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Having learned from past weight loss fails where she would quickly make major changes to her diet, Buel started out by not making any foods off limits.
\"I started by just asking myself, ‘Is this the healthiest choice I can make?'\" she said. \"Once I spent about a month focusing on that, I started doing meal prep and tracking calories.\"
By making healthy food choices, tracking her calories and maintaining her commitment to daily physical activity, Buel has lost about 115 pounds over the last two years.
A typical day of eating for her now includes everything from fruit and oatmeal for breakfast to an easy-to-prep vegetable burrito bowl for lunch and a stir-fry for dinner. Still, nothing is off limits in her diet.
\"I definitely went about it as a much slower approach and something that is more sustainable,\" she said. \"Changing one thing at a time was really helpful for me.\"
Buel said she hopes people find inspiration not just in her weight loss, but also in the life she led before her weight loss.
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\"What I see a lot in these before and after stories is people talking about how miserable their life was before. Even at my heaviest weight, I got married, went on my honeymoon, took beach vacations and went to new cities with friends,\" she said. \"You’re just as worthy no matter how much you weigh or where you are in your journey.\"
\"After losing 115 pounds, I’m still me. I still deserve all of the good things in life that I deserved at 300 pounds too,\" she added.
Editor's note: This story was originally published on Jan. 8, 2021.
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