Tuesday, February 14, 2017

I had so many chins' Size 24 nurse who ate biscuits for breakfast loses 10 STONE after feeling too ashamed to tell patients to slim down

I had so many chins'

Size 24 nurse who ate biscuits for breakfast loses 10 STONE after feeling too ashamed to tell patients to slim down

Katie Burgauer shed half her body weight in a bid to inspire patients to do the same

By LAUREN WINDLE

14th February 2017, 10:08 am

AN OVERWEIGHT nurse shed half of her body weight, going from a hefty 20 stone down to just ten after she felt too ashamed to advice patients they needed to lose weight.

Katie Burgauer, 26, loved stodgy carbohydrate-heavy foods such as pasta and potatoes so much that she piled on the pounds.
Between the ages of 21 and 24, she shot up from an XXL and became used to hiding under baggy clothes.

Katie Burgauer, 26, weighed almost 20 stone at her largest and had to wear size XXL clothes

Katie’s diet of fast food and snacks caused her to balloon between the ages of 21 and 24

It was when Katie started her job as a hospital nurse in September 2013, that she saw first-hand the dangers of over eating and how weight is linked to conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.
Terrified of what issues her size could cause her in the future, and feeling hypocritical when talking to patients about healthy eating and exercise, she decided it was time to take make a dramatic change.
Now the Florida nurse – who at her heaviest weighed 20 stone and wore a size 24 – has shed almost 10 stone.
Currently a svelte size eight, she’s just bought her first scrubs set in size small.

26-year-old nurse Katie managed to shed the weight after two-hour gastric sleeve surgery

Katie said: “It was really hard for me to work as a nurse and say to patients what they should be eating, when I was overweight myself.
“I’d hear myself and think I should be doing that too, otherwise how can they take me seriously?
“Now I’m like a different person in my scrubs. I feel confident and amazing, and feel like my patients are more interested in what I say.”
Katie had been overweight her whole life, despite being active as a teenager and swimming and playing volleyball.
Looking back, she admitted her size was largely down to her poor diet.

Left with a lot of loose skin, Katie went back under the knife to remove her excess flesh

In just a year, Katie lost 9st 2lb, and said she “felt on top of the world”

She’d eat biscuits for breakfast, fast food for lunch and macaroni cheese or fried chicken for dinner – as well as mindlessly munching on cookies throughout the day.
Katie said: “I was disgusted with the size of my stomach and I felt I had so many chins.
“Clothes looked awful on me and I’d cry when I went shopping because nothing would fit.”
Despite being self-conscious and unhappy with her rolls, Katie would justify her weight by telling herself her body was naturally meant to be bigger.
But when she saw for herself the risks of being overweight she vowed to change her ways.

Katie is now a trim size 8 and enjoys a healthy diet and exercise

Katie shed almost half of her body weight and is delighted with her new trim shape

She’d considered her weight loss surgery several times previously, but had never been brave enough to voice her idea until she confided in a colleague in May 2015 who assured her she’d benefit from it.
Katie said: “That conversation with my colleague kicked me into action.
“I thought I could be happy looking in the mirror, rather than hating what I saw.
“I knew if I didn’t make the appointment there and then, I’d chicken out.”
So in September 2015 Katie had two-hour gastric sleeve surgery – an operation to remove part of the stomach restricting the amount that can be eaten – at Largo Medical Center, Florida.

But Katie insists that, although the operation helped her shift the pounds, she still worked hard to get her trim figure.
She continued: “A lot of people think weight loss surgery is miraculous and that the weight just falls off, but you still have to eat healthy and exercise.”
Katie completely overhauled her diet trading in the fast food and biscuits for fresh fruit and vegetables.
On a typical day, she’d have egg and turkey bacon for breakfast, half a grilled chicken breast for lunch, a Caesar salad for dinner and peanut butter protein balls as snacks.
She also stepped up her exercise regime and started running three miles three or four days a week.
In just a year, she lost 9st 2lb, and said she “felt on top of the world”.
Unfortunately the rapid transformation left her with folds of excess skin, which began to chip away at her new found confidence.
Katie told of how she’d wear tight clothes that would “suffocate her abdomen” to cover it up.
So to combat the issue, in January 2017 she underwent an abdominoplasty operation to remove her excess flesh as well as a breast lift at Bardmoor Surgery Centre, Florida.
Following the surgery she said she could finally look in the mirror and know what her body looked like.
Katie, who documents her progress on Instagram @kburg21, said: “Now I catch myself staring at my reflection and I’m so amazed I can barely recognise my body.
“For the first time I feel like people won’t judge my body, and I won’t either. I even tried on a bikini for the first time last week.”
Katie isn’t the first nurse to have felt she needed to lose weight before offering health advice Sarah Shelley shed more than half her weight in a year and hopes to inspire her patients to do the same.

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