Hello, Hello, and welcome back to Part two of my story on weight loss and how it's affected me over the years. If you haven't heard part one, go check it out. I talked about some of the lessons I was taught as a kid and how it shaped me as an adult, and today I want to expand on that and talk about what it's been like for me over the last few years. There's been a lot of trial and error figuring out what works for me and my body because everyone is so different. I tried everything
from keto to working out, to fasting, intermitute fasting. I've tried it all under the sun. I have tried diet pills, Like I said in Part one, I've tried fenermine. I've tried just so many things. And I can tell you now that I'm in a place where I'm pretty comfortable with the way I look. But even though I've slimmed down, there are some things I continue to struggle with, which is what I'm going to talk about in a bit
right now. I have lost and I haven't said this I think, well, at least not on the pod, but I have lost about sixty five pounds. You guys, in the past year, I went from what a size twelve to a size six And I said this in part one.
The last time I was a size six, you guys, I was.
Six years old. Okay, so I don't know. Something just clicked in my mind. I went from thinking I want to look good to I want to be healthy. And I say this in my Keto book, in the Cheek is Keto book, because Keto worked for me and I loved it. I did lose weight, but then I would hit a plateau and I think I was just having way too much cheese and stuff like that. And again,
every body is different, literally, everybody is different. So it was like everything else, it'll work in the beginning, but your body starts getting used to it, you know what I mean, So you have to continuously shock your body. And then I realized that it's control. It's not only about eating the right things and eating the healthy things.
It's about eating smaller portions more frequently. And I had heard that before and over and over and over, but not until I was like it really just It wasn't until it just clicked, until I was just like, wait, that makes so much sense that my body started changing. I've always worked out and that's another thing. I would work out, I think too much and too hard, so it would backfire on me. And you guys go read
on this. Don't take my word for it, but there are studies that if you work out more than forty five minutes, like again, you have to Like so many people are like, O, I'm gonna ran really really fast and I'm gonna sprint, and that's what's gonna make me lose weight. That helps you, yes, lose weight. It helps you burn more carbohydrates. But if you're trying to burn fat,
you need to do intervals. You need to do like walking on an incline, like and sometimes even just twenty minutes thirty minutes I was doing like sometimes two hours of training, and I feel like it was kind of backfiring on me. And it all depends on your body again, so you have to figure out like your blood type, and it's like a whole thing. And I don't want to get into that. But I do feel better, absolutely absolutely.
I feel better mentally physically, I have more energy. I do feel like I'm getting sick a little bit more frequently than before, and I'm one to take my medicine all the time. But I think because I lost so much weight that I don't know, maybe my immune system,
my body's still trying to figure things out. But I do feel so much better, like emotionally, like I look in the mirror and it's nice to go to the store, you guys, and everything fits or I have my fittings and I don't have to worry about this hanging out and that. And it's like again, like I've always loved myself. I've always been pretty confident, but I didn't really see myself as big as I was, to be honest. Now I see videos and I see like they do comparisons
on TikTok, and I'm just like, oh shit. Like I see pictures and Emilio and I will be going through like you know, vacation pictures and I'm like damn. I'm like, did you see me like them? Like why didn't you tell me? And he's like, it's like You've always been so beautiful, Like I honestly didn't see that, Like now I see it's a drastic change. And even me, I'm like, damn,
my neck was so thick. I didn't have this neck like right now, like I have the neck that I had when I was freaking, I don't know, twenty four, Like, I feel like my neck has come back. It's longer, you know, And I didn't really realize, to be honest, but now I look in the mirror and it's nice. It's nice to be like sometimes I'm even a slice small, you know what I mean. And I'm happy. I'm very,
very happy. And I did it more for health, To be honest, I wanted to just finally just be different in my mindset and think about I want to be healthy, I want to live longer. I want to take care of this temple that God has let me borrow this body. I want to feed it good things. And I'm not saying that I don't have fun, because I still like to have pizza, and I like sweets, and I like chocolates and bread, like I still have all that stuff, but I have a lot.
Less of it.
It was just really like portion control and really getting my hormones in line and my thyroid issue that comes from you know, for my family, it's hereditary and it's something that now I'm controlling. And I wish I could stop taking that medicine every single day because I feel like our bodies heal ourselves, so I want to find a more holistic way. But it's helped me, honestly, like having your hormones in line and balanced help you so much.
So that's one thing I'm so grateful for. And one thing I haven't really said is that another thing that's helped me lose weight is ozembic. I'm sure you guys have heard about it. I made all these changes with my hormones, with my thyroid, all that stuff, and then I started getting that injection. When I was like, okay, I hit a plateau and I was like, I still want to lose more weight. So I did go that route.
I'm not telling you guys to do it. It did help me lose weight, and I only did it for three months. I also got way, like, I don't know, four years ago, I got that balloon that they put in your stomach, a big ass pill that you swallow, and that helped me lose weight as well. But again they remove that balloon. It was too uncomfortable for me. So I did lose weight and that I think that was the first thing that really started everything. And I was like, okay, well,
if they're putting this balloon in my stomach. That means I just have to eat less to shrink my stomach, you know what I mean. I'm like, duh, it's common sense, you know. But it really just kind of opened up and sparked that in my mind. So I did lose weight, but I removed that. And then once you remove it, then your stomach goes back to its normal size, you know, and you start putting more food in it. So again it's all portion control. So anyways, going back to ozempic
so azempic is, I'm sure you've heard about it. It's like the Hollywood injection. It's like a medication that people that have diabetes take to control their sugar levels. But then they found out that you can use it for weight loss. So a lot of people have been using it. And I did it, and it helped me. I stopped it, and now it's just I need to just I want to have control of my body. I don't want to have a stimulant or something that I have to take
all the time. I have to have self control and eat better, make better choices, and eat less of everything. And now I don't eat I don't drink soda, I rarely drink beer. I think I've had, like in the past year, one beer, and that was at snow the Products. That's my first beer I think in like a year, you guys, I had it there on her podcast. All that stuff, all that yeast, all like the sodas, any
type of anything that's carbonated. It expands your stomach. So I started just reading on a bunch of that stuff.
So I stopped.
I took that out of my diet or should I say my lifestyle, because I don't like to call it a diet. It's a lifestyle. And right now I'm not necessarily super fixated on what I eat, and I don't eat because I don't like to deprive myself, and I like to just give myself that Lee way of saying, Okay, I'm gonna have a little bit of this, but instead of having the entire pizza slice, I'll have half of it.
I'll take a few bites just to get myself, like to satisfy that craving, but I won't have the whole thing. Before I used to eat three slices, you know what I mean. So I don't let it get to me too much. But I now that I'm just getting older, I just want to be healthier. That's what it's like. I just want to feel good. I just want, yes to look good, but I want to feel good. I want to feed myself good things, you know. And working out just has been a part of my life since
oh since I can remember. I mean, my mom would make me work out when I was freaking twelve years old, you know what I mean. So it's like it's been a part of my life forever, and now as an adult, it just helps with my stress. I love boxing, I love the bike, I love treadmill, I love hiking. I just like to be active because it helps release toxins and they say at least sweat at least twenty minutes
a day. It helps with your mental clarity, it gives you more energy, the endorphins, you know, like all that helps you on a mental level, and it's just a part of my life. For me, it's like I have to at least work out, and that's one thing that I'm a little bit more. When I got sick this last time, it was so tough because it just really threw me off track. But I wasn't able to work out obviously, so getting back into it was a little tough, but I'm like, I push myself. That's one thing that
I'm like, working out is part of my job. That's one thing I can't stop doing because it really does help me with my sanity. So I try to do it at least no less than three times a week. If I can do five, that's like my goal. I like to have two rest days in the week. So that's one thing that it's like, I need a sweat, and the more I sweat, the sexier I feel. It's crazy now, Like when I look in the mirror, I can tell you, like I'm very happy with what I see.
I see, like I have less cellulite, Like I'm always gonna have sella light like that's just I've learned to just come to terms with it and accept that because again that's something that's more hereditary. I have creams like even a like on my skincare line, I have an antisellulite cream. So but I'm happier now to see less of it, you know what I mean. So I like using things like that. I've always used them. It's something that I've struggled with it since I was freaking I
don't know, thirteen years old. It's something that's just a part of my body. But I look in the mirror and I'm happy. Sometimes though my stylist will tell me Cheeky's I don't think you realize how much you've lost, because I'll still go for the size like eight, and he's like, wait, you're not an eight anymore, Like you can wear six, you can wear this small. Like I think it's been so many years that maybe I don't see myself like other people see me or the way
I look. I don't know, but I do look in the mirror and I'm like, Okay, now I can go back to like I don't know, because for a while, I was a little bit more shy to walk naked around Emilio, you know what I mean. Like I was just like a little bit more shy, and because he's all he's thin, you know, and he's younger and whatever.
And now I'm like, Okay, I'm pouncing around with my ass out and cute little shorts and I don't care, like I'm I feel good and I feel like it's happened at the right time because I at this age, I am learning to value that and appreciate it on a different level. And in a different way. So I'm glad it happened now. And one thing that's crazy, because I mean I think as women, we all have our
little insecure the little things that we worry about. And for me, because I have gotten plastic surgery, you guys, I've gotten liposuction, I've gotten breast augmentation, breast reduction, breast augmentation. Again, I took out the implants and put it back in. Like I have scars. You know, I have LiPo suction scars, and I'm not one to heal very nicely, so I
keyloid and all this stuff. So I think, and it's always been since I started, like since I got my first like boob job, Like I have scars, you know what i mean. Like and now I'm like whatever, I just got to embrace them. But they are a little bit like they make me feel a little insecure, like when I'm in a bikini or something, you know what I mean. Like I want to be able to wear those like string ones you know, around the breast, but I have to wear a little bit thicker so my
my scars are covered. So it's like little things like that, you know. Now, I'm just like before I used to be so insecure about my toes, you guys, because I had a friend that would always tell me, she's like, oh my god, girl, like you're so cute like your face, your body, your booty, and then you go down to your toes and it's like, damn, what happened to that? So she made me feel so like insecure about them. But now I'm like, whatever, I don't necessarily have to
wear open to shoes all the time. That's what I tell my stylist. I'm like, don't buy me or get me open to shoes, because you know they came for me to on social media once when I did, and I just now, I'm just like, I just want to avoid that. And not only that, like I like closed toe shoes anyways, but I do try my best to not talk so much crap to myself in the mirror. I'm just like, you know what, like I have to be grateful for what I have. I have to be thankful,
like I've come a long way. Like if I have a little bit of loose skin on my stomach, okay, whatever, because before I didn't have that much loose skin on my stomach. Now that I've lost to weight, like you could tell a little bit like in my tummy that I'm like, damn, do I need like a tummy tuck, you know. And I brought it up to a media and he's like, you're crazy. You know you're not gonna
do that. But even today, like I posted a video of my post workout, you know, that I was sweating or whatever, and I was like, ah, whatever, I have loose skin. And I even told I was like I put it there. I'm like, don't talk shit, you know. Whatever, it is what it is. And I'm learning to just love my body in a different in a different way. And I will say I've gotten a lot more attention from God.
Then go bay.
I've always had like you know, guys after me or whatever, but now guys have come out of like the woodworks and I'm just like trying to slide in the dms or whatever, and like I don't open them. I just see like the beginning, to be honest, like I'm not trying to get myself into any type of situation or what an entanglement or anything like that, so I kind of just ignore it. But like now it's like, oh,
you know, I've gotten comments like from even reporters. Okay, you guys, well, now I WoT I see stas want to eat that. Now you're pretty straight up and now it's like, oh they see me like wow, it is big. Yeah, Like what was I not pretty before? Like without no shame, Like they straight up just say it, Oh my god, now you're beautiful. Mm hmm.
Now that you've lost weight, now we accept you. They don't have to say it.
It's kind of like in their face and the way they say it and their tone of voice.
Then I'm like what And I'm like, huh.
If you didn't love me before, I'm not going to let you into my life. Now you want to love me now you want to be a part of my Now you could be my friend. Now you could support me because I've lost weight. No, thank you, Michelkonnach and think us to work on me when I was at my worst. I will stay with the people that were with me when I was at my worst. And that's one thing that I love about Emilia because I met him at the biggest I had ever been. I didn't
even realize how much I had weighed. You, guys, I'll be honest with you when I weighed myself and I had stayed away from the freaking scale for years. For years, I had this bad relationship with the scale, And now it's become my friend. We're homies now. Now it's like, okay, I got to weigh myself once a week so I
can stay accountable. But when I finally got on that freaking scale after years and I realized that I was two hundred and six pounds, two hundred and six pounds, I'm five to two, I was like, no wonder, no wonder. My feet hurt, no wonder, my knees hurt, no wonder, no wonder. People or I didn't see myself at two hundred and six pounds.
I thought, okay, maybe I'm pushing one.
Nighty, No bitch. I was two o six and Emilia loved me and he thought it was the sexiest thing on earth. So now I'm like, uh huh, boys are going to try to come out of the woodworks and try to like swoop me up. I'm like, uh uh, you did not like me when I was two hundred and six pounds. Wuld you now that I'm one hundred and forty five pounds, guys, Yes, I'm so happy and proud to say that now you want to come into my life? Uh huh. And right now I'm fine. I'm
comfortable at one hundred and forty five pounds. I've never shared my weight you guys. Ever, I always light on my dad. I d it still says one hundred and fifty pounds, and I don't. I was not one hundred and fifty pounds for sure. So now I'm sharing. I'm comfortable now. I've always weighed more than I look. My doctors would always say, like, oh my god, you always you weigh more, like I'm hefty, Like I'm freaking thick, you know what I mean, I'm thick bone how they
call it. I think I just want to lose, like I want to be one forty just for ships and giggles like. And now I'm like, okay, my birthday's coming up. I'm going to grease. I want to be one forty just to challenge myself. So That's where I'm at right now. But I can tell you I'm definitely happy with my weight. You know, Johnny lives with me, and my brother lives with me, so he's saying that. In twenty eighteen, it was so bad that I didn't want to get on
the scale ever at the doctor's office. You guys, I'm not joking. I would say, I'm going to turn around, you write down the number. I don't want to see it. I don't want you to repeat it. And it so happened to be that Johnny went with me. He's saying, in October of twenty eighteen, this guy, his freaking memory
is crazy. He went to the doctor's office with me, and they, you know, the doctor says the number out loud, and I look at Johnny and I'm like, if you ever fing say anything and repeat that, I'm I'm going to ask you to move out osat Like I don't remember saying that, but I know he's not lying because it sounds like something I would say.
But it was bad, you guys.
And now I've learned to just love the scale and say, okay, I have to hold myself accountable, like I have to get on it so that I'm like, Okay, if I gain two pounds, it okay. Then this week I need to eat a little bit better, you know what I mean, or drink more water, or just make small changes. So now I've learned to love the scale. Now that I've lost weight. I can tell you guys that I have gotten more work up oportunities. It's crazy, brands are seeing
me in a different way, in a different light. That's insane to think about. And I haven't said that out loud, but it makes me sad because it's just we live in such an artificial, superficial world that it's just the thinner you are, the more perfect you are, the more accepted you are, you know. And I have gotten more opportunities and more people reaching out like big brands, like big, big,
big brands, And I'm grateful. I'm definitely grateful, absolutely, But in my heart, I'm just like damn, and I still feel like I represent thick, curvy women. But imagine, like there are so many women like me, like us that are more of a normal I guess size, you know what I mean. Like it's like it's there are so many more of us, and I want to always represent that. So anyways, I mean, I'm grateful, no make oh, I'm not complaining. But I have seen the difference. I have
noticed a difference. I feel the difference with people in the industry, with other artists, other men. They look at you in a different way, they smile you in a different way, they say hello to you in a different way. More designers want to work with me, and I'm grateful. But I see all those things because I also remember the pain I felt when they would look at me
with like a face of disgust. Because I've always been the girl, you know, to push the limit, to try something different, to wear that dress that maybe a girl my side shouldn't wear. I've always been that girl, like I'm gonna wear whatever the hell I want to wear,
you know. So sometimes on red carpets, it was always a conversation like, oh my god, you know, I don't know if she should be wearing that because you know, she should be smaller, she shouldn't wear that color because it makes her look bigger.
So it's just it's insane. It's it's insane.
So it is crazy to think about and to notice and to live because I'm living it. But what's even crazier, it's that I've always been the same person in my heart. I've always had the same talents. I mean, i feel like my singing has gotten better throughout the years, but I've always had I feel like something special to show and to share with the world that I just feel like, are you guys not seeing me, for me, for Jane, for the woman, or is it just all about my
freaking weight. It makes me sad for all the children, all the adolescents, the generations to come. I think women are beautiful in all shapes and sizes. Men are too, though, Like it's still like insane sometimes, like to think of like the world we live in, like you even the color of your skin, you know what I mean. Like I grew up and I won't say who in my family,
but they would think that. And this is the honest truth that my mom's kids, us, my siblings and I that we were better looking because we were lighter and some of my cousins were a little bit darker. You could see it, you could feel the difference. And one of my cousins once told me, and I didn't realize that they had realized it, that they noticed, but they're like, you know, this person always treated you differently, and I can't help but to think that it's because I'm darker
than you guys. Like it's crazy, and I just feel like it makes me sad. And that's why I want to talk about these things. On my podcast, Thank God for my podcast, where I can share these things with you guys, so that it can maybe like open up something in your heart and in your mind to say, like, we have to change, we have to be different. We have to love and accept people for who they are, not what they look like, what they have to give
to us, not what we could take. It's just changing the mindset and having more of these open conversations you guys, because yes, I do agree there's always room for improvement. Yes, we want to be healthier. We should be healthier, especially as we get older. I'm always going to be that person. I love supplements, I love taking greens, I love taking college like I've always been about that and I'm always going to share, you know. But I also want people
to love themselves for who they are. And if you're going to make a change, and if you want to lose weight, for it to be because you want to, not because you feel forced, because you feel the pressure of the world. Because that's never going to last forever, that's not going to be long term. You have to do it for yourself. And I think that's what I did. I didn't care about anyone else. I just realized, Okay, I'm two hundred and six pounds. I'm not healthy. That's
not healthy. That can't be healthy. That's a lot of weight on my heart, on my knees. I'm getting older. I have to be better. I want to be better, and I did it for me, and yeah, other people are happy about it and great, But at the end of the day, what really matters is if I'm happy, if I accept myself. And thank God, I've always accepted myself, even when I was a size twelve, when I was two hundred and six pounds, and now that I'm one
hundred and forty five pounds. I love myself. And if I gain weight because I get pregnant, then I'm still gonna love myself. And I don't gotta worry worry about it because my man loves me anyways, you know what I mean. That's what I always say. I'm like, if, okay, if I gave fifty pounds, you're gonna be okay with it. He's like, well, yeah, And those are little conversations we have. I joke with him all the time, but it's really about accepting yourself and making the change for yourself, not
anyone else. And especially not for the society that we live in that it's like everyone has to be perfect. Let me tell you, the people that you see all the magazines, even the people that see on TV, It's okay.
They've gotten work done.
It's okay, honestly, Like what it takes is a lot of money to do the fillers and to do this and to do that. I'm not against any of it. You guys know, I love both tox I love filler, I love cosmetic surgery. If you can afford it, do your thing, but do it for yourself. Don't do it because you want to look like so and so because you feel that you're going to be more socially accepted. Fuck that, you guys. Fuck that. That only lasts so long. So love yourself. That's the best advice that I can
give you, guys. And I just wanted to come on here and just be open about this subject because I know it's been a conversation everywhere about my weight loss and how I lost weight, and people have so many different opinions, and you know whatever, I'm happy and I hope that my story, my journey, my honesty can help you guys become a better you. That's all I want,
all right, guys, asma, I love you. I hope you guys all have a wonderful week, kick ass, and I'll see you here on the next episode of Cheeky's and Chow.
I love you, guys.
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