Posted by Southern Surgical Arts on Jun 5, 2018 1:17:33 PM
Theresa had come too far to give up on herself now. “I embraced the challenge. I didn’t mind that surgery would come in phases. It was something positive to keep me going,” she reveals. She pushed herself even harder every day running two miles before work, four miles on her lunch break, weightlifting, even walking up her steep hills at night. “I would continuously walk up and down that hill. I hated that hill,” she laughs.
But Theresa wasn’t finished improving herself yet, and as her confidence continued to build, so did her body. “I wanted a new goal, so I took-up body-building, which was something I’d always been interested in. One of the coaches at this old school gym I go to heard me talking and offered to coach me.” It seems there is no challenge Theresa can’t meet and accomplish. Less than two years after her weight loss journey began, she won her first bodybuilding competition on May 19th in Dalton, GA. Walking on stage was a bit nerve-wracking, but winning three awards, including 1st place in the Figure Division, 1st place in The Masters Age 35 And Over and 1st place Overall was a thrill. Yet despite everything she’d been through, it wasn’t until she saw a picture of herself competing that she realized the true extent of her transformation. “It brought tears to my eyes, because I didn’t know what I looked like until I saw that.”
True to form, Theresa has already set her sights on a new goal: participating in her first official body-building competition June 9th in Chattanooga, TN and the National Championship in Philadelphia in July. And if the past is any indicator, she’s just getting started. “There was so much I had given up on and now, my life with my daughter, our life together, it’s been so enhanced. I have my life back.”
**The procedures performed during this transformation are as follows**
Tummy Tuck
Lateral Thigh Liposuction
Lower Body Lift
Breast Augmentation
Revision Lower Body Lift
BodyTite