The program came with a schedule to follow each day as well as a nutrition book. “Thinking that you have to lose 100 pounds is too stressful, so I broke it down in small increments because losing 2 to 3 pounds a week was more realistic,” she explains. She started the program on a Monday and weighed herself the following Sunday. Angelica didn’t care about how long it took, even though she gave herself a whole year to lose the weight and lost the weight from the first pregnancy in 6 months and the second pregnancy in 8 months.
This was a life changing experience for Angelica, which caused her to change her mentality towards food and working out. It wasn’t about dieting, but about adapting a healthier lifestyle that would continue years after losing the weight. “A diet doesn’t work because a diet signifies that there’s a beginning and an end, so once you are done, you go back to your old ways and gain the weight back,” she says.
One of the things she did was relearn what foods are good for you and what foods are holding you back from losing weight. “Nothing in my closet fit and I wasn’t going to go buy a whole new wardrobe because I was a bigger size. I was determined to get into those clothes no matter what because I paid a lot of money for them and I was going to fit again,” she says. Her weight was affecting her health, for example, she would get tired just going up the stairs and would snore loudly because of all the weight on her chest.
Tips that worked for Angelica
- Hang out with people that have the same goals as you because they will help push you and achieve your goals.
- Don’t announce that you are not eating certain foods because people will convince you to eat them regardless.
- Set yourself for success, give yourself small goals.
- 80% of losing weight is what you eat, do your research.
- Find a fun workout that you enjoy and mix it up.
- It only takes an intense 30-minute workout to lose 2-3 pounds a week.