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How to Lose Weight

How to Lose Weight
Understand the transformative power of weight-loss through these stories. Discover how individuals were motivated to take back control of their health mostly through lifestyle changes – committing to fitness routines, eating more nutritious meals, getting better sleep and more.
Not getting enough sleep can lead to weight gain and increases in sedentary behaviour and insulin resistance, according to a recent Columbia University study. Photo: Shutterstock
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Lose sleep, gain weight: how chronic sleep loss can add 0.5kg every 6 weeks

Shortening adequate sleep by 80 minutes a night saw adults’ weight go up one pound in just six weeks in a recent study.

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Why losing weight involves more than counting calories

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100kg dad struggled to keep up with his 4-year-old. How he lost 27kg in 6 months

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She put on 35kg in 6 months from a hormonal disorder. How she dealt with it

Personal trainer Ashleigh Martin reveals her journey with PMOS – until recently called PCOS – and why her lifestyle overhaul avoids GLP-1s.

Ashleigh Martin took up MMA fighting after rapidly gaining weight and experiencing erratic periods due to PMOS, a condition previously known as PCOS. Photo: Ashleigh Martin
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This Hong Kong executive lost 32kg in just 8 months. How did he do it?

Two years ago, Keizer Cheng had 37 per cent body fat, aching knees and trouble sleeping. Now he’s sculpted and doing Hyrox races.

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How GLP-1s are more than just weight-loss wonders – but not without risk

Research suggests GLP-1s like Ozempic may help with more than just weight loss and type 2 diabetes, but experts warn of risks from abuse.

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China woman loses 21kg after friend says being thinner makes her resemble actress

Woman with a ‘back like a bear’ and belly ‘like a ball’ says she had to give up her favourite foods, now has higher self-esteem.

A woman lost 21kg in four months after a friend suggested that being thinner would make her resemble the famous actress Yang Mi (in circle). Photo: SCMP composite: Douyin/RedNote
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‘Hero of his own life’: how this Hongkonger beat high cholesterol in 12 months

Shashank Gangil had high cholesterol, signs of fatty liver and plantar fasciitis. Here’s how he got in top shape before his twins were born.

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She was a 102kg diabetic with a ‘death wish’. After losing 40kg, she’s thriving

Keya Wingfield comfort-ate to morbid obesity after her baby son died. An epiphany led to her losing 40kg and reversing type 2 diabetes.

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How a mother’s 22kg weight loss led to bodybuilding and a healthy snack brand

Chinese-Canadian Jenny Yue rapidly gained weight during the pandemic, but lost it all just as quickly through diet and exercise.

Jenny Yue in February 2021 (left) weighing nearly 78kg, and in January 2023 (right) when she was about 56kg. Having rapidly put on weight during the pandemic, Yue lost it again by eating more healthily and doing regular exercise. Photo: Jenny Yue
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The huge benefits of quitting alcohol, from weight loss to slowing ageing

Ex-drinkers and sobriety experts explain how life is better and healthier without drinking as many attempt the same during Dry January.

Jodi Clark, seen in January 2023 and this month, who now runs online groups, challenges and retreats for women, has lost 38kg (84lb) since she stopped drinking more than 3 years ago. Photo: Jodi Clark
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He drank every day. A life-changing diagnosis led him to quit and lose weight

Facing a health scare, Hong Kong resident Ryan Merszei quit alcohol, started exercising and changed his diet. Now he’s healthier than ever.

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Alcohol abuse led to terrifying health scare. He quit drinking and lost 20kg

After a horrible three weeks in hospital with severe acute pancreatitis, Hong Kong photographer Derry Ainsworth overhauled his lifestyle.

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A pint of hard liquor a night and the weight piled on. How did he quit?

On World Obesity Day, Hong Kong dad overweight most of his life hails power of weight-loss drug, and nutritional therapist lists sustainable habits.

Hong Kong father of two David Koo before and after he lost 14kg with the help of the drug semaglutide. Photo: David Koo
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Parents who shed 50kg to be role models for son ‘feel like winners’

A child’s request for pizza to relieve stress was a wake-up call that set his parents on a quest to become the ‘best versions’ of themselves.

Chinchak Satapathy and Himanshu Thakur turned their lives around by shedding 50kg. Photo: instagram.com/worklifewellness_himanshu
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How losing 26kg took lawyer from sad and sick to healthy and happy

After a scary medical report, Singaporean Raeza Ibrahim changed his diet and sleep routines and worked with a fitness trainer to shed kilos.

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‘The best feeling ever’: how Singapore executive lost 34kg in 14 months

With Jennifer Aniston as her role model, the toned and lean Jessie Lim talks about her weight-loss and fitness journey, in which she went from 85kg to 51kg in 14 months through diet and exercise.

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‘My self-esteem skyrocketed’: Hong Kong mother sheds 20kg, changes her life

Spurred by her wardrobe of clothes that didn’t fit, Hong Kong mother and former teacher Vandana Desai embarked on a two-year fitness journey.

Vandana Desai, 48, shed 20kg through dieting and exercise. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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He shed 25kg by diet and exercise, in between beating cancer twice

A colon cancer diagnosis while he was trying to get fit shocked Winston Herrera, but he recovered and shed 25kg. Then he got lung cancer – and beat that, too.

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‘Fitter than ever’: she feels benefits of a whole food, plant-based diet

Removing animal-based and processed foods from her diet helped Connie Wong, 54, lose weight and improve her complexion. ‘People mistake me for a 40-year-old,’ she says.

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She lost 18kg and her eczema cleared up with diet change, 30-day detox

Pragya Thakur lost weight and saw her health transformed after seeing a ‘farm-based’ doctor whose approach to medical care helps patients overcome illnesses with fewer pills and more plants.

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Pragya Thakur at the Ethos Primary Care farm project in New Jersey. The project, which endorses farm-based medical care, changed her life. Photo: Pragya Thakur
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Juice fasts and keto diet help dad lose 100kg, and his shame at his size

Gill Mahtani was 34 and weighed 180kg. When he flatlined on the operating table it was time to lose the excess kilos. Nearly down to his target weight, he has ‘so much energy’ and is ‘way more confident’.

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Gill Mahtani in 2011 when he weighed 180kg and in December 2022. A financial consultant in Hong Kong, he used juice fasts and a semi-keto diet to shed 100kg. Photo: Gill Mahtani/Yik Yeung-man
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How intermittent fasting and exercise helped Hong Kong banker lose 32kg

Limiting the hours in which he could eat, diet changes and exercise helped Sumanta Panigrahi lose 17kg. When he put on 6kg working from home, they helped him lose another 15kg.

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