Today’s featured weight loss before and after: Nurse, college student and single mother Jonquil lost 59 pounds with diet and exercise. She knew that she needed to get healthy. Here is what she shared with us:
I was a fast food junkie and always on the go. My motivation came from a bet with my boyfriend. Whoever got to their goal the fastest won. I jumped on the bet right away because he and I are very competitive. I had to learn how to cook healthy foods and make them suitable to substitute fast food. I began to see change and so did my peers. I learned to love to eat healthy, especially on the go. I work out 5 days a week. I do 3 days of jogging and 2 days at the gym. My starting weight was 236 pounds and I am now 177 pounds. I’ve began my lifestyle change in November 2012. It’s been 8 months. I realized that dieting alone will not give me my permanent results, a lifestyle change was what I needed. I love working out now. The key to weightloss in my opinion is acknowledging your bad habits and knowing it will take time to adjust them. After I acknowledged my bad habits, I slowly learned to live without them. To this day, I fail and get back up, but I am successful with weight loss because I continue to get back up. I use weight training, whey protein, and cardio. I love my figure, so I focus on squats and abdominal exercises, and jogging. It works! Eating habits: no fried foods, just baked and raw fruits and veggies. I suffer from acne and once I changed my diet, it has significantly decreased my acne.
Audrey says
Great job!!
jonquil says
ty!
missinde2015 says
Girl u look fabulous! Great job! Keep it up. I have a couple of questions if you don’t mind? Could u describe one regular day at the gym for u with cardio nd weights? Because my day is usually 1 hour on the treadmill mixed with fast walking nd jogging. Then for weights i might do 20lbs 100 lifts, but the whole time im wondering, is what im doing effective? Am i doing it right? Should i do the elliptical instead? Hope to hear from u ! Again u are an inspiration to me, because im your or weight right now
jonquil says
hello,
I start of on the treadmill with a warm up session at a rate of 3.5 to 4. once I warm up I speed the treadmill up increase the rate every 2min…until I hit rate 7. I keep my incline at 3..or less. I weight train with 20lbs weights for my curls. I do a count of 15 and 4 reps…making sure my musles are flexed and the workout is effective. they key is to feel the burn…and keep your muscles flexed..don’t forget your protein. you will need it to assist you in a great muscle recovery.
anita says
You look amazing. Your starting weight is where I am now so this gives me a lot of motivation to stick with it.
Cherron R. Wilson says
you look great, keep up the good work
Carine says
Did u win the bet? And is your man still on track with his goals?