The workout warrior
Weight-loss blogger Alexis Eggleton was on vacation in Miami with her boyfriend in late 2014 when she realized how much her body was holding her back.
“We were heading to the pool, and I was like, ‘I don’t want to go out there,’ ” says Eggleton, now 34, who had struggled with her weight since childhood. “I broke down and was like, ‘I don’t want this to be my life.’ ”
She joined Weight Watchers that day, and in the two years since, the Middletown, NY, resident has dropped 118 pounds, to a current weight of 167, a feat she attributes to cleaning up her diet in 2015 and what she calls a “year of fitness” in 2016.
“This was the year I learned how to flip a tractor tire,” says Eggleton, who works in development. She tried Bikram yoga, SoulCycle, pilates, boxing and everything in between, including her favorite class, Shred415 — a highintensity workout in Chicago, where she travels frequently for work.
Eggleton hopes to hit her goal weight of 150 pounds in 2017 and celebrate with a hike through Big Sur, Calif.
“I’m going to love every minute of that — and recognize that two years before it, I couldn’t even walk up the stairs,” she says.
She says her weight loss has changed her life in ways she never expected.
“People think this is such a hard or awful experience, and I want to show them that [losing weight] can be the greatest thing you’ve ever done.”