Amazing Weight Loss: Woman Sheds 300 Pounds on Her Own
For every pound you want to drop, there's a diet plan , surgery, high-tech gadget or reality-TV show promising to get you to your goal, faster, cheaper and easier than the rest.
But what happens if you strip away the conveniences of today's high-tech, "we want it now" world, and try to lose the weight the hard way?
One Colorado woman did just that and succeeded, losing 300 pounds in nearly three years all on her own, with no surgery or gimmicky diet to take credit.
"There is no magic bullet," Shannon Davis told "Good Morning America." "You cannot lose weight without putting in the time and effort.
"It's not easy. It's simple sweat equity."
And sweat is certainly something that Davis -- a 39-year-old master's degree student who also works full time and cares for her mother -- knows something about.
She is now committed to a seven-days-per-week workout routine that consists of an hour of cardio for four days and weightlifting with her trainer the other three.
That is a far cry from where Davis found herself three years ago -- a 589 pound woman unable to leave her Broomfield, Colo., home, much less jump on a treadmill.
"I was afraid to go out," Davis told "GMA." "I knew people would stare, judge me and make comments about me."
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Comments from her friends made her say enough was enough. They warned her she was going to die if she didn't change.
So she got off the couch and headed for a local gym, but couldn't even make it one step on the treadmill.
"There was no way I could walk on the treadmill at 589 pounds," she said.
But she kept moving.
"I'd go back to the pool and walk back-and-forth for an hour," Davis recalled of the first days in her weight-loss journey. "I didn't want people to see me. I wanted to be invisible.
"Things have changed a little bit," she said.
Gaining While Losing
Changes for Davis have come not just on the outside -- she now stands as literally half the woman she used to be -- but on the inside as well.
She no longer beats herself up over food cravings and has learned to enjoy an indulgence, in balance with her everyday, healthy diet.
"Everybody messes up," Davis said. "That's the thing about dieting everyone needs to learn: Everyone makes mistakes."
Davis says she follows a healthy diet of three simple meals per day, and stays satisfied with the reduced intake compared to her previous daily calories by focusing on the quality of the food, not the quantity.
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I saw this story about a woman who lost 300 pounds the “old fashioned way”.
No surgery….
No gimmicks….
While there are many applauding her success, there are just as many that need to understand how much more there is to this story. First of all having weight loss surgery is not the easy way out or you wouldn’t have anyone regaining after surgery. Every single person that has had the surgery would have the perfect outcome and it would be the magic pill.
What no one is saying are the statistics for someone who has lost this much weight on their own. Less than 5% of all people that lose this much weight have regained it all plus more within five years. When her body starts to rebel and she starts to have problems, I hope her support group will be there for her because long after the ABC cameras have left, this is when the reality of this process will set in. I have seen it personally several times. A few years ago I met a man that lost 200 pounds THREE TIMES! For the life of me I cannot imagine the strength it required to accomplish that feat. After meeting so many people through the weight loss surgery community, there are many of these stories. I personally have gained and lost hundreds of pounds, hundreds of times.
She’ll get her fifteen minutes of fame and she’ll be feeling “all successful” and then the pounds start creeping back on because the weight loss was only a band-aid for the root problem and this poor woman will have to not only go back to a normal existence but an existence where she has a 95% chance of failing. My heart breaks for her and I desperately hope she’s part of that 5% that makes it.
ABC does a major injustice to this lovely woman because they won’t care about her when she starts to struggle and of course they had to add “no surgery, no gimmicks”. That would imply that my 130 pound weight loss was a gimmick, or fake weight loss, or I cheated somehow. It really shouldn’t matter how I went from 260 pounds to 130 pounds and kept it off for ten years as long as I am healthy. I am healthier than I’ve ever been in my entire life. There are hundreds of thousands of post-ops just like me and you rarely hear our stories being told on Good Morning America or People Magazine ‘s feature about women that have lost half their weight.
That’s why we blog. That’s why we tell out stories on websites, You Tube or wherever we can. Some day the mainstream media will figure it out. It’s good that I’m patient because I guess I don’t have a choice….
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Shannon Davis, 39, shed 300 pounds in nearly three years with no surgery or quick diet fix.
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