Today's Swoll fam spotlight is from Kat. What's going on, Beesha's welcome to the Daily

Swole podcast, episode 2006, Saturday, August the 26th, and Kat writes, first of all, I come from an obese family and I'm the second lightest.

Still, early death is in my family.

I've almost died 17 times.

Getting fatter scares me.

I started my weight loss journey on the 20th of November 2019 after realizing that,

though it took me two years to gain 15 pounds,

I was in severe danger of dying early. I bought a scale that measured weight, body mass index, body fat percentage, muscle percentage,

water percentage, bone density, et cetera, so I could see the larger picture, but it wasn't good. My first way in was

215 pounds, 40 BMI, 50% body fat. It devastated me. I knew that especially as a type 1 diabetic,

I would die sooner than if I was at the best weight I could be and I needed help. But where to turn?

In 2017, I had finally gotten to 199 pounds, but I lost motivation.

My health has almost killed me nine out of the 17 near-death experiences.

I couldn't let my immune disease coupled with obesity take my life.

When I found the swole fam here, I now can see and hear all the wonderful success stories

and grind through the struggles. People here are showing me it can be done and I'm not alone.

You all inspire me and I've lost 13 pounds so far. I have 84 more to go to get to my goal weight.

And I know that with the support from my Swole fam,

I will get there. Thank you all. Well, thank you for sharing Kat. That's a very, very scary and

sobering story. I'm not really sure what the 17 times entailed of those near-death experiences,

but I'm sure complications with autoimmune issues

and obviously health concerns. Yeah, I mean, those scales are really not that accurate,

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