A family decided to lose weight together by quitting their unhealthy habits.
They lost an incredible six-and-a-half stone in just six months. Going to the pub and takeaway binges, was the main routine of The McGillivray family.
But, one day they got a wake-up call when Sue lost her mother to diabetes – this was the time when she decided to change her lifestyle.
Sue, 51, and Roy, 56, decided to go to the gym with their two sons Ben and Simon, they also replaced their unhealthy foods with healthier choices.
Sue lost a total of 3.5st, in just six months, while her husband Roy lost 2st.
Her Sons Ben, 24, and Simon, 28, lost a stone between them, and build muscles.
The family says, their journey of transformation made physical changes but also developed a strong bond between them, as they are much closer now.
Sue, a housewife, said: “I had got to a point in my life where I needed to make some big changes. I had a family history of diabetes and that was something I saw for myself if I continued on the path I was on. I really felt that I needed to address my diet, my exercise.
“After the death of my mom, because it was related to diabetes, it was really important to get myself sorted and not go down that same track. The way that I have dealt with my grief, this has given me a real focus, to focus on myself and get myself healthy rather than focusing on grief.
“Being overweight made me feel that I had lost myself. I felt like a big person had eaten a small person. I started noticing results within two weeks. The weight started coming off, and once that happens you really get the motivation to keep going.”
Sue said she lost so much weight that some people who met her after a long time couldn’t recognize her.
She continued: “I feel so much more confident, I feel like I have got back to who I am.
“I feel great. When you get dressed and people give you compliments it is nice, but ultimately it is how you feel in yourself, being able to look in the mirror and liking what you see. I am happy.”
The family joined the Ultimate Performance gym in Manchester, the gym which trained actors like Gemma Atkinson and Ryan Thomas.
All credit goes to trainer Anthony Paulhe for the McGillivrays’ amazing transformation, he guided her with intense workouts, and also made changes in food habits. He also gave her good nutrition and meal plans.
Roy, managing director of a dental firm, said: “My diet and lifestyle was probably pretty average. I was working hard. I wouldn’t eat breakfast in the morning, I would have something mid-morning at work, fatty food, bacon and egg sandwich, sometimes I would take lunch, sometimes I wouldn’t.
“In the evening I would find myself eating takeaway food because I was too tired to prepare something. You may go to the pub after work for tea, but then you would end up having two or three drinks, so then you were consuming more alcohol. That was the lifestyle.
“I never realized how unhealthy I was until I had my measurements done. I had never considered myself to be obese – but I was obese.
“That has got a bearing on your life. You reach a certain age, and if you allow your fitness levels to be poor and your diet to be unhealthy then you have to pay a price for that. If you look after yourself then age really is just a number.
“Why would you not want to look in the mirror and see that person looking back is fit and healthy?
“I did this for myself and my family. But when people start to notice your transformation and make comments, you feel 10ft tall. When you go shopping and buy new clothes and they fit nice you feel good about yourself.
“I think the life-changing thing for me personally is taking the numbers away. I feel no different today at 56 than I did at 36, I probably feel better than I did at 36. To be able to say that is incredible. I think it has given me longevity, energy, and focus.”
Son Simon added: “Training together as a family has definitely brought us closer together. We have supported each other, there have been challenges along the way but we kept each other on track.
“The change in my mom has been unbelievable. I hadn’t realized how down she was. But the change in her over the course of the last six months has been incredible. I look at how she is now – she is enjoying life and that rubs off on the rest of the family.”
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