So I said I would share my gf's story....
Below is a picture of my girlfriend at age of 28...before twins, life, etc...
At this point in her life she was competing in sprint triathlons.
As of September 2012, at 39 years old, she was 200lbs and she is only 5'2". We met online...through conversation she knew how important working out and living a clean lifestyle was to me so she posed the question if I'd be interested in dating someone who wasn't in the best shape but would make the commitment to get back into even better shape than before. I said absolutely.
Before she started I told her first thing to do would be buy the book Body For Life by Bill Phillips, read it, and follow the eating guide and chart the intensity of her workouts. I also told her cardio is great but she needed to incorporate weights into her workout. I told her to look in the gym and look at the different body types...the ones using weights and the ones only doing cardio and ask herself which one she'd rather be. I also told her (like the book says) she needed to push....This is one of the biggest problems I see in the gym, both with people doing cardio and lifting weights. They just go through the motions....
And so it begins. She getting up at 4:30 in the morning and goes to the gym to run. Then goes home and gets ready for work, works, and goes back to the gym in the late afternoon early evening for weights and has done this pretty much 6 days a week since the end of September. She also follows the book with regards to food intake. She eats 6-7 times a day.
As of March 31st she weighed 131lbs. She has gone from a size 12-14 to a size 2-4. Her weight today goes between 129-131 and she is about to make an even more serious effort to get to 120lbs by June 26th which is when we are going on vacation. She mostly does interval training on the treadmill...slow jog (5.0 mph) for a min then sprints at 12mph for a minute. She does this for 30 mins. Sometimes she just runs for 30 mins at an 8.0mph pace.
Weights wise she has a 155lb bench, a 275lb parallel free squat, a 395lb high box squat, a 265lb deadlift. I am so proud of her. The intensity she trains with inspires me so much to do even more.
I'll take a current pic and post it soon, along with one from her plus size state.
You can do whatever you put your mind to and I'll leave you with this video.....