'No 外科, no gimmicks, no pills': How unflattering family photograph 奮起させるd obese nurse to lose 200lb in a year
A woman from Oklahoma has lost almost half her bodyweight after catching sight of herself in an unflattering family photograph.
Traci Tate, who 重さを計るd 400lb at her largest , had been browsing albums with her sister when she （機の）カム across the image 早期に year.
The 35-year-old nurse from Oklahoma City hadn't realised how large she had let herself become, and burst into 涙／ほころびs when she realised how she looked to the 残り／休憩（する） of the world.
Transformed: A now glamorous Traci Tate, who lost nearly 180lb in just a year, 持つ／拘留するing a pair of the trousers she used to wear
Just 12 months later, 行方不明になる Tate, who is 5ft 10, 重さを計るs just 218lb, thanks to a healthy diet and rigorous 演習 政権.
'I've lost almost half of me,' she told The Oklahoman.
'I did it with no 外科, no gimmicks, no pills,' she said. 'I'm just making smarter choices with my life.'
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She told how she cried the first time she 重さを計るd herself on the 激しい-義務 規模s at the hospital where she 作品.
'I topped the 規模 at almost 400lb,' she said.
Her sister, Jamie Fields, 申し込む／申し出d to support her through her 負わせる-loss, becoming her coach and 助言者.
'She was 分類するd as morbidly obese. That was a big 取引，協定,' Mrs Fields told the paper.
'She just has to stay active. You don't become almost 400 続けざまに猛撃するs by 存在 active.'
行方不明になる Tate, who would get out of breath just walking from her car to the hospital and 定期的に ate junk food on late night 転換s, was given 週刊誌 goals by Mrs Fields and her husband.
The 簡潔な／要約するs 含むd 避けるing calorific drinks and not eating late at night in a 企て，努力，提案 to slowly change her lifestyle.
Obese: 行方不明になる Tate hadn't realised how large she had let herself become until she saw a family photograph that 許すd her to see herself as others do
She 明らかにする／漏らすd that her sister would call her each night, asking what she had eaten that day.
'If she answered 半導体素子s, Jamie would ask how many,' the paper 報告（する）／憶測d.
In an 成果／努力 to have something good to tell her 助言者, the nurse stopped eating food from the hospital cafeteria and vending machines and started taking a calorie-controlled packed lunch from home.
She also began working 演習 into her day, walking その上の and その上の each time, losing an 普通の／平均（する） of around 30lb each month.
By summer, her ４半期/4分の1-mile walks turned into half-mile walks and the 肯定的な results spurred 行方不明になる Tate to go a step その上の and begin training for 地元の charity runs.
She began with the 3.1mile Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in honour of her sister, who has twice beaten breast 癌.
'I said: "I'm going to run this in her honour,' 行方不明になる Tate said. 'She's the person who's training me. She's my everything.'
The race took place in October and she finished it in a respectable 47 minutes.
Now she is training for a 13.1mile half-マラソン in Oklahoma on May 1.
行方不明になる Tate is now 奮起させるing others with her story and gives inspirational 会談 to people? looking to lose 負わせる.
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