Sometimes I read the weight loss stories on CNN’s website. Here’s a really good one:
Tracey Wygal weighed 295 pounds before starting a “clean diet,” keeping a food journal and exercising.
Hardly a day that goes by that you won’t find Tracey
Sometimes I read the weight loss stories on CNN’s website. Here’s a really good one:
Tracey Wygal weighed 295 pounds before starting a “clean diet,” keeping a food journal and exercising.
Hardly a day that goes by that you won’t find Tracey Wygal working out at the gym.
The 30-year-old middle-school teacher does cardio exercise, strength trains and follows what she calls a “clean diet.”
That’s quite a change for a woman who tipped the scales eight years ago at 295 pounds.
Wygal first started gaining weight in her early teens. A fast-food diet and little to no exercise helped her pack on the pounds, and her weight ballooned to over 200 pounds.
“It was my first year out of college, and that number, along with being diagnosed as morbidly obese, was very frightening,” remembers Wygal. “I went to several doctors, trying to get them to prescribe a weight-loss pill.”
But none of her doctors would give her the quick fix she was looking for. Instead, a physician handed her a 1,600-calorie-a-day diet and told her to start moving.
Read Complete Story. Be sure to read the “Fact Box” in the left margin of the page which recaps how she did it.
