Former Fat Girl Tells All.: How I Lost Over 100 Pounds Without Ever Dieting or Hiring a Personal Trainer

By Kelly Ann Grimaldi

First time author Kelly Ann Grimaldi shares with the world just how she conquered the mountain of extreme weight loss after losing more than 100lbs and keeping it off. For those of you who hate diets and hate the gym but want to live a healthier lifestyle and lose some weight, this is the book for you. Learn how she changed her entire lifestyle and outlook on life step by step in a language even wellness rookies can understand.

Claiming to hate diets and the gym, there will be no counting calories or meal plans in this book. She’ll motivate you to change your unhealthy habits, by showing you how much she benefited both mentally and physically after changing every aspect of her life as she knew it. Starting with no knowledge of how to live a healthy lifestyle she’ll tell you everything she learned about eating healthy and exercise along her journey. Learn what she started with, how her fitness evolved, how to deal with secret saboteurs and just how far outside of your comfort zone you really have to go to make really big changes in your life.

By the end of her book, you’ll know that you too can achieve lasting weight loss and do so for all of the right reasons. Check it out to see how she changed her behaviours, thought processes, eating habits and physical activities and learn about lasting weight loss from someone whose actually done it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483519241

Book preview

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Chapter 1: My Weight Loss Journey

Chapter 2: Why I Decided To Lose the Weight

First, I want to make very clear that I did hate being big but not because I looked at myself as fat or ugly. I hated it because I hated people constantly commenting on it. I just didn’t get what the big deal was. I had no problems with actually being big. Now, let me ask you something. I want you to take a good hard look at the pictures above. Does that look like a girl whose unhappy being fat? No. The answer is no. I loved myself when I was 280 lbs, 240 lbs, 200 lbs and I love myself now at 160 lbs. I always loved being me and always will. I never once questioned my beauty until I lost the weight and people made me think differently. People would say things like, ‘Oh my God you’re so pretty now!’ or ‘Holy crap. You look so much better.’ What were these people talking about? The nerve. I never had a problem looking in the mirror when I was bigger and I never considered losing weight because I hated the way I looked. I considered losing weight my first year of college when I was taking a nutrition class because I learned about the effects of obesity on the body. At the time I was 280 lbs, my heaviest, and was feeling the effects I was learning about on my body. I hated my professor. She was without a doubt my most hated teacher ever, but the lessons she taught me that year changed my life forever. If I saw her again I’d thank her from the bottom of my heart. At the time I was 17 years old. I would climb a set of stairs and have to catch my breath when I got to the top. I couldn’t walk a block without sweating buckets. I had permanent hives between my legs where my thighs would rub together. I would get sick constantly so flu season for me was absolute hell. I decided to lose weight because I loved life and I realized at the age of 17 that if I didn’t change then the quality and the length of my life would be drastically reduced.

I encourage you to take ten minutes and look into what you’re doing to your body by carrying around that extra weight. Seriously. What are you doing to your heart? How much harder does it have to work to support you because of that extra 40 lbs, 80 lbs, 100 lbs, or 120 lbs? How much harder does your entire body, never mind your heart, have to work to support you? What health issues are you exacerbating by being overweight or obese and what health problems are you making yourself more susceptible to by carrying that extra weight? Please, take ten minutes and actually do this. What you will find may do what it did to me and scare you into action. Think of how much healthier you could be if you lost the extra 50, 60 or 70 pounds. Again, please look into this. Once you have, ask yourself each one of those questions and answer them honestly. How much longer might you live if you lost some of that weight? I can run for long periods of time and I don’t don’t lose my breath and I can swim for hours and still have it in me to swim more. I run up the stairs instead of carry myself up them. Words cannot describe how much better I feel now, both mentally and physically, then I did when I was 280 lbs or even 200 lbs.

When I realized what I was doing to myself and the example I was setting, I became worried because I had little cousins that I loved and that loved me. Michael, Nicolas, Jonathan, John-Michael, Olyvia, Dante and Justyn could all potentially learn unhealthy habits from me. I wanted to set a good example for them. I’ve always aimed to inspire others. Knowing that they looked up to me like a big sister and that they could potentially turn out like me worried me. Later in life when they’re grown up I want to see all of them living long healthy lives because I love them. I also want to have kids of my own one day. When I was in elementary school, kids tormented me. Mentally, I’m a very strong person but what if my future children were not? How awful would I feel if they also ended up being tormented in school? If kids did to them what they did to me and sang songs like, ‘Kelly Ann eats so much she’s such a big balloon. Kelly Ann eats so much she eventually goes kaboom. BOOM’, would they be able to take it? I knew that my cousins and potentially my future children would have to endure that if they followed in my steps and I refused to know I could have prevented it by just setting a good example.

I don’t know what your reasons for losing weight are but I really hope they’re the right ones. You have to realize now that losing weight does not cause all of your problems to magically disappear. If you feel ugly now, you’re still going to feel ugly when you lose the weight. You have to find a way to look at yourself as beautiful the way you are. That’s the best piece of advice I could give anyone who wants to change their external appearance. Learn to love yourself as you are right now, not as you want to be. If you don’t, somewhere along your journey to change you will do a complete 360 and go right back to your old familiar habits because your mindset will be all wrong. You need to want to do this because of love for yourself. What’s the point of trying if you don’t love yourself just the way you are? If you’re trying to do this solely because you’re being picked on by others, I’m sorry because I know being made fun of and talked about because of the way you look sucks but suck it up. You cannot make decisions or big changes in your life based on what others think of you or what thoughts others may have implanted in your mind. You are beautiful just the way you are. I don’t care if you’re 400lbs or 100lbs. Beautiful. Don’t ever let anyone let you think otherwise. You have features and strengths that were given to you and only you and that alone makes you beautiful in your own way. Just because you don’t look like the girl next door, doesn’t mean you have to and doesn’t mean you should.

I’m an advocate for losing weight