Let's remind everybody,
you actually have walked this walk in real life.
Yeah, mh-hmm.
You lost an enormous amount of weight yourself.
160 pounds. In, wow.
Yeah, crazy right? (audience applauds)
That's like real, that's a whole person.
That is a whole person, yeah.
You lost a whole person! Yeah, I cut myself in half,
for sure. That's crazy!
And what was the most essential thing
that you took away from that
from your own life experience?
Mh-hmm, you know, honestly,
just living it, walking the talk that I've done with them.
I honestly, a lot of people always go,
you must be the super sweet trainer
because you've lived it and you know what they're feeling,
and I'm like, absolutely, but I also know every excuse
they have in the book, right?
So I bring that experience. Right, you can see it coming
a mile away.
Yeah, I'm like, I've already lived it, I've done it,
like I wrote the book for the longest time,
so it brings a different dynamic to the show,
my own experience, and I love it though,
because my contestants, my team,
they wholeheartedly have the buy-in right?
They're like, you've done it,
not only have I lost the weight,
I've kept it off for five years.
So it's possible to do it,
and I think they just need that hope, that's it.
(audience applauds)
And I also love that, and I know Bob is like this too,
that you bring a inner self aspect to weight loss.
It's an emotional thing, isn't it?
You know, one thing that Bob said
that I will always hold on to
is these people didn't get in to this position
just 'cause they love pizza, right?
That's right.
And looking back at mine, I was 322 pounds.
I didn't get that way just 'cause I solely loved food.
Yes, I love food, I'm always gonna be a foodie,
but I had an attachment to food.
I had an emotional attachment,
and I had a relationship that wasn't normal.
And so much of this work is not just going to the gym,
or making a different choice come meal time.
It's an emotional pitfall for a lot of these folks.
Big time, and you know what,
when it comes to self-worth, and self-image, and self-love,
those are very buzz words right now,
but they're very important buzz words,
and people need to be proactive verses reactive,
and if you don't change your head and your heart,
aesthetically, you're not gonna stay the same.
(audience applauds)
She's just taking glowing.
You know, whatever size you are,
when people get happy about themselves,
you can just see it.
They begin a beautiful glow. I'm completely different.
Yeah, I'm a completely different woman.
You're just glowy.
Yeah, I'm, you know, a good makeup artist too,
but no. Yes, that is essential.
But I am a completely different woman
than what I was six years ago,
and the show actually changed me too.
I'm a very different woman from when I first got on the show
from when I left that campus.
I even called my fiance and I said,
"I'm not coming home the same woman."
Because it's changed me That's so great.
So much.
So these are three things
that I like to tell people that I work with.
So one of the first one is, girl.
Water! Right?
Water, water, water, water.
I drink a liter in the morning, and a liter at night.
I get made fun of 'cause I have a gallon water jug with me
everywhere that I go.
So I can not be one of those people
who has a little water bottle, drink it and fill it up.
I'll forget about it.
I won't fill it up, Right?
You won't do it. It'll sit in my car.
I carry a water gallon with me every day
so I know exactly what my goal is,
it sits in the car, good to go.
The other thing is an emergency kit.
So I like to shop, I like to go out and about a lot.
There's lots of times that I am not home
to eat my prepped meals.
So what happens when you typically do that?
You make bad choices.
Drive-thru, Exactly.
Stopping at the gas station
and that Snickers bar is calling your name.
So I always keep things that will not melt in my car.
So nuts, oils, dried fruit.
Not always the best, dried fruit,
but I'd rather you eat dried fruit, and nuts and seeds
verses a Snickers bar. Exactly.
Yeah, so tuck this away in your glove box.
Or you know, drive-thru take-out food.
Exactly, put that in your glove box,
you forget about it, and when you need it,
you're like oh, I need that.
The other thing would be a journal.
So do you ever see people with journals at the gym?
Do you see what they're writing?
Just me. Well good!
But here's the funny thing,
I'm not journaling the workout,
I literally can't go anywhere in life without a notebook.
Oh stop. Anywhere.
And I write food everywhere.
I write recipes. I love that.
Or sometimes I design furniture.
But I see things in my head very clearly when I'm running.
Do you know what I--
And I have the notebook so I can draw pictures
or write a recipe.
I literally dream in workouts.
I wake up in the middle of the night,
and I will like write down a workout so.
That's me.
So yeah. (audience applauds)
But the journal, so so many of us don't,
but we focus on that scale all the time, right?
We don't focus on non-scale victories.
So I love to write down my workout.
So seven pushups in January,
go to March and it says 50 pushups.
That way you can track your reps, you can track your weight,
you can see progress verses always depending on that scale.
So I always have a notebook with me.
I hate scales.
I haven't stood on one Yeah, throw it away.
Since I was 12. Yeah, thank you so much.
They love you, thank you for coming.
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