Traci Oliver started at 298 pounds in January 2013 and lost 82 pounds in ten months with support from Lori and the TNT team. She quit teaching to focus on health and family, and is now doing activities with her kids again.
Questions this video answers
January 2013.
298 pounds.
Size 22 (XXXL / 3XL).
Just over 100 pounds (reported four years prior).
82 pounds down.
When I started this journey back In January of 2013, I was at 298 and I wore size 22 XXXL3XL. So for me to go and buy that size clothing and to look at that on a scale, it was terrible. It was like I felt like I had already died, but I was still breathing. Four years ago I lost right over 100 pounds and I didn't exerc doing it. It was a fad diet and I didn't learn anything through that process other than, you know, I can make the scale go down. I knew I was a ticking time bomb. I knew it wasn't going to be long before the numbers caught up to me. But I knew I felt terrible and I knew that I couldn't look in the mirror at that person that was in that mirror. When you can't do that, it's time to make a change. When you know that you're affecting your family, it was time to make a, you know, to hear as a mother that you failed your kids health wise. It's heartbreaking because I'm their mom, I'm supposed to be their caretaker. I am a teacher and I've taught for seven years. And I decided this year that I would take time away from the classroom, not just to get myself healthy, but to be a mom, something I haven't been able to do. Ten months later, I'm £82 down. And it's been slow. But in that process, Lori and her team play a huge role in my success. And even when I get to a healthy spot, I'll still continue to come to TNT for accountability purposes. And it may be a lifelong accountability relationship that I'll have with Lori and her team. I tell Lori all the time that she saved my life or helped save my life. So I'm not ready to orphan my kids. They have a new mom. They do. We've returned to baseball games, professional football games and college games. And that's something I haven't done for a long time because I didn't want to subject myself to not being able to fit in a chair or being uncomfortable with someone sitting next to me, afraid I might touch somebody. So it's been a good year. It has. I still have a ways to go, but I'm on my way knowing that there's a lot of healing that had to take place to get to that starting point. And I did it and I'm never going to turn back.
