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How to Lose Weight

Understand the transformative power of weight-loss through these stories. Discover how individuals were motivated to take back control of their health mostly through lifestyle changes – committing to fitness routines, eating more nutritious meals, getting better sleep and more.

A woman lost 21kg in four months after a friend suggested that being thinner would make her resemble the famous actress Yang Mi (in circle). Photo: SCMP composite: Douyin/RedNote

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China woman loses 21kg after friend says being thinner makes her resemble actress

Woman with a ‘back like a bear’ and belly ‘like a ball’ says she had to give up her favourite foods, now has higher self-esteem.

6 May 2026 - 2:06PM

How to Lose Weight

China woman loses 21kg after friend says being thinner makes her resemble actress

Woman with a ‘back like a bear’ and belly ‘like a ball’ says she had to give up her favourite foods, now has higher self-esteem.

‘Hero of his own life’: how this Hongkonger beat high cholesterol in 12 months

She was a 102kg diabetic with a ‘death wish’. After losing 40kg, she’s thriving

How a mother’s 22kg weight loss led to bodybuilding and a healthy snack brand

Chinese-Canadian Jenny Yue rapidly gained weight during the pandemic, but lost it all just as quickly through diet and exercise.

The huge benefits of quitting alcohol, from weight loss to slowing ageing

Ex-drinkers and sobriety experts explain how life is better and healthier without drinking as many attempt the same during Dry January.

He drank every day. A life-changing diagnosis led him to quit and lose weight

Facing a health scare, Hong Kong resident Ryan Merszei quit alcohol, started exercising and changed his diet. Now he’s healthier than ever.

Alcohol abuse led to terrifying health scare. He quit drinking and lost 20kg

After a horrible three weeks in hospital with severe acute pancreatitis, Hong Kong photographer Derry Ainsworth overhauled his lifestyle.

A pint of hard liquor a night and the weight piled on. How did he quit?

On World Obesity Day, Hong Kong dad overweight most of his life hails power of weight-loss drug, and nutritional therapist lists sustainable habits.

Parents who shed 50kg to be role models for son ‘feel like winners’

A child’s request for pizza to relieve stress was a wake-up call that set his parents on a quest to become the ‘best versions’ of themselves.

How losing 26kg took lawyer from sad and sick to healthy and happy

After a scary medical report, Singaporean Raeza Ibrahim changed his diet and sleep routines and worked with a fitness trainer to shed kilos.

‘The best feeling ever’: how Singapore executive lost 34kg in 14 months

With Jennifer Aniston as her role model, the toned and lean Jessie Lim talks about her weight-loss and fitness journey, in which she went from 85kg to 51kg in 14 months through diet and exercise.

‘My self-esteem skyrocketed’: Hong Kong mother sheds 20kg, changes her life

Spurred by her wardrobe of clothes that didn’t fit, Hong Kong mother and former teacher Vandana Desai embarked on a two-year fitness journey.

He shed 25kg by diet and exercise, in between beating cancer twice

A colon cancer diagnosis while he was trying to get fit shocked Winston Herrera, but he recovered and shed 25kg. Then he got lung cancer – and beat that, too.

‘Fitter than ever’: she feels benefits of a whole food, plant-based diet

Removing animal-based and processed foods from her diet helped Connie Wong, 54, lose weight and improve her complexion. ‘People mistake me for a 40-year-old,’ she says.

She lost 18kg and her eczema cleared up with diet change, 30-day detox

Pragya Thakur lost weight and saw her health transformed after seeing a ‘farm-based’ doctor whose approach to medical care helps patients overcome illnesses with fewer pills and more plants.

Juice fasts and keto diet help dad lose 100kg, and his shame at his size

Gill Mahtani was 34 and weighed 180kg. When he flatlined on the operating table it was time to lose the excess kilos. Nearly down to his target weight, he has ‘so much energy’ and is ‘way more confident’.

How intermittent fasting and exercise helped Hong Kong banker lose 32kg

Limiting the hours in which he could eat, diet changes and exercise helped Sumanta Panigrahi lose 17kg. When he put on 6kg working from home, they helped him lose another 15kg.