How this 39-year-old totally transformed her body in one year...

Publish Date
Tuesday, 24 January 2017, 11:21AM

After starting a new high pressure role, Nessa from Luxembourg, began gaining weight and feeling less than her best.

“I was focused on my job and not on my body. I was making poor food choices, and I constantly felt stressed and tired.”

And like many dieters before her, an unflattering photo provided the wake up call she needed to make changes to her lifestyle.

“I didn’t realise how much my body changed during the time that I didn’t care enough about it.”

So in March last year the 39-year-old started taking steps to becoming both happier and healthier. Setting her alarm for 5am, she committed to a gym session before her working day. Her workouts centred on Kayla Itsines’s Bikini Body Guides – a series of high-intensity interval training.

Eating every three hours, she packs in five to six balanced meals, with her total calorie count at a surprising 1,900 to 2,000 a day!

And while she now takes a break from her plan at the weekends, she stuck to it diligently for the first 11 weeks. And the results are impressive!

A reflection on when I started my journey and how my journey changed the way I see progress 💭🤗 I remember the first day of my journey, I had those progress pictures of other girls in my head and my goal was to change my legs and my bum. But they were the most stubborn to change. I got already pretty nice abs and shoulders but although I was happy, I also felt disappointed at the same moment. I wanted my legs to slim down and get rid of the cellulite! Then another few weeks passed by and finally I started to see my legs and my skin improving. But this progress was not linear. I had ups and downs, I hit a plateau a few times, there was a time I felt frustrated and hopeless. And now I know it was so wrong... I shouldn't have seen progress only as an overall change in my body. I should have been happy with the small changes because they usually don't happen overnight and you still need to work hard to achieve them. Progress is not only your body transformation, those are all the non-scale victories along the way: to be able reach the 4th floor without stopping in the middle to get your breath, to wake up in the early morning and be energized enough to smash your workout before your work starts, to see more muscle definition or to tighten your belt to the next notch. It feels so much better not to categorize a success as an event to complete but fall in love with the daily steps and achievements. If you start noticing what you like about your body in the mirror instead of what you want to change about it, yes, this is what it is all about ❤️✔️ #girlswholift #lifting #transformation #beforeandafter #bbgprogress #bbg2017 #bbg #sweatwithkayla #kaylaitsines #transformationtuesday

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