Have you heard about Nancy Makin who managed to lose 530 pounds over just 3 years without any fancy diet or exercise program?

Nancy Makin weighed an astounding 703 pounds in May 2000. She was forty-five years old and suffered from diabetes and other obesity-related maladies. The weight gain started after a divorce and fear at her job. Makin began overeating to avoid her feelings and soon she just couldn’t stop.

After 12 years of weight gain, Makin had spiraled into despair. The more food she ate, the more shame she felt, and nothing could stop the cycle. At her heaviest, she wore a skirt with a 108-inch waistband and missed her son’s wedding and father’s funeral.

Then one day her sister gave her a computer. Inspired by the friends she’d made online and no longer judged by how she looked, Makin finally took control of the situation.

“The anonymity of the computer gave me access to a world that would have just as well have left me alone, alone to die but I did not,” Makin wrote in a letter describing her saga.

It was the gift of getting online that ultimately let Makin escape her misery. Before she knew it, the political junkie was surfing through chat rooms and making friends, beginning to find value in herself again.

“I was being loved and nurtured by faceless strangers,” she said in 2007. “Friends accepted who I was based on my mind and soul. “I was so busy and happy to get up every morning that I like to say I lost weight in my fingers first.”

Conclusion: Makin basically changed her mindset and her perception of herself. It is her own psychological transformation that helped her to lose all that weight without diet pills, exercise or even a diet. She just stopped gorging.

“I achieved this on my own, in a natural way, with no surgical procedures having been performed. No particular ‘diet’ plan was followed; no pills, potions or ab-crunching exercises played a part in my recovery,” she wrote in a congratulatory letter to herself.

After losing 530 pounds, she wanted people to know that crucial first step is realizing that the weight is not the problem.

Advice: Unless you focus on what’s going on inside and start to feel better about yourself, you won’t be able to stop the cycle. It is important to find contentment and value in yourself by reaching out and doing something not for you, and the weight will come off as a side effect.”

Now: Today Makin weighs a healthy 170 pounds and hopes others will be inspired by her story to take back their own lives.

Are you inspired by her story? I am. In fact, I just ordered a copy of her book from Amazon. Have you?

Do you want to achieve the same success as Nancy Makin? Get her book – 703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life today and start to lose weight seriously for good.

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