Woman's incredible transformation after dropping 60kg

Kecia Rice is almost half the woman she used to be, after dropping an incredible 62kg over the past two years.

Having always been the “bigger girl” Kecia admits she never realised how big she had gotten until the moment she was turned away from rides at a theme park because of her size.

“That never really held me back from doing things I wanted, and I didn’t feel like I was as big as I clearly was,” Kecia tells Yahoo Lifestyle.

Weighing in at 160kg, Kecia, from North Carolina, says it was during her honeymoon she realised something had to change.

“My husband and I went to Harry Potter World, something I had been dying to do for a really long time,” she tells us.

“I was in the place that I have been wanting to go to for so long, and I was too fat to ride the rides. I was devastated.

“I feel it’s important to share these types of defeats because they are real, and they show how capable we are as people to overcome those obstacles.”

Kecia also also says looking back at her wedding photos really spurred her on and so, after doing some research, the 31-year-old decided to try the Keto way of life.

“I felt beautiful the day of our wedding, it was such an amazing day. But looking at the pictures, after getting them back, I just felt awful,” she admits.

“My husband never made me feel any less for my weight, and he married me at my heaviest.

“I wasn’t a lazy person, I worked full time, we went kayaking often, played tennis, golf, I couldn’t understand how I had let myself get so big.”

At the time she was wearing a size 28, but now after dropping over 60kg she can shop for size 12 and 14. Even hubby Devin, 33, who joined her on the journey, has lost an impressive 45kg.

“Keto stuck out to me because of the lack of sugar and grains in the diet. I was a huge sugar and carb addict. I felt cutting them out of my diet completely would be the best way for me to succeed with weight loss,” she says.

“Keto itself has helped me in lots of ways, I feel more energetic, I’m healthier, and I feel better than I ever have.”

And the incredible thing is she only recently started working out, revealing she didn’t really exercise at all for the first year and a half of her weight loss journey.

“This past November I started going to Zumba classes twice a week, and then began lifting weights shortly after,” she reveals.

Kecia hopes to meet her goal weight of “healthy” sometime this year, and plans to go back to Harry Potter World, at her smaller size, so that she can enjoy the rides.

She has shared her journey on Instagram, @girl.onamission, and says the support has been hugely motivating.

“I love seeing others be motivated by my progress, as well as allowing others to motivate me.”

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