I Binge Ate My Way To 300lbs - But Look At Me Now | BRAND NEW ME
TORI SCOTT, from Baytown, Texas, has gone from over 300lbs to a bodybuilding competition - after losing a staggering 160lbs. She was overweight as a child and blamed her weight to binge and emotional eating. The turning point for Tori was when she saw pictures of herself during a vacation and was horrified. After feeling upset with the way she looked, Tori decided to have VSG surgery and began her weight loss and fitness journey. She started to visit the gym at least five times a week and began a vegetarian diet. Her newest goal is to push things even further and she is currently training for her first bodybuilding competition. She told Truly: "I want to be the healthiest, best version of myself when I walk across that stage to say goodbye to that 300lb version of myself."
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00:00 No matter what I was doing, food was involved.
00:04 I wanted to eat my emotions.
00:06 I had seen pictures of myself on vacation.
00:09 Seeing those pictures was like a slap in the face to me.
00:12 Enough is enough.
00:14 I decided that it was the best choice for me to have my gastric sleeve surgery.
00:18 At my heaviest weight, I was 303 pounds.
00:23 I've lost 160 pounds.
00:26 I chose to compete in the bodybuilding competition.
00:30 I want to be the healthiest, best version of myself when I walk across that stage.
00:38 Ever since I was younger, I've been overweight.
00:41 I've always been kind of like the bigger kid since I was in my early teenage years.
00:46 I never wanted to leave my apartment.
00:49 I didn't want other people to see me because I was so ashamed of, you know, what I looked
00:54 like.
00:55 I felt like I was invisible when I was at my heaviest weight, and I wanted to be invisible.
01:00 I didn't want people to see me.
01:04 What caused the actual weight gain was my binge eating and my emotional eating.
01:08 If I had a good day, if I had a bad day, no matter what I was doing, food was involved.
01:15 I wanted to eat my emotions.
01:19 First thing I did when I saw the vacation pictures is I started doing research for the
01:23 gastric sleeve.
01:26 I had seen pictures of myself on vacation, and I was kind of like blown away.
01:32 Seeing those pictures was like a slap in the face to me.
01:35 Like I woke up like, "Tori, look at yourself.
01:40 Look in the mirror.
01:41 Get on the scale and honestly wake up because something has to change."
01:46 So that's when I decided that it was the best choice for me to actually go to Mexico and
01:51 have my gastric sleeve surgery.
01:55 At my heaviest weight, I was 303 pounds.
02:00 I lost 160 pounds in two years.
02:05 Whenever I had lost all of my weight and I had a lot of loose skin in my abdomen, the
02:10 only option for that was to get it surgically removed.
02:13 And once I did that, that's kind of when I finally started to feel like this is who I've
02:19 always been meant to be.
02:24 He was with me with my battle with my loose skin, and then he's the one that helped me
02:29 recover from that surgery.
02:31 Like I wouldn't have been able to have it if he wouldn't have been here.
02:34 Markel encourages me every single day to be my best self, and I try my best to encourage
02:40 him to be his best self.
02:42 We're a team in that sense.
02:45 I go to the gym five or six days a week, and some of those days I'm going twice.
02:51 Training with Markel in the gym is fun.
02:54 Knowing that I have someone there to help me when I need it is honestly what keeps me
02:58 going too.
02:59 I'm seeing him lift heavy, motivates me.
03:03 I have a trainer that sets my macro goals.
03:06 He's honestly the trainer that helped me lose my last 40 to 50 pounds, and that's why I
03:11 started working with him because I'm training for a bodybuilding competition.
03:18 One of the main reasons I chose to compete in the bodybuilding competition though is
03:22 because I want to prove to myself that I can, because I've never done anything like it before.
03:29 I want to be the healthiest, best version of myself when I walk across that stage to
03:34 kind of say goodbye to that 300-pound version of myself and start truly living my life now.
03:41 So, being 145 pounds now, I lost literally half of myself.
03:48 I lost half my body weight in pounds.
03:51 I truly just want to keep working on my health, working on my mental health, trying to be
03:58 the best version of myself every day.
04:01 There will be days that you don't want to do it, but I promise if you do it, your future
04:06 self will thank you for that.
04:09 You have to just keep going.
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