Age-mazing woman loses 100 pounds and enters beauty pageant
Dreaming big is something one of our newest readers, Jill Knapp from Idaho sure did.
Jill before and after 100 pound loss
Here is her letter to us:
Hello Glam Gals
My name is Jill Knapp. I found you on Facebook and had a long visit at your web site. I love it!! My Birthday is on my 15th and I will be 42. I recently celebrated hitting 100 pounds of weight-loss. I am still in shock. I would love to share my story about how I lost the weight, if you are interested.
Thanks,
Jill
Well, as we all know losing weight is never easy, but for Jill the hard work has really paid off and she is living her dream.
To get the full story you can go to her blog called, Get Up and Get Moving and read her inspirational account of what motivated her to just do it!
So, Happy Birthday Jill, and thanks for writing to us! We’re are all celebrating with you!!!
Jill in the Mrs. Idaho America pageant
Hi Taylor,
Welcome to FAF, so glad you wrote and found this inspirational! Hope to hear your voice again, soon!
Cheers!
JoJami and Deboah
I had gestational diabetes with all 4 of my pregnancy’s I feel so lucky it did not follow me. She looks great and think it’s wonderful she is out their in her community spreading her message!
I found this on Facebook. Great site for woman over 40.
I have done 2 beauty pageants at age 48 and feel blessed that I did them. I think it is great that this lady did them because she wants to share her message. They do inspire you to meet your goals.
Hi Toby,
Welcome!! We are so glad that you have spoke up!!! We have so many women that feel fit and beautiful that would love to model. Thanks for sharing that you had fun entering pageants. They certainly can be a fun way, to get to perform and as you mentioned “meet your goals”!
Cheers!
JoJami and Deborah
Kudos to you Jill, you look amazing!
I listened to the podcast! Amazing interview! Such wonderful insight message. A must listen too.
I wrote down everything I could use!!
I found this link on Don’t Gel to soon which site I visit often.
WOW!! This woman looks amazing. That is so wonderful that she ran in a pageant after losing 100 pounds.
She looks so good. I am sharing this with everyone I know.
What a great Birthday gift to herself. She does not look her age. I really enjoyed the interview. Thanks for the input on Type 2 diabetes. It’s hard to focus on loosing weight. I have so much to loose I give up way to easily. I will try harder.
I saw this on Face book. This lady does not look a day of 25. I sure hope I look as good as she does at 40. I am so overweight and tried all the time. I am hoping taking some of this weight off will help my energy level.
Thank you for sharing her story. Eye opener. Most people have to have surgery to get that much weight off. I have consisered it many time but am hoping I don’t have to do that.
I probably should get tested for diabetes. I have a few symptoms just mild. I get fearful I do have it. That is mostly why I don’t get tested.
diabetes is a serious disease but it can be avoided by having an physically active lifestyle..`
diabetes can really crap your body, i now resort to sugar free foods*:’
diabetes is of course a nasty disease and it could be avoided by just having good exercise ::
I just read Laura’s story. I hope maybe at the very end of my long road ahead I can share my story with you. I have far to go but I am going to do it in 2011.
Both of these stories are very inspiring. Thank you so much for the motivation.
Hi Nicloe,
Go for it… To help you hold yourself accountable, you might want to read The Happiness Project. It is what I am going to use to try to keep my news years resolution!
The best of luck to you.. so many women have been inspired by this story, maybe you will be the next one to inspire others too!!!
My goal is to lose 50 by age 50 so I have 7 months to go. I am a tid bit older than Jill but I know I can do it. I have 42 stubborn pounds to ditch and it’s been really hard so far. I have to watch all portions which is just not that easy. BUT it’s working. Nice to see real people tell there stories. Maybe in 7 months I will have one to tell.
Great site here: http://weighdownsouth.com/portion-control-5-ways-to-do-it/
Good luck Rita!! We are rooting you on! Jill has been inspiring so many and we are so happy that you found her story one that you could relate too! Keep us posted!
Cheers, JoJami and Deborah
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She must be so proud. I have lost a whole wardrobe after taking off 65 pounds and feel great. I would have to say congrats to Jill. It’s hard work to lose all that weight but I know in the end it feels so good.