Hypnosis For Weight Loss Biography
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Tallman, now 25, used to start the day with two breakfast sandwiches, hash browns and a cinnamon scroll. At night, she turned to takeaway, easily clocking up 30,000kJ before bed. “I wasn’t active at all,” she says. Two attempts at group dieting failed, and Tallman, 170cm, hit a high of 120kg before her 21st birthday.
The change
Tallman suffered from exhaustion, swollen hands and feet, and headaches. When she read online that these could be symptoms of pre-diabetes and high blood pressure, she was terrified. “I needed a permanent change,” she says, “not a quick fix.”
The lifestyle
A gym-averse Tallman started with daily 20-minute walks. She practised simple habits like previewing menus for light options before she went out to eat, and ditching the bun on her burger. In four months, she lost 18kg.
When her progress stalled six months in, around March 2010, Tallman added 30-second running intervals into her walks and kept closer tabs on her diet with a smartphone app.
As her walks turned into 8km runs and her kilojoule count dipped under 5020kJ per day, Tallman shrank fast. By 2011, she reached 59kg – but that was another extreme.
"I was unhappy and anxious," says Tallman, who found herself constantly obsessing over her weight.
So she inched towards the middle, enjoying previously off-limits favourites, like pizza, one day a week and pencilling rest days into her workout schedule (which now includes spin classes, yoga and DVDs mixed in with running).
Happily settled at 70kg, Tallman says, “It’s all about balance.”
The reward
In March 2011, Tallman moved to chase a career in the fashion industry, something she never had the courage to do before. Now she works at Chanel in New York. She’s also an athlete: “This year, I ran my first half-marathon,” says Tallman.
“It was a big achievement, since fitness had previously been a weak point for me.”
As for the ailments that scared her into losing weight in the first place? Gone.
“I feel healthy and relieved, finally.”
Andrea Tynkaluk had always counted on exercising to offset the kilojoules she downed in takeaway and booze, but after uni, the odd game of volleyball, hockey or soccer wasn’t enough.
“I thought I was being healthy,” says the 31-year-old, who owns a pet-grooming business. “But we’d go out afterwards to eat burgers and drink beer.”
As she continued to ditch the gym out of boredom and avoid fruits and vegies, the kilos slowly crept onto her 175cm frame.
The change
To get into shape for an overseas holiday with her family, Tynkaluk signed up for a kettlebell class in October 2009. Along with the rest of the class, she submitted her stats for a body-age test that measured her fitness level.
She was horrified when the results pegged her, at 86kg, with the body of a 45-year-old. “That made me face reality,” she says.
The lifestyle
Tynkaluk overcame her lifelong aversion to vegetables by dipping them into hummus and she began eating lean protein at every meal. She didn’t want to give up going out with her friends, so when they hit the town, she stuck to low-kilojoule vodka cocktails and danced like crazy to burn kilojoules.
The kettlebell class, which involved an ever-changing series of exercises, kept her from growing restless and she soon added swimming laps or spin classes after each session.
Nine months and 11kg later, Tynkaluk entered her first triathlon and placed second in the women’s division.
“Crossing that finish line, I had never been so proud of myself, because I was the one who made it happen,” she says.
She whittled away 5kg more in the two months following her victory, and her scales eventually settled at 67kg. Solid effort.
The reward
When Tynkaluk retook the body-age test in October 2010, her fitness level was that of an 18-year-old. Today, she regularly competes in endurance races and still plays volleyball, hockey and soccer with friends. But now, she says, “I feel like I can go on for hours. I’m in the best shape of my life!”
This 26-year-old not only got in shape – she became a body builder and personal trainer
When Mandy Martin was in her teens, she worked as a waitress and it helped her stay trim, despite a greasy diet. “I didn’t think twice about what I ate,” she admits.
But in 2005, she took a new job as an equipment operator at a coal mine – and had to sit still for 13-hour shifts. On the way home, she often stopped at a petrol station for huge servings of junk food before collapsing into bed. In just a few months, 165cm-tall Martin tacked on 18kg.
The change
Martin started a string of fad diets but always veered off course when the weekend rolled around. One night, after months of on-and-off attempts, she opened a letter from her mum and got a shock – it was a photo of herself a few weeks earlier, at Easter.
“I was stunned that I looked so bad,” says Martin. “It was my wake-up call to do something, for real.”
The lifestyle
Shunning convenience-store food, Martin went grocery shopping – for the first time ever – to stock up on whole grains, lean meats and fresh fruit and veg. Five months of clean eating helped Martin trim off about 9kg. That summer, she braved the gym.
“At first I couldn’t walk on the treadmill for more than five minutes,” she says. “I worked up to 30 minutes of walking, running and other cardio.” Another month later, another 5kg had gone. But it wasn’t until she added resistance training that Martin found her favourite fix.
“I’d never felt powerful before,” she says, “and lifting weights made me feel that way.” Those curls and squats also helped knock off another 10kg over the next three months.
The reward
Martin’s newfound confidence gave her the guts to study sports medicine and start a new career as a personal trainer. “Now I get to move around all day instead of counting the minutes until I can go home,” she says.
She entered her first body building competition in 2009 and has now done seven shows. “I used to flip through fitness magazines and think, ‘Why can’t I be like that?’” she says. Her answer now? “I can.”
Martin’s Tips
Plan ahead “I arranged my work schedule so I could exercise between shifts.”
Be a protein pro “I add eggwhites to pancakes instead of water – it helps keep me full.”
Hit the perimeter “The food you need most – fresh produce – is around the edges of the supermarket, not in the middle.”
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