Author: Amanda Rose

Robin Dukes is known in the group as being “trim and ripped.” Her starting weight is actually the goal weight of many people in the group, who happen to be starting a whole lot higher on the scale. It’s a bit entertaining, however, this dynamic we find ourselves in with a community full of extreme…

Tabitha has been up and down the scale, as many of the rest of us have, and found the Eat Like a Bear group in February of 2020 when she was down about 50 pounds. She has since worked off another 25 pounds and captured our hearts in one of our compilation videos, one about…

Sonya joined the Eat Like a Bear community on January 1, 2019 at 277 pounds, already down 28 pounds from her high weight of 305. Since then, she has lost an additional 114 pounds (for a total of 142 pounds) and is still working on a few more pounds. I always get excited when I…

Betty Jo entered the Eat Like a Bear world by storm in the spring of 2020 and lost nearly 50 pounds in her first four months. What a world we have found ourselves in! This is her weight loss success story. ************** Betty Jo’s Weight Loss Motivation ‪I started this way of eating on March…

Kathy is down 62 pounds from her high weight of 280, and down 44 pounds since she found us in October of 2019. She’s a great example of adapting the core framework that we use. While our community record-holders in weight loss make use of the one meal a day model, Kathy has crafted her…

Veronica Gray found us in the summer of 2019 and became fast friends with a number of members of the community who have really supported each other through the grind, managing to lose impressive amounts of pounds. Veronica herself is one of our century cases, down 135 pounds from her high weight (and still working…

Barbie is an RN who has struggled with her weight her entire life. People in the health industry tend to have an extra layer of guilt when they hit those high weights and I can just read Barbie’s relief in her reports as she leverages her impressive training and life experience to pull herself right…

Celeste is new to the Eat Like a Bear community, but she is not new to me. Celeste is my teenage diet buddy. We went on many crazy diets over 30 years ago and never managed to get beyond “chunky.” We had been out of touch for years when I saw a pending request in…

Doris and her husband Faisal have both had great success with Eat Like a Bear, down 85 and 108 pounds respectively. Doris delighted us with her fashion report in the community’s “fashion goals” video (at 46 seconds and at 8 minutes 3 seconds), trying on dresses to wear to a wedding. This is Doris’s weight…