Couple Loses 500 Pounds Together!

[BlackDiBiase]

Best friends for over a decade, married for three years, and Angela and Willie Gillis are such a good team that together they lost 500 pounds!

Here's what Angela writes:

"Everyone needs that one person to help them through, to talk to and someone who will hold them accountable. That person has been my husband."

Their journey started one day when Willie woke up and told Angela that he was tired of being big, and that he wanted to see his goddaughter grow up. This was just a few days before their first wedding anniversary.

At the time, he weight 492 pounds. It was 2011, and he said that he wanted to see if he could do it through nutrition and exercise. Angela joined him! She weighed 338 pounds.

The plan was in motion, and the couple started hitting the gym six days a week. In the beginning, all they could do was walk 30 minutes on the treadmill — which was enough, because eventually they both increased their time, and found that she was running, and he had lost about 150 pounds!

Angela figured out how to make healthy versions of the food they loved, and started eating a solid breakfast of steel cut oats and fruit or veggie omelets. They packed diet-friendly frozen meals for lunch and found relief in low-calorie snacks like yogurt, carrots and apples. For dinner? Lean meats and vegetables, as it still is today!

They haven't had fried food in TWO years!!

The main thing is that they kept each other accountable:

"I never wanted to come home and say, 'This is what I did today,' because I didn't want to disappoint him. And he didn't want to disappoint me."

The biggest thing they had to face was eating out, because even 'light' restaurant meals are pretty awful with sodium and fat. Eating was such a social thing for them that they had to isolate themselves a little bit, and actually met new friends at the gym! Now, she teaches spin classes at the gym and recently completed a half marathon — and lost 200 pounds, going from a size 28 to a size 0.

Willie joined a local running club. He has lost 300 pounds! Here's what he says:

"A lot of people give up — they end up quitting because they're not doing something right. You have to take what you messed up on and try to make it work for you. Once you learn it, it doesn't take much to keep it going."

 

[Teal.]

Is that her to the right. On the left picture?

 

[BlackDiBiase]

Is that her to the right. On the left picture?

yeah thats her, both times.

 

[Jahmal]

She looks like his Mom in the 2nd pic.

 

[Azul]

Good for them for committing to a healthy lifestyle.

Unfortunately she looks like his momma now

 

[Emperor Sol]

Nobody in this thread should knock them.

They put in work and great things happened as a result. Most fatties don't have it in them to make this kind of progress.

Great people. Hopefully the weight stays off and they continue to eat healthy.

 

[LordTaskForce]

They looked better fat

 

[Mowgli]

Couple gets divorced after losing 250 pounds together. Ol girl lookin like a statistic of the Ronald Reagan era. Good for them though.

 

[electric_fur]

why does she look like a completely different person???

 

[Grifter]

She was prettier fat.


Bet there isn't a firm cushion in their house.

 

[DStyles]

She looks like his Mom in the 2nd pic.

She still does on the 1st one

But good for them though

 

[JasonSJackson]

no way she green lighted that picture

 

[HookersandIceCream]

I dated a girl that got fat once

Lost 200lbs when I left her fat ass



Fukk you hoes that think its okay to get fat in a relationship

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

somethin' aint right..did the source forget to mention about Crystal Meth usage?

 

[Illuminatos]

He looks like Kid Cudi in his skinny picture.