Photodisc/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A nutrition manager at a Texas elementary school lost more than 100 pounds by simply eating the same foods she encouraged her students to consume for breakfast and lunch.
“I was 260 pounds and I got a job as a nutrition manager but then I realized I wasn’t very nutritious so I decided to make a change,” Tammy McRae said Monday on Good Morning America. “That’s what made me want to lose the weight — for my kids that I had to inspire to eat better.”
She added, “I thought, well, let me join them.”
McRae said she started eating breakfast and lunch from the cafeteria menu at Carver Elementary School in Baytown, Texas, every single day.
“I just stuck to the menu at our school,” McRae said when asked if she made any other lifestyle changes to lose the weight.
McRae started out as a dishwasher at the school before being promoted to a manager. It took her around one year to lose the weight and she said it is life-changing.
“I am now part of my own life,” she said. “I go fishing. I mow my own lawn.”
McRae’s advice to others looking for weight loss inspiration?
“I just say, for anyone else out there that is thinking of making a change, go for it,” she said. “Be a part of your own life.”
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