1,000-Lb Best Friends Vanessa Cross Breaks Down Calorie Intake After Dropping to 180 Pounds

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00:00When we kick off the season, I believe that you are down to 220 pounds.

00:04Congratulations. That is so fantastic for you. That is wonderful.

00:07Are you, have you been a solid at that weight?

00:11Is that your goal or do you have a goal weight in mind?

00:14My goal weight is 180. That has been a goal weight. Well, Proctor set that goal and at first,

00:19if anybody pays any attention, I was like, what? 180? No.

00:24All right, well, let's go on and say a girl reached that goal.

00:27Okay. Your girl has reached 180. I'm doing amazing. Now the weight,

00:33which I understand woman of average size, when you're at this weight to lose weight,

00:39you have to kind of go extreme. You can't just cut the food down and do your little exercises.

00:46No, my body's used to that and immune to that. Now I have to up it and up it in order.

00:51So right now I'm at a steady weight.

00:53Do you have to hit a certain amount of calories per day or do you not pay attention to the

00:57calories? Are you more like focused on like the food portions?

01:00Drew wants me to eat around 100 calories a day. And even since I had the surgery,

01:05it's been almost three years. I'm still only getting in around a thousand,

01:11maybe 15, you know, maybe 1,500, but I haven't been able to reach the 2000 calorie because of

01:17my stomach. I can't ingest. So I don't, I don't count calories. I try to push more in

01:26that your stomach only lets you have what you're allowed to have.

01:29Also this season, we see you, um, searching to try to get the answers for your skin removal

01:34surgery. Now hearing that you've dropped even more weight and probably kept your BMI to under 30 or

01:4030. I would imagine that you are an eligible candidate for that now. Correct?

01:45Oh, I am very eligible. It possibly has already been done.

01:48Oh, look at you. What was, what was that like?

01:54Oh my God. Number one, I understand why people get addicted to plastic surgery because it was

01:59very easy. Healing was easy. There was minimal, minimal pain, but waking up in a different shape

02:09because having Betsy May, everybody in the world knows Betsy May was my best friend that hung right

02:13here next to me. I'm on. When I woke up without her, I cried for probably an hour because it was

02:20such a transformation that my body didn't know how to accept being who I was and just sticking

02:27my hands down like that. Like when I put my hands down and I was like, so it's been, that is a whole

02:36nother journey on its own. I'm sure. I would imagine you probably dropped like so many pant

02:41sizes as well. Just doing that too. I cannot like, cannot believe that when I shop now for

02:52pants, I still go to the big size. I always do. I go for an extra large. I go for a large.

02:56Well, it used to be two X, three X. Now I'm looking at the large, but when I went to jeans

03:01and that blew my mind at the fact that I was wearing a size 10. Wow. I lost control of my

03:11life at that point. I was like, okay, I'm buying everything now, everything. And still when I pick

03:18my pants up at home, when I pick them up, I still look at them. I'm like, that's, that's not mine.

03:23That is mine. Oh, these are mine. I do. It's so weird because mentally I still,

03:31I still see myself as this big, big person. So it's hard for me to buy clothing or do anything

03:37and not buy it big. It is. It's still like mentally, I'm still trying to work through.

03:45Yes, physically I lost this weight, but mentally I'm still over 400 pounds.