A 30-year-old Atlanta-based woman has told how she and her wife lost a combined 150lbs in the space of a nine months, without even sweating it out in the gym after she found it too 'embarrassing'.'Honestly, all of it was kind of hard,' Morgan Victoria, from Atlanta, Georgia, tells CNN. 'At 255 pounds, you don't actually want to do anything... Exercising was hard because I was embarrassed. Nobody wants to be the fat girl working out.'Rather than suffer the shame she felt at the gym, she quit and started walking two hours a day with her wife, Lyndsay Rosenlund, who wasn't aiming to lose weight, but dropped 50lbs herself as a result.Ms Victoria, who weighed 255lbs at her heaviest, traces her decision to turn her life around back to a single moment. The moment when, at a 'silly' high school reunion in 2012, her name tag was handed to her, bearing her senior photo.'I'm wearing a picture of me ten years younger and 100 pounds lighter,' Ms Victoria 'It was humiliating.'The very next day, she snapped into action; altering her diet and getting her body moving.Ms Victoria had grown up reasonably healthy and active. Her parents provided nutritious meals and she swam, played tennis and ran cross country until the end of high school. It all changed, as it does for many, when she attended college in Savannah to study communication arts. Here, on a low budget, she started scoffing junk food because it was 'cheap' and abandoned any sort of exercise she had taken part in at school.After she graduated, she met her future wife, Ms Rosenlund, who she married and moved to Atlanta with. The couple frequently dined out with friends and all the while, Ms Victoria's weight crept upwards.But the day after the reunion that was to change the course of her life, with a body mass index of 38 - eight points above what is considered obese - all this changed.She dived into her pantry and threw away any food with 'more than a few ingredients' on its label. She purchased a food scale, read up on serving sizes and started using an app to count calories.This was when, following her unpleasant experience at the gym, she switched it out for her twice daily walks with Ms Rosenlund instead, who gamely joined her with their two dogs for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening.Ms Victoria lost around two pounds a week living this way, dropped to a final weight of 150lbs (a size six) and has maintained this weight for nearly a year. Her wife has noticed that she has 'more energy' and 'less anxiety'.Ms Victoria says that ultimately, there is no 'secret' to significant weight loss, but that 'all you have to do to is care'.'I feel amazing,' she says. 'You feel totally different about yourself. You shouldn't feel all that from weight, but you do.'(dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.az