I found that nothing that anybody else said to me would work. |
The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die. |
My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby. |
Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word. |
Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds. |
I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy. |
I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it. |
I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds. |
I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation. |
I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying. |