The ‘Freshman 15’ knows no borders, bros.
Hayley Westoby, a 25-year-old from Sydney, Australia, was an active high schooler who played sports and ran wind sprints and didn’t have the luxury of locking herself in a dorm room to drink herself to sleep. When she got to college (no parents!), she abandoned her fit lifestyle and began boozing and eating junk food. As many of you know, stringing together a few of these weeks, months is like a snowball picking up steam downhill, only accumulating in mass.
At the end of her first year, Hayley ballooned to 260 pounds. The tipping point came when her then boyfriend brought up her weight in an argument.
‘We were arguing about something silly, when at the end he told me to ‘lose some weight,’ Hayley told Daily Mail.
‘Deep down I knew he wasn’t being nasty. It was a slip of the tongue that had revealed he had genuine concerns about my size.
That’s the moment where Hayley began her journey to lose 140 pounds. She executed this gigantic weight loss by cutting out booze and junk food, as well as waking up at 5:30 am every day to work out. I can’t tell which is more excruciating: giving up alcohol or waking up at the ass crack of dawn to, like, move.
‘People don’t realize how many calories and how much sugar is in that glass of wine or beer that they love,’ Hayley said.
‘It was hard to quit at first, as I’ve always been a social person. But I realised that I could still go out with the girls and not drink.
‘Most of the time, people don’t even notice I’m not drinking as my soda water and lime looks no different to what everyone else has in their hands.’
It looks like it’s paying off, Hayley. Good on you.
[h/t Daily Mail]