July 7, 2025 • 32 mins
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Couture Conversations Podcast #6
Couture Med Spa
www.couturemedspa.com
What happens when the founder of a med spa finally confronts her lifelong battle with weight? Diane's raw, emotional journey from 300 pounds to losing 170 pounds isn't just about numbers—it's about reclaiming life itself.
"I look at myself now and I look at myself 170 pounds ago and I know I added a decade onto my life," Diane reveals in this deeply personal conversation. For someone who tried "every pill, lotion, potion, diet" since childhood, her transformation required more than willpower—it demanded a complete mindset revolution.
The turning point came during her father's cancer battle. Seeing her hero frail yet fighting sparked an epiphany that changed everything. Through gastric sleeve surgery, GLP-1 medications, and unwavering commitment, Diane navigated plateaus and setbacks that would have defeated her former self. But this isn't a story about medical interventions—it's about using every available tool to become who you were always meant to be.
What makes this episode particularly powerful is Diane's honesty about the psychological journey. The strange disconnect between her new body and self-perception. The liberation of finally having her outside match her inside. The guilt she initially felt about using medical help for weight loss. "It's not cheating," she emphasizes. "It's giving you your life back."
As a woman in the aesthetics industry who once heard clients say, "You don't look like you should be selling body contouring services because you're so big," her transformation transcends physical change. It's about silencing critics, proving doubters wrong, and most importantly, becoming comfortable in her own skin for the first time in her life.
Whether you're considering your own weight loss journey or simply need inspiration to tackle seemingly impossible goals, Diane's message resonates: "If I can do it, anyone can do it."
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello everyone and welcome back to Couture
Conversations.
Today's episode is all aboutreal talk and real
transformations.
I'm sitting down with Diane,the founder of Couture Med Spa,
and she's opening up aboutsomething super personal her own
weight loss journey.
From the struggles to thebreakthroughs, diane is sharing
what worked, what didn't and howthe journey has impacted not
(00:37):
just her body but her mindset,confidence and life overall.
If you've ever felt stuck orjust need a little inspiration
to kickstart your own goals,you're going to love this one,
so let's get into it.
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Diane, thank you.
Thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Thanks for inviting me.
I'm excited, I'm super excited.
All right, so we're just goingto jump right into it.
So tell me a little bit.
Can you start by sharing alittle bit about yourself and
what first motivated you in yourweight loss journey?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
yeah, um, so I am a nurse practitioner, um, and I
founded couture med spa 13 yearsago now.
Um, when it comes to weightloss, um, I've kind of or weight
, I guess I should say ingeneral, I've struggled with my
weight my entire life.
Um, from the time that um, Ifirst remembered fifth grade
(01:31):
getting bullied about my weight,um, I have been on um every
gamut of weight, uh weight lossgimmick and every diet and
exercise program and um, youknow, struggled with um eating,
uh disorders and you know, kindof from one side all the way to
(01:55):
the other.
So, uh, it's always kind ofbeen a struggle for me.
Um, I have gone through periodsof, you know, being on the
thinner side and then, for themajority of my life being
heavier, so I think, obviously,being in the health care world
and health care industry I'm anacute care nurse practitioner so
(02:19):
I started my journey in themedical side, not in the
aesthetic side journey um in themedical side, not in the
aesthetic side.
Um, as that kind of came intoplace, um, you know I I
struggled a bit more Um, andthen once I took the plunge to
go into aesthetics, um, I'vekind of always been a little bit
(02:39):
self-conscious about my weightand um.
Over the past decade or so, um,it has probably been the
hardest time for me, especiallystarting Couture Med Spot and
having, you know, being awoman-owned business is already
difficult getting respect fromthe workplace.
Being a woman is much harderthan being a man.
(03:01):
And then on top of that, when Idon't look the part of um, you
know the pretty thin supermodel,um looking person you know
starting med spa industry, Iremember clients you know um
saying like, oh, you don't looklike you own a med spa or you
don't look like you should beselling um body contouring
(03:22):
services because you're so big.
So it's kind of something I'vealways struggled with.
Does that answer your question?
No, yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
so I would say what would you say your relationship
with like health, fitness andfood like before you started
this?
I know you said you've you knowkind of struggled with it your
whole life.
I know like for me personally,struggling with it mine was.
I know like, for me personallystruggling with it, mine was
always eating when I was likewhen I was like sad or depressed
.
That's where I always went tojust like binge eating like.
(03:53):
What would you say yourrelationship was with like
fitness and food before youstarted?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
definitely emotional, definitely, and I think that's
probably it's the nail on thehead for a lot of women and a
lot of our viewers.
Um, I was definitely anemotional eater, um, or stress
eater, um.
Either one way or the other,like if I was stressed, I'd
either not eat at all and thenwhenever that stress was gone,
then I'd go to binge eating tomake up for the lack of eating.
(04:19):
Um, so, very emotional, verystressed eating.
I did, you know, try to get in.
I remember doing Atkins dietand the keto diet and Weight
Watchers and Peloton and youknow any fitness thing under the
sun.
(04:39):
I joined multiple gyms andwomen's things and I've done you
know Phentermine, you knowappetite suppressants, and I've
kind of tried it all in myjourney and I've had some
successes, um, but at the end ofthe day, anytime I got off it,
um always rebounded back and Ialways became I always ended up
(05:02):
heavier than yeah, I was when.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I started so what this time around is?
You've worked on it your wholelife.
What approach, what methods didyou use this time around?
Not only physical, but likemindset changes as well?
What would you say was kind ofyour catapult to like, okay, I'm
, I'm gonna do this, yeah, andmaking it a, you know, a
lifetime change?
What would you say was your oh,great question.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I I've struggled with it for a long time and I would
say the kind of um epiphany forme, or the one, if I had to pin
it to one thing that happened inmy life was, um, my father, my,
he is father, he has sincepassed away, next month will be
three years and he was diagnosedwith cancer and he had fought
it for about 10 years.
(05:56):
And the final time that he wasdiagnosed and going through
chemo and radiation, I remembera moment sitting on his couch
and talking to him and seeinghow thin and frail of a man he
was, and physically, but he wasso he was my hero and such a
(06:19):
huge, amazing, awesome light tothe world.
And I just remember thinking,man, like he finally looks the
way he's wanted to look hiswhole life, cause he struggled
with weight and he's dying andhe's never going to be able to
enjoy that.
So for me it was like an ahamoment, sitting on his couch,
(06:42):
talking to him.
You know, with his finaldiagnosis, he he still wasn't
ready to give up and, um, youknow, at this point we weren't,
we weren't aware that it was.
You know, there wasn't anythingelse to be done.
He was still in his final roundof chemo and, uh, at that point
he thought he'd do good.
And I remember um, I had justwas like this is it I have to be
(07:04):
done.
And so I initially decided thatI was going to have surgery for
weight loss, surgery to loseweight.
And I remember telling my dadabout it and I was like, hey,
dad, I am going to do thissurgery.
And I remember him saying, nope, do this surgery.
(07:28):
And I remember him saying, nope, you're not, absolutely not.
He said look how successful thebusinesswoman you are and if
you put your mind to something,you can do it.
You don't, you don't need to dosurgery.
And you know he was scared ofthe risks involved with that.
And I said, well, I'm doing itand I have a date.
You know, do you want me totell you more about it?
And he was like no.
And then a it.
And he was like no.
And then a couple of weekslater he was like, oh, a friend
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of mine.
I went to dinner with him and Ididn't realize he had had that
weight loss surgery and he, umwas telling me how great it is
and how much weight he lost andhow it completely changed his
life.
So him hearing it from adifferent perspective and seeing
someone live it on the otherside and how it had helped um
(08:11):
made him more comfortable andhe's like I think I'm okay, I
want to hear more about it.
So I told him about it andunfortunately, he did not make
it to ever see me get to thatpoint, um.
So I ended up actually um haduh, so I had a gastric sleeve
done and I actually theappointment was all set and
ready to go and it was actuallyseven days after he passed that
(08:34):
I had it done.
Um, it was pretty scheduled Um,but the difference this time
around was um it, when I put mymind to something, um, I really
really always go after it, and Idid in the past with other
things too and I just was likeall right, this is what I have
to do, the other things don'twork, I need something a little
bit more permanent.
(08:54):
So I decided I was going to doit and I put my mind to it and I
set a date and I did it and Ifollowed directions to a T.
I did everything I was supposedto do and I saw it start working
and, you know, I saw the weightstart going off.
And I know other people thathave had the surgery done and
(09:18):
they did not follow thedirections and they didn't get
the results that I got or theykind of rebound back.
And I am a rule follower and Iwas like, if I'm going to do
this and really, you know, makea big decision to change myself
and my body and you know myinternal organs, um then I'm
going to take the full maximumum safety measures, I'm going to
(09:42):
honor my dad and make sure I'mdoing this the safe way.
So I did that and I lost about80 pounds, 90 pounds, and then I
started having, you know, loose, tiny skin and, um, as a woman,
when you lose that kind ofweight and you're in your
forties um, at that time I wasin my thirties cause 30s because
(10:03):
looking like her 20s.
But, things kind of go down andyou know skin hangs.
So I remember I went to myplastic surgeon he's awesome, dr
Jorge Gonzalez in Orlando.
I highly recommend him and Iwas like I'm ready to get this
extra skin taken off and he waslike I can't do it, your BMI is
(10:29):
still too high.
And at that point, point I had-plateaued on my weight loss
surgery and I was like what areyou talking about?
About how long into this?
Was a year, okay, a year intothe weight loss surgery, I was
ready to get the skin removed, Ihad plateaued, I had lost 80
pounds and I um had started at300.
So I was at 220 and I was likeokay, and I thought I would
never tell anyone that 300number.
(10:50):
But now that I'm on the otherside of it, I I'm okay with it,
it's part of my journey.
But I remember I was around 220, maybe, maybe 215, and he was
like no, your BMI is still aboveum 30.
It needs to be below 30 for meto operate and I was like all
right, well, I've plateaued.
(11:10):
And um, he was like well, youknow, whatever you need to do, I
believe in you.
You've come this far, you knowyou.
You got to do a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
And so I said okay.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Um, and I did research and I had, you know,
the GLP-1s had come out and so Iwas like, all right, this is
something we're gonna do.
And so I went to a spa and Istarted on them and immediately,
you know, I just started seeing.
So I had plateaued.
I was doing everything to T, Iwas getting in the exact amount
(11:45):
of protein I should get themacros, everything, but with the
weight loss surgery I hadplateaued.
So this was kind of a toolnoise, the food noise, the food
(12:06):
noise, thank you, Of um, youknow being hungry and you know
reminding myself those things onwhen I am hungry, eating
protein.
First, um, and I got on theweight loss meds and I lost
quickly another 30 pounds andthen I was like, all right, now
(12:26):
I'm ready to go.
And I went back and saw myplastic surgeon and he's like,
wow, you're losing weight.
And he was like, you know, Iwould hate to do this surgery.
And then you continue.
So why don't you see?
You know where your end weightis?
going to be I was on the weightloss meds for about six months
and I um lost another 120 pounds, um, and so I was down 170
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pounds total and, um, I had thesurgery.
Um got you know my body the wayI wanted it to be, um kind of
as a reward to myself, um, and Ihave happily kept that weight
off now for 18 to almost 24months.
Now it's almost been two years,um, I do Pilates every day now.
(13:15):
Um, I have the confidence toyou know, look and feel good.
I wear clothes that I couldn't,that I've never been able to
wear.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I always say the forties are going to be the new
twenties and but yeah, that'skind of my journey in a nutshell
.
Yeah, what would you say someof your?
Were there any setbacks thatyou had after you had your
surgery?
In that process, anything thatlike really stuck out as
something that was like either amental or physical setback for
you?
I think once I plateaued I waslike, okay, that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Um, that's all I can do.
And then I remembered that thesurgery was just a surgery and
my mind is the most powerfultool that I have.
Um, so once I re-geared up andwas like, no, I can do this.
I can lose this weight.
Um, and you know, with the helpand support that I had from my
team at Couture, um, and my teamout, my friends outside of
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Couture they were my biggestcheerleaders and my family and
my husband and um, you know thismedication.
Really, I know it sounds verycliche, but, um, it gave me the
tool I needed to remind myselfthat I had the power to get
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myself to the best spot that Iwant to be.
And I, you know, and thehappiest I've ever been, um, I'm
not depressed anymore, I'm noton any medications.
Um, I, you know everyone thatyou know I've I've been part of
couture now for 13 years, so Istill, every single week, see
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clients.
I was just in my Cassinilocation, um, last week, and I
saw two clients that were like,oh, we used to used to go to
Winter Park, you know, years ago, and there was a provider there
named Diane and I was like, oh,that's me.
And they were like no, itwasn't.
And I showed them a picture onmy phone and they were like, oh
my gosh, you look 20 yearsyounger than you did five years
(15:19):
ago.
So I think, just realizing, youknow how much that weight does
to you mentally, physically,everything.
So the setback was, you know,when I plateaued on on the after
the surgery and then realizinglike, oh, I can keep going.
You know, I wasn't ready rightaway to start exercising because
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I still was big and I didn'twant to go to a gym, I didn't
want to go to a Pilates studioand, um, you know, I was
embarrassed of all of that.
So as the weight came off, myconfidence went up.
And then, when my confidencewent up, I, you know, just kept
hearing my dad and my family,you know, in my head telling me
like you could do this and I did.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I think one of the biggest things, because I've
obviously I've been working withyou for years now and I've
watched you go through thisjourney one you inspired me to
go through my own weight lossjourney, um, but I think one of
the biggest things that stuckout to me and I remember you
saying this a while ago Iremember you saying that you
loved who you were on the inside, finally, and you've loved who
(16:26):
you are on the outside finallyas well, like your, your outside
matched your inside now of howyou were feeling about yourself,
um, and that really like hithome with me as well, where it
was like I I've seen the changesthat you've gone through
professionally, physically andeverything, and that seeing that
that change in yourself andyour confidence of loving
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yourself and loving who you are,and the outside reflecting that
as well, and that really doesshow through.
I think that's something thatstuck with me.
Watching you go through thisjourney, yeah, I forget about
that part.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
but you're right, I always said you know, from
growing up and again, my dad wasmy hero and he always instilled
in me and told me how beautifulof a person I was and I did.
I grew up with that and theconfidence fundamentals.
I've always been a very caringand compassionate person and
(17:21):
I've always been, you know, avery giving person, sometimes to
a detriment Um, I would give myshirt off my back to anyone and
, um, I always loved who I wasas a person.
You know, I definitely have myflaws.
I'm stubborn and I always thinkI'm right and, um, you know
there's definitely qualitiesthat I always constantly improve
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on and I'm sure I will for therest of my life.
And to me that's the beautifuljourney of life is there are
imperfections in me and it nevermatched who I saw in the mirror
.
So I'd look in the mirror andbe like, oh, that's not who I
see and it kind of would cloudmy vision of myself.
(18:06):
And it's funny.
Now I look in the mirror andI'm like, yeah, that's the
person, that's the girl thereshe is, and my friends and my
family and my team, who is myfamily?
I see them more than I see myyou know, own personal family.
Um, you know, they'll look atpictures of me and be like, oh,
I don't, I don't ever rememberyou looking like that and I was
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like, well, that's because youloved the inside of me, so you
never saw me as that, but thatwas me, like you worked right
alongside me, so that was funand is the best part is that?
Um, sometimes it's like a dream.
I still have to pinch myselfLike I know shopping, I'll still
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order clothes and I get themand I put them on.
You know, I'll order them andthey're huge.
Because I still don't.
Sometimes I don't see myself.
I still see myself in the old,the old Diane, um, body wise.
But um then I'll, you know, ora friend will be like oh, you
can borrow this.
I'm like, oh, I can't fit intothat, and they'll show.
(19:10):
They'll say, they'll show me apicture.
I'd be like this is you andthis is me.
And I'm like oh, I probablycould borrow that.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Have you ever, like, held something up that is your
size and you're like there's noway that's going to?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
fit All the time.
Yeah, and I put it on and I'mlike, oh my gosh it zips.
And like I don't have to dothat struggle where it gets to
my knees and I'm like, okay, I'mdone, yeah, yeah, all the time.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It's crazy, it's a weird feeling.
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
So I would say, what, what?
Something that you think aboutweight loss that people don't
talk about enough.
I think that it's a guiltfactor right.
So for me, for so long I wasembarrassed and ashamed and I
didn't tell anyone, you know,besides my close circle, um,
about having the weight losssurgery.
And then the same thing, when Istarted the weight loss meds,
is it felt like at first I feltlike I was cheating or I felt
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guilty, like I wasn't doing iton my own.
But then I remembered, you know, for 30 years I was doing it on
my own and I was trying and youknow I would go on a diet and I
would.
My husband wouldn't be on thediet, but I would go on a diet
and I would.
My husband wouldn't be on thediet, but I would go on a diet
and my husband was 30 pounds, hewas on the diet, he was just
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eating what I was cooking and Igained five pounds and I was
like and um.
So I think for me the harder,like the biggest thing, was the
struggle of being open andhonest and realizing like this
isn't cheating, like I put inall the hard work, um, you know
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I used it was like a tool.
So it's like, you know, when acontractor builds a house right,
he has to set up the foundationand the building blocks and the
cinder blocks of the housebefore he can put on the drywall
and make it a gorgeous,beautiful home and the stucco
and the finishes and the paint.
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But you can't do that withoutlaying the foundation.
So the, the weight loss surgeryand then the meds after were
just tools for me to help get tothe person that I am and the
person that I've always meant tobe and feeling, looking at,
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looking on the outside and, moreimportantly, feeling on the
inside like I'm me, like this isthe person that I've always
been.
I just now feel comfortable inmy own skin, which I never have.
I've never felt comfortable inmy own skin.
I've always been bullied andmade fun of and I have always
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had people you know makecomments and those people now
are quiet.
They have nothing to saybecause I'm a beautiful person
on the inside, I'm caring andcompassionate, and now I don't
look like the names that theyused to call me or the things
they used to say.
So now they're just quiet inthe background because they
don't have anything to say.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I mean, I can say I watched you talking about using
this as a tool and not feelinglike it's cheating Again.
I watched you through thiswhole process.
I still got to think about thatwhen you.
What was it that you had tohave after your surgery?
Oh, the lymphatic massages.
Oh yeah, oh my gosh, I, you thewhat was it that you had to
have after your?
Surgery.
Oh, the lymphatic massages, ohyeah, oh my gosh, and I'm like
girl she's doing it yeah, butyou know all the things that you
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went through and I would watch,like when we would get you know
lunches delivered or certainthings, like you would make
those right choices of what youwere wanting to eat.
Or you'd be like, oh no, I youknow, have this today, um, or
yeah, watching you go now seeingyou, you, you know, going to
Pilates.
You know you haven't lost theweight.
And then like, okay, I juststopped.
Like I'm here now, like everysingle morning you're getting
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your workout in, you're makingthose choices and yeah, you've
used it as a tool.
Yeah, and, but like you makethose choices still, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And people will be like, oh, you know, when you
know socially I'll go out todrink or go out to dinner, and
I'll I always go 15 minutesearly if I want to drink,
because once I eat food, I can'tdrink for 30 minutes after my
last bite of food.
So you know it's a lifestylechange, it's different, and
people will be like oh, whyaren't you drinking?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And I don't want to get sick and I want to maintain
this weight loss and I stillcan't drink from straw and I
can't still can't have sodas,and you know I follow, follow
the rules and, yeah, you stillactively make those choices
every single day.
So what advice would you givesomeone, just, I would say,
either just starting theirweight loss journey or who's
even struggling with withstarting, or thinking about?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
starting.
I think the cool thing now isthat you have the accessibility
to the GLP-1 meds, the um,whatever dose they could be.
I always say, when I got theweight loss surgery, um, the
GLP-1 meds were not readilyavailable, they weren't
advertised, I didn't know aboutthem.
Um, if I were to do it now, Iprobably wouldn't have done that
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first part of the surgerybecause I would have started the
GLP ones and now know that theywork.
Um, I don't regret my decisionbecause it helped.
It was a tool to get to where Iam.
But I would say, for any advicefor someone is that it's not
cheating, it's actually theopposite.
It's actually giving you yourlife back.
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It's giving you years back.
I look at myself now and I lookat myself 170 pounds ago and I
know I I added a decade onto mylife easily.
You know, um, I won't havethose health issues, um, and
it's almost like, not, it's not,it's not even a question.
So I would remind people likeyou're doing this for yourself
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and you're doing it for yourloved ones, like you can't
afford not to do it because forsomeone, again, again, my, my
journey was a lot different thanother people's journey and that
I had a significant amount ofweight to lose.
So if you're in a weight lossjourney, where you and I were,
where it was a health concernand we're not getting younger
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and the older we get, the morewear and tear on our bodies and
on our our heart and our lungs,and you know it's a health
choice.
So we added lives, or you know?
years onto our life, um, but Ithink for everyone, it's just
you're regaining yourself andyour self-confidence and being
able to do the things that youweren't able to do.
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You know, I remember not beingable to go on an excursion with
my family because I waspetrified and I knew they'd
weigh me and I wouldn't qualifyfor it.
And you know, now I go and Iknow like it's not anything I
have to worry about, but I stillmy heart breaks when I see the
people that I know can't go.
So I think, just rememberingthat, as they say, rome wasn't
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built in a day, um, you know,it's not an overnight change.
But, you know, put your mind toit and just take it one day at
a time and one step at a time,and know that there's a
community behind you, I know,with me, um, I don't think I
could have done it without myteam and couture, because it was
accountability.
Right, it was going in, it wasgetting those weekly weigh-ins
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and knowing, you know, notaccountable to necessarily the
people I work with, butaccountable to myself and
cheerleaders along the way, andwhen I hit a plateau, having
that team say, hey, like it'sokay like let's try this.
(27:02):
Or how many grams of protein areyou getting?
You're right, you're notgetting 100 grams in.
All right, increase yourprotein and um so I would say
just take the first step, youknow, go to the consultation,
start, start somewhere, and um,yeah, it's life-changing and you
won't look back.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah it's been an amazing like decision for, yeah,
myself and I've it's, I've,I've watched you go through that
journey and knowing that itcould be done, and where you are
now and seeing, just, I wouldsay, like the life brought back
into you.
You know, when I first met youone, I was a little baby
(27:43):
esthetician and I was terrifiedand I just wanted to be good at
my job and I wanted my boss tolike me, Um, but you know, you
were kind and so accepting, evenwhen I first started.
But watching you transform andwatching you go through that
journey gave me the realizationthat, like, I can do this too.
This is, this is something thatis, you know, easily obtainable
(28:08):
.
Easily obtainable because ittakes a lot of work.
So, um, but I I do think thattaking the first step is the
hardest.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, and I know it sounds cliche, but I feel like
if I can do it, anyone can do it.
Yeah, only because I was 39 andI had tried everything and I
had every excuse in the book tonot, and I tried all those.
And then I tried all the stuffthat I thought would work.
(28:37):
I tried every pill, lotion,potion, diet, um, and I don't
know, it sounds cliche, but if Ican do it, anyone can do it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
So well, thank you for opening up.
I know it's not that it's notan easy thing to talk about.
It's's something that I thinkis there's a lot of I don't know
if I want to say shame, but alot of kind of like stuff that
we like to hide about weightloss and the other struggles
that we go through.
But there are so many peopleout there that go through those
(29:09):
same emotions and those samestruggles and, um, I just really
thank you for opening up withthat and I know, even just if
one person listens to your storyor you know, like myself saw
your story and it can changetheir life.
Having that impact is amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, I used to be ashamed of it and be really
embarrassed of it, and now Ithink that you know for myself,
I feel like I can't throw awaymy story.
I have to use it as a tool tohelp others and it would be a
shame for me not to.
So now I tell the numbers and Ishow the honest pictures of
(29:47):
what I looked like and where Istarted, because I feel like
again, if I can do it and peoplecan say, oh, my goodness, and
they have 20 or 30 or 40 or 50pounds, it's like okay, well,
she lost 170.
Like I can do this.
Um, so yeah, it's exciting forme now.
It's like giving me a newappreciation.
(30:09):
I'll be at my hair salon or atmy nail getting my nails done
and I'll hear people talkingabout it and I'll be like, oh, I
tried that and here's my storyand you should do it.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
That's awesome.
Well, thank you.
So thank you for sharing yourstory.
Honestly, just, it's inspiring.
So I want you to know that.
I think you're proof that, yeah, you can, when you put your
mindset to it and allowing thatsupport system to, yeah, you can
, when you put your mindset toit and, um, you know, allowing
that support system to be therefor you too, that it's possible
(30:42):
that you can do it.
So, um, if you want to learnmore about um, anything that we
do, we do offer um weight lossinjections at Couture Med Spa.
Um, that's when we brought themon.
That was when I decided, um,okay, I'm gonna do this and I'm
gonna make that change.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
So um you lost 100 pounds I have 107 right now.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So we're getting there, but it is, it's.
You're a huge part of my.
You'll have to turn the scriptone time and tell your story.
I will, I will, um, but yeah,so if you want to learn more
about any of our treatments, ouroffer, our memberships, you can
connect with us, um atwwwkatoramedspotcom.
You can also find us on any ofour social media Instagram, tik
(31:27):
TOK, youtube channel Um, so youcan stay up to date with
everything that we offer,everything that we do, um.
And if you loved this episodeor any of our other episodes
that you've listened to, pleaseshare our podcast, the tour
conversations, with any of yourfriends, family, anyone that you
know could use a little bit ofmotivation.
So thank you so much forlistening.
Thank you, diane, for coming.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Remember, you're not alone.
You're not alone, so everyonekind of goes through their own
struggles and you have a teambehind you.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Thank you for listening.
Bye.
Hello everyone and welcome back to Couture
Conversations.
Today's episode is all aboutreal talk and real
transformations.
I'm sitting down with Diane,the founder of Couture Med Spa,
and she's opening up aboutsomething super personal her own
weight loss journey.
From the struggles to thebreakthroughs, diane is sharing
what worked, what didn't and howthe journey has impacted not
(00:37):
just her body but her mindset,confidence and life overall.
If you've ever felt stuck orjust need a little inspiration
to kickstart your own goals,you're going to love this one,
so let's get into it.
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Diane, thank you.
Thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Thanks for inviting me.
I'm excited, I'm super excited.
All right, so we're just goingto jump right into it.
So tell me a little bit.
Can you start by sharing alittle bit about yourself and
what first motivated you in yourweight loss journey?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
yeah, um, so I am a nurse practitioner, um, and I
founded couture med spa 13 yearsago now.
Um, when it comes to weightloss, um, I've kind of or weight
, I guess I should say ingeneral, I've struggled with my
weight my entire life.
Um, from the time that um, Ifirst remembered fifth grade
(01:31):
getting bullied about my weight,um, I have been on um every
gamut of weight, uh weight lossgimmick and every diet and
exercise program and um, youknow, struggled with um eating,
uh disorders and you know, kindof from one side all the way to
(01:55):
the other.
So, uh, it's always kind ofbeen a struggle for me.
Um, I have gone through periodsof, you know, being on the
thinner side and then, for themajority of my life being
heavier, so I think, obviously,being in the health care world
and health care industry I'm anacute care nurse practitioner so
(02:19):
I started my journey in themedical side, not in the
aesthetic side journey um in themedical side, not in the
aesthetic side.
Um, as that kind of came intoplace, um, you know I I
struggled a bit more Um, andthen once I took the plunge to
go into aesthetics, um, I'vekind of always been a little bit
(02:39):
self-conscious about my weightand um.
Over the past decade or so, um,it has probably been the
hardest time for me, especiallystarting Couture Med Spot and
having, you know, being awoman-owned business is already
difficult getting respect fromthe workplace.
Being a woman is much harderthan being a man.
(03:01):
And then on top of that, when Idon't look the part of um, you
know the pretty thin supermodel,um looking person you know
starting med spa industry, Iremember clients you know um
saying like, oh, you don't looklike you own a med spa or you
don't look like you should beselling um body contouring
(03:22):
services because you're so big.
So it's kind of something I'vealways struggled with.
Does that answer your question?
No, yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
so I would say what would you say your relationship
with like health, fitness andfood like before you started
this?
I know you said you've you knowkind of struggled with it your
whole life.
I know like for me personally,struggling with it mine was.
I know like, for me personallystruggling with it, mine was
always eating when I was likewhen I was like sad or depressed
.
That's where I always went tojust like binge eating like.
(03:53):
What would you say yourrelationship was with like
fitness and food before youstarted?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
definitely emotional, definitely, and I think that's
probably it's the nail on thehead for a lot of women and a
lot of our viewers.
Um, I was definitely anemotional eater, um, or stress
eater, um.
Either one way or the other,like if I was stressed, I'd
either not eat at all and thenwhenever that stress was gone,
then I'd go to binge eating tomake up for the lack of eating.
(04:19):
Um, so, very emotional, verystressed eating.
I did, you know, try to get in.
I remember doing Atkins dietand the keto diet and Weight
Watchers and Peloton and youknow any fitness thing under the
sun.
(04:39):
I joined multiple gyms andwomen's things and I've done you
know Phentermine, you knowappetite suppressants, and I've
kind of tried it all in myjourney and I've had some
successes, um, but at the end ofthe day, anytime I got off it,
um always rebounded back and Ialways became I always ended up
(05:02):
heavier than yeah, I was when.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I started so what this time around is?
You've worked on it your wholelife.
What approach, what methods didyou use this time around?
Not only physical, but likemindset changes as well?
What would you say was kind ofyour catapult to like, okay, I'm
, I'm gonna do this, yeah, andmaking it a, you know, a
lifetime change?
What would you say was your oh,great question.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I I've struggled with it for a long time and I would
say the kind of um epiphany forme, or the one, if I had to pin
it to one thing that happened inmy life was, um, my father, my,
he is father, he has sincepassed away, next month will be
three years and he was diagnosedwith cancer and he had fought
it for about 10 years.
(05:56):
And the final time that he wasdiagnosed and going through
chemo and radiation, I remembera moment sitting on his couch
and talking to him and seeinghow thin and frail of a man he
was, and physically, but he wasso he was my hero and such a
(06:19):
huge, amazing, awesome light tothe world.
And I just remember thinking,man, like he finally looks the
way he's wanted to look hiswhole life, cause he struggled
with weight and he's dying andhe's never going to be able to
enjoy that.
So for me it was like an ahamoment, sitting on his couch,
(06:42):
talking to him.
You know, with his finaldiagnosis, he he still wasn't
ready to give up and, um, youknow, at this point we weren't,
we weren't aware that it was.
You know, there wasn't anythingelse to be done.
He was still in his final roundof chemo and, uh, at that point
he thought he'd do good.
And I remember um, I had justwas like this is it I have to be
(07:04):
done.
And so I initially decided thatI was going to have surgery for
weight loss, surgery to loseweight.
And I remember telling my dadabout it and I was like, hey,
dad, I am going to do thissurgery.
And I remember him saying, nope, do this surgery.
(07:28):
And I remember him saying, nope, you're not, absolutely not.
He said look how successful thebusinesswoman you are and if
you put your mind to something,you can do it.
You don't, you don't need to dosurgery.
And you know he was scared ofthe risks involved with that.
And I said, well, I'm doing itand I have a date.
You know, do you want me totell you more about it?
And he was like no.
And then a it.
And he was like no.
And then a couple of weekslater he was like, oh, a friend
(07:48):
of mine.
I went to dinner with him and Ididn't realize he had had that
weight loss surgery and he, umwas telling me how great it is
and how much weight he lost andhow it completely changed his
life.
So him hearing it from adifferent perspective and seeing
someone live it on the otherside and how it had helped um
(08:11):
made him more comfortable andhe's like I think I'm okay, I
want to hear more about it.
So I told him about it andunfortunately, he did not make
it to ever see me get to thatpoint, um.
So I ended up actually um haduh, so I had a gastric sleeve
done and I actually theappointment was all set and
ready to go and it was actuallyseven days after he passed that
(08:34):
I had it done.
Um, it was pretty scheduled Um,but the difference this time
around was um it, when I put mymind to something, um, I really
really always go after it, and Idid in the past with other
things too and I just was likeall right, this is what I have
to do, the other things don'twork, I need something a little
bit more permanent.
(08:54):
So I decided I was going to doit and I put my mind to it and I
set a date and I did it and Ifollowed directions to a T.
I did everything I was supposedto do and I saw it start working
and, you know, I saw the weightstart going off.
And I know other people thathave had the surgery done and
(09:18):
they did not follow thedirections and they didn't get
the results that I got or theykind of rebound back.
And I am a rule follower and Iwas like, if I'm going to do
this and really, you know, makea big decision to change myself
and my body and you know myinternal organs, um then I'm
going to take the full maximumum safety measures, I'm going to
(09:42):
honor my dad and make sure I'mdoing this the safe way.
So I did that and I lost about80 pounds, 90 pounds, and then I
started having, you know, loose, tiny skin and, um, as a woman,
when you lose that kind ofweight and you're in your
forties um, at that time I wasin my thirties cause 30s because
(10:03):
looking like her 20s.
But, things kind of go down andyou know skin hangs.
So I remember I went to myplastic surgeon he's awesome, dr
Jorge Gonzalez in Orlando.
I highly recommend him and Iwas like I'm ready to get this
extra skin taken off and he waslike I can't do it, your BMI is
(10:29):
still too high.
And at that point, point I had-plateaued on my weight loss
surgery and I was like what areyou talking about?
About how long into this?
Was a year, okay, a year intothe weight loss surgery, I was
ready to get the skin removed, Ihad plateaued, I had lost 80
pounds and I um had started at300.
So I was at 220 and I was likeokay, and I thought I would
never tell anyone that 300number.
(10:50):
But now that I'm on the otherside of it, I I'm okay with it,
it's part of my journey.
But I remember I was around 220, maybe, maybe 215, and he was
like no, your BMI is still aboveum 30.
It needs to be below 30 for meto operate and I was like all
right, well, I've plateaued.
(11:10):
And um, he was like well, youknow, whatever you need to do, I
believe in you.
You've come this far, you knowyou.
You got to do a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
And so I said okay.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Um, and I did research and I had, you know,
the GLP-1s had come out and so Iwas like, all right, this is
something we're gonna do.
And so I went to a spa and Istarted on them and immediately,
you know, I just started seeing.
So I had plateaued.
I was doing everything to T, Iwas getting in the exact amount
(11:45):
of protein I should get themacros, everything, but with the
weight loss surgery I hadplateaued.
So this was kind of a toolnoise, the food noise, the food
(12:06):
noise, thank you, Of um, youknow being hungry and you know
reminding myself those things onwhen I am hungry, eating
protein.
First, um, and I got on theweight loss meds and I lost
quickly another 30 pounds andthen I was like, all right, now
(12:26):
I'm ready to go.
And I went back and saw myplastic surgeon and he's like,
wow, you're losing weight.
And he was like, you know, Iwould hate to do this surgery.
And then you continue.
So why don't you see?
You know where your end weightis?
going to be I was on the weightloss meds for about six months
and I um lost another 120 pounds, um, and so I was down 170
(12:54):
pounds total and, um, I had thesurgery.
Um got you know my body the wayI wanted it to be, um kind of
as a reward to myself, um, and Ihave happily kept that weight
off now for 18 to almost 24months.
Now it's almost been two years,um, I do Pilates every day now.
(13:15):
Um, I have the confidence toyou know, look and feel good.
I wear clothes that I couldn't,that I've never been able to
wear.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I always say the forties are going to be the new
twenties and but yeah, that'skind of my journey in a nutshell
.
Yeah, what would you say someof your?
Were there any setbacks thatyou had after you had your
surgery?
In that process, anything thatlike really stuck out as
something that was like either amental or physical setback for
you?
I think once I plateaued I waslike, okay, that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Um, that's all I can do.
And then I remembered that thesurgery was just a surgery and
my mind is the most powerfultool that I have.
Um, so once I re-geared up andwas like, no, I can do this.
I can lose this weight.
Um, and you know, with the helpand support that I had from my
team at Couture, um, and my teamout, my friends outside of
(14:15):
Couture they were my biggestcheerleaders and my family and
my husband and um, you know thismedication.
Really, I know it sounds verycliche, but, um, it gave me the
tool I needed to remind myselfthat I had the power to get
(14:36):
myself to the best spot that Iwant to be.
And I, you know, and thehappiest I've ever been, um, I'm
not depressed anymore, I'm noton any medications.
Um, I, you know everyone thatyou know I've I've been part of
couture now for 13 years, so Istill, every single week, see
(14:58):
clients.
I was just in my Cassinilocation, um, last week, and I
saw two clients that were like,oh, we used to used to go to
Winter Park, you know, years ago, and there was a provider there
named Diane and I was like, oh,that's me.
And they were like no, itwasn't.
And I showed them a picture onmy phone and they were like, oh
my gosh, you look 20 yearsyounger than you did five years
(15:19):
ago.
So I think, just realizing, youknow how much that weight does
to you mentally, physically,everything.
So the setback was, you know,when I plateaued on on the after
the surgery and then realizinglike, oh, I can keep going.
You know, I wasn't ready rightaway to start exercising because
(15:40):
I still was big and I didn'twant to go to a gym, I didn't
want to go to a Pilates studioand, um, you know, I was
embarrassed of all of that.
So as the weight came off, myconfidence went up.
And then, when my confidencewent up, I, you know, just kept
hearing my dad and my family,you know, in my head telling me
like you could do this and I did.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I think one of the biggest things, because I've
obviously I've been working withyou for years now and I've
watched you go through thisjourney one you inspired me to
go through my own weight lossjourney, um, but I think one of
the biggest things that stuckout to me and I remember you
saying this a while ago Iremember you saying that you
loved who you were on the inside, finally, and you've loved who
(16:26):
you are on the outside finallyas well, like your, your outside
matched your inside now of howyou were feeling about yourself,
um, and that really like hithome with me as well, where it
was like I I've seen the changesthat you've gone through
professionally, physically andeverything, and that seeing that
that change in yourself andyour confidence of loving
(16:47):
yourself and loving who you are,and the outside reflecting that
as well, and that really doesshow through.
I think that's something thatstuck with me.
Watching you go through thisjourney, yeah, I forget about
that part.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
but you're right, I always said you know, from
growing up and again, my dad wasmy hero and he always instilled
in me and told me how beautifulof a person I was and I did.
I grew up with that and theconfidence fundamentals.
I've always been a very caringand compassionate person and
(17:21):
I've always been, you know, avery giving person, sometimes to
a detriment Um, I would give myshirt off my back to anyone and
, um, I always loved who I wasas a person.
You know, I definitely have myflaws.
I'm stubborn and I always thinkI'm right and, um, you know
there's definitely qualitiesthat I always constantly improve
(17:44):
on and I'm sure I will for therest of my life.
And to me that's the beautifuljourney of life is there are
imperfections in me and it nevermatched who I saw in the mirror
.
So I'd look in the mirror andbe like, oh, that's not who I
see and it kind of would cloudmy vision of myself.
(18:06):
And it's funny.
Now I look in the mirror andI'm like, yeah, that's the
person, that's the girl thereshe is, and my friends and my
family and my team, who is myfamily?
I see them more than I see myyou know, own personal family.
Um, you know, they'll look atpictures of me and be like, oh,
I don't, I don't ever rememberyou looking like that and I was
(18:29):
like, well, that's because youloved the inside of me, so you
never saw me as that, but thatwas me, like you worked right
alongside me, so that was funand is the best part is that?
Um, sometimes it's like a dream.
I still have to pinch myselfLike I know shopping, I'll still
(18:49):
order clothes and I get themand I put them on.
You know, I'll order them andthey're huge.
Because I still don't.
Sometimes I don't see myself.
I still see myself in the old,the old Diane, um, body wise.
But um then I'll, you know, ora friend will be like oh, you
can borrow this.
I'm like, oh, I can't fit intothat, and they'll show.
(19:10):
They'll say, they'll show me apicture.
I'd be like this is you andthis is me.
And I'm like oh, I probablycould borrow that.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Have you ever, like, held something up that is your
size and you're like there's noway that's going to?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
fit All the time.
Yeah, and I put it on and I'mlike, oh my gosh it zips.
And like I don't have to dothat struggle where it gets to
my knees and I'm like, okay, I'mdone, yeah, yeah, all the time.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It's crazy, it's a weird feeling.
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
So I would say, what, what?
Something that you think aboutweight loss that people don't
talk about enough.
I think that it's a guiltfactor right.
So for me, for so long I wasembarrassed and ashamed and I
didn't tell anyone, you know,besides my close circle, um,
about having the weight losssurgery.
And then the same thing, when Istarted the weight loss meds,
is it felt like at first I feltlike I was cheating or I felt
(20:06):
guilty, like I wasn't doing iton my own.
But then I remembered, you know, for 30 years I was doing it on
my own and I was trying and youknow I would go on a diet and I
would.
My husband wouldn't be on thediet, but I would go on a diet
and I would.
My husband wouldn't be on thediet, but I would go on a diet
and my husband was 30 pounds, hewas on the diet, he was just
(20:28):
eating what I was cooking and Igained five pounds and I was
like and um.
So I think for me the harder,like the biggest thing, was the
struggle of being open andhonest and realizing like this
isn't cheating, like I put inall the hard work, um, you know
(20:52):
I used it was like a tool.
So it's like, you know, when acontractor builds a house right,
he has to set up the foundationand the building blocks and the
cinder blocks of the housebefore he can put on the drywall
and make it a gorgeous,beautiful home and the stucco
and the finishes and the paint.
(21:12):
But you can't do that withoutlaying the foundation.
So the, the weight loss surgeryand then the meds after were
just tools for me to help get tothe person that I am and the
person that I've always meant tobe and feeling, looking at,
(21:33):
looking on the outside and, moreimportantly, feeling on the
inside like I'm me, like this isthe person that I've always
been.
I just now feel comfortable inmy own skin, which I never have.
I've never felt comfortable inmy own skin.
I've always been bullied andmade fun of and I have always
(21:57):
had people you know makecomments and those people now
are quiet.
They have nothing to saybecause I'm a beautiful person
on the inside, I'm caring andcompassionate, and now I don't
look like the names that theyused to call me or the things
they used to say.
So now they're just quiet inthe background because they
don't have anything to say.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I mean, I can say I watched you talking about using
this as a tool and not feelinglike it's cheating Again.
I watched you through thiswhole process.
I still got to think about thatwhen you.
What was it that you had tohave after your surgery?
Oh, the lymphatic massages.
Oh yeah, oh my gosh, I, you thewhat was it that you had to
have after your?
Surgery.
Oh, the lymphatic massages, ohyeah, oh my gosh, and I'm like
girl she's doing it yeah, butyou know all the things that you
(22:43):
went through and I would watch,like when we would get you know
lunches delivered or certainthings, like you would make
those right choices of what youwere wanting to eat.
Or you'd be like, oh no, I youknow, have this today, um, or
yeah, watching you go now seeingyou, you, you know, going to
Pilates.
You know you haven't lost theweight.
And then like, okay, I juststopped.
Like I'm here now, like everysingle morning you're getting
(23:03):
your workout in, you're makingthose choices and yeah, you've
used it as a tool.
Yeah, and, but like you makethose choices still, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And people will be like, oh, you know, when you
know socially I'll go out todrink or go out to dinner, and
I'll I always go 15 minutesearly if I want to drink,
because once I eat food, I can'tdrink for 30 minutes after my
last bite of food.
So you know it's a lifestylechange, it's different, and
people will be like oh, whyaren't you drinking?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And I don't want to get sick and I want to maintain
this weight loss and I stillcan't drink from straw and I
can't still can't have sodas,and you know I follow, follow
the rules and, yeah, you stillactively make those choices
every single day.
So what advice would you givesomeone, just, I would say,
either just starting theirweight loss journey or who's
even struggling with withstarting, or thinking about?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
starting.
I think the cool thing now isthat you have the accessibility
to the GLP-1 meds, the um,whatever dose they could be.
I always say, when I got theweight loss surgery, um, the
GLP-1 meds were not readilyavailable, they weren't
advertised, I didn't know aboutthem.
Um, if I were to do it now, Iprobably wouldn't have done that
(24:23):
first part of the surgerybecause I would have started the
GLP ones and now know that theywork.
Um, I don't regret my decisionbecause it helped.
It was a tool to get to where Iam.
But I would say, for any advicefor someone is that it's not
cheating, it's actually theopposite.
It's actually giving you yourlife back.
(24:46):
It's giving you years back.
I look at myself now and I lookat myself 170 pounds ago and I
know I I added a decade onto mylife easily.
You know, um, I won't havethose health issues, um, and
it's almost like, not, it's not,it's not even a question.
So I would remind people likeyou're doing this for yourself
(25:11):
and you're doing it for yourloved ones, like you can't
afford not to do it because forsomeone, again, again, my, my
journey was a lot different thanother people's journey and that
I had a significant amount ofweight to lose.
So if you're in a weight lossjourney, where you and I were,
where it was a health concernand we're not getting younger
(25:33):
and the older we get, the morewear and tear on our bodies and
on our our heart and our lungs,and you know it's a health
choice.
So we added lives, or you know?
years onto our life, um, but Ithink for everyone, it's just
you're regaining yourself andyour self-confidence and being
able to do the things that youweren't able to do.
(25:56):
You know, I remember not beingable to go on an excursion with
my family because I waspetrified and I knew they'd
weigh me and I wouldn't qualifyfor it.
And you know, now I go and Iknow like it's not anything I
have to worry about, but I stillmy heart breaks when I see the
people that I know can't go.
So I think, just rememberingthat, as they say, rome wasn't
(26:19):
built in a day, um, you know,it's not an overnight change.
But, you know, put your mind toit and just take it one day at
a time and one step at a time,and know that there's a
community behind you, I know,with me, um, I don't think I
could have done it without myteam and couture, because it was
accountability.
Right, it was going in, it wasgetting those weekly weigh-ins
(26:42):
and knowing, you know, notaccountable to necessarily the
people I work with, butaccountable to myself and
cheerleaders along the way, andwhen I hit a plateau, having
that team say, hey, like it'sokay like let's try this.
(27:02):
Or how many grams of protein areyou getting?
You're right, you're notgetting 100 grams in.
All right, increase yourprotein and um so I would say
just take the first step, youknow, go to the consultation,
start, start somewhere, and um,yeah, it's life-changing and you
won't look back.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah it's been an amazing like decision for, yeah,
myself and I've it's, I've,I've watched you go through that
journey and knowing that itcould be done, and where you are
now and seeing, just, I wouldsay, like the life brought back
into you.
You know, when I first met youone, I was a little baby
(27:43):
esthetician and I was terrifiedand I just wanted to be good at
my job and I wanted my boss tolike me, Um, but you know, you
were kind and so accepting, evenwhen I first started.
But watching you transform andwatching you go through that
journey gave me the realizationthat, like, I can do this too.
This is, this is something thatis, you know, easily obtainable
(28:08):
.
Easily obtainable because ittakes a lot of work.
So, um, but I I do think thattaking the first step is the
hardest.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, and I know it sounds cliche, but I feel like
if I can do it, anyone can do it.
Yeah, only because I was 39 andI had tried everything and I
had every excuse in the book tonot, and I tried all those.
And then I tried all the stuffthat I thought would work.
(28:37):
I tried every pill, lotion,potion, diet, um, and I don't
know, it sounds cliche, but if Ican do it, anyone can do it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
So well, thank you for opening up.
I know it's not that it's notan easy thing to talk about.
It's's something that I thinkis there's a lot of I don't know
if I want to say shame, but alot of kind of like stuff that
we like to hide about weightloss and the other struggles
that we go through.
But there are so many peopleout there that go through those
(29:09):
same emotions and those samestruggles and, um, I just really
thank you for opening up withthat and I know, even just if
one person listens to your storyor you know, like myself saw
your story and it can changetheir life.
Having that impact is amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, I used to be ashamed of it and be really
embarrassed of it, and now Ithink that you know for myself,
I feel like I can't throw awaymy story.
I have to use it as a tool tohelp others and it would be a
shame for me not to.
So now I tell the numbers and Ishow the honest pictures of
(29:47):
what I looked like and where Istarted, because I feel like
again, if I can do it and peoplecan say, oh, my goodness, and
they have 20 or 30 or 40 or 50pounds, it's like okay, well,
she lost 170.
Like I can do this.
Um, so yeah, it's exciting forme now.
It's like giving me a newappreciation.
(30:09):
I'll be at my hair salon or atmy nail getting my nails done
and I'll hear people talkingabout it and I'll be like, oh, I
tried that and here's my storyand you should do it.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
That's awesome.
Well, thank you.
So thank you for sharing yourstory.
Honestly, just, it's inspiring.
So I want you to know that.
I think you're proof that, yeah, you can, when you put your
mindset to it and allowing thatsupport system to, yeah, you can
, when you put your mindset toit and, um, you know, allowing
that support system to be therefor you too, that it's possible
(30:42):
that you can do it.
So, um, if you want to learnmore about um, anything that we
do, we do offer um weight lossinjections at Couture Med Spa.
Um, that's when we brought themon.
That was when I decided, um,okay, I'm gonna do this and I'm
gonna make that change.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
So um you lost 100 pounds I have 107 right now.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So we're getting there, but it is, it's.
You're a huge part of my.
You'll have to turn the scriptone time and tell your story.
I will, I will, um, but yeah,so if you want to learn more
about any of our treatments, ouroffer, our memberships, you can
connect with us, um atwwwkatoramedspotcom.
You can also find us on any ofour social media Instagram, tik
(31:27):
TOK, youtube channel Um, so youcan stay up to date with
everything that we offer,everything that we do, um.
And if you loved this episodeor any of our other episodes
that you've listened to, pleaseshare our podcast, the tour
conversations, with any of yourfriends, family, anyone that you
know could use a little bit ofmotivation.
So thank you so much forlistening.
Thank you, diane, for coming.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Remember, you're not alone.
You're not alone, so everyonekind of goes through their own
struggles and you have a teambehind you.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Thank you for listening.
Bye.
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