"I was busy with a full-time job and three little girls, so did it really matter if I eat the ice cream?"īut Wulff started to notice little issues she lacked the energy to walk the five minutes to the park with her daughters, she had to twist into odd positions just to get the car seatbelt to buckle and she was struggling with constant headaches. "I convinced myself that it didn't matter if I ate unhealthily because I was already overweight," she said. and kept going from there, eventually hitting 360 lbs. Through three pregnancies, she gained more than 100 lbs. "I'm finally starting to tap into what makes me happy," she said.Īnn Wulff felt like pregnancy was "permission to just eat whatever I wanted," the teacher told PEOPLE. In two years, Migliaccio lost 189 lbs., and didn't even need knee surgery. That 80/20 split of healthy and more indulgent foods helped her stay on track, along with her friends and her TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) weight loss support group. Migliaccio started a nutritarian diet, which emphasizes fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts, and didn't cut out any foods, allowing herself to have a cheesesteak or ice cream when the craving struck. "It was what I needed to hear, and that's what turned me around." "He did me the biggest favor of my life being blunt like that," she said. A surgeon said she was too heavy for him to repair the injury, and predicted that she would become a wheelchair-user in a year if she didn't lose weight. While caring for her mom, Migliaccio gained 200 lbs., and after a fall in her bathroom, she tore her ACL and meniscus in her right knee. Her highest weight of 349 lbs., though, came at "the lowest point in my life, when my mom passed away," she told PEOPLE. She started dieting at age 15, and for years afterward, the New Jerseyan, who has since been diagnosed with a binge eating disorder, would yo-yo back and forth - Migliaccio estimates she's lost and gained a significant amount of weight at least 12 times. "My whole life has changed."Ĭourtesy Linda Migliaccio Courtesy Grace HuangĮver since high school, Linda Migliaccio felt like she was "battling" her weight.
"I tell people that before I felt like I had a mental cloud over my head. She's now a health coach, and helps people "get healthy." Over the next two and a half years, Hudson consistently lost weight, eventually dropping 187 lbs. Hudson started setting alarms for every 2½-3 hours to remind herself to eat healthy snacks, and swapped out the pizza for ones with cauliflower crust or made Taco Tuesdays with lettuce wraps instead of tortillas. They had tried getting her on board for years, and in January 2018, after Hudson finished college, she finally agreed to join the program. Meanwhile, her mom and grandma were both following the weight loss program Optavia and had dropped 80 and 75 lbs., respectively.
I became super insecure and withdrawn, and I stopped going out with my friends." I love to ride horses - I have my entire life - and I couldn't anymore. I had PCOS and I was on the spectrum for pre-diabetes and high blood pressure. "I started having a lot of health issues," she told PEOPLE. And within about a year, she had gained 180 lbs. Along with gaining more independence, she was also "stressed, working multiple jobs, and I didn't know what I should be eating." That meant she was grabbing what was easy and convenient on a college budget - a ton of pizza and any food she could get during breaks from her waitressing job. College was a major adjustment for Lexlee Hudson.
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