Weight Loss Transformation, A Personal Journey to become unstuck.

 

This email is long overdue but I wanted to ensure that I was at my ‘great’ before I sent you my story. I have been maintaining several lbs below my DTD for a couple of months now. So here it goes 

 

I joined BodySlims on my birthday January 2024 as a last attempt to lose weight and get healthier. Little did I know back then that it would be the present of all presents, the present that keeps giving! 

 

That January I was in a bad place mentally and physically. I was recovering from a bad back that had left me unable to do basic daily functions and I was off work for 3 weeks. Been stuck in the house in terrible pain I kept thinking how did it get to this? I knew my bad back wasn’t directly caused by my weight but I also knew that being at my heaviest didn’t help! 

 

I have not always been big , I used to be slim and fit but after having had kids , a very busy job and putting everyone else first the weight piled on slowly but steadily. 

I tried for years every diet available to me , every fad and sometimes I was successful but the weight would immediately pile back on.

 

 I know now it’s because I didn’t have the knowledge or the tools that I needed. I was after a quick fix! Only it wasn’t a fix and every time I was left at a worse starting point than the time before. I had almost resigned myself that this is my life going forward, I was happy in all aspects of my life but I didn’t like myself. I didn’t like how I looked, how I felt , how I always gave up , how I broke every promise I gave to myself. I had come to accept that I was weak and broken…

 

I found BodySlims by accident via Carla’s account on Instagram. Even though I could see what Carla had achieved I was still sceptical. Would it work for me? Surely I am a lost cause .  

 

I decided to join and give it a go. I told no one about it as I was embarrassed after so many failed attempts and deep inside I was convinced this time would be no different. 

 

I clearly remember the first seminar , when Ger told us to surrender. I was on my own at home, both hands raised up like a crazy person and I was crying my eyes out, I was sobbing! 

 

I decided then to do exactly what he asked me to do . I followed the plan 100% and by the end of the 10 weeks I lost 36 lbs!! I was feeling on top of the world!

I decided to keep going and did 4 rounds in total,  in June 2025 (17 months) I reached my DTD. I have lost 85lbs and found my Great! 

Most of the times I don’t recognize the person who looks back at me in the mirror but I know this person is here to stay. I feel perfect with my imperfections but most importantly I found again the real me, the person who I have always been but I had forgotten and told myself lies to the contrary. 

 

I am again the person who keeps her promises to herself, the person who looks after herself, the person who doesn’t quit, who sees things through even when life gets busy and tough. I am again the person who fights for herself too not just everyone else. Oh and I am the person who now  has her photos taken! I had not realized until recently how for decades I didn’t appear in any family photos,  I didn’t exist as far as photos were concerned. How sad is that 

 

Bodyslims for me is not another diet, it’s a lifestyle, it’s the therapy I didn’t know I needed, it’s my anchor. 

 

Through BodySlims on Instagram I have made life long friends who I love and I know they are there for me like I am for them. There is nothing more refreshing than a community of people with shared struggles and goals cheering and supporting each other and BodySlims can offer that. 

 

I don’t know what the future holds but I am excited! I am saying yes to so many things I would have turned down before. I am feeling healthy, fit and happy and this is because of my daily choices following the BodySlims principles. I am planning to do another cycle at some point to experience Carla’s take on it first hand. I was truly happy to know BodySlims would continue with Carla as the head coach as I knew she was the best person for the job. She is my Brianna and I am forever grateful to her for showing me the way. For showing me that I AM POSSIBLE!

 

I am not sure if my essay  will help anyone but I know first hand how others’ success stories have inspired and motivated me so I felt I had to do my bit and hope that I might help someone too. 

 

Thank you for reading and thank you for the bottom of my heart for helping me find me again! 

 

Eva Thomas

xx