From 60th to 50th size: changing her habits, this woman changed her life

Meet Brooke, a strong, inspiring and inspiring woman from San Francisco who took the issue of her health in her own hands and completely turned her life into conscious decisions and what she describes as useful habits. At the moment she has already dropped more than 45 kilograms.

What's the secret?

Multiple factors contributed to the fact that Brooke managed to achieve such incredible success. She goes in for sports, pilates, goes on foot hikes and prepares her own food. But that's what she most wanted to share, telling about her journey from 60th to 50th size: "Changing your own behavior through good habits and proper food is the imperative of a stable loss of excess weight."

Road life-long: from obesity to health

Her journey began at an early age. When she lost her grandmother because of cancer, Brooke began to "jam" her grief, and it happened at the age of five. "One of my earliest memories is how I hide under the table and eat," Brooke said. "Honestly, I do not even remember a single moment in my life when I would not lose weight, gain weight and try to desperately support it at a certain point." It was then that the battle began. Brooke began to eat, then sat down on a diet. "I tried every diet that exists in the world, some of them even twice, each time with varying degrees of success," she said. And every time she stopped eating a diet, she instantly gained weight back.

Reaching the boiling point

Brooke began to try more extreme methods, such as fasting, detox with juices, and even cleaning the stomach. Her struggle was complicated by the fact that she also had to deal with bulimia and dependence on food. "Each successful period of control ended in a period in which everything was out of control. I was trapped in cyclical eating and losing weight. " And only when Brooke reached the boiling point, she realized that something needs to be changed. When her weight was 135 kilograms, she said: "I realized that I am slowly killing myself. I finally took a step back and looked from the direction of how insane my behavior was. " Then she turned to other people for support and realized that she was not the only one going through something like that. "I've always felt incredible shame about how much I weigh," Brooke said. - I felt freedom when I refused these thoughts and realized that I was not alone. " And she really is not alone. Thanks to this awareness and getting rid of a huge amount of shame, Brooke found a BBG account in the social network "Instagram". It was then that she wondered what kind of Kayla she had created this program, and why she had so many followers? The fact that Brooke used the social network as a support system was the crucial moment in her journey and opened up to her a community that changed her life. Together with millions of women, Brooke began to lose weight and found support through the BBG program.

Fitness trip

Just four years ago, Brooke weighed about 135 kilograms. She developed a terrible plantar fasciitis, and she told me that she could barely walk a couple of meters. What was her first goal? Get a pedometer and start walking ten thousand steps a day. "It was a way to make myself finally move," she said. This positive step (ten thousand steps, to be more exact) was the first in a series of even more important and large-scale decisions. "It was about becoming active, not to burn calories," Brook said. And her perseverance has become a key factor. She adhered to this rule for all four years, and now statistics show that she on average went through all this time 11 thousand steps a day. When Brooke decided to go further, she started hiking. "I really started to notice the positive effects that physical exercises had on my mental state, and I literally fell in love," she said. Her newfound love of walking came to a new level when she discovered the BBG program, which only strengthened her love for fitness and a healthy lifestyle. Now Brook combines hiking, BBG and Pilates.

Changes in Lifestyle

Over the past four years, Brooke has made several fundamental changes in her behavior. She knows from her own experience that serious changes in lifestyle, not diet, ensure a constant loss of excess weight, and now she knows that extreme physical exertion and starvation do not work. Brook's approach to nutrition has changed completely. What is her golden rule? Reasonable food, cooking with your own hand and greens with every meal. "Since I was suffering from obesity, changing habits and opinions about food was a key factor," Brooke said. "For a long time, I considered food from a" moral "point of view, as if some food was good, and some - bad, and if I ate good food, I was good, and if I ate bad, it was bad. But this is insane. Food is food, and it can be used to feed the body, but also for pleasure, but it does not determine my character. "