1000-Lb Sisters star Tammy Slaton has detailed the amount of weight she has lost since the show's beginning.
Since 2020, Tammy and her sister Amy have documented their weight loss journey in the TLC reality TV show, with the two initially starting off with a combined weight of over 1000 lbs.
Tammy weighed 725 pounds at her heaviest, and she needed extra help, like using a walker and wheelchair to walk around, as well as needing an oxygen tube to breathe.
Her weight loss journey hasn't been the easiest, with the star undergoing multiple visits to rehab for food addiction. She's also faced some personal challenges, such as the loss of her husband Caleb Willingham, who died at age 40 in 2023.
Tammy has persevered throughout all of her hardships, and eventually lost enough weight to qualify for bariatric surgery to help her shed the pounds.
Her remarkable weight loss journey has been evident through incredible transformation photos she shared on her TikTok channel.
Sitting down with the Ezell Film Company recently, Tammy explained how she has lost around 540 pounds from her heaviest to now, with the reality TV star explaining how she has basically lost 'three whole versions of herself'.
She added on the podcast: "I see pictures of me now and I think 'wow.'"
Tammy went on to explain in the podcast her struggles in losing the weight for the surgery, which was only worsened due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
She said she had to lose 30 pounds, but that soon turned into 130 pounds after Tammy put on 100 pounds being stuck indoors, she explained on the podcast.
Nonetheless, she achieved it and is not looking back.
After having her skin removal surgery in recent weeks, Tammy sat down with People to discuss how she's been feeling.
She told People: "After six years and losing over 500 pounds, I was finally approved for surgery. I was just overwhelmed with excitement. I worked really hard for this, and now it's here. I'm pretty sure it was noticeable on my face how immediately shocked and then overwhelmed with joy I was."
While Tammy has had complicated procedures over the years, she admitted to People of being most nervous about the skin removal.
"I was really nervous for the skin removal surgery because I was really just kind of afraid of how I'm gonna feel looking at myself without the belly there," she said.
"The night before my surgery, I was, like, seriously freaking terrified. I was even more nervous about having skin removal surgery than I was for the [sleeve gastrectomy] surgery because they’re actually cutting the whole belly!"
And it's gone extremely well for Tammy since the surgery, with healthcare professionals surprised by her progress.
She added: "I surprised the doctors with how well my body was healing. I ended up coming home from Pittsburgh, like, four days early."
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