Meet Brooke, an empowered, strong, and inspiring woman from San Francisco, who is taking her health into her own hands and turning her entire life around with her conscious choices and habits. So far, Brooke has lost over 100 pounds. Multiple factors have contributed to Brooke’s awe-inspiring success – she does the Kayla Itsines BBG…
We’ve been unbelievably inspired by the #BBGcommunity and the incredible weight-loss and strength-building transformations from the Bikini Body Guides by Kayla Itsines. These women start using the guides for different reasons, but all are on a mission to better themselves and take control of their lives. We just discovered @wanderlust.sam, aka Sam, a 24-year-old from…
Image Source: Movara Fitness Resort Some people spend their vacations whooping it up in Cancun, wrestling in the mud, or drinking themselves into oblivion. Others devote themselves to service, such as building houses for the poor or tilling organic farms. Then there are those who do something good for themselves: drop a few pounds, say,…
Meet Julie Ana Kim: we first discovered this beautiful, inspiring young woman via the Kayla Itsines #BBGCommunity, and we’ve been captivated ever since. She might be one of our favorite progress stories! Julie has been on quite the fitness journey, with some incredible weight-loss benchmarks under her belt. She’s on a mission to lose 150…
There are so many reasons we love Kayla Itsines, but chief among them has to be the way she puts the spotlight on others before herself (not a common quality in an Instagram star!). Kayla created the intense workout plan, Bikini Body Guide, which has literally transformed the bodies of women the world over. You…
Before Trista Elaschuk became a successful bodybuilding competitor, she endured years of diets that just didn’t work. “I struggled with weight my entire life and went on my first diet at the age of 16,” she told us. “This started the cycle of yo-yo dieting that would continue into my 20s.” It wasn’t until she…
After years of yo-yo dieting, Ashley German was tired of feeling like her weight was something she couldn’t control. But it took a trip to the emergency room and a number on the hospital scale for her to decide to make a change. Now, she’s lost 115 pounds, enjoys creating healthy recipes, and doesn’t count…
Our next Before & After story comes from Amanda Fraijo-Tobin, who blogs about life after losing 130 pounds on her blog Friday Love Song, which is part of our POPSUGAR Select Fitness network. Below, she shares how she lost the weight and how she keeps it off. Amanda: Before Growing up, I wasn’t severely overweight…
The struggle to lose weight is very real, so you’ll completely relate to Wendy Mehaffey’s story. This 37-year-old chiropractor and mother of two was fed up with carrying around that extra 10 pounds. She had tried losing the weight before, but what she was doing wasn’t making a big enough impact. Here’s how she finally…
The following weight-loss success story was originally featured on DDP YOGA, a fitness and health community that helps people struggling with weight, lose hundreds of pounds with yoga. There are some stories that are so incredible that Dallas himself questions if they are real. Dallas first met Jared while in Park City, UT, premiering the…
