Weight Loss Success Stories

Have you achieved weight loss without exercise using the Save Your Sweat diet?  If so, we want to hear from you!  Click the "Send Me Your Success Story" link at the bottom of any testimonial and tell us all about your weight loss success stories. We will get in touch and post your pictures on the website to help inspire others!  I hope to hear from you soon!

Michael Beeze - Halifax, Nova Scotia

I am 24 years old, have been overweight for as long as I can remember, and I weighed 265 lbs at my heaviest.

I tried working out with dumbbells at home and also read a few books like "Six-Pack Abs" and others that did not help me.

A year went by and I had only lost 30 lbs.  I moved across Canada to Halifax, Nova Scotia for a new start.  Since I was fixing other things in my life at the time, I also had a strong desire to fix my weight issue.  I started going to a gym, but had no real results to speak of after a few months of effort.

Then I met Trevor and his wife Lyann, who showed me that my problem was not lack of exercise, but lack of discipline in my eating habits.  They began to guide me in making better food choices and eating properly.  I was totally unaware of how much of an effect your eating habits have on your weight and appearance.

I now know that what you choose to eat plays a large part in weight management.  After three months of eating as I was instructed to, I dropped to 185 lbs.  I now weigh less than 170 lbs.  Losing this weight has made me and will keep me more confident than I have ever been.  I am eating properly now and looking forward to even more weight loss.  My goal is to weigh 160 lbs and I know that it will happen.  I cannot wait to visit my friends and family back home and see the expressions on their faces!

Lyann Watkinson - Halifax, Nova Scotia

As far back as I can remember, I have had problems with my weight.  At the age of 9, while living with my father in Ontario, I weighed about 85 lbs.  My weight remained normal until I turned 11, when I moved to Dalhousie, NB to live with my mother.

The onset of puberty caused a lot of fluctuations in my weight.  Within the next year, I ballooned to 138 lbs…. way too much!  I suffered through a few years of discomfort, feeling uncomfortable in my own skin.  I felt that I was inside some sort of costume; I was inside but nobody could see me as I really was.  All they could see was the disguise.  Clothes shopping was the worst because I always seemed to be “between sizes”.

You know that endearing expression people use to describe the “thin challenged”?  Ha, ha!  Even now, I find myself trying to cope with the memories with humour.  If you have endured clothes shopping sessions where all the blouses are too tight in the arms and the jeans cut you in two and are way too long, then you know that these things are far from humorous.

At the age of 13, I’d had enough.  I decided to cut sweets from my diet, cut all my meals in half, and drink a lot of water.  This was paired with 1 hour of rigorous exercise every single day.  I was faithful to this plan of mine and I lost quite a chunk of weight.  I started at about 138 - 140 lbs and within six months weighed in at 115 lbs.  I thought I had achieved success!  By the end of the year, my weight levelled off to about 127lbs.

One day, I had just finished a 1-hour workout and could not get the thought of brownies out of my mind (Remember, I had cut all of this type of food from my diet).  Frankly, at this point I was so obsessed about food that in retrospect it is scary.  I begged my mother to bake some brownies, which she did, and of course I binged.  You can probably guess my next step!  When I finished eating, I was absolutely disgusted with myself, called myself a pig and fat and weak (See how rotten we can be to ourselves?).

It is easy to see how destructive this behaviour is when you read about it, but not so easy when you’re submitting yourself to it.  My solution to this intense guilt was to work out for another hour.  I was standing at the counter telling my mother how great I felt after my second workout when suddenly everything felt weird and I dropped to the floor.  I had never fainted before (or after) that night.  My mother was worried and took me to the hospital.  The doctor that saw me said ”It’s great that you want to keep in shape, but this was dangerous and unhealthy.”

My mother thought I might be anorexic, a claim I used to deny, but she was right.  Even though I didn’t think I was anorexic at the time, I have come to realize that I was.  Even now, I have to mentally force myself not to become obsessed when I look in the mirror, because I still see a fat person.  I cannot see myself clearly.  That is what my husband, Trevor helps me with.  After the visit to the doctor, I began to try to gain a little perspective.  I stopped being so careful about everything I allowed myself to eat and over the next 2 years I also stopped working out.

Everything was fine and my weight was being maintained until I moved back to Ontario at the age of 18.  The move took place on June 1st, 1993 when I weighed 127 lbs.  By August of that same year, I had ballooned up to 160lbs.  Everything had changed: My chest went from 32A to 38C, my hip measurements went from 33” to 38”, my waist went from 28” to a whopping 34”, and even my shoe size changed from a size eight to a size nine.  I was so disgusted and angry, but I was also afraid of losing control like before so I did nothing.  I used this excuse until I was 30 years old.

At the age of 29-30, I went through a separation and eventual divorce.  I was a nervous wreck.  It was a very confusing time and I decided to stop eating.  I weighed about 155 lbs at that time and within a very short time frame I lost 20 lbs.  I had survived on coffee, cigarettes and a piece of bread now and then.  I had hardly eaten at all for 11 days and I was starting to have side-effects from this.  My jaw seemed to move all by itself when I was trying to sleep at night and I was very weak all the time.  I truly believe that if the LORD JESUS had not intervened I would have died.

I started a new life, and as would be expected I regained some of the weight I had lost.  I reached into the 140 lbs range, then decided to exercise and got down to 133lbs.  I seemed to plateau at that point, so I again let it go for a while.  The GOOD LORD brought a christian man into my life and in this loving relationship I have found the cure for my broken heart and for permanent weight loss.  I am proud to say that I weigh less now at the age of 33 than I did when I was 18.  My lowest weight since I began eating properly is 122.3lbs! I eat like a pig and I’m happy about that!

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