Woman Loses 100 Pounds With Help On Instagram

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Losing weight sometimes seems like an impossible battle, yet a young woman from California has just shown that, with the right motivation and encouragement from many people, the fight can be won.

According to people magazine, Morgan Bartley lost 100 pounds thanks, in part, to the support he received from his 152,000 followers on Instagram. "Sometimes the support I have received (online) has been the only thing that has kept me going."

The 20-year-old who lives in Southern California, relates that she has always been overweight, but that the problem worsened after she underwent an operation to remove one of her ovaries, about eight years ago. In addition to starting to experience premature menopausal symptoms and receiving the news that she might never be able to have children, the young woman gained 70 pounds, which only made her feel more depressed and eat more.

That being the case, at 17 Bartley weighed 300 pounds. Then it occurred to her to set a goal of starting to lose those extra pounds and, to ensure her commitment, she began to post that process on her Instagram account, @morganlosing. She also posted some videos on Youtube.

After getting a trainer, he was put on a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. So he lost 25 pounds. Then, in August 2015, he had a vertical sleeve gastrectomy, which reduced the size of his stomach.

In 2016, she had another operation to remove excess skin, and now she is working to achieve certification to be a personal trainer, among other goals. "I just want to help other people change their lives," she says, "I feel like that's what I should be doing with my life."