Wendy has been overweight all her life - since childhood. Extra pounds did not prevent her from taking place in the profession. Wendy is a musician, she plays the French horn.
A native of Toronto, she received her classical music education in Europe, where she lived for over 20 years. She has played in symphony orchestras in the Netherlands and taught music.
Combating heredity
In many families, it is customary to associate excess weight with heredity, as Wendy had for a long time, because obesity was a common family problem. Her mother also suffered from it all her life, as did her sister. However, the children of the sister, despite the overweight of the mother, did not become fat, which means that heredity is not so critical. If you revise your lifestyle, monitor your diet and include physical activity in it, then the excess weight will, of course, go away.
"Forced" weight loss
In 2009, on the cusp of her 50th birthday, Wendy managed to lose about 70 kg. But, alas, she could not keep the weight and returned it in even greater quantities. In 2016, at one of the professional conferences, she met a colleague-French horn player, who, two years before, decided on bariatric surgery, which helped him lose weight and transform.
Then Wendy began to consider such an opportunity for herself. Returning home, she enrolled in a weight loss program to prepare for a bariatric surgery that took an entire year.
In December 2017, she weighed 205 kg, in February 2018 - 180. She came to the operation at the end of March 2018 with a weight of 170 kg.
Movement is life
Being outgoing and cheerful by nature, Wendy registered on various social networks and shared her experiences. After bariatric surgery, Wendy, despite her venerable age, did not passively lose weight on a diet, but signed up for a fitness room.
Subscribers Wendy could and to this day can watch her activity, to which younger losing weight are sometimes indifferent. Even more respectable is the training of a woman who has had two hip replacements. But Wendy's workouts are very diverse - walking on a treadmill, and simulators, and exercises with dumbbells!
Today, Wendy is 60, she is single, but active and inspired by her transformation. Since the moment of bariatric surgery, she has lost more than 100 kg and is losing weight further, not intending to stop there.
Beauty as motivation
In order not to quit losing weight, not to gain weight again, but to continue to lose extra pounds, you need to find motivation that will keep you afloat. Wendy admitted that she suddenly became such a motivation... the beauty. For the first time in many years of her life, she began to enjoy shopping, being able to buy truly beautiful clothes in her size.
Moreover, she began to do makeup, to which she was previously indifferent. The more kilograms she loses, the more her need to be beautiful, fashionable, stylish increases. And all this despite the age of 60!
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