I weighed 400lbs and lived off junk food - but a trip to DISNEYLAND helped me lose half my body weight

A female who weighed 400 pounds - and felt for illustration each measurement 'was a burden' - has revealed really a travel to Disneyland helped her shed much than half her assemblage weight.

Leah Hope Mancuso, 35, often turned to junk nutrient and unhealthy snacks arsenic a measurement to consciousness afloat while getting connected pinch her engaged lifestyle. 

As her eating intensified, she piled connected nan weight and stopped moving astir truthful overmuch - tipping nan scales astatine 400lbs astatine her heaviest

But nan photographer, from Scottsdale, Arizona, didn't recognize nan afloat grade of nan weight summation until she went connected vacation to Disneyland pinch her sister and family.

'It was nan heaviest I had ever been trying to bask a time astatine a taxable park,' Leah dished.

'Being an aunt has been 1 of nan top joys of my life, and I didn't want to miss retired connected this acquisition pinch my nephew, truthful I went knowing it would beryllium difficult for me. 

'Within a fewer hours, I had a migraine, my feet hurt, my backmost hurt, and I was profusely sweating.

'I took breaks arsenic often arsenic I could but I ended up having to walk nan past portion of nan time by myself, sitting astatine a array pinch my eyes closed to negociate nan migraine.

'That nighttime I felt foolish for reasoning I would beryllium capable to grip it and knew I couldn't proceed down nan way I was on.

'I didn't want to unrecorded a life wherever a time astatine nan expected "happiest spot connected earth" was really nan astir miserable for me.' 

When Leah sewage location from nan travel successful March 2022, she knew thing had to change.

She said: 'I lived a life wherever I started to move arsenic small arsenic imaginable because each measurement felt for illustration a burden.

'I was becoming much uncomfortable successful my body, and realized really difficult it was conscionable to get done my regular life astatine my size. 

'On astir days, nan only clip I near nan location was to prime up immoderate nutrient I was craving that day. 

'I usually had Starbucks astir mornings - a Venti Caramel Macchiato pinch other caramel drizzle, a blueberry muffin and a Danish.'

She continued: 'I would often prime up different repast for luncheon aliases meal - thing for illustration an In-N-Out burger, wherever I'd get 2 orders of fries, truthful I could eat 1 pinch my burger and prevention 1 for a snack.

'I besides ate stiff nutrient beautiful often erstwhile I ate astatine location - easy things I could power up for illustration taquitos aliases burritos.'

Leah weighed a staggering 398lbs erstwhile she began her journey.

'I started being mindful of what I was eating by penning it down successful a nutrient journal,' she dished.

'After practicing mindfulness, I decided to return a small much power complete my results and, aft astir six weeks, began search my calorie intake.'

Leah continued: 'I besides started stepping 10 minutes a time because that was astir each I could do astatine 1 time.

'But arsenic I built up my endurance, I was capable to spell from 10 minutes to 15, past 20, past 30.

'Then I added swimming to nan operation and yet spot training, playing pickleball and hiking arsenic well. 

'About a twelvemonth into my journey, I hired a individual trainer who I've worked pinch regularly since.'

Leah presently weighs 185lbs - aft successfully shedding much than half her assemblage weight.

She said: 'Daily eating now looks for illustration scrambled eggs pinch food mixed in, and consequence aliases poached eggs connected a portion of sourdough bread, pinch food on pinch coffee, pinch collagen, pick and sweetener for breakfast.

'Lunch is simply a cottage food bowl, pinch maple syrup to sweeten, granola and fruit.

'Another luncheon I often person is an unfastened sandwich, pinch ham aliases tuna connected sourdough.

'For dinner, I typically person chickenhearted and potatoes, aliases pasta pinch chickenhearted sausage, and a rootlike for illustration broccoli aliases doorbell peppers.'

She continued: 'A snack will typically beryllium a macromolecule barroom aliases shake.     

'I still emotion to person thing saccharine for illustration a popsicle aliases berries pinch whipped cream, and cocoa chips to extremity nan day!'

Leah explained that she now feels good, patient and tin successful her caller body.

She said: 'I was surviving specified a constricted life before, because my size and abilities held maine backmost successful truthful galore ways.

'I thought my life was easier earlier - that's why I continued pinch nan unhealthy patterns I created for myself.

'But it wasn't easier, it was conscionable less.

'Life is truthful overmuch amended now. Not because I'm person to society's modular of beauty, but because I person truthful overmuch much of nan things that genuinely matter.'