114-Pound Weight Loss Transformation With Diet and Exercise
Sydney Lost 114 Pounds Eating the Same 3 Meals Every Week and Working Out 6 Times a Week
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Running the Disney Princess Half Marathon for the first time in 2017 was a major accomplishment for Sydney. In 2010, she volunteered at the race, handing out all the race numbers, helping all the registrants get their materials ahead of time at the Expo, etc., and she remembers thinking what a dream come true it would be to run that race. But at the time, she couldn't even fathom that being an option.
Fast forward to 2017, and after she started losing weight and working out, there was a single, obvious goal. "I thought about that Princess Race more than I probably should even admit the last seven years," Sydney said. After six months in the gym, she registered for the Disney Princess Half Marathon that would take place in February 2018. "I was totally not ready or equipped at the time, but it gave me a clear goal to work toward, and to me was the absolute pinnacle of any sort of achievement in my mind," she shared.
Sydney trained and worked her butt off. "I literally cried for three entire days leading up to the race. My legs were uncontrollably shaking when I walked into the race expo to get my bib and I looked at the volunteer on the other side of the counter — the same place I had been sitting eight years earlier. I cried the morning of and at the start line. It was the most emotional weekend of my life, I think. I could not get a grip. I was so nervous — but I did it. I ran the race I had dreamed about for over eight years and achieved the goal of all goals."
There are lots of non-number-related goals Sydney had when she started losing weight that have felt great to make a reality. Things like not being afraid if the seatbelt on the plane would buckle when she was travelling for work, sitting cross-legged on the floor, and being able to wrap a regular-size bath towel around her body.