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Certified personal trainer Sara Pereira’s (@itssarapr) Instagram is flooded with glamorous shots from the gym and tactical fitness tips for her 384,000 fans. You might think she’s always had it all figured out. But Sara, like so many of us, started out as a complete beginner in her fitness journey.Sara’s journey really began when she was uprooted 6 years ago from her home country of Venezuela and moved to the U.S. Feeling alone in a new country and coping through emotional eating, Sara eventu...

After years of emotional binge eating and unsuccessful restrictive dieting, Ashley Zeffiro (@ashleytrackspoints) became a weight loss success story. Not only did Ashley hit her target weight, but she also kept the weight off, a part of the journey Ashley says “people don’t talk about enough.” So how did Ashley go from watching her weight yo-yo for years to becoming a sustainable weight loss advocate for over 67,000 fans on Instagram? She changed her mindset and started thinking long term.Ashl...

“At the end of the day...self-care is fitness.”Ever wondered what a 37-year-long health journey looks like? For Tara Allison (@fatgirl.fit), it’s one full of wisdom, self-love, and lots of squats. Raised in a household with generations of complex body image issues, Tara was taught to feel ashamed of her weight from a young age, and even forced to attend Weight Watchers meetings when she was just 14 years old.For Tara, this was simply her way of life. And then everything changed.A form of arth...

“The biggest part of this journey wasn’t watching the numbers on the scale drop… it was discovering a love for myself that I didn’t have before, and then having the privilege to share that with other people.”For years Grace Guilliams dealt with her health issues by… not dealing with them.Like so many coaches I’ve spoken to on this show, Grace (known as @GraceGoingDownDown to almost 100,000 followers on TikTok) struggled with her weight for most of her life. She recalls coping with this t...

Franky Delgado (@frankyfitness) has some simple yet powerful advice when it comes to losing weight: don’t be like him.This isn’t because he didn’t lose weight. He did - 120 pounds to be exact. However, Franky originally believed that his true path to happiness was a number on a scale, and his motivation to lose weight quickly turned into obsession, causing a rippling effect of consequences that Franky says he’s still living with today. But don't worry, there is a happy ending to this sto...

Sometimes it seems like getting healthy means hitting an arbitrary goal weight and calling it a day. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Hitting that weight can be a great thing, but this is usually just step 1. The unexpected question that so many of us face when we finally achieve that first, hard-won goal is… now what? That’s the question that Michelle Wigle (@michworksout) wrestled with at the outset of her health transformation. In the early days, she had s...