Summary
Kimmy Tan shares her journey of losing over 40lbs within a year, emphasizing mental and emotional growth alongside physical transformation.
Highlights
- 🏋️♀️ Transformation Journey: Kimmy details her weight loss success and personal growth.
- 💪 Overcoming Insecurities: She discusses body image issues and the importance of self-acceptance.
- 🤔 Gym Anxiety: Kimmy shares her initial fears about going to the gym and how she overcame them.
- 🔄 Mindset Shift: The shift from unhealthy habits to a healthy lifestyle was crucial for her progress.
- 🎉 Community Support: Group classes played a vital role in building her confidence.
- ⏳ Consistency is Key: Regular gym visits and accountability helped her see results.
- 💖 Self-Love: Discipline and doing hard things show love for one’s future self.
Key Insights
🌟 Empowerment Through Discipline: Embracing challenges and maintaining discipline are forms of self-love that lead to lasting change and fulfillment.onnection and vulnerability.
🌱 Emotional Growth: The journey to weight loss is often intertwined with personal healing and emotional well-being. Kimmy’s story highlights the significance of mental health in physical transformation.
🏃♀️ Starting Small: Overcoming initial fears about the gym can begin with small, manageable steps, showing that starting is often the hardest part.
💡 Perceptions of Beauty: Societal standards can hinder self-acceptance; learning to challenge these perceptions is crucial for personal growth.
📈 Value of Progress: Celebrating weekly progress fosters motivation and positivity, reinforcing the idea that change takes time.
🤝 Support Systems: Engaging in community activities significantly boosts confidence and accountability, proving that social support is essential for success.
🔄 Consistency Over Perfection: Regular, consistent efforts yield better long-term results than perfectionist approaches or unhealthy quick fixes.
Transcript:
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1 year in the first 3 to 6 months I was making so much progress every week what’s Smoking Dragons It’s Your go Me Tan I’m so glad all y’all could come hang out with me today welcome to another sode of get baked and Cake where I bake myself and Cake my face today’s going to be kind of like a story time let’s go ahead and bake ourselves first shall we my ab workout right there engage that core when you cough I have no makeup on right now I do have some acne and for the first time I am not going to cover
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it when I start on camera it’s so frustrating when your face decides to just sprout a pimple out of nowhere it’s like you want to pop it but if you pop it it’s going to be a sore on your face so really what you should do is like just put a pimple patch like I wear stars and stuff on my face like all the time but sometimes you know if you have a date a meeting and you need to have makeup on that day here’s what I do I have this it’s like a liquid pimple patch you just get a little bit and then you put it and just wait for it to dry
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yeah you see it’s not that bad when it’s flat and you can just put makeup over it but like it’s annoying when there’s like a little bit of a raise going on there’s a little bit of texture funny that I say that about myself but when I’ve seen other people with like texture on their face I it doesn’t even phase me like it doesn’t I it doesn’t even register my mind but for some reason we are all always so hypercritical of ourselves most of the things that you’re really insecure about yourself about nobody
01:36
else noticed like tell me honestly have you ever looked at someone and went oh my gosh their makeup was not smooth oh my gosh she had texture on her face more than likely you look at them and you notice the things that stand out to you that are positive like their style is so cute their hair is so cute their features are real pretty their clothes are awesome so if we can think that way about other people why can’t we think that about ourselves just got these lashes off of Amazon the past 2 years have been the most healing
02:07
years of my life mentally spiritually physically emotionally I’ve lost like 40 lbs a little over 40 lb uh in the last couple years but the whole transformation took me like a little bit less than a year fully but around 3 months I started already seeing a difference I’m not about to like you know start making Fitness content on here or anything like that I was not athletic at all growing up I was a super emo kid you know my after school activities my extracurriculars were like choir band art you know stuff like that
02:37
don’t play sports no I failed PE who the [ __ ] fails PE all you have to do is show up that is how anti- Fitness and anti- sports I was I grew up in Asia and in Asia the beauty standards are unachievable insane I’ve always felt like I was a victim of my body my weight felt like that was out of my control I was was bullied a lot growing up for it I would always be really jealous of all the girls who were fit and thin when I lived in Asia I was XL sometimes double XL it was the only thing I could think
03:12
about when I looked at myself in the mirror and I felt like other people weren’t interested to get to know me or know me anything past what I looked like now looking back that was a very character building moment you got to have some lore in your life you know I’ve always heard that you know going to the gym is good for you that’s how you lose the weight you know go to the gym go to the gym go to the gym and I never wanted to just because hey I was afraid of everybody there and two I just the thought of it was just like scary and it
03:42
sounded like a lot of hard work and I was just like no I’m just going to go the other route and starve myself and do it all the unhealthy way it doesn’t work during the pandemic I gained a lot of weight very quickly gained about 40 to 50 lbs in the span of like 6 months I was very unhealthy from my mind to my body to the people I was surrounding myself with everything and when you’re struggling so much on the inside it will spill over to the outside I gained a lot of weight I was starting to get a lot of like hate
04:18
comments about it I was deleting a lot of comments I deleted a lot of videos too because I was not happy with how I looked and now looking back I really wish I hadn’t I think you’ll be able to tell in my drunk unboxing video glass collection video sort of like around that time I felt like you could really see it in my face and when I looked back at the footage I had an editor at that time and I had to ask the editor to can you please crop out my body I’m really insecure about it and it wasn’t just
04:50
that I had started to show like some symptoms of PCOS I’ve never gotten tested for it but I didn’t get my period for a whole entire year I got crazy severe acne I started losing some patches of hair but was you know growing hair on my like mustache like area I can’t believe nobody told me that I had a mustache all my friends back then were [ __ ] fake as hell once my body started showing that there was something wrong on the inside that I needed to get healthy immediately just because someone is overweight does not mean they’re
05:24
unhealthy let’s just make that clear but the way I was you know the quick changes was like I’m sick from the inside I need to do something I need to get healthy right now that was just like a huge wakeup call for me in that moment I made a promise to myself that I was going to get into the best shape of my life I had no idea what I was going to do but I knew I was ready for some big life changes and I’m the only one in control of my life that is exactly what I’m going to do after going through something so traumatizing in my life I
05:58
wanted to build a new body a New Soul that no one in my past can ever be near again I have been talking about I’m going to go to the gym for years now I know part of the reason why I never started subconsciously I didn’t believe that I could achieve it I didn’t believe that I was worthy or deserving of it so I decided I was going to start going to the gym I didn’t know what the hell I was doing one of my friends took me to Planet Fitness and I was terrified I didn’t know what all the machines were
06:33
for I didn’t know how to do any workouts really I was like so embarrassed to do anything cuz I was more concerned with how other people were looking at me and in my mind I was like they definitely know I’m a newbie oh my God I look like such a loser I pretended like I lied to myself and told myself that I was that [ __ ] and if I was that [ __ ] how would that [ __ ] show up that [ __ ] would be consistently going to the gym I would go to the gym you know do like two little things take a selfie post it to Instagram doing that
07:05
was almost like a way to keep myself accountable and over time I just forced myself to like it like I gaslit myself so hard into liking this because I know all the benefits that could come from it my body wasn’t really there yet in terms of Readiness and having the ability to show up for it like my mind was I was not working out for real I was not doing it properly I was not really making that much progress but doing that kind of got me into like the rhythm of doing it I got myself a real plan of fitness
07:42
membership I was going like once a week twice a week sometimes sometimes I would just go to the bathroom and just Vape like I would just bring my little my little penjamin getting into it was so difficult I have ADHD so I don’t do anything I don’t want to do if I want to get something done I have to create my own serotonin for example while I was in school to make myself want to do homework I would get myself a new pen and that pen got me excited to use it and do the work that whole concept applies to my gym Journey
08:16
so I got myself new gym clothes and yooo it wasn’t nothing expensive or anything it was like I just went to Santi alley like a thrift store I would just get go to Ross Marshall and that got me to start wanting to go to the gym a lot more consistently a lot more often and actually be excited about it uh I was playing around with different hairstyles I was playing around with different like gym looks some people say oh the gym is not a fashion show [ __ ] them don’t listen to them it’s your [ __ ] Journey
08:45
do whatever the [ __ ] you want I was putting makeup on before the gym I used to wear lashes to the gym just making myself look cute made me have a good workout like made me feel motivated throughout that workout yes the gym is fun the gym is even when it sucks it’s going to be worth it in the end it’s got to keep going I romanticized every single part I knew that if I could just somehow G Gaslight myself push myself to be consistent in it to make lifting such a part of my life that I didn’t even
09:15
have to think about it I was going to see results no matter what I wasn’t rushing myself I went through a little phase where I was you know expecting myself to achieve this weight by this time or or this by this time or or this like that it it just it it it doesn’t work one thing that changed everything for me when I start was when I started going to workout classes like weightlifting classes like a group class where everyone’s sort of doing the same thing everyone’s at like different ages different you know levels it felt really
09:44
safe because it’s like I’m not the only one that everyone is staring at everyone is like doing their own thing like we’re all doing this together and in those classes I could ask the coach like how do you do this how do you do this without feeling stupid you know so that when I did go to the gym by myself I had a lot more confidence in it uh and I didn’t really have to pay a lot so I got class pass um it’s like an app it’s not just you know class Fitness classes it’s like you can get facials you can get
10:14
manicures you can go to museums and like stuff like that it was $45 and you get 30 credits and one workout class was like two or three credits and so I would go every single Sunday once a week I started to make make really good friends in there I started to learn a lot more and I felt like I I had way more confidence walking into the gym having that in my back pocket it’s really a lot more simple than I thought it was everyone online tries to like make it so complicating with all these like big ass words it’s
10:50
like how I am not in this world how am I supposed to like it just feels so elitist like oh you got to work your breakast for because of that weightlifting class I got over my fear of going to the scary free weight section with all the big buff dudes and you know how like people always say like oh you don’t just wake up one day and decide you’re going to change your life yeah sometimes you kind of do one day I just realized like yo I am going to come here every day uh I don’t know but I had to be there to get here I was like I’m
11:19
going to force myself to go to the gym every day even if I just go there and don’t do anything get myself into the habits just so it become so normal that firstep step getting into it is the most difficult part but then once you’re in it you’re in it like at this point my boyfriend and I were dating for like a year and I finally asked him because I have trauma and have trouble asking for anything I finally was like Hey can you write me a workout plan like can you at least give me like things to do so I
11:47
don’t go in there not doing anything and he was like finally so he he wrote me this amazing workout plan uh that I share with my Instagram subscribers one year in the first year in the first three to 6 months of me being consistent and actually you know training properly training to failure following a plan I was making so much progress every week like I would look at a photo of myself from the week before and I’m like I can’t even post this because like I look different now Not only was I seeing a
12:18
physical change like my period came back my acne cleared up my brain fog was gone but I started to develop a really healthy mindset towards my body and life going to the gym and getting active helped me get over my social anxiety taught me patience how to Embrace pain I’ve tried every weight loss method and being active is the only way you lose the weight keep it off and heal your mindset at the same time you get what you put in there’s nothing else you can say in this life where that is a certainty you’re investing stock there’s
12:49
no guarantee that you’re going to get back what you put in you get into a new relationship there’s no guarantee that you’re going to get back what you give to that person you know nothing in this life is guaranteed except the gym the weights do not lie your body does not lie what you put in is what you get back everything in life that is ever worth it is going to be hard and that’s how it’s going to always be whenever you’re trying to level up it’s going to be hard at first but you keep doing it until it becomes easy
13:20
that’s the only way you’re ever going to grow ever motivation is a huge lie motivation is a feeling a temporary fleeting feeling that you cannot count count on you cannot count on your emotions if there’s something you want to get done do the thing regardless of how you feel and that means not every day is going to be a main character Energy Gym day like there will be so many like like NPC gym days where it’s just like oh I just I did it like today it was absolutely nothing special you’re going to have a lot of those but you’re
13:50
also going to have like so many amazing days where you just come out feeling so much stronger and just your mind is just so much clearer you’re going be able to breathe better you’re going be able to smoke more cuz your lungs are going to get so much healthier your Skin’s going to clear up I mean it it you know stuff happens like as you could see but you’re just going to be in such a better place if you do go and you learn like so many like important I’ve learned so many important life lessons doing this too
14:18
discipline is the highest form of self-love doing something you don’t want to do in the moment is showing love for your future self when you’re living life in survival mode you’re only doing things that is going to make you right now feel good our brains associate safety with familiarity if all you’ve been doing is unhealthy bad habits your brain is going to consider that safe it’s familiar it’s predictable I don’t want to do this make yourself because your future self deserves it your future self deserves the future that you want
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and you are creating it right now your actions right now in this moment create the life that you want that the child in you has always wanted you can get it you are deserving of it don’t ever let yourself think for a second that there you’re not going to get it anyway so why should you try you know because that’s what we do if we subconsciously don’t believe that the goal is achievable we’re going to act that way you know you’re going to self-sabotage one little inconvenience comes by you’re like oh
15:19
that’s a sign I shouldn’t do it no no go do the thing [ __ ] that [ __ ] that that is your old brain telling you hey go back to your old ways no when it’s time for change you got be scared sometimes you got to be scared okay you just got to do it most of everything that you want lives on the other side of fear fear of being cringe fear of not being successful at first fear of other people judging you they’re really all in your head and they are not reality big things big goals they take time and everyone’s
15:47
always looking for a quick fix how can I you know get a flat stomach in 3 weeks none of that is real that is all just a cash grab they’re all lying to you it’s a fitness journey because it really is all about the journey not about the final destination of what you want to do because what you want to do is always going to get bigger and bigger and bigger the best part the fun part is like everything I learned along the way the kind of person that it shaped me to become I no longer criticize myself the
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way that I view my body now this prison that I’ve that I feel like I’ve been in my whole entire life now I feel control cute I love you so much I believe in you so much I’m always going to be here every single Tuesday and Wednesday for the live stream make sure you guys subscribe like share shove this video up your lungs keep breathing fire My Little Dragons and until next time say hi
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