00:00I've been obese since I was a little girl. My family were always morbidly obese.
00:08Gradually every year I was getting bigger and bigger and bigger. It wasn't until I had my final scare. I turned 21 in the hospital bed.
00:17I left on a pick line and I was over 400 pounds. That was it. Something needs to change.
00:23I've lost nearly 200 pounds.
00:25So within five months of my journey, my family decided to join me.
00:31Together we weighed 1550 pounds. We've lost 560 pounds combined.
00:43Since the last time Barcroft came to film me, a lot has changed.
00:47I've gone through different phases of fitness. For the first part, I feel like I was just running a lot,
00:54doing a lot of half marathons. I did run my first full marathon.
00:58Lately, I've just been doing and focusing on strength training.
01:03I also feel that I have shaped and toned my body a whole lot different.
01:13So in the beginning, I've been obese since I was a little girl.
01:20Me and my family were always morbidly obese, always wore way bigger sizes of clothes than the kids my age.
01:28It was just like gradually every year I was getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
01:33When I turned 18, I was diagnosed as a diabetic. I was sticking myself with two types of insulin twice a day.
01:41Her struggles were
01:44real, you know, she was going through depression and you could see her, you know, kind of shine away, you know, from things.
01:50She participated in all the sports, but it was just
01:53harder for her, you know, to do what everybody else was doing because she was, you know, so overweight.
01:59You know, her illness came up and, you know, and it just
02:02she just went down from there, you know.
02:06It wasn't until I had my final scare,
02:08I had a very bad blood infection MRSA and with that I had a lot of
02:14unexplained pain in my pelvic area when I turned 21 in the hospital bed that I
02:21finally was like something needs to change like and it needs to happen now.
02:26That was probably the scariest moment of my life because I felt so, I was stuck.
02:31I was like over 400 pounds.
02:33I was using a walker and I wasn't very mobile at the time just because I had a lot of pain.
02:40That was it for me. And
02:42so I was like, well, if you can't walk and you can't move, physical activity is very limited, then you need to focus on nutrition.
02:51But I knew that if I were to cook my own food and not be eating junk food, no chips, cookies, ice cream,
02:57no sodas, no fried food,
02:59within two months, I lost like 40 pounds and then within five months, I lost a hundred pounds.
03:07Currently, I'm working out about six days a week.
03:10Yeah, six to seven days a week.
03:12I'm out moving up seven days a week, whether that means I'm gonna go hiking or I'm gonna go just do some corrective exercise.
03:21I've lost nearly 200 pounds.
03:29I
03:33have excess skin. I'm constantly wearing compression
03:38because it's literally like lumpy.
03:42Skin removal surgery is definitely, I'm gonna have it. I will have it.
03:47I just need to find, one, I need to come up with the finances and two, I need to find the right doctor.
03:53But it will happen. I know it will happen.
03:57I
03:58became a trainer
03:59back in, I think, 2015. If I could choose any type of clientele,
04:04I'd want to work with the morbidly obese, the people that were in my shoes. That's where my heart's at.
04:09I never realized how much helping people helps me.
04:14Definitely keeps me motivated for sure.
04:17So within five months of my journey and losing a hundred pounds, my family decided to join me.
04:23I was super excited to help them.
04:25It started just with one of my brothers and then he started dropping weight and it was just me and my brother and my mom.
04:34I've definitely felt different since we've started this weight loss journey.
04:38I felt just more alive, more capable of doing more things without being out of breath, without
04:45just being tired, sweating.
04:48It's amazing.
04:50I was about a little over 220 pounds. I just couldn't believe my eyes.
04:55I'd never been that, not even when I was pregnant, I wasn't that heavy. And so I was like, well, I gotta do something.
05:09She's constantly on us all the time. What y'all eat? What's that smell in the house? You know, and stuff like that.
05:14I know y'all went somewhere to eat. I can tell.
05:18She's really hard on everybody, but it's good in a way, you know, because she cares about everybody.
05:23That's the thing about it. She's got a big heart.
05:27Together we weighed 1,550 pounds and currently we've lost 560 pounds combined.
05:34Not a lot of people can say that they've actually done that and kept it off.
05:39So I feel like it was a huge accomplishment for my family.
05:42I see her herself now, smile, happy with herself. And to me, I mean, that just, that means a lot to me.
05:50The real Krista came out. Her transformation has been one amazing story.
05:57Fitness has become a huge part of my life and I absolutely love it because I feel like it saved me.
06:02If I can do it, you can do it.
06:11you
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