She Dropped 80 Pounds By Ignoring Everything Weight Loss Experts Told Her

You might think you know all the tricks to losing weight, but according to one influencer, there’s a good chance you are wrong. Kayla Cox is a weight loss influencer and founder of Six Miles to Supper, instructing her followers “how to lose weight sustainably and keep it off for good,” she writes in her bio. In a new viral post, she reveals “five weird tricks” that helped her lose 80 pounds.

“I grew up with a weight problem. I was always trying to lose weight. I was like on every diet. By the time I was 30, I had listened to all the diet and weight loss advice there was. And what actually helped me, in many cases, was to take that advice and flip it around, and that's when I had better success,” she says in the clip.

Banish Deadlines

Number one is the idea of banishing deadlines. “Most goal setting advice is to be smart, to make your goal specific and measurable and attainable and relevant and time-bound, and they always harp on time-bound. You need to have a deadline because if you don't have a deadline, then you're just going just never to do it,” Kayla says in the video.

She Still Sets Goals Without Deadlines

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However, she realized that when she set deadlines, they were “completely ridiculous” and “too aggressive,” and she could never meet them. “I was expecting myself to lose like five pounds a week and be done with the whole weight loss journey in a few months. And so what would happen is I would make the thing really difficult, and it would be too difficult. I couldn't sustain it. Then, what would happen is that I would fall for the goal and then quit. And each time this happened, it made it harder and harder and harder to attempt weight loss again,” she says, calling the process “really demotivating.” So, she stopped deadlines and decided to keep going until she reached her goals.

“It doesn't matter to me if it takes years,” she says. “I'm not quitting until I get to my goal weight. And when I did that, what was great was all of a sudden, I could be a lot more realistic with myself, and I could relax. And I was okay with me making mistakes because I knew like, ‘Oh, it's no big deal because eventually I'm gonna figure this out.’”

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Stop Telling People You Are Trying to Lose Weight

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The second thing she did was she stopped telling people she was going to lose weight. “In the past, I used to talk about it all the time. I would tell everybody, ‘I'm on a diet right now. I can't have that.’ And that never really worked out well for me,” she admits.

“The reason I didn't tell anybody I was trying to lose weight was because I was embarrassed, and I was really scared of people knowing that I was trying to lose weight because I knew that was going to bring more attention to me, and I really didn't want that. I also was afraid that if I told people I was trying to lose weight, then, you know, they'd be watching me closer, and maybe they would watch me fail. And I knew from personal experience that sometimes, when you tell people that you're trying to lose weight, there are two ways it can go. And neither one is helpful. One way it can go is people can try to convince you you don't really need to lose weight,” she said.

“On the flip side, I knew some people can be very discouraging. They mean well, but you know, they might tell me things like, oh, it's just, you know, basically impossible to lose weight at your age.”

Keeping It Private Allowed Her to Build Her Own Plan

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“I decided to keep it private, and I'm so glad I did. It gave me that freedom to just build my own plan, and because I didn't tell anybody what I was doing or anything, nobody was trying to critique what I was doing and say, ‘You should be doing this and this and that instead of doing it that way.’ I knew myself pretty well at that time. At that time, I would've listened to him. I would've just gone and done the other thing because I wasn't in the habit of sticking with anything,” she says. “By the time people did start to notice that I was losing weight, I was pretty confident in my plan, and even though people still offered unsolicited advice, trying to tell me like, ‘You should cut out carbs and you'd have much faster success,’ things like that, I just decided to keep doing it my own way. And that was helpful because I continued doing sustainable things.”

I Took a Day Off Every Week

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“The third thing I did that was weird was I took a day off every week,” she says. “I had always heard you got to stick to the plan, and you just got to be on it. You're just on it. And that's just all there is to it,” she says. However, she heard that “if you take a day off every week, you're much more likely to stick with your plan.”

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She Now Knows How to Go Off and On Her Plan

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“In the past, I knew that I was in the habit of being on a plan, never taking a break, and then finally, I would just break, and then I could never get back on plan it,” she says. “I had this all-or-nothing mentality. Taking a day off every week just got me in this really great practice of learning how to go off plan and then get back on plan.”

She Averaged Her Weight

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“The fourth thing I did was I averaged my weight,” admitting it was previously a “foreign concept” to her. “I made a spreadsheet so that it would average my weights and so that I could always see a running seven-day average. It was just taking the previous seven days of weights, adding those up divided by seven, and then showing my seven-day average.”

It Made It Easier to Stick with Her Plan in the Long Haul

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“What I was able to do then was I was always kind of thinking about at least a week of weights and a week's worth of behavior, which helped me to broaden my timeline. And because I was doing it that way, I was able to see my patterns better. I wasn't just thinking about ‘What did I do yesterday?’ I was thinking, overall, how have I been behaving around food? Have I been just overeating a lot, or am I doing a good job overall? This helped to even the hills and valleys out, emotionally, but also what my weights were doing overall,” she says. “It just made it easier to stick with the plan for the long haul.”

She Allowed Herself to “Eat All the Foods”

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“The fifth thing I did, which is probably the most controversial thing, is that I allowed myself to eat all the foods,” she reveals. “In the past, when I would go on a diet or try to lose weight, I would cut things out and cut out whole food groups,” she said, using examples of bread, dessert, and sugar.

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This Made It Easier When She Entered the Maintenance Stage

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“I would do those things for the short term, but I can never get myself to stick with it in the long run. So, this time, I just did the opposite. I said, okay, I'm going to allow myself everything. I'm going to learn how to lose weight even when I am still eating cheesecake and chocolate, having wine, and eating bread. That was awesome because when I got to my goal weight and entered maintenance, it wasn't a big deal. It was like, okay, I've been eating this stuff the entire time. It's not like I've cut out cake, and now I get to have cake. What am I going to do with that? It was just like, no big deal. Like, I know how to lose weight while eating cake. So maintaining it while eating cake is no different,” she says. And if you enjoyed this article, take advantage of these 15 Quick Ways to Lose Body Fat Percentage in a Week.

Have you been trying to lose weight but been unsuccessful? Sadie Chartrand of Slim Sadie Coaching is a weight loss coach, military spouse, MO, and Registered Nurse (RN) who “helps women who have been battling their bodies and struggling with their weight for their entire lives” get into shape. In a new viral YouTube video, she reveals how she did it. “This is how I lost 80 pounds in just five months,” she says at the start of the clip. “My only hope is to help you all lose weight based on my own experiences.”

She Was “So Heavy” That She Thought She Had a “Disease or Disorder”

“Two weeks before December 13th, 2017, I had decided at some point that the reason that I was so heavy had to be because of some kind of disease or disorder. So I went to the doctor, and I told myself when I went into the doctor's office if all of my results came back negative, I had to lose weight. I have no more excuses. This was December 13th, 2017. I went into the office, and she read my results back to me. Everything was totally normal,” she says in her post.

She Went to a Doctor and Had Her BMR Calculated

“I stuck to my promise to myself, so I asked this doctor to help me lose weight. The first thing that she did was body composition. From that, she showed me what my BMR was, which was basal metabolic rate. And then she explained to me that to lose weight, I needed to eat about 1,157 calories a day, no more than that,” she continued.

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She Amped Up Her Protein Intake

She is also excited about her protein intake. “She wanted to make sure that I really increased my protein. So I ate one gram of protein per pound of skeletal muscle that I had, which was about 75 grams of protein per day,” she continues.

She Cut Carbs

She also stopped eating carbs. “At the time, she really cut my carbs out. So I was only eating less than 20 net carbs per day, less than 50 total carbs per day,” she says.

Here Is What She Ate in a Day

She was eating a protein shake for breakfast and a protein shake for lunch. “And these are Premier Protein shakes, pre-made,” she says. “For dinner, I was having four ounces of meat and two cups of vegetables.”

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Walking Was Also Key

And, she got her steps in. “As for exercise, all I did was walk,” she says. A 2018 study published in the journal Obesity found a link between walking 10,000 steps a day and weight loss and weight management. Other studies published by the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) in JAMA Neurology and in JAMA Internal Medicine also linked walking 10,000 steps a day to less dementia and less cardiovascular disease overall, with less heart disease, less heart failure, and fewer strokes.

She Lost Weight Fast

When she went in for her two-week checkup “and just to check in to see how things were going,” she learned she had lost 14.7 pounds in just two weeks. “At first, I was so excited, and then everyone said, ‘It's water weight. It's going to come back. Don't get yourself all excited about this.’

She Went on to Lose 80 Pounds in 5 Months

“It never came back. And I continued to lose weight. At the end of the first month. I had lost basically 25 pounds in one month, which was my goal. I just barely miss it by a few ounces. But basically, it was 25 pounds. About two months into my journey, I had lost 40 pounds. And at the end of five months, I had lost 75 pounds. So that's why I say I lost 80 pounds in five months.”

She Gained Some of It Back

Unfortunately, she ended up gaining back 40 of those 80 pounds within a few months. “I got back into it, and I committed again. I lost all of the weight again by May of 2019. Her lowest weight was 180, and she admits that she is now 223.

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She Is Now Back on Track and Using These Tips

“I am embarrassed, I'm disappointed. But the most important thing that I have to keep reminding myself is that I've done this not once but twice before. I know how to do this, and I can do it. It's just a matter of convincing myself each and every day to do this. It's been a lot, but it's also been absolutely life-changing for me, and I was really missing out on life. So my motto is losing weight and gaining life.” And if you enjoyed this article, take advantage of these 15 Quick Ways to Lose Body Fat Percentage in a Week.

Are you struggling to lose weight despite dieting? Ruth Soukup is a midlife health and mindset coach who personally lost almost 50 pounds. She regularly shares her tips and tricks with her hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers. In a new post, she reveals a few mistakes she made and then the one thing she did to fix them. “I lost 49 pounds in my 40s when I stopped dieting and started paying attention to this one thing,” she writes in the Instagram video.

She Was Eating Plant-Based, Counting Calories, and Running 3 to 5 Miles Per Day, But Struggled to Lose Weight

“I struggled with my weight for ten long years and failed at more diets than I can count. Even though I thought I was doing all the right things,” she writes in the post. What was she doing? “Eating plant-based,” counting her calories, and “running 3-5 miles every day.”

At 43, She Decided to Do Something Different

She wasn’t getting the results she wanted. “I couldn’t understand why nothing seemed to work or why it felt like my metabolism was just broken. At some point, I started to lose hope. Maybe you can relate. But one day, when I was 43 years old, I finally got so fed up that I decided to do something totally different,” Ruth writes.

She Did Research to Understand “The Science of Weight Loss”

“Instead of dieting, I did real research to understand the science of weight loss, especially for women over 40. I wanted to know why we gain weight as we get older and it’s so hard to lose it. I was shocked to discover that weight loss has almost nothing to do with calories and everything to do with HORMONES. That’s it. That’s the secret. The one thing,” she reveals.

She Lost 49 Pounds and Has Kept It Off

“I totally changed my focus from counting calories to simply balancing my hormones, to eating the foods that would nourish my body, and creating better habits for a sustainable lifestyle. Ultimately, making that shift is what helped me lose 49 pounds and keep it off, and I’ve now helped thousands of other women over 40 do the same,” she says.

She Stopped Calorie Counting

In another post she discusses other healthy habits that helped her lose weight fast. “I struggled with my weight for YEARS, failing at diet after diet, always believing that the problem was ME and my own lack of willpower before I was finally able to lose 49 pounds and actually keep it off. So what was my secret? It was pretty simple, actually. I just focused on my hormones. That meant I committed to stop dieting! No more counting calories—instead focused on nourishing my body,” she writes.

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She Quit Sugar and Processed Food

She also majorly cleaned up her diet. She eliminated a few things. “I detoxed from sugar and stopped eating toxic processed food. It’s the first step in balancing your hormones,” she writes.

She Amped Up Her Protein Intake

She also refocused her diet. “I started eating a lot more healthy fat and nutrient-dense protein,” she writes. According to clinical trials, consuming more protein than the recommended dietary allowance not only reduces body weight (BW), but also enhances body composition by decreasing fat mass while preserving fat-free mass (FFM) in both low-calorie and standard-calorie diets.

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She Switched From Cardio to Strength Training

She also switched up her approach to exercise. “I focused on strength training & building lean muscle mass instead of burning calories through high-intensity cardio,” she writes. According to the Mayo Clinic, strength and weight training help reduce body fat, preserve and increase lean muscle mass, and burn calories more efficiently. Strength training may also help you:

• Develop strong bones
• Manage your weight
• Enhance your quality of life
• Manage chronic conditions
• Sharpen your thinking skills

She Focused on a Healthy Lifestyle

Lastly, she looked at the big picture. “I didn’t give myself a timeline. I just focused on changing my lifestyle,” she writes. “But I still lost more than 40 pounds in six months, have kept it off for more than 3 years, and now I’ve helped thousands of women do the same.” And if you enjoyed this article, take advantage of these 15 Quick Ways to Lose Body Fat Percentage in a Week.

If you are asking yourself if you will “ever lose the weight,” the answer is yes, says one fat loss coach. However, it might take shifting your approach to diet and fitness. Lynlee Jacobson lost 20 pounds of fat in just 3 months after struggling with weight loss for many years. Now, she is a fat loss coach who helps other women get into shape, focusing on their gut health. “This is what worked for me,” she writes in the post. Here are the 5 changes she made to get in shape.

She Was Close to Giving Up

“If you’re feeling like you’ve lost hope. Like you’ll never get back to feeling like yourself again. Like you don’t even recognize yourself in the mirror. I get it. I’ve been there,” she writes in the post. “I had just about given up & was trying to convince myself that I was ‘happy’ with how I looked, even though deep down I was desperately unhappy.”

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She Was Tracking Macros and In a Calorie Deficit

“It just felt like no matter how healthy I ate, how hard I pushed myself in the gym, how precisely I tracked my macros to be ‘in a calorie deficit’ - I kept gaining weight,” she continued. “Like the harder I tried, the more bloated, puffy, & exhausted I became.”

She Was Doing All the Wrong Thing

“What I didn’t know at the time was that this was all working against me. The more I pushed, the more my body resisted. This is what I have learned since. You might want to save these tips for later,” she continues.

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She Focused on Hormonal Imbalances

The first thing she did was change her approach to hormones. “Hormonal imbalances, like high insulin or ghrelin, often make calorie-cutting ineffective,” she writes. The solution? “Balance your hormones, and the weight can finally come off.”

She Also Supported Her Gut Health

Gut health is also key, she says. “Bloating, inflammation, and weight gain often point to gut issues,” she writes. “Supporting my gut with nutrient-dense foods made all the difference.”

And Paid Attention to Metabolic Flexibility

She also implemented a new tactic. “I focused on building metabolic flexibility so I could burn both carbs and fat naturally,” she writes. “This kept the weight off sustainably.”

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She Ate More Nutrient Dense Foods

She also paid attention to the type of food she was eating instead of looking just at the numbers. “I stopped counting calories,” she reveals. Instead, she “started focusing on nutrient-dense foods, which helped me feel satisfied and nourished.”

She Looked at “Modern Lifestyle” Factors

Finally, she looked at how “Our Modern Lifestyle Works Against us,” she writes. “Stress, processed foods, and poor sleep disrupt our bodies. Aligning my diet and habits with ancestral principles finally broke the cycle of bloating and fatigue.” And if you enjoyed this article, take advantage of these 15 Quick Ways to Lose Body Fat Percentage in a Week.