Sarah Shearing
From clothes size 24 to size 8. My story
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I should introduce myself. My name is Sarah Shearing. I am 34 years old and a mother of three pretty great kids. I had always been a little chubby, even as a kid. I got bullied at school because I was overweight, but it was just normal for me. It was who I was. Having three children in only 4 years did not help with my weight. Quite the opposite in fact, and by the time my youngest was born I tipped the scales at an unimpressive 20.4 stone (129.5 kg). I was a size 24 in clothes so finding nice clothes at that size for a 24 year old woman was near impossible. I don't remember what date or how I even thought about starting to lose weight. I didn't have a goal or any real clue how I was going to begin, or even how I was going to do it. I guess it was like climbing Mount Everest covered from top to bottom in ice, with no shoes on (not impossible but almost). People often ask me how I started, what I did differently. The answer is really simple, eat less and healthier.
At 20 stone, its not a good look to be in the gym. People that are all toned and fit, look at you as if you are an alien, who just doesn't belong. It took me 6 months of eating my meals off crockery, made for toddlers to cut down portion sizes. In that 6 months I lost an amazingly impressive 4 stone. Losing that weight so rapidly, I was advised by a friend, who was a nutritionist, that I should join the gym to help my skins elasticity. “You don't want to lose so much weight, all you have left is loose skin” she had said to me. So my relationship with fitness began and its still one of the biggest parts of my life. Losing an excessive amount of weight is not a diet, it simply wont work to look at it like that. Losing 12 stone (yes I did say 12) is not achieved through fad diets or sitting down all day. Its a lifestyle. Its determination and hard work. Its patience and inner strength. Mostly, I have learnt, its courage to carry on when you don't even believe you can.
I should introduce myself. My name is Sarah Shearing. I am 34 years old and a mother of three pretty great kids. I had always been a little chubby, even as a kid. I got bullied at school because I was overweight, but it was just normal for me. It was who I was. Having three children in only 4 years did not help with my weight. Quite the opposite in fact, and by the time my youngest was born I tipped the scales at an unimpressive 20.4 stone (129.5 kg). I was a size 24 in clothes so finding nice clothes at that size for a 24 year old woman was near impossible. I don't remember what date or how I even thought about starting to lose weight. I didn't have a goal or any real clue how I was going to begin, or even how I was going to do it. I guess it was like climbing Mount Everest covered from top to bottom in ice, with no shoes on (not impossible but almost). People often ask me how I started, what I did differently. The answer is really simple, eat less and healthier.
At 20 stone, its not a good look to be in the gym. People that are all toned and fit, look at you as if you are an alien, who just doesn't belong. It took me 6 months of eating my meals off crockery, made for toddlers to cut down portion sizes. In that 6 months I lost an amazingly impressive 4 stone. Losing that weight so rapidly, I was advised by a friend, who was a nutritionist, that I should join the gym to help my skins elasticity. “You don't want to lose so much weight, all you have left is loose skin” she had said to me. So my relationship with fitness began and its still one of the biggest parts of my life. Losing an excessive amount of weight is not a diet, it simply wont work to look at it like that. Losing 12 stone (yes I did say 12) is not achieved through fad diets or sitting down all day. Its a lifestyle. Its determination and hard work. Its patience and inner strength. Mostly, I have learnt, its courage to carry on when you don't even believe you can.