I lost 60 lbs in five months – trolls say I must have had surgery but they’re wrong, it was a whole lot of sweat equity
A FASHIONISTA has said it took five months for her to lose 60 pounds.
Trolls online accused her of having surgery, but she said she put in a lot of hard work to drop the weight.
TikToker Anna O’Brien (@glitterandlazers), a plus-sized social media model with more than 8million followers, lost weight to be healthy.
“I have lost 60 pounds in five months,” she wrote in a TikTok caption.
In the video, she shared multiple clips of her exercising.
For Anna, losing weight isn’t about how she looks.
“I’m proud of myself,” she said. “Not because I’m smaller … because I can now do more things I love.”
“That was why I started this journey and that is what’s keeping me focused,” she added.
Not everyone has supported Anna.
“It’s funny to me that some people still try to tell me nothing is changing, while others hypothesize I had surgery,” she said.
Anna, 37, was likely referencing bariatric surgery, a procedure performed on the stomach to promote weight loss.
In the last five years, sleeve gastrectomy procedure has become more popular than gastric bypass, according to Columbia Surgery.
Both surgeries reduce the size of the stomach, but Anna emphasized that she’s had neither.
“To be very clear, there is nothing wrong with surgery, it’s just simply not my story,” the model maintained.
The TikToker — who is based in Austin, Texas — said there were multiple things she did to improve her health.
“This weight loss is the result of treating several previous untreated medical conditions,” she said.
Anna also learned “how to eat to help manage my pain from lipedema” and put in “a whole lot of sweat equity.”
Weight loss surgery has become increasingly popular.
There were 260,000 weight loss procedures done in 2022, according to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
In 2011, nearly 160,000 surgeries were done, ASMBS reported.