In just one year, Melina Volland (24) from near Regensburg lost 53 kilos.
Many did not believe in her, as she tells Merkur.de.
Kelheim - "Many thought I couldn't do it."
But Melina Volland (24) surprised them all.
The young woman from Kelheim, not far from Regensburg, has lost 53 kilos in just over a year, as she tells
Merkur.de
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Melina Volland has lost 53 kilos in just one year.
Sport is now part of her life.
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"Not at all comfortable anymore": Kelheimerin reports on great customer success
She started on March 21, 2022. "I no longer felt comfortable in my body, and I didn't go out much anymore," she explains her decision.
The plan was actually a stomach reduction.
She had even signed up for a clinic.
"You have to start trying to lose weight for almost half a year," says the 24-year-old and reports two "click moments".
The first would have been with nutritional advice, the second with gastroscopy.
Then she started losing weight on her own.
"And then I lost so much weight that even the surgeon said we no longer need a stomach reduction."
In March 2022, she first changed her diet: low carb and counting calories was on the plan.
From May she started with home workouts and since August she has been going to the gym regularly.
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Everyday life before weight loss: "Actually just work, home and then eat, eat, eat"
Before she changed her lifestyle like that, her days looked very different.
Sport was not on the agenda at all.
"I actually ate all the time," she reports in an interview with our editorial team
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"I think I sometimes ate three or four times for dinner, so definitely 4,000 to 5,000 calories a day.
If not even more.
I planned everything around food.
I thought about when I can eat something, bought a lot, actually just work, home and then eat, eat, eat.
I actually only ever went out to eat with friends.”
After the great customer success, things are going differently for the 24-year-old.
Her diet is still rather low-carb, but she is now trying to eat more carbohydrates again.
"Now I have to get my head around the fact that I can eat a little more because I'm also doing sports now, so you burn a lot of calories."
Although Volland openly explains that she also gains a few kilos - for example in weeks when more restaurant visits are planned due to birthdays - she is not worried about that.
“It goes down pretty quickly because you do the sport.
The sport catches up to a lot.” That's why it's not difficult for her to keep her weight.
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The Kelheim resident doesn't want to do without everything now either.
"I kept treating myself to a few things," she says of sweet cravings and cravings.
In general, however, she now looks "that it is not Mars or Snickers, but a little bit healthier", such as protein bars.
"I don't even have such things at home," she says, referring to conventional sweets.
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Lost 53 kilos in one year: "No one expected me to do it like this"
"We don't remember you very well at all," is often the reaction from those around them when you look at pictures from before.
Many would not have believed that she would make it.
"I've said quite often, 'Now I'll lose weight' and that was maybe two days and then I started eating again.
So no one really expected me to do it like this.”
"I'm a completely different person": Melina Volland has lost 53 kilos
She shares her weight loss success on Instagram and TikTok.
The decision to share everything publicly helped her.
"Because then I have a bit of pressure myself not to say, 'I won't do anything anymore', because a few people can also follow it."
She has received a lot of positive feedback for this.
One of her videos went viral and has been viewed 87,000 times.
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Her life is now completely different than before the weight loss.
“Everyone around me also says that I am a completely different person.
I'm much happier, more open-minded, doing more things again.
Today I was at the gym at 6 a.m., a year ago I would have never thought that it would be like this, that I would pull it off for so long."
Sport is now part of it: “It doesn’t work without it.”
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