and shared their experience.
Do you have problems with binge eating and need a meal plan to help you find balance and weight loss?
Let me help you – Join #Commit2Fit online personal training today!
Your Coach,
Kyra