04/10/2025
Transformation story - Kate
How can I be comfortable in my own skin?
That single question started my what I called my “Final Weight Loss Journey”. For years, I’ve been on what I call the diet-go-round, jumping from one diet to the next, hoping this next one would be the answer. It never was. I would always lose some weight here and there but then I’d always gain it back again in short order after I stopped following the diet.
At my heaviest, in August/September of 2023 I had a picture taken of me. It wasn’t really of me but I was in the background and at first I thought that can’t be me. It was and that single picture is the reason I started this journey. I hated the picture, I hate the person I had become and how unhealthy I looked and how uncomfortable I always was.
After all those years of dieting and learning about nutrition, memorizing calorie counts, measuring food, and eliminating entire food groups, I still could never keep the weight off. I knew there had to be something else going on, and I was determined to figure out what it was.
I decided to stop listening/waiting for everyone else to help me or do this journey with me and started to listen to myself (what did I want to do, what works best for me). That was a scary day (all the responsibility for how my life turned out was on me) but also an incredibly empowering and freeing day (for the same reason, because all the choices were mine and mine alone). If I failed that was on me but if I was successful that was also on me. I also remember feeling like I was at the bottom of a mountain, and realizing reaching my weight goal was going to be a large uphill battle.
I started one baby step at a time. I went outside and started to walk. I just went for a walk everyday. I just needed to move my body. Once I had made this a “habit” I worked in watching what I was eating. I did cut out things. I have not had any alcohol or soda since September of 2023. I was a huge soda drinker before. All of these things started to help with a little bit of weight loss but I knew I needed more of a workout routine. I also knew that I have failed at every gym I have ever tried to go too. There are so many people and so many machines and I have no idea what I am doing or what I need to be working.
That is when I found Center Grove Fit Body in November of 2023. I went to my first class and I was hooked. I have been going 6 days a week pretty much since November of 2023. I have completed over 400 sessions! I have lost over 50lbs. However, outside of the weight loss what I have gained is confidence. Confidence in myself and the way I look and how comfortable I am going out in public. I have learned that you could be 100lbs or 200lbs and you will probably never be comfortable in your own skin. This is just part of life. However, the friends and gym family I have made in the last year and half have made me realize that I am so much stronger than I realized I was and I can do anything I set my mind too. I say this is my “Final” Weight loss journey but I don’t think it’s ever really over and now I am on to my Fitness Journey and learning what my body can do and how strong I can become. And I am so excited to see where it takes me.
