It’s Thursday afternoon and you just finished your work shift – gym bag in hand, water bottle filled up. As you walk out of those double doors and into your car, you approach the exit to the gym… and then it slowly fades away. Despite the potential negative outcomes, decisions […]
An amusement park and a hula hoop saved my life. I was overweight since childhood, but nothing pushed me to truly change until an afternoon at the local amusement park. My four-year-old daughter and I had climbed onto the pirate ship when I realized the attendant couldn’t push the safety […]
I don’t know how to begin this testimony. My heart gets tight even thinking about writing it. Just thinking about it takes me to a place I don’t really want go. I guess I never really, really, really thought about why I became the “fat guy”. In high school I […]
I can sit here and honestly tell you that fitness and a healthy lifestyle saved my life. Seeing me today, you could never assume I’ve lived the life I have. I turned 30 last December, a huge milestone. Even more so for me because at 29, my health turned around […]
“You have to want it more than anyone else…” I was always the fat kid, the last kid picked, the funny kid that made everyone laugh, the one that did anything for attention. I mean, let’s face it, nobody really wanted to be friends with the fat kid so you […]
Nowadays, it is difficult to imagine a world without social media – it is everywhere! The moment people have free time they are frantically reaching for their smart phone, tablet, or computer to check the latest tweets, posts, updates, etc., on the ever-growing number of social media platforms. Social media, […]
My name is Natasha Gage and I’m a 21 year old masters student from England. Through eating better and moving my butt more, I have managed to lose 80 lbs. over the course of 18 months going from 235 lbs. to 155 lbs. I had never really battled with my […]
By: Leticia Becerra I have been overweight for as long as I can remember. My weight loss journey (when I actually made a conscious effort to lose weight) began in 2001 when I hit my highest weight of 215 at the age of 19. I was THE laziest person you […]
I was always a larger kid throughout my childhood and figured it was genetics which prevented me from being lean. It was difficult going anywhere where I needed to take my shirt off and although I made the best of it, it affected my confidence greatly. In 2011, I weighed […]
