This Woman Recreated All Of Her 'Fat' Photos When She Lost Half Of Her Body Weight And She Looks Stunning

It shows you that determination gives you results.

Elzaan Van der merwe

• Published in Interesting
• December 18, 2017

You know the mind is one of the most powerful things that a human can ever have. It controls your thinking, your moods, your whole body 24/7 whole year round until the day we die. That is pretty impressive! 

The thing is we sometimes think that doing something is to difficult so we quit, but in fact, if you just thought differently for a second your whole mindset would change in an instant and that thing you thought was difficult, merely becomes extremely easy. That is what happens when people want to lose weight. They think about all the work that needs to go into it and they just give up before they started and they end up being unhappy with themselves.

This is what happened to Lexi Reed from Indiana before she and her husband decided to take on the weight loss journey together. In 2016 they made the choice to lose weight when she was 485 lbs and her husband Danny was 280 lbs.

It took them 18 months to lose almost 400 lbs between the two of them! So Lexi decided to set up an Instagram account so that people can follow her journey and it is truly inspiring.

1. “We didn’t have a meal plan, surgery, personal trainer, but what we did have was each other and the motivation within to work hard every single day."

2. Lexi started to recreate her old photos to show how far she has come in her weight loss journey.

3. “We wanted to be parents in the future and live a longer life together.”

4. They started in 2016 and have not looked back ever since!

5. The couple used to eat round about 8000 calories a day from which the majority was junk food of course.

6. So they started going to the gym for six days a week and settle for healthy home cooked meals instead of take aways.

7. They lost half of their body weight in just one year and they weren't done yet.

8. Lexi inspired her 500K followers on Instagram with her weight loss story.

9. “Get comfortable with being uncomfortable & always push yourself to step out of your comfort zone!”

10. Lexi told herself that she doesn't have to look and feel like this for the rest of her life.

Lexi gave some motivation to all her followers through her pictures and quotes, that states that you need to get off your ass and start today because there is no better day!

11. “You are in charge of your future so go in that gym and show every single person that stares or doubts you what you’re made of.”

12. She told her followers to prove all the people wrong who said you can't do it. Show them!

13. “Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life.”

14. “Are you going to just keep talking about losing the weight or are you just going to do it? No more excuses. No more fear.”

15. Danny is also one great man! She said he has not ever treated her differently from when she was 485 lbs to 182 lbs. That is true love.

16. “He never saw me as my size, asked me to change, or made me feel as anything other than beautiful.”

17. Lexi said something that is very true: “Love doesn’t have a size or weight limit”

18. “Surround yourself with those who lift you higher and see the greatness in you even when you don’t see it.”

Elzaan Van der merwe