This amazing mum has revealed how she managed to go from size 28 to size 8 in eight months, with just a calorie deficit and three days of cardio a week.
Amy Edwards decided enough was enough after a humiliating moment at her friend’s wedding where she had to wear two size 18 dresses sewn together to fit her frame.
Weighing 20 stone at her heaviest, she was able to drop 10 stone in less time than her pregnancy which led to her decision to lose the weight.
She said: “I just felt so disgusted with how I looked and just so shocked.
“I saw the pictures afterwards and I was like, I cannot believe I’m this big.
“I thought I still looked pregnant and I still do in some of those pictures.
“I look at my belly, it looks so round and it almost looks like I still have a baby in it.”
The mum from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, explained that her weight had always been a struggle but she reached her highest dress size of 28 after she gave birth to her twins.
Three months after giving birth to them, her friend’s wedding was approaching where she was set to be a bridesmaid.
The only problem she faced was that no dress would fit her, which led to her being forced to sew two size 18 dresses together.
Amy told how she looked back at the wedding photos and was ‘disgusted with herself’ which kick started her desperation to lose weight.
Determined to turn her life around, Amy took drastic steps.
She programmed her Fitbit to create a 1000-calorie deficit each day and joined a ‘Couch to 5K’ running programme, which she stuck to religiously.
After those eight weeks, she continued at her own pace, slowly running further and further as she watched the pounds disappear.
Amy couldn’t believe how fast she was losing weight, and was so proud of herself for doing it all naturally.
She explained that her meals didn’t change in terms of content, but in size as she swapped out her double portions for sensible amounts of food that she weighed out.
On her low days, she remembered looking at the wedding photos and knew she had to push on.
Just eight months after starting her journey, she was able to fit into a size eight dress.
With a huge sigh of relief, the mum began a new plan to maintain her weight and has since been running marathons more regularly than ever.
She said: “I felt absolutely humiliated in that purple dress and I just literally took the dress in the bin and just came home and was like, right, I’m doing this for my kids.
“I couldn’t believe how awful I looked.
“So then I started this, I ate 1000 calories under what I burned each day.
“I really stuck to it and was consistent in what I did.
Amy added: “I have this big thing about how I ate two proper chocolate bars every evening throughout my whole weight loss journey, which actually some people were completely baffled by.
“When I was 10 stone heavier than I am now, what I ate was exactly the same.
“The difference is the portion sizes I would eat.
“Now I weigh everything and I really realised that a normal portion of dinner before was at least double the portion size than what I have now.
Amy explained that the core of her motivation for exercising and losing weight is her kids.
“If I ever have a day where I couldn’t be bothered to go for a run when I’m exhausted and I think I’ve only had two hours sleep, I’d be like, no, I’m doing it for them.
“Because I’ve always done it for them, it’s always made it so much easier for me to stick to it because I don’t want to let them down.”
Proving that anything we put our minds to, we can accomplish it!