My Story

Hello! Welcome to MyFitnessMotivator.com, my blog about losing weight, getting fit and being healthy :)

My name is Alisha Ria, I’m a 28-year-old and in the last few months I’ve dropped quite a few dress sizes – yay!!

I’ll be sharing the tips and tricks I’ve learnt during my weight loss journey. Whether it’s advice for people are just getting started with losing weight, or for people more into fitness, you’ll find articles about it here!

 

My Story – How I Gained Weight, & How I Lost Weight

I’d always been a pretty fit and averagely-skinny person. I grew up with parents who did a decent job of teaching me how to eat healthy.

But, like most kids, I grew up and moved away, far from the controlled home environment.

In college I was on a meal plan, and the cafeteria food was my first step to becoming a bit chubby. But I still had my teenage metabolism going for me.

Once I got a job, I found it harder to keep the weight off.

The final straw was moving in with some relatives 8 months before I got married. Things weren’t working out with my flatmates, and I figured it was just for a few months, why not?

But it turned out they were very unhealthy eaters: junk food lying around, fatty treats, and unhealthy meals. I put on weight so fast! Nothing helped – a few months before my wedding I tried joining a gym, but it didn’t help much. The worst bit was, I learnt some really unhealthy habits that made losing the weight impossible.

After getting married, I found it even harder to make time for exercise. My husband loved me anyway, and I was busy (or at least, those were my excuses).

I had been buying plus size clothing for a while, but one day at work I met a woman who was so obese, she had to make her own clothes. I vowed to never become like her – I really love clothes!

It sounds fickle, but that was the motivation I needed to get serious about losing weight.

In my spare time at work, I researched diets. I started doing Turbulence Training workouts since I found out those were effective and didn’t take much time to do (I’d do them as soon as I got home, before doing anything else). I read the Anything Goes Diet to learn about healthy eating and losing weight. Thankfully this book helped me get back on track with eating healthy.

I finally took the plunge and did intermittent fasts with the Eat Stop Eat diet, and that combined with the eating guidelines in Anything Goes really helped me lose the bulk of my weight quickly. I was down from being “fat” to being “pretty chubby”.

Around this time, I got kind of slack about working out. I was pretty happy with my weight loss, and I could wear nice clothes again!

After a few months of no real exercise (other than the occasional Turbulence Training workout), I decided to get serious again and got Visual Impact For Women, which is written by Rusty, a fitness writer whose blog I followed since the beginning of my weight loss journey.

Visual Impact made me see that I didn’t have to settle for anything less than a sexy, slim body and it taught me how to finally get there!

Today, I’m pretty slim (knock wood!) but I also know how lucky I’ve been. I could just as easily have been caught up in diet scams and the like, or been stuck in the wrong mentality.

What I’ve Learnt From All This

I made a fair few mistakes along the way. If I was going to give advice to someone who wants to lose weight, here’s the summary of what I’d say:

1. Get your mentality straight, and learn to eat healthy. Being fit and in shape is a lifestyle choice we make – you can choose to be fat, or you can choose to be fit. This is the first step. The Anything Goes Diet helped me to learn about how skinny people stay skinny, it taught me how to create a personal “healthy eating” diet that I love and doesn’t feel like a diet, and how to get slim while still having a life.

2. I’d rather lose weight quickly instead of slowly. Intermittent fasting is great for quick weight loss, and Eat Stop Eat helped me a lot.

3. Start to sneak in exercise. If you’re really time-crunched, you can start with the quick Turbulence Training workouts (that’s what I did at first). Or, you can do Visual Impact workouts, which is what I do these days. It’s really upto you, although for women I would strongly suggest doing Visual Impact for Women since it’s specifically for women who want to get fit without getting bulky muscles.

4. If you absolutely hate exercise, try to sneak it in. Go for long walks with your partner, go to dance lessons with friends – anything that gets you moving! Once you start enjoying the extra energy that exercise gives you, you’ll be more enthusiastic about working out.

5. Live a little! Strict diets are a no-no for me – I have chocolate almost every day, I have cheat days, I eat! We only live once, so don’t be a miserable rabbit-food-eating nut :P

 

Tell Me What You Think!

Whether you love my blog or hate it, I hope that you get the same success in your weight loss and fitness journey that I was fortunate enough to have.

Also, if you like my blog, please share your comments and questions, I love hearing from my readers :)

 



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About the Author

Alisha is a Melbourne-based blogger who is happy to have lost a lot of weight recently! She is now trying to be more fit and lead a more healthy lifestyle. In this blog she shares tips for losing weight quickly and easily. You can read more about her on the about page.