“I still can’t believe that the reflection in the mirror is me…”
A resident of British Billingham, in County Durham, managed to say goodbye to almost half of her weight after seeing her mom’s weight-loss successes.
24-year-old Steph Sykes has never been a reed. However, after the sudden loss of her father in 2015 (the man had an aortic aneurysm), she completely ceased to control herself. The girl gave up on herself. She locked herself at home, didn’t want to see anyone and all she did was to eat.
“I became a hermit. I was unhappy, I was sad, and I stopped caring about my appearance. Life had lost its meaning, and I thought: “Who cares if I’m so fat?,” Steph recalls.
At that time, the girl lived with a young man, but he did not seem to notice that something was wrong with his beloved. He did not interfere in any way in the situation and pretended that everything was fine.
And at the same time, Sykes consumed about five thousand calories daily and practically did not move. She would wake up in the afternoon and then watch TV shows late into the night. In two years of such “unrestrained fun” Steph’s weight had exceeded 170 kilograms, and the clothing size had approached XXXL.
The only person who really cared about Stephanie was her mom Karen. However, she could not influence her adult daughter either by persuasion or force. Then the woman decided to try out the power of a personal example.
Karen signed up for a slimming club, hoping that her daughter would follow her example. It was the right decision, and a month later, impressed by Mom’s success, Steph joined her. The girl radically changed her lifestyle. She changed her diet to a healthy one, and also abandoned the guy who pulled her to the bottom.
In a matter of months, Sykes got rid of 76 kilograms. Now she weighs 85, and instead of a four-digit clothing size, she wears a standard M.
“I feel very different. Previously, I could only find suitable clothes for me in online stores, and I only went out of the house to my mother, where, like at home, I used to lay on the couch. I still can’t believe that the reflection in the mirror is me,” the girl admits.
The only thing that prevents Steph from being completely satisfied with herself is six kilograms of excess skin that formed after losing weight. However, this is also fixable, but the operation costs 20 thousand pounds and is not included in the insurance. Now the girl is raising money for the final transformation with the help of crowdfunding.
“I also need breast surgery and a hand lift. I want to go on dates again and not explain that I have extra skin under my clothes,” the girl added.
Now the girl runs an Instagram account, where she shares her success in losing weight and inspires others to say goodbye to excess weight.
