她的一生，奥利·贝（Olly Bey）超重。她解释说：“从一开始。”“我什至以10磅重的婴儿出来。”
这是一个故事，讲述了这位总部位于伦敦的教育项目经理如何通过大量停止并开始减轻110磅的重量，并成为一种社交媒体的轰动……her Instagram posts， 当然。
“My journey’s been a lot longer than a lot of other people’s,” she says.
省长的大多数朋友和家人来盯住她s a heavy girl. And she bought into it. “I just assumed I was supposed to be fat,” she says. At her heaviest, she hit 259 pounds when she was 25 years old.
For years, Bey tried counting calories, which worked occasionally — her weight fluctuated. But it wasn’t until three years ago that she started using MyFitnessPal consistently and began viewing food as more than just calories. She asked questions on the MyFitnessPal forums and learned about macros:蛋白质，碳水化合物和脂肪。She started reading nutritional labels and logging the specific foods she was eating (instead of guessing), and weighing portions on food scales to get an accurate idea of what she was eating.
“I didn’t realize my old eating habits were bad,” she says, recalling eating two breakfasts or drinking two liters of Coke daily. “I just thought it was normal.”
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份量是最大的问题：“我吃了五颗谷物，”她开玩笑说。她也不想错过享受家庭活动，这通常以尼日利亚的美食为中心。她的一些朋友和家人看到她从聚会到计划饭菜真是令人震惊。
果然，体重开始减轻。但是她说，她仍然不开心，因为她还没有身体状况。那时她到达了她所谓的“生病和疲倦的第二阶段”。输入她的运动方案，这也不容易。
Bey bought a Beach Body DVD, but it sat on the table in her flat for four months until she finally tried it. When she went to the gym, she didn’t know where to start or what to do. It was all men in the weight room, and she had to Google videos of the machines to learn how they worked. After trying basic aerobic exercise for a few months, she found weightlifting a year ago and her routine evolved. “It made me change my focus not on how I look, but on how I feel,” she says.
不久，她开始在社交媒体上分享自己的旅程。她的姐姐鼓励她设置自己的Instagram帐户。贝伊开始开发一个新的例行程序：每天早上5点左右起床去健身房邮寄：举重室中的自拍照，励志名言，她的锻炼照片或她在某些挑战中谈论的视频。
Very quickly, people began flocking to her for inspiration. It’s only been a year, but Bey now has more than 9,000 followers — though she doesn’t call them followers; she calls them “slayers.”
她说：“当我不发布时，人们就会给我发消息。”“实际上，如果我无法帮助人们，我的故事不是我的故事。”
她还创建了一个名称以匹配她的Instagram句柄的博客 -Changing My Fatitude- 并开始提供为期两周的套餐，以帮助人们入门，分配她在路上让她所需的一些基本建议：家庭锻炼，如何在MyFitnessPal上使用提醒，有关登录食物和餐饮计划的技巧，食谱和食谱，以及狗万买球网址even a beginner’s shopping guide.
Bey says she gets emotional notes and comments from people who are struggling with their own journeys: exercise, food, even self-esteem issues, like not wanting to be in photos with their kids. She theorizes that many of her followers — women also trying to lose weight — respond to her struggles and want to share their own.
Bey还在一个穆斯林家庭中长大，但从未练习过。当她的生活中有更多的纪律并摆脱了她的旧聚会生活方式时，她说：“我意识到我缺少一些东西。”她说，这仍然是一个过程，但是她正在与自己的灵性建立关系。她的许多追随者也是年轻的穆斯林妇女，她们想要有关如何将自己的练习与健康饮食和运动融入的技巧，或者在斋月期间对如何培训有后勤问题。
尽管她有新发现的声名狼藉，但Bey并不一定想成为私人教练或营养教练。她认为自己的价值是与经历与经历相似的挑战的人们建立联系。
“I see myself as an ‘agony aunt,’” she says, using a British term for advice columnists. Her next plan is to do more Q&A videos, where she answers follower-submitted questions and asks other followers for their input.
她笑着说：“在我理想的世界中，我很想成为奥普拉。”现在，仅仅回答人们的问题并坚持自己的培训和食物计划，需要花费很多时间。
She still struggles to keep up, she says, especially in social settings, but that’s part of the journey. And it’s one of the messages she wants to pass on to others: It’s OK to make mistakes. That’s part of the journey, too.
