When Brianna Bernard became pregnant with her first child, she fully embraced the “eating for two” idiom — and ended up with a 70-lb. weight gain.
Bernard had hit 245 lbs.
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“I stopped feeling like myself,” she says. “I was so busy being a stay at home mom, that my whole life was about my son and I didn’t take the time for self care.”
“I read her story and saw so much of myself in her,” Bernard says. “She had tried every other way to lose weight — the Keto diet, Atkins, Whole 30 — and nothing stuck for her. And the same was for me. I would do something new for a few days or maybe a few weeks and then fall off the wagon again. But this gym was different for her, so I was hopeful that it would work for me, too.”
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“I feel like a completely different person, and I am in so many ways,” she says. “Not just physically — that’s obvious — but the way I feel in my mind. It’s hard to even look back. It feels like a lifetime ago. Now I feel like there’s nothing I can’t do. If I can lose 100 lbs., I can do anything.”
And while she lost a whopping 107 lbs. in total — 37 more pounds than what she gained during her pregnancy — Bernard says the number isn’t important to her.
“It wasn’t about the number on the scale,” she says. “It’s about feeling confident and comfortable in my skin and about feeling strong.”
source: people.com
