A Rebel named Lory lost just over 200 pounds and reached goal weight right before Christmas this year (2023).
Pretty freaking amazing.
Getting here has been a long time coming for Lory. She told me she’s been up and down in weight since she can remember.
In middle and high school she would gain 30 pounds and then lose it. “In college it was much of the same – gain 30 and lose it. Then what was once a 30 lb swing became a 50, then a 70, then well over 100,” she said.
“I would launch into different things to lose the weight and was always successful in getting it off for the most part. Metabolife, Atkins, cutting half my calories, Weight Watchers (x3), Whole 30, and Bright Line Eating (to name the ones I can remember),” Lory shared.
“In April of 2017 I was dragged (at least what felt like it) to a Weight Watchers meeting with my sister and a co-worker. This was not my first time starting WW (I believe it was my third) so I knew a lot going in. What I did not know was how much I weighed. My home scale at the time stopped working around 330lbs…so I knew I was above the 330 mark, but not sure by how much.
“At that first weigh in I tipped the scales at 355… In 15 months (by fall of 2018) I lost 127 lbs and felt great. I was no longer having headaches, I was off of my blood pressure medicine, and I was buying clothes I liked,” she said.
Things were looking good for Lory at that point, but then, in her words, she “got comfortable”.
“I stopped weighing in every day and took my eye off of the ball. The weight slowly came back on – I was not measuring as diligently as before (both my weight and the food portions). I gained about 50 lbs back by late 2019.”
At that point, Lory was hovering at around 275-ish.
But then COVID hit.
The shutdown forced millions of people to work from home, including Lory.
“And forget it. I could work from home where no one could see me?? BBQ wavy chips, helluva good, and nutter butters were on the grocery list…so…I gained every last pound back…” she shared.
She returned to working in her office in mid-2021, and by early 2022 her travel for work had picked up even more.
It was when traveling picked up that Lory started to fully experience the brutal consequences of her choices while working from home.
“I was huffing and puffing around airports and sausaging my way into airplane seats, attempting to limit the amount of spillage my body did to the person sitting next to me as much as possible. I even bought an airplane seatbelt extender on Amazon so I did not have to ask for one when I boarded,” she said.
Plus, Lory barely had enough energy to get to her work trip destination…which meant she had nothing left in the tank to ensure she was “on point” during work meetings and presentations. “I was beyond miserable,” she admitted.
Lory’s turning point came during an executive team meeting. It was announced she’d been selected to go on up to three trips to Zurich and Basel (in Switzerland) in 2023.
“I immediately vowed (to myself) I am NOT going to huff and puff my way around Switzerland and not have any energy to enjoy my surroundings,” she told me.
Lory found Code Red in June of 2022 when it popped up in her Instagram feed. She signed up for her first 10 Pound Takedown, bought a scale that could go as high as she weighed at the time (355.4 pounds), and went on to only kinda sorta follow the program.
“I only listened to the first couple days of videos. I drank my water and ate off the food list about 5 days every week. I wasted time and half a$$ed it,” she said.
Yet Lory lost 15 pounds that first challenge, even not fully following it.
So she signed up for a second 10 Pound Takedown on July 11, weighing in at 339.7. “That is when I can say I went all in and never looked back,” she told me.
Fast forward to December of 2023, and Lory just hit goal weight! Now she’s learning how to KEEP the weight off.
TWO HUNDRED POUNDS is a mind-blowing amount of weight to lose.
If you’re wondering what it takes. mentally, to get there, read what Lory shared about her experience losing 200 pounds:
“There are sooooo many things I have learned the past 18 months on Code Red. If I can give at least one that I feel is different for me this time around is – it is not an ‘all or nothing’ mindset that will sustain you through a long grind. I have not been perfect every single day these past 18 months, and before I would have just thrown up my hands and quit if I was not perfect,” she said.
Lory also shared this:
“GET.RIGHT.BACK.ON.PLAN! That next moment, not the next day or next week or next month. You will need to rack up more ‘all’ days than ‘nothing’ days to see the results you want and get to where you are going.”
I’m a very black and white person, so in a way I get it when “all or nothing” people wanna quit when they screw up.
I also don’t love it when my Rebels screw up, because I want their success SO much!!
That being said, you can’t deny Lory’s results.
She did the work, she kept going through a loooooong grind, she got back on plan immediately if she went off-plan, and she lost 200 pounds on Code Red.
I hope Lory’s story inspires you to stop giving up on yourself, get back on the horse, and go all the freaking way.
Get started with the same lifestyle Lory used to drop over 200 pounds without shakes, diet pills, diet foods, exercise, shots, surgery, or eating like a rabbit at www.10PoundTakedown.com. The next one on Facebook starts Monday, January 8!