00:00My heaviest weight was 270 pounds.
00:03I was taking in 7,000 calories.
00:05I couldn't keep up with my kids.
00:07My lowest point was I went dress shopping
00:10and the lady helping us said,
00:12that's not gonna fit you,
00:13you need to go to the plus size section.
00:15I walked out of there like,
00:16okay, I needed to make a change.
00:19I lost 135 pounds without stepping foot into the gym.
00:24My best friend Katie is coming over
00:26and we're gonna go to a pool.
00:28And I am so excited and so nervous
00:30because my body has literally never been in a bikini.
00:39I was overweight my whole life.
00:41I was always just kind of an anxious eater,
00:44whether it was happy or sad,
00:46it was the binge eating.
00:47I didn't have control of it.
00:49I was probably taking in 6,000, 7,000 calories
00:52without even batting an eye.
00:54When you're in that binge,
00:55it's like you don't stop to think
00:58until it's done and you're so far gone.
01:00I couldn't keep up with my kids.
01:02I wasn't able to play with them like I should,
01:04get down on the floor with them like I should,
01:06run around outside with them.
01:10My lowest point was I went dress shopping
01:13and I held a dress up to my cousin
01:15and I said, I love this dress.
01:17And the lady helping us said,
01:18that's not gonna fit you,
01:19you need to go to the plus size section.
01:22I knew that I was overweight,
01:24but having somebody else, a complete stranger,
01:26also speak on it was just like, holy smokes.
01:31She made me feel terrible.
01:33It broke my heart because it's,
01:35you know, the people around you will always protect you.
01:37But hearing it from somebody
01:38that didn't really care about my feelings,
01:40it was heartbreaking.
01:41You know, I walked out of there like,
01:43okay, I knew I needed to make a change
01:46and she was the start of that.
01:49I was on Instagram and I saw this woman
01:51and she was doing a ketogenic diet.
01:53I'd never heard of it in my whole life.
01:56I looked at her page and I'm like,
01:58everything she's eating I love.
02:00I can eat eggs and hamburgers with no bun
02:04and salads and meat and cheese and berries.
02:06It was so easy to me.
02:09I literally started the next day.
02:10I went to the grocery store
02:12and I filled up my refrigerator
02:13and it was go time.
02:15Something clicked in my head and that was it.
02:18All of my progress, though,
02:19has been in the last two and a half years.
02:21My heaviest weight was 270 pounds
02:24and my weight now is 134 pounds,
02:26so I am literally half the size that I was.
02:29I think the hardest part was in the beginning,
02:32you know, I'm a very social person,
02:34so it's trying to still be able to go out to eat
02:36but still being able to do what I'm doing.
02:40You can have the chicken wings,
02:41just don't get french fries with it.
02:42You can have the hamburger,
02:43just don't have the bun with it.
02:44But once that first month passed,
02:46it was so easy.
02:47I lost 135 pounds without stepping foot into the gym,
02:50without going for a run.
02:52My weight loss was 100% food.
02:56I had a ton of skin on my abdomen
03:00that I could physically pull,
03:01I mean, inches away from my body.
03:04I've done so much work to get here
03:05and now I'm left with this.
03:07There was like this access part of me
03:09that I was like, it has to go.
03:10I had surgery four months ago
03:12for skin removal on my abdomen.
03:14I remember being wheeled into the OR
03:16the morning of my surgery
03:17and there was not a bit of fear in me.
03:19I looked at my anesthesiologist
03:21and we got in there, I'm like, let's go.
03:22Like, let's do it.
03:23I was so ready for that change.
03:27So I had a breast augmentation
03:28along with my tummy tuck.
03:30I was like, okay,
03:31like if I am gonna spend the money on my body,
03:33I'm doing it.
03:34And it was the best decision ever.
03:36We've got a whole bunch of swimming suits,
03:39something that I was never ever comfortable wearing before
03:42that now I can't stop buying
03:44because I got a whole new body.
03:48My best friend Katie is coming over.
03:51She is gonna help me pick my first bikini
03:53that I've ever worn in my whole life.
03:55And we're gonna go to a pool and go swimming.
03:58And I am so excited and so nervous
04:01because my body has literally never been in a bikini
04:05in 28 years.
04:07Hey, come on in.
04:09It's pool day.
04:10She's incredible.
04:11She's been so supportive of my whole journey.
04:13Are you ready?
04:14Yeah, but I think I need some of your help.
04:16I'm just so happy seeing her confidence
04:18through that, it's like, it makes me so like,
04:21I'm just so happy.
04:22Woo!
04:31We made it.
04:32Bikini time.
04:35It's go time.
04:49The confidence I have, the mental strength,
04:52the physical strength,
04:53just feeling like I am an incredibly different person
04:57in the best way.
04:58Feels good.
04:59It feels so surreal.
05:01I don't need to hide in pictures.
05:03I don't need to hide from social events.
05:06I just feel so much better.
05:09I feel so much more confident.
05:11You have to be in the right mindset to start.
05:14Any progress is progress.
05:16Keep going.
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