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Now, Aishah weighs a healthy 10st 4lbs and wears a size 8 dress. She added: “I’ve lost more weight since and I’m finally at a point where I feel like I’m at a healthy weight which I want to maintain.” With a mixture of gym workouts and cutting out fatty foods, Aishah spent the next two years slimming down.Īnd on March 4, 2020, she finally hit her 100lb goal.Īishah said: “I had to double check that the scales were correct because I just could not believe I had finally done it.” “I figured out a meal plan and researched online to understand what I should and shouldn’t be eating.”Īishah’s goal was to lose 100lbs. I would hide packets of crisps and chocolate in my room, so I knew that needed to stop. “I cut out the secret snacking I was doing. She added: “Because I have polycystic ovaries, I should have been even more conscious of my diet so I decided it was time to do something.

Weighing 18st 8lbs and wearing a size 20, Aishah says she felt like she was not living her life to the fullest. I had friends but I avoided going out because I hated how I looked.”Īishah wants other women to feel confident in the weight section of the gym.

“At the time, I was working for a construction company as a project manager. It was July 4, 2018, and I woke and thought, ‘I’m sick of this.’ She said: “I’ll never forget the day I had my epiphany. A newly qualified personal trainer, who once avoided going out because she “hated” how she looked and who had never had a boyfriend, has dropped over 8st – and now maintains her new figure by lifting weights.Īishah Sheikh, 30, from Uxbridge, London, lost six dress sizes and says part of her motivation when she vowed to lose weight aged 26 was to regain her confidence.Īnd now Aishah, who has had a couple of relationships since she decided to change her body and life, feels ready to take on dating properly.Īishah has dropped six dress sizes.
