As Erica Lugo sat on the couch, her then 3-year-old
son Connor gazed at her and asked her to sit on the floor to play with him.
"No," she immediately said.
The reason?
Lugo felt too tired to get off the couch. As sad as it
was at the time, that "no" sparked a realization.
"That was a huge wake up call for me. 'Oh my
gosh, I told my 3-year-old son, no I couldn't play with him, because I was too
tired to get off the couch,'
Since that "no" three years ago Lugo lost
160 pounds from her 5-foot-11-inch frame. When she started, she felt depressed
to learn she weighed 322 pounds.
"Your heart kind of sinks when you see
that," she said.
Growing up, Lugo struggled with her weight: she never
really understood nutrition or exercise. After realizing she had to slim down,
she simply downloaded an app to help her track her calories and exercise. She
followed the app's recommendations to eat 2,000 calories a day and work out
four times a week. She relied on smaller food portions, low-calorie frozen
dinners and exercised for 20 or 30 minutes, four times a week.
"When I first started, I had no idea what to
do," she said. "The basics are what worked. Read the full story here"
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