Health, finance, and life lessons from a 71-year-old wealthy female
When she was in her early thirties, her husband, a construction worker, left Maggie when her kids (a boy and a girl) were 3 and 7. She believed her changing body to an obese state was the leading cause for her husband losing attraction. Nevertheless, they were in love initially. Then, unfortunately, her husband had an affair that broke Maggie’s heart.
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How Maggie Reversed Her Obesity
Obesity is a significant problem adversely affecting the health of millions of people globally. Maggie was one of them at the age of 30.
The root cause of her obesity spanned to her childhood traumas which she glossed over during conversations. However, she was vocal about the hardships she experienced in her twenties and thirties.
Maggie is one of my sauna friends like Algor (105-year-old centenarian) that I introduced in a story before. Maggie does not like cold showers like Algor and me, but she loves swimming and a dry sauna as part of our fitness friends circle.
Maggie shared many sad stories that caused her to overeat using food as a coping mechanism. She believed emotional eating was the primary culprit, coupled with several unfortunate events in her life. She couldn’t afford nutritious food and survived with cheap canned food for many years.
Rather than focusing on her many problems, I want to share some tips that helped Maggie deal with her obesity and successfully got rid of it before her 40s. Fortunately, she lost substantial body fat and did not gain it over the last three decades.
In her 70s, Maggie looks like a woman in her thirties. Charming, attractive, and inspiring. She is full of life lessons that she articulates with confidence and generosity.
Effectively dealing with emotional stress was an essential factor for Maggie to lose substantial fat. From my experience, emotional stress forms the more significant part of the icebergin the fat loss journey.
As I suspected, Maggie did not count calories and did not do fad diets. Her friends recommended diet schemes like Jenny Craig and others to lose weight, but she couldn’t afford them as a non-working single mum. She fed herself and her children with the bit of single-parent funds she got from the government unemployment scheme.
Instead, she changed her lifestyle. She was fortunate enough to meet a community volunteer who was a qualified nutritionist. They clicked and became close friends, and she learned how to eat healthy foods from this person she characterized as an angel in her life.
The nutritionist volunteered to coach her as she did many other obese people in the community. They became terrific friends and had early morning walks every day. The nutritionist encouraged her not to eat during the 90-minute daily walks for a year. Maggie completed at least 10,000 steps with a cup of coffee in the morning which she brewed for herself and her friend every day.
Maggie’s story reminds me of Eliza’s inspiring story as another single mum. Sometimes, I imagine angels come in human forms to earth and touch on the heart and souls of people who need their help the most. So, this nutritionist for Maggie and Adrian for Eliza look like typical angel examples in my metaphoric thoughts.
Maggie lost substantial fat within a year, and her waistline dropped from 45 inches to 37 inches. This tangible progress motivated her to continue. Another notable recommendation from the angel was cutting snacks.
This unusual recommendation was interesting to me as when I was struggling with excessive fat, my nutritionist recommended frequent meals, including three snacks, which worsened my situation. I wish I had an angel like hers in my desperate times. However, I found my angel in my inner wisdom hidden in my sufferings.
Apart from long morning walks, Maggie did not do a strenuous workout. She has never been to a gym in her life. However, her angel introduced her planks. She started doing one minute plank, and she told me that she had done 15 minutes of plank every day since the age of 31. Her posture is still remarkable and admired by many friends.
A few years later, another friend of Maggie recommended swimming. Incidentally, the swimming pool was part of the health center where we met in its sauna section. So then, we swam together and had hundreds of sauna and spa sessions together. Her stories inspire many of us to put smiles on our faces and sometimes bring tears to our eyes.
Regular use of a dry sauna helped Maggie to detoxify her body. In addition, swimming helped her to keep lean muscle mass and prevented her from gaining fat.
By skipping breakfast, reducing her emotional stress, and doing moderate exercises such as walking, swimming, and planks, Maggie got rid of insulin resistance, the leading cause of her obesity and fatty liver.
Maggie’s children are grown up, one is a medical doctor, and another is a ballerina. Interestingly, her children haven’t tasted lollies and never demanded ones. She always fed them home-cooked food. She still cooks healthy food and does not eat out.
With simple lifestyle changes, Maggie transformed into a new body and kept it functional for several decades. According to her words, she didn’t do anything extraordinary. But in my view, she created a wonderful life for herself, her children, and many community members.
In her second-hand shop, Maggie met many poor people who could only afford second-hand materials. She had lovely conversations with them and built deep relationships. In addition, she helped hundreds of obese people (male and female) to transform their bodies. Maggie found her purpose in life.
She inspired many other poor and obese people by being a role model for them. She believed that meaningful relationships with her clients helped her heal from emotional suffering and improved her emotional maturity.
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