Weight loss story: 5 simple habits that helped a woman lose 154 lbs

Millions of people struggle with weight loss globally. With demanding careers, sedentary lifestyles, and poor nutrition, obesity has emerged as a pandemic of sorts. A woman who lost around 154 lbs in less than two years has shared some of the habits that helped her. “When you keep showing up for the same 5 habits to make impossible weight loss possible and silence the food noise. The small, repeatable habits I built are what helped me lose over 70kg / 154lbs and silence the food noise. And you can too… Nothing flashy. Nothing complicated. Just simple things that stacked up and rewired my brain one day at a time,” Kate Daniel, who also underwent a bariatric procedure, said. Let’s take a look.

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The first thing that the woman did was fix her relationship with food. “I stopped treating my body like a bin,” the woman said, in a post shared on Instagram. Instead of stress eating or eating just so that she cannot waste food, she focused on what’s important for her body. “Leftovers were still waste whether I ate them or not. Every time I honoured fullness, the food noise lost a little more power,” she said.

Breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day, and there is a reason for that. After 7 to 9 hours of fasting (during sleep), your body needs energy, which you get from breakfast. “I stopped skipping breakfast. No more ‘saving calories.’ A high-protein start stopped the grazing cycle before it began,” the woman said.

One of the key factors that helps in the weight loss journey is exercise. Regular exercise is crucial, not only for your weight loss but also for your overall health. The woman revealed that she focused on moving more. “I moved my body before I could talk myself out of it. Walking, stretching, dancing. Not workouts. Not punishment. My stress dropped, my nervous system calmed, and the urge to eat to cope got quieter too,” she said.

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People who are on a weight loss often overwhelm themselves with the changes in lifestyle factors, like no sugar, no junk, fasting, and intense exercise. But when you try to do it all at once, it may not be sustainable. The woman revealed that she just ensured there is only one thing in focus and worked towards it. “I made one promise to myself and kept it. Just one! Small, doable, and repeatable. That’s how identity shifts and habits become automatic. Building self-trust silenced the self-doubt that used to trigger overeating,” she revealed.

Instead of eating out, she ate home-cooked meals. No, that doesn’t mean you spend hours in the kitchen every single day. Instead, she did meal preps, which worked as a self-care regimen for her. “I meal prepped as self-care. Delicious bariatric meal prep gave me peace, time back, and stopped the chaos. With food ready, decision fatigue faded and so did the space for food noise and cravings to take over,” she said.

The woman also revealed that she underwent gastric sleeve surgery; however, that alone wasn’t the reason for her weight loss. It was her sustainable, healthy habits.

“Weight loss surgery (WLS) gave me the tool, but it wasn’t gastric sleeve surgery (VSG) alone that got me here. If you’re on your bariatric journey after gastric sleeve or bypass surgery and you’ve ever thought it was impossible for you, let this be proof that it’s not. You just need the right micro habits and strategies, ones you can actually implement into your life TODAY,” she said.