Tag Archives: Weight Loss

42 Days Into Getting “Back On Track”: Losing 24 Pounds While Gaining A New Perspective On Life

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As you may remember, I made a video 42 days ago on March 15, 2020 “confessing” that I had gotten completely off track with my diet. I’m not even sure if I properly expressed (or… admitted?) in that video just how far off track I was at the time. I had gotten to a point where I was sneaking food and hiding it from Brian. I even hid it from my co-workers, for fear that they would judge me since I’ve tried to set such a good “example” since we started this new lifestyle. Continue reading →

Top Ten Tips For Switching To A Whole Food, Plant-Based Vegan Diet

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It’s almost January and I know a lot of people are out there looking for a new diet to follow. We’ve been there SO many times before and in June of 2018, we finally got started on a path that led us to where we are today – 300 pounds lighter and a whole lot happier! Since we have lived through it, we thought we’d put together some of our best tips for making the switch to a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) diet. Continue reading →

Q&A: Weight Loss Update, Loose Skin, Advice on Going Plant-Based + More!

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It’s that time again! This time we asked our Instagram followers for questions and answered as many as we could in 20(ish) minutes. Topics that came up include an update on our weight loss, loose skin, general advice on going plant-based and more! Watch the video to see us answer your questions. Continue reading →

How We Handle The Holidays (After Switching To A Whole Food Plant-Based Diet)

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The holidays are fun, but they can also be stressful when you are trying to stick to a brand new way of eating. You might put a lot of thought into what you’ll eat at a family gathering or wonder how you’ll respond to questions about your new lifestyle. We thought it would be fun to pick some of the most popular questions we get asked at holiday gatherings and talk through our answers to them. Continue reading →

The Last Straw: Why We Finally Decided To Lose Weight

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There are things we all know we NEED to change or should work on, but sometimes you just aren’t ready. People ask us a lot about the “last straw” that made us decide to start our weight loss journey (well, Brian likes to call it our weight loss “adventure”). In today’s video, we discuss what inspired us to finally start losing weight. Continue reading →

Weight Loss Attempts That Didn’t Work (For Us!)

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We have both been overweight for as long as we can remember. We were both in the obese category when we started dating… and then we gained even MORE weight. Eventually we realized that we had to do something about it. We spent years attempting various plans for weight loss. Some of them were successful at helping us take off a few pounds here and there, but none of them helped us to maintain our weight loss over the long haul. Continue reading →

One Year Weigh-In: WFPB Weight Loss Update + Non-Scale Victories

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When we started out this journey back in June 2018 with two weeks of potatoes, I never imagined I’d be here writing this one year later. I thought we had a semi-decent shot at changing our lives, but let’s be honest… we’ve failed PLENTY of times in the past, so I wasn’t super confident. It is hard to believe we’ve been at this for a year now! We decided to put together a video to talk about our one year weigh-in and also discuss some of the non-scale victories that have come along with our weight loss. Continue reading →