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Weight Lost: How This Woman Went From Trendy Diets To Personal Trainer

How This Woman Went From Trendy Diets To Personal Trainer
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Abbie Hunt

WHO: Abbie Hunt

AGE: 25

CITY: Kingston, Ont.

By The Numbers: 180 at my heaviest, currently 120, for a total weight loss of 60 pounds.

The Weight Gain: My weight fluctuated a lot as a kid and continued throughout my life. But the biggest weight gain began in college when I started partying more and I didn't care about what I was eating. My usual meal was Kraft Dinner, chips and Sidekicks — basically anything cheap and quick to make was fine by me. To top it off, I was also a smoker.

I did try the green coffee bean cleanse and it didn’t work. Let’s just say I was trying to lose weight without any real effort or motivation. I wanted to still eat and live life the way I was without the hard work.

The Final Straw: About seven months ago I realized that I could barely climb up a flight of stairs without gasping for air! I was just so unhappy with not only the way I looked, but also the way I felt.

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