She continued, “I was miserable, I hated leaving the house and I felt bad that my husband had to be seen with me because he is in fairly good shape and when he met me I wasn’t obese.”
She added, ‘With my son, I struggled to do the simplest of things like giving him a bath. I couldn’t bend over because I would quickly run out of breath like my belly was squishing my lungs. I couldn’t play on the ground with him because I would have such a hard time getting up and when he started walking, I physically couldn’t keep up with him and all of his energy.”
The turning point came when a doctor warned she was heading towards diabetes.
She said, “I remember the day that I decided I needed to do something drastic to change my life. I had just visited my doctor and she had told me that I was pre-diabetic and that I would soon be a diabetic if I didn’t do something.”
She said, “I wasn’t fat and happy, I was just fat. I was even more driven to lose weight because I couldn’t keep up with my two year old.”
On July 18, 2016 she had a gastric sleeve and adopted a ketogenic diet, while working out three to four times a week.
Now Shantel is thankful that she got her life back for herself, and for her family. She added, “My one piece of advice I could give anyone is to not give up and that you are worth it.”
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