My Successful Weight Loss Journey: How I Lost 151 Lbs

By Gabriel Cabello

After three years in the making, this long-awaited and much anticipated, amazing true story of Gabriel's stunning before and after weight-loss transformation is now finally available for the entire world to read.In this book, Gabriel takes you step-by-step throughout his entire weight-loss journey and reveals exactly everything he did. He also walks you through some of his weight-loss routines to help you understand how he was able to successfully lose 151 pounds. With a healthy diet and exercise alone, he has been able to keep the weight he lost off for good.This book is like an illustrated blueprint and a precisely detailed map for guaranteed weight loss! It includes many before and after photos of Gabriel. Sample breakfast, lunch, and dinner weight-loss meal photos of what he regularly ate, as well as other images of food options. Some, he regularly ate; others, he completely avoided throughout his journey. My Successful Weight-Loss Journey also includes his cardio exercise and weightlifting routines, plus so much more.Get your copy today and start the ultimate weight-loss venture.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781662488351

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My Successful Weight Loss Journey

How I Lost 151 Lbs

Gabriel Cabello

Copyright © 2022 Gabriel Cabello

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2022

ISBN 978-1-6624-8836-8 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-6624-8835-1 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1

Why Did I Decide to Write This Weight-Lost Book?

Chapter 2

Diet Plus Exercise Equals Weight Loss

Chapter 3

My Unhealthy, Old Eating Habits

Chapter 4

Examples of My Unhealthy, Old Eating Habits

Chapter 5

How Did I Lose All That Weight?

Chapter 6

A Few More Important Changes that I Made

Chapter 7

Eating Moderately to Lose Weight

Chapter 8

My Yes Section for Weight Loss

Chapter 9

My Blueprint for Weight-Loss Meals

Chapter 10

Using the Blueprint to Create Healthy Meals

Chapter 11

How Cardio Exercise Helped Transform and Reshape My Body and Life

Chapter 12

Power Walking on the Treadmill for Weight Loss

Chapter 13

Why My Once-a-Week Twenty-Four-Hour Fasting Routine Works Great

Chapter 14

The Before and After Ultimate Weight-Loss Program

Part 1

Part 2

Chapter 15

How I'm Maintaining My Weight Loss and Enjoying a Better Life

Bonus Photo Section:

About the Author

Preface

My dedication and faithful prayer for this book, My Successful Weight-Loss Journey: How I Lost 151 Pounds, is that it will help encourage and guide many people throughout the world who aspire to lose weight into accomplishing their weight-loss goals while living a healthier and happier life.

Gabriel Cabello

Acknowledgments

First, I would like to give all my thanks, praise, and credit to the Lord God Almighty for the blessing of this book and for making this possible for me.

Second, I would like to thank my father and mother for all their help, love, and support on this project. They have been there for me every single step of the way throughout my entire journey.

Third, I would like to give a very big and special thanks to Page Publishing, Inc. and their excellent book publishing team for all their help, support, and great services they have provided to help me put this book together and present it to all the interested readers out there. I would also like to thank Crystell Publications and Barbara Allen of BA Writer's Services for their help.

Fourth, I can't leave out all the rest of my family and relatives who were there for me, offering much love and encouragement throughout my weight-loss journey. Thanks to each and every one of you.

Fifth, I would like to give a very special thank you to Mr. Bruce Dickinson and Mr. Nicko McBrain of my all-time favorite and one of the greatest bands in the world Iron Maiden for the great honor of allowing me to take those three photos with them.

And last but not least, I would like to thank all my good friends back in New York who were there by my side during that incredible and unforgettable time span when I actually lost all that weight. You guys are the best! I hope you all enjoy reading this book, as I'm sure it will bring back lots of good memories. So until we meet again, you all take care, and God bless each and every one of you.

Gabriel Cabello

Introduction

Some people have asked me, Gabriel, why did you decide to write this weight-loss book? But before I answer that question, let me first tell you that back when I used to weigh 323 pounds, and with my waist size for pants at fifty-eight inches and while standing only five feet eight inches tall, at that point in time, the thought of writing a weight-loss book had never entered my mind. Here are some photos of myself taken back then during those years when I used to be excessively overweight, so you can see just exactly how big I actually was.

And to be totally honest with you, back then, all I ever really wanted to do was to somehow, someway, try to start losing some weight. But it always seemed like an extremely difficult and almost impossible thing to do, especially since I had been very overweight for just about my entire life.

I remember back to the day a few years earlier when my doctor had first placed me on high blood pressure medication. He said to me, Your blood pressure is so dangerously sky high, I can't believe that you haven't had a heart attack yet! Then he told me, I have no choice but to place you on this high blood pressure medication immediately because right now, at this very moment, your life is very much at risk.

Not too long after that day, I also ended up being placed on high cholesterol medication as well. Then about three years later, toward the end of 2014, my new doctor told me, I have some serious news for you, Gabriel. The laboratory results for your blood tests came back in already, and it says you are now at the borderline of the beginning stages of diabetes.

She explained to me that the main reason this was now beginning to happen to me was that I was very overweight with very high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I had an unhealthy diet, ate way too much junk food, and I didn't do any type of cardio exercise whatsoever. She also told me that if I wanted to avoid possibly developing diabetes, then I needed to start making some serious changes in my daily eating habits by beginning to eat a very clean and healthy diet, start doing some cardio, exercising three to four times per week, and try to start losing some weight. If I didn't, things would start to get much worse for me health-wise, and I would begin to go downhill from there at a very fast pace.

When she told me all that, I began to feel kind of nervous and a little scared. I was definitely alarmed; it was like a major wake-up call for me, I guess you could say. So I told the doctor I would try my best to start doing all those things that she had recommended for me to do. Then later on, down the road, after having had plenty of time to carefully think about everything the doctor had told me that day and realizing that I needed to start making some serious changes in my life, I decided to begin a weekly exercise routine. This was right around March 2015.

Now I would like you to take a good and close look at my medical weight chart because it basically documents all the weight that I lost throughout my entire weight-loss journey. I'll be referring back to this weight chart at various times in these upcoming pages to point out and explain to you just exactly how much I weighed on certain dates and precisely how long it took me to lose that weight.

So the first date on the weight chart that I would like to talk about is March 6, 2015. As you can see, on that day, I weighed 299 pounds.

So going back to what I had mentioned, this was right around the time I had decided to start my exercise routine. I began by briskly walking laps around the outdoor track for about one hour a day, three to four times per week while listening to music on my MP3 digital music player with my headphones on. The track is about the same size as an average college or high school outdoor track. I had also begun lifting weights about three times per week for about an hour per session.

After about seven months or so of consistently doing this specific exercise routine, I started to feel pretty good and a lot better about myself. I felt I was doing great, getting in plenty of exercises and becoming a healthier person. So I decided to continue doing this same exercise routine for the following six months after that. I had been gradually walking at a faster pace and gradually lifting heavier weights throughout those thirteen months of steadily exercising.

Then about halfway through 2016, I realized that I wasn't losing any weight. As you can clearly see in my medical weight chart on May 3, 2016, my weight was still 299 pounds.