Will Weight Loss Ever Rule the World?

My name is Ashley Kincade, and I am 25 years old. I live in Chandler, Arizona, and I am an operations manager. I was tired of having knee pain and no energy, so I worked with my doctor to create a calorie deficit to lose weight and did at-home YouTube workouts and High Fitness classes to lose over 100 pounds.

Before my weight loss journey, I struggled with overeating, food addiction, emotional eating, and yo-yo dieting. I was always too fatigued to workout, and I would end up giving up on working out because I thought it was too hard.

I also had a knee injury, and moving around on it at my body weight prevented it from fully healing. I knew if I lost weight it would take the pressure off of my legs and my knees. I felt uncomfortable and out of breath even doing simple activities like running errands, like my body was entirely drained of energy.

So, I decided to make a New Year’s resolution in January 2018, and it was the only New Year’s resolution that I actually accomplished.

What made this resolution different from the others is that I shared with everyone that I knew that I was starting a weight loss journey. Telling all of my friends and family is what helped keep me accountable. I just wanted to be able to look in the mirror and feel good about myself again.

I’m allergic to dairy and soy, so I struggled when I first started my weight loss journey because I wasn’t sure what to eat. I would always go for unhealthy foods because it was the quickest and easiest thing that I could just grab and not have to think about.

When I began my health journey, I talked to my doctor about what types of food I should try incorporating into my diet, and she told me to always stay in a calorie deficit. I now try to stay away from as many processed foods as possible, and I also try not to eat a lot of carbs. (I don’t necessarily follow a low-carb diet or anything, but I try to stay away from unnecessary carbs.) It took a lot of trial and error to find what would keep me full and what I could make quickly, since I work retail.

I started by changing what I ate for breakfast every day. Once I got the hang of that, I changed what I ate for lunch, followed by snacks and dinners.

I also have two cheat meals (not days!) a month. I put the meal on my calendar and I look forward to it and enjoy it. I always make sure it’s something exciting. It helps me eat healthy knowing that I have built in indulgences and never feel deprived of the less-nutritious foods I still love.

Here’s what I eat in a day:

I had no stamina and was tired constantly. I also had a knee injury, but I didn’t let that hold me back! I started out really small and just did the elliptical for 15 minutes each day. I built it up every week until I was doing the elliptical for about an hour every day.

After about two months, I started doing at-home workout videos on YouTube (I was still too shy to go to the gym). Every single day I would do a 45-minute or hour-long workout video, ranging from dance and calisthenics to kickboxing and body weight exercises.

After that year of working out at home, I decided to start going to the gym. I now do cardio, weightlifting, running, and gym classes. My favorite gym class is High Fitness, and I’m actually about to get certified to be a High Fitness instructor.

These four small changes have made a huge impact on my overall weight loss.

Losing weight is probably the best thing I’ve ever done in my entire life. The process was hard, but the aftermath is amazing and so worth it. The biggest obstacle I overcame was training my brain to eat only when I was hungry, and to not overeat and binge.

I want other women to know that you are beautiful just the way you are, but it is okay to work on yourself and have things that you aren’t happy with. Just don’t forget to still love yourself at the same time while going through the process. Try not to be so hard on yourself — we’re all trying our best! Going through this journey, I learned how to love myself.

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