Since losing almost half her body weight with LighterLife, Jana has celebrated by doing all the things she was always too fat for before – including wearing an evening dress, hiking up Mount Snowdon and walking a half-marathon. “It’s the first time I’ve ever been slim,” says Jana.
Finding LighterLife
Jana, who has two daughters with her husband, turned to LighterLife for weight loss after a typically over-indulgent Christmas. Her LighterLife programme consisted of eating four specially-formulated foodpacks per day, alongside weekly counselling sessions to assess the psychological issues behind her overeating and to help prepare for a lasting lifestyle change.
It was Jana’s work as an assistant at a college with severely-disabled students and those with learning difficulties which finally prompted her to deal with her weight issues. She says:
“I love my job, it’s hard work and very challenging, but since I’ve lost weight it’s become so much easier because it makes physical tasks so much more manageable.”
Losing weight and finding confidence
Since losing weight Jana has decided to meet life head on and is now far more confident and active. She says:
“Everything has changed. I’m much more adventurous and will try everything, before I just played it safe.
“Before I lost weight, we went to Scotland on holiday but I couldn’t walk up the mountains and couldn’t go horse riding because of my weight so my husband and the girls had to go without me. Then we went to Wales after I’d lost weight, I decided it would be a physical holiday so we hiked up Snowdon, and went horse-riding. I was determined to do everything.
‘’I’ve realised I love walking and hiking and recently I did my first walking half-marathon. I love the outdoors. I used to get hot and bothered and red in the face and grumpy with everybody for going too fast, now they have to keep up with me.”
The value of counselling from LighterLife
Jana found the LighterLife programme easy to follow and the counselling particularly useful:
“It taught me a lot about how I deal with things other than what I was eating. I could use the techniques in lots of different areas of my life. It wasn’t just the food or what I used to eat, it affected so many areas of my life. Now I can go back to what I’ve learned, it taught me tools to use in all aspects of my life instead of resorting to food.”
“I even have a new marriage because my relationship with my husband is on such a different level, maybe it’s actually discovering who I am, or rather who I’ve always been but not discovered until now because my weight was hiding it.’’
Each of our client’s results and stories are unique to them and their experience of LighterLife. Your own results will be personal to you and may vary.
