00:01 CHRISTA: I've lost 190lbs, my family has come
a long way.
00:11 COMM: After losing a staggering 190lbs Christa
Sierra turned her attention to her overweight family and has helped them shed a combined
weight of almost 500lbs.
00:24 CHRISTA: I'm on them, and I'm like hey this
is what we're eating, this is what we're doing, let's do this.
00:31 JOHNNY: Christa has changed the family a lot,
we want to continue on this healthy route with her.
00:39 COMM: Christa had suffered with obesity since
she was a toddler.
00:44 CHRISTA: It was hard, like little kids are
mean, being teased in the playground, not being able to fit into certain clothes. I
was bullied, kids would laugh, they'd call you fatty or fatso.
00:55 COMM: She was admitted to hospital on several
occasions because of her weight.
00:59 CHRISTA: When I was 14 I was admitted to the
hospital for emergency surgery . I had a cyst the size of a basketball wrapped around my
ovary and basically cut off the blood supply to my ovary. The cyst was not visible because
of my size. They removed my ovary, they removed the cyst. The doctor then told me that I was
basically diabetic and that I wasn't going to make it to live past 21 if I continued
down the road that I was on.
01:31 COMM: She tried to change her eating habits
but soon fell back into her old ways. By the age of 21 she weighed 400lbs. But another
hospital stay would force her to change.
01:42 CHRISTA: Being diabetic you're prone to getting
infections and stuff. I had a very bad blood infection, MRSA, and with that I had a lot
of unexplained pain in my pelvic area.
01:55 CHRISTA: I was on my walker for a good four
months, I thought I was stuck using that walker for the rest of my life. I said toy myself
if you're ever able to get off this walker, it's do or die. She set he weight loss goal
for an upcoming concert she was going to.
02:11 CHRISTA: I was like okay, two months, lose
40lbs. That was my goal, I hit that, the Rhianna concert was postponed, I was like okay you
have way more time. Within five months I lost 100lbs with eating healthy.
02:25 COMM: Now 23, she's lost 190lbs and has turned
her attention to slimming down her overweight family.
02:33 GEORGIA: Christa motivates me daily, watching
Christa take control of her weight, it was awesome, we just chucked everything away,
went to the store, and everything we put into our cabinets was healthy. Fresh vegetables,
fruit. Receiving help from Christa felt great. I felt more energised, not so sluggish.
02:57 COMM: So far her mother Georgia has lost 60lbs.
Her father Johnny has lost 20lbs. Her younger brother Jared has lost 80lbs and her other
brother Austin has lost an incredible 120lbs.
03:11 CHRISTA: What did you think of the workout
today? AUSTIN: It was good.
CHRISTA: It was good? AUSTIN: Not too hard, not too intense.
03:18 CHRISTA: My family has come a long way.
03:23 COMM: But she does have to keep a close eye
on them to ensure they don't slip back into old habits.
03:27 CHRISTA: There's been times where I come home
from work early and I go to the back, and I'm just like, I smell McDonald's. They hide
stuff from me. There's times when I will find like wrappers and stuff and it's just like
really guys?
03:40 COMM: It's clear that for Christa her 190lb
weight loss is just the start.
03:46 CHRISTA: The journey never ends, I'm in the
process of becoming a personal trainer. Hopefully I will be taking my exam again at the end
of the month, after skin removal surgery and after the whole recovery process. I would
definitely consider body building competition competing in some type of physique.