AMAZING! Couple Share Their Inspirational Weight Loss Journey (Photos)

Lexi Reed said they were fed up with the life [they] were living, so they set out to make a change, hitting the gym, eating healthy and documenting it all on her Instagram account.

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“I never expected to have such an impact,” she said. “I just wanted to get healthy.”

Danny Reed now weighs 191 pounds and Lexi is down to 182, but they said this was no easy feat.

“The hardest part of our journey was changing our relationship with food,” said Lexi Reed.

“When I was 485 pounds, I never cooked. My husband and I would go out to eat for almost every single meal and if we did cook at home, it was frozen pizza or anything else unhealthy.

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We found that by meal-prepping instead of relying on fast food, we were able to stick with our goals when we were at work. And by learning to cook our own meals we were in charge of what we were eating.

We were willing to learn every single day of our journey and we also started using the gym as therapy instead of food. By changing our minds, habits and emotional triggers, we changed our lives.”

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The happy couple is excited to head into 2018 being the healthiest versions of themselves.

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“There are no words to explain the feeling of saving your own life,” said Lexi Reed.

“Going into 2018 I have nothing but a newfound happiness for this life I am living. I no longer am a prisoner in my own body and instead of just existing in my own life, I’m finally alive. Every day I wake up is a blessing.”

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Lexi Reed wrote on Instagram that she never felt pressure from her husband to lose weight.

“He never saw me as my size, asked me to change, or made me feel as anything other than beautiful,” she wrote. “He treated me the same way at 485lbs that he does at 182lbs. Love doesn’t have a size or weight limit.”

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The pair told Men’s Health earlier this year that a combination of more time in the gym and less time at restaurants contributed to their weight loss.

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