10 Encouraging Stories When a TV-Show Helped People Lose Weight And The Results Are Stunning!

• 11:34 am November 11, 2020
• surabhi

Weight loss is everyone's dream, well at least most of ours. But it all narrows down to how healthy we are while doing it. A lot of us struggle our entire lives to look the way we imagine ourselves and for this we take the most outrageous paths - some motivational, some toxic. A Television show called 'My 60 lb life' inspired people to lose weight. It motivated these contestants to lose weight and they saw a positive change in no time - at least these ten people did!

CHRISTINA PHILLIPS

When you grow in a family full of disdainment and fights, you want to channel those thoughts and that is why Christina started stress eating. By the age of 12, she was 286 lb, and by 25, she weighed more than 660 lb. She was so dependent on her mum and her husband that she would not even step out of the house. When her transformation journey started, she lost about 522 lb in just 2 years. She underwent a gastric bypass surgery and is now prepared to stay healthy for the rest of her life!

DONALD SHELTON

It took Shelton 4 years to go from 674 lb to 295 lb. He also had a gastric bypass surgery but during treatment, doctors diagnosed him with something called the "Guillain—Barré syndrome" This basically means a situation where you are paralyzed for a long time. It affects your extremities and mobility. This meant that Shelton was confined to a wheelchair for a long time. But he didnt give up hope and continued to work out even then and thats a true story of an achiever right there!

SUSAN FARMER

Susan Farmers former picture will shock you. At a whopping 606 lb, Farmer was far from fixing. She was demotivated, depressed and just full of bad habits. One fine day, she decided to make a change in her life and it all started with eating right. Then came in physical exercises and before she knew it she had successfully lost 407 lb. She describes the time she got her first pair of jeans as an adult. She says it was a phenomenal feeling!

CHUCK TURNER

With age comes a plethora of health risks. His downhill journey started when his wife was murdered. He was depressed and angry and mostly in deep despair. He tried to escape with food and gained over 692 lb. He soon got remarried and had a son but was unable to help his new wife raise him because he had a tumor in his leg. Thanks to the project, Chuck lost over 418 lb and became a whole different person!

BRITTANI FULFER

Fulfer was obese and thought her husband was disgusted by her. She would spend hours lying on he bed, eating food and doing nothing. It was harder for her to lose weight because of her thyroid cancer issues and immune issues. But she soon overcame it and became a weight loss champion!

CHARITY PIERCE

This 38 year old single mother was the most overweight woman in the world at a whopping 798 lb. She was to marry a 22 year old man called Tony and love is what made her lose weight. Charity Pierce also suffered from severe lymphedema which causes a lot of swelling. Today she is at a happy 299 lbs.

Also read: 10 Transformation Pictures Of Weight Loss To Motivate You

MAYRA ROSALES

Mayra Rosales was at a whopping 1100 lbs. This basically means she couldn't walk/ take a shower/lift her body in any imaginable way. She was basically just a huge lump on a bed. A tragedy pushed her to change her life and start fighting for her health. Her nephew met with a serious head injury and died and the entire thing was blamed on Mayra because she thought she fell on her nephew accidentally. Whereas it was actually her sister. Her sister was arrested and Mayra had to take care of the kids and thats when her weight loss started. After surgeries, and couple of years of rigorous exercise, she is at 211 lb now a weight she is happy and healthy at!

JUNE MCKAYMEE

June Mckaymee piled on weight after her son passed away. You know grief really does a lot of unimaginable things to people with June it was about piling on a lot of weight. She burried herself in food and sadly her husband encouraged her to do so. He infact got her the food she needed, and before he knew it she was badly unhealthy at a 600 lb weight and super sick. Thats when it all changed - dieting, psychotherapy, gastric bypass and physical activity later, she is back to 300 lb. She yet believes she has a long way to go!

DIANA BUNCH

Diana Bunch lead a life that no one ever should - poor family, abusive parents, sexual assualt as a minor and a whole lot of mental health issues. She was sad, lonely and in utter despair. At 40 years, she lost her job - she was 300 lb at that point, unhealthy and couldn't even do her own chores herself. She drowned in this lifestyle for 15 more years until at 55 she was an unimaginable 600 lb. She signed up for the project and lost all that weight and slowly started regaining her confidence - something that seemed amiss all her life!

AMBER RACHDI

Amber Rachdi was 24 when she realized she could no longer take care of herself so she moved back to her parents place. At a whopping 600 lb she was critical and unhappy. Her meals would be 4 large ones every single day with a heap of candy in between. So when she joined the project she was basically in a hopeless place. She soon broke up with her boyfriend who was with her all through this weight loss journey and just randomly married another man. Guess her body is not the only thing she changed!