Instant Pot helps mom lose 103 pounds

Brittany Williams is a wife, mother, and lover of food. She always has been - but she hasn’t always been happy with her body. “I was an emotional eater, a bored eater, a TV eater, a binge eater; food controlled me,” she wrote in a blog post. “By the time I met my husband in my 20s I was over 200 lbs.”

Brittany had tried everything to lose weight - but nothing worked. “I tried diet pills, pre-made, pre-packaged weight loss food, slim fast, nutrisystem, starving, working out, nothing lasted, nothing worked,” she explained. “I began to lose hope. I started to feel resigned, like maybe my body was supposed to be big.”

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“I was desperate to be skinny,” she confessed. So in January of this year, she decided to embark on a dedicated, regimented weight loss journey. She cut out all processed food, quit going out to eat for good, made a long list of diet rules (detailed here) - and her husband bought her an Instant Pot.

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At first, she hated the clunky machine. But then, she cooked some brown rice and discovered what seemed obvious: The instant pot made healthy cooking so much easier.

Brittany gave herself a challenge. She would cook dinner every single night for a year. With her instant pot, it seemed possible.

“There are nights I don’t start cooking dinner till 6 pm because I lose track of time or we don’t get home till late,” she wrote, “nights that I used to pull out a frozen pizza or have my husband grab dinner on his way home from work. My Instant Pot has eliminated those nights. I can throw a few things in the pot and have dinner on the table in under a half hour.”

Using whole foods and home-cooked meals, Brittany has lost a total of 103 pounds since January.

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At her October weigh-in, she saw the scale go back up for the first time since her journey began - but she’s determined to stick to a healthy holiday meal plan filled with simple, healthy holiday recipes.