Amy

A lot of really positive changes have happened in Amy’s life since the end of her X-Weighted journey. A month after filming wrapped up, Amy found out she was pregnant, with twins, and now has four daughters (aged 6, 5 and the twins are now 3). Amy is proud to say that even throughout her pregnancy, she was able to maintain her weight loss and is now 15 pounds lighter than when the show ended.

Last year, Amy and her family moved from Calgary to buy their dream house in the Annapolis Valley (where Amy is from originally) and credits the show with helping her be able to make that move. “I had a lot of demons here and I wasn’t ready to come back. Although I didn’t necessarily lose a lot of weight on X-Weighted, what it did do was kick me in to high gear as far as figuring out all the emotional skeletons I had in my closet. Since the show I feel like I’m really healed from the whole thing, and I was ready to go home,” she says.

Any issues that there were between Amy and her husband have been resolved and they have never been happier. “Oh my gosh, we are so completely happy that we are like newlyweds,” says Amy, “the issues we did have were due to the barrier I built around myself because of the abuse issues in my childhood.”

Amy says that when she started on X-Weighted, she was at the lowest point in her life. “I thought the show was going to totally fix me, and when it didn’t I got so frustrated,” she says, “but then I realized that I was holding on to every excuse that I had to stay fat. It was time for me to just start dealing with stuff and get over it.”

Amy is still trying to lose more weight, and maintains an active lifestyle. “It’s a slow progression, I try to lose about a pound a week,” she says. Life is busy, Amy works full-time outside the home and runs a home-based business, but she still makes time for exercise and sees a trainer regularly.

Amy says that going on the show was “the best experience I think to date in my whole life.” She laughs about how resistant she was to everything on the show, and the fact that she thought Paul was “just right out to lunch.” She says that it wasn’t until after filming that everything just snapped together for her.

“It was like Holy Cow, it's time for me to get over this. I’ve got to deal with what ails me as opposed to what I’m putting in my mouth, that’s just a symptom, and if you don’t fix the problem you’ll have symptoms for the rest of your life,” she says. Amy has spent the past three years dealing with her issues, and says that she has never felt better or fitter.

September 2009