Sometimes it’s good to get hurt on your heart for better future and this statement fits perfectly to Harshi Suraweera. Harshi (29) got emotionally hurt when her friend uploaded a group photo on the social networking site Facebook.
It was very surprising for her that people started posting negative comments on her looks for being overweight. This incident forced Harshi to bring a change in her life and she was ready to give 100 percent from her side.
Harshi, who is basically from Sri Lanka but lives in Melbourne, has told Daily Mail Australia that only in the first 10 months of her fitness regime, she lost 43 Kgs as her weight reached to 64 Kgs from 107 Kgs.
Here’s what she wrote on her blog,
“My first step to changing my lifestyle started with a certain photo on Facebook. A friend uploaded a group photo, and I got a lot of negative comments about the way I looked. I was devastated and depressed. But I decided to take the first step to changing my body from that day onwards.”
She started going to gym where she used to do cardio for 2-3 hours a day. Harshi says, “It was really difficult. I would always go the gym really late, because at that time it was quiet, and I would go to the corner and do my cardio.” However after few weeks, the change was visible in her and it motivated her to carry on with the good work.
She also talked about her eating habits,
“I used to eat a lot of rice and curry, junk food, pizza, I would easily eat two pizzas and a litre of Coke a day. I was addicted to food, it was not normal.”
She feels that weight loss is not possible until the diet is nutritional and healthy and her new diet includes salads and proteins. This is the advice that she gives to all people who want to lose weight, “Avoid all sugars and processed foods.”
Since 2011, after losing 43 Kgs, she has been working hard to keep her body toned. She made some changes in her fitness regime by shifting over to weight lifting which helps in giving the body a muscular shape. As a result, now she can squat 120 kilos and dead lift 130.
Just lately, Harshi took to Instagram to share her photos of both phases and very soon she has made more than 70,000 followers. There were some who praised her for efforts while few slammed her by saying that the two girls in before-after pics are different.
She said, “That’s true people can’t recognise me, even my mum couldn’t recognise me.”
According to Harshi, change in her skin tone is due to healthy diet and as far as negative remarks about fake pics are concerned, the marks on the skin are the same in before-after pics.
She feels that due to her weight loss, perception of people towards her has also changed. In her words,
“The ugly truth is that people approach me more often than when I was overweight. People are more friendly towards me. While it has changed my whole life I think it is a good change. It has mainly changed my outlook, but it didn’t change who I was on the inside.”
I’m sure the story of Harshi will give you much needed motivation for losing weight and being fit.
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