Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Overcome for podcast. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Jennica Lopez. Thank you guys so much for choosing to
Speaker 1: watch and listen to this episode today. It is our
Speaker 1: love week, you guys. It is Valentine's Week and I'm
Speaker 1: single and celebrating Valentine's Day. I know I'm not the
Speaker 1: only one out there, so whoever's listening to this, you
Speaker 1: guys are not alone. I'm sure that we hoped and
Speaker 1: prayed for finding love and you know, it just didn't
Speaker 1: work out, and that's okay. We're gonna get more into
Speaker 1: that more towards the middle of the episode. Today we're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about my weight loss journey, Valentine's Day,
Speaker 1: being single and Valentine's Day, and simply surrendering to God.
Speaker 1: I'm sharing these three little topics with you guys because
Speaker 1: I feel like this is where my life is at
Speaker 1: right now, and I'm feeling really good and I want
Speaker 1: to instill and hope and still hope to you guys,
Speaker 1: and yeah and encourage you today because you know what,
Speaker 1: I know that we all have something going on and
Speaker 1: we've all been through it and we need somebody to
Speaker 1: help encourage us, encourage us today. So if I could
Speaker 1: be that one person, I will gladly do so. But first,
Speaker 1: you guys, I am on a weight loss journey. I've
Speaker 1: been basically you know, my whole life. But I've made
Speaker 1: some traumatic, dramatic, not traumatic dramatic shifts and changes in
Speaker 1: my in my life that has resulted in me losing
Speaker 1: a lot of weight, which I'm so happy and grateful
Speaker 1: for a lot of people have been asking me what
Speaker 1: I've been doing, how much I have lost, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. So if you guys remember, or if you're
Speaker 1: new here, I got surgery, breastlift surgery and a little
Speaker 1: bit of lightpo in last July, and then I invited
Speaker 1: my doctor on the podcast. If you guys know, you know,
Speaker 1: and if you don't, you guys can go ahead and
Speaker 1: go watch those episodes about my doctor, doctor Remus Repta.
Speaker 1: Shout out to him because he's amazing. But let's take
Speaker 1: it back a couple of years. I believe I want
Speaker 1: to say that my starting weight, even before like my
Speaker 1: tummy talk and all that, I was almost three hundred pounds,
Speaker 1: I was weighing about two eighty. I want to say
Speaker 1: somewhere around there definitely over two fifty almost three hundred.
Speaker 1: That's when I basically started. I got with the trainer,
Speaker 1: fixed my eating habits, and then I dropped about let's say,
Speaker 1: I want to say fifty pounds, fifty pounds, and then
Speaker 1: I got my tom Me tug surgery, my tummy tug BBL,
Speaker 1: which I was so happy and I loved again with
Speaker 1: doctor Remus Repta. He is amazing again. If as a
Speaker 1: plus sized girl, and if you guys don't know, a
Speaker 1: lot of doctors, for example, don't take plus sized girls
Speaker 1: because of their BMI, which is your body no, not
Speaker 1: your BMI, yeah, your body fat index. I want to
Speaker 1: say something like that. You guys know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: If if your index is over like you know, forty,
Speaker 1: like your beast or whatever, A lot of doctors don't
Speaker 1: want to take that risk to do the surgery, and
Speaker 1: he is one of the few special doctors in the
Speaker 1: world that specializes in plus size surgery. He does, he
Speaker 1: takes the risk, everyone ends up completely fine. Amazing, amazing work.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love him. I got that done. I want
Speaker 1: to say twenty one, no, twenty twenty two around there.
Speaker 1: Love that still gained weight, which a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't understand is that when you get light bulb or
Speaker 1: when you get surgery, you have to continue to maintain
Speaker 1: it and work out and work twice as hard because
Speaker 1: your fat goes to other places. So, for example, my
Speaker 1: fat was a lot of it was sitting in my arms,
Speaker 1: in my inner thighs, and a lot of it went
Speaker 1: to my butt. You guys, when you get a BBL
Speaker 1: and you add like the fat transfer, it expands those
Speaker 1: cells and when you eat, it just allows more room
Speaker 1: for it to grow. And I was not having it.
Speaker 1: It was not que was like, oh yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I can have a BBL, but we're not trying to
Speaker 1: have like a BBBB like huge. So I when I
Speaker 1: got my surgery, my breastleft surgery, I was weighing about
Speaker 1: I want to say, to twenty two fifteen, which I was.
Speaker 1: I was. I was content, but I didn't realize how
Speaker 1: much happier I am now that I dropped more weight.
Speaker 1: Now I dropped about like another fifty pounds. So let's
Speaker 1: say I lost like almost one hundred pounds in total
Speaker 1: from like the beginning beginning of my journey, which I'm
Speaker 1: so grateful for because I haven't been this weight since
Speaker 1: I was like fifteen, before I was fifteen. And what
Speaker 1: was crazy is that I always lied on my driver's
Speaker 1: license picture little thing. You know, you when you put
Speaker 1: your weight, you're like, I'm not a little bit. I
Speaker 1: always lied, And now I could say, like I weigh
Speaker 1: less than what I have on my driver's license, Like
Speaker 1: this is crazy, And I again, I do not want
Speaker 1: to like promote, like I want to be fully transparent
Speaker 1: and honest with you guys. I still struggle with like
Speaker 1: body dysmorphia. I get in my head a lot. I'm
Speaker 1: working on those little things and they thinking of it
Speaker 1: more as healthier because I do feel healthier the way
Speaker 1: that I breathe, the way that I walk, my endurance,
Speaker 1: I could see the muscle growth. I just I'm appreciating
Speaker 1: and loving my body a lot more because I'm able
Speaker 1: to do a lot more things, which is something that
Speaker 1: we take for granted. So from that journey to here,
Speaker 1: from July to now, I have recently well before that,
Speaker 1: I used to be on ozempic. You guys, before my
Speaker 1: breastless surgery, I was on ozempic, and I do want
Speaker 1: to let you guys know it does work. It works, wonders.
Speaker 1: It's great, but it is not forever, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: a lot of people can testify to that as well.
Speaker 1: Like it stops working, I would take it as a
Speaker 1: kickstart into your journey. I definitely think that it's beneficial.
Speaker 1: I know people have certain people have health benefits or
Speaker 1: side effects or whatever, so please make sure you confirm
Speaker 1: with your doctor like I did. But I do want
Speaker 1: to let you guys know that it's not meant to
Speaker 1: be forever. Like it just helps you kickstart and helps
Speaker 1: you realize how much less of food that you need
Speaker 1: to eat in order to lose the weight, like it
Speaker 1: puts a lot into perspective. I've been going to the
Speaker 1: gym almost every day, either gym or pilates. I'm doing
Speaker 1: something which pilates has definitely tightened up my body and
Speaker 1: I love it. You guys well agree, not plates, but
Speaker 1: they're about that. They're like sisters. Lagree is a little
Speaker 1: bit more strength training hard harder. Pilates is a little
Speaker 1: bit more soft. It's like a little bit more intense
Speaker 1: than yoga. I've only done agree, I haven't done pilates,
Speaker 1: which for me, as someone that's like I would like
Speaker 1: to consider myself strong. I like what Lagree does for
Speaker 1: my body and the endurance that I have to have
Speaker 1: in order to continue. So if you have a Lagree
Speaker 1: studio around you, definitely, definitely, death would recommend it. It
Speaker 1: helps tone certain muscles that you didn't even know you had. Also,
Speaker 1: my eating habits are a lot better. I eat a
Speaker 1: lot less now I'm focusing on muscle growth and toning.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I've lost over one hundred pounds. I feel good.
Speaker 1: I look good. I feel good. Like I said, I
Speaker 1: love what my body can do now and how food
Speaker 1: reacts in my body like I could see, like certain
Speaker 1: things just don't sit well with me obviously, like the
Speaker 1: processed foods. I don't drink any more soda unless I'm
Speaker 1: really craving it. It's like a diet coke. If it's
Speaker 1: anything carbonated, it's like a poppy lollipop. But if anything,
Speaker 1: I'm only drinking water. I've cut out, you know, very
Speaker 1: little to no coffee again. I have to be craving it,
Speaker 1: craving it or like I'm exhausted. I don't have coffee
Speaker 1: every day. I have matched lots and lots of water,
Speaker 1: my vitamins, my supplements, and going to the gym. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people have a hard time getting
Speaker 1: into the gym, and it's been such a mental health
Speaker 1: space for me that I could just be distracted and
Speaker 1: really focus and lock in. Without it, I feel like
Speaker 1: completely out of routine. So yeah, I definitely recommend it.
Speaker 1: If you guys have a hard time, you don't know
Speaker 1: what to do, TikTok has a lot of videos, or
Speaker 1: if you have the financial funds to please get a
Speaker 1: trainer to help you. I had a trainer, started off
Speaker 1: with her, was great, and now that I know what
Speaker 1: to do, I don't need her anymore. But yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go on a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back to talk about Valentine's Day and our singlehood.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, you guys. Okay, if you're like me, you
Speaker 1: guys also know we're single out here. We're single. We
Speaker 1: are you know, Valentine's Days just not on the cards
Speaker 1: for us. Obviously we can have Gallantine's we could be
Speaker 1: celebrating with our girls, but you know, it gets sad.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be I'm gonna I'm gonna be one hundred
Speaker 1: percent with you guys. I know that it gets sad.
Speaker 1: And it gets really hard to like, I we're tired.
Speaker 1: I'm genuinely like, I'm tired of having Valentine's Day alone,
Speaker 1: Like I want to be able to spoil somebody and
Speaker 1: be spoiled. I want somebody to ask me to be
Speaker 1: their Valentine's Day Like I'm at that point. But I
Speaker 1: hate to break it to you guys. And I've had
Speaker 1: to learn this the hard way, and I've recently just
Speaker 1: put in more work and more realization and over this
Speaker 1: last couple months, God is preparing us for someone special.
Speaker 1: I know that sounds so cliche. I know it sounds
Speaker 1: so corny, but God is hiding me and you for
Speaker 1: that someone special because otherwise we're just wasting our time.
Speaker 1: We're wasting all our time on potential, on people that
Speaker 1: are not worth it. Because trust me, I have given
Speaker 1: my time to people that are just not that aren't
Speaker 1: worth it. They're blocking what was it? How do they
Speaker 1: say it? Don't let the people block me from what
Speaker 1: you already have planned for me. Like you're like exactly
Speaker 1: like those people that are coming in as distractions, Like
Speaker 1: and we think that it may be from God. It's
Speaker 1: like no, like this is the opposite you already know
Speaker 1: that you shouldn't be entering into this and whatever I
Speaker 1: want to give you guys some hope it's going to
Speaker 1: happen for us. I believe it. I am trusting God
Speaker 1: one hundred percent when I tell you guys that this year,
Speaker 1: I promised myself that I'm just going to completely surrender
Speaker 1: to the will of God. And whether you guys believe
Speaker 1: in him or not, this is my core, this is
Speaker 1: my foundation, and I want to be honest and transparent
Speaker 1: with you guys about how I live day to day,
Speaker 1: and it is because God is at the foundation of
Speaker 1: my life. Anyways. It's not a punishment, but it's a
Speaker 1: season of preparation. We are not being punished. We are
Speaker 1: preparing ourselves for our future. Let's say, future husband, future wife,
Speaker 1: you know, gay bye, whatever you guys, however you identify
Speaker 1: as yourself. It is not a punishment but a season
Speaker 1: of preparation. I literally every day I'm like, Okay, God,
Speaker 1: you're preparing me. There's parts of me that I need
Speaker 1: to work on in order to be not perfect, but
Speaker 1: to be good enough for somebody like I want to
Speaker 1: be able to be okay in my brain, mental health wise, physically,
Speaker 1: my spiritual life? Am I putting God first? Am I?
Speaker 1: Or what else? Am I putting first? This relationship or
Speaker 1: this type or this person? Like, No, we have to
Speaker 1: put our faith and who we are first, work on
Speaker 1: ourselves before we can love and offer that to somebody else,
Speaker 1: because otherwise it's just going into straight disaster because that
Speaker 1: other person may be prepared and you're not, and then
Speaker 1: it just it. They don't mesh, it doesn't work out. Pray,
Speaker 1: pray for that person that you want. I've written it
Speaker 1: down and I've said it in my prayers, the type
Speaker 1: of person, the type of man that I want in
Speaker 1: my life, tall, god, hearing man, etc. You have to
Speaker 1: be so just like specific with God, and I promise
Speaker 1: you God will give you those desires of your heart.
Speaker 1: So in this season of preparation of your life and
Speaker 1: your singleness, because that's what we're gonna call it. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna you know, we're not gonna add a negative
Speaker 1: connotation to it. We're getting prepared for the future. Embrace
Speaker 1: this time for personal growth and deepening your faith and
Speaker 1: pursue your God given purpose and whatever that other person
Speaker 1: may have. Maybe you haven't even met this man or
Speaker 1: woman or whatever. Pray for them, like God, wherever this
Speaker 1: special person is for me, that you are preparing them
Speaker 1: just like you're preparing me, so that when we meet,
Speaker 1: that we are equally yoked and that we can connect
Speaker 1: and everything is aligned to your purpose and your plan.
Speaker 1: And take it as God maybe protecting you from a
Speaker 1: heartbreak or leading you, guys into something greater. Like I
Speaker 1: said in the beginning, well not the beginning, but like
Speaker 1: I said before, we can't be going into these love bombing,
Speaker 1: half assed relationships like no, just because we're lonely and
Speaker 1: we're scared and this person's giving me attention, Like no,
Speaker 1: this cannot We can't because we're just settling. We're not
Speaker 1: here to settle you, guys. We've worked too hard on
Speaker 1: who we are. We've been through too much shit to
Speaker 1: be just settling for somebody that gives the bare minimum.
Speaker 1: We're not going to do that. God has a dust
Speaker 1: and plan for you, for me, and it's all going
Speaker 1: to be worth it in the end. I know God.
Speaker 1: I heard this in church the other day. God is
Speaker 1: never on time. God is never early, never early, right,
Speaker 1: but he's always on time. God is never early, but
Speaker 1: he is always on time. And we have that blessing
Speaker 1: to be able to know that He's Our plans are
Speaker 1: way greater than his. I mean, his plans, What is
Speaker 1: wrong with me? His plans are way greater. They're in ours.
Speaker 1: Do you guys know that that Instagram or that meme
Speaker 1: where it's like God, the little kid is holding the
Speaker 1: teddy Bear, but God Jesus is holding the bigger teddy
Speaker 1: bear in the back. But the kid doesn't know about it,
Speaker 1: and he says, but God, I want to keep it,
Speaker 1: or something like that, and then Jesus and then Jesus says,
Speaker 1: don't worry, I have something better for you, or something
Speaker 1: like that. And I think that's how we have to
Speaker 1: view our lives and just trust God and surrender to it.
Speaker 1: Which is my next topic is even as someone is
Speaker 1: me a little control freak, you have to the power
Speaker 1: of surrendering control to God instead of trying to force
Speaker 1: relationships is so important and literally as simple as just
Speaker 1: taking it to prayer. I know it's hard to just
Speaker 1: kind of leave it up in the air and leave
Speaker 1: things just roaming around and whatever, and you know, have
Speaker 1: a hard time just okay, but I don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen tomorrow. I don't know what's gonna happen here, this,
Speaker 1: this and that. Like, no, you have to let go
Speaker 1: and let God. You have to trust Him with all
Speaker 1: your heart. And I don't mean to get so spiritual
Speaker 1: or whatever, but I'm telling you, guys, this has been
Speaker 1: the core of who I am these days and what
Speaker 1: I've been feeling, and I needed to share it with you, guys,
Speaker 1: because surrendering leads to something so beautiful, Like when you
Speaker 1: stop freaking out and stop trying to take control of
Speaker 1: your life you and just letting God, you just start
Speaker 1: to see everything flourish and let God do and have
Speaker 1: space because at the end of the day, it is
Speaker 1: his will, it is not ours. We have to let
Speaker 1: God lead us to our own purpose, not ourselves. And
Speaker 1: I know that that may be the most difficult things.
Speaker 1: But practical ways to surrender God are just prayer, journaling,
Speaker 1: seeking community, just connecting with other people and just trusting.
Speaker 1: You just got to trust God. Write down what you want,
Speaker 1: what is on your heart today, what you're praying or
Speaker 1: believing for, Write it down, and I promise God is
Speaker 1: going to fulfill and give you more of what you desire.
Speaker 1: I have still yet to see certain things, but I
Speaker 1: can feel him and I can and knowing that I'm
Speaker 1: seeking him is leading me the correct way versus looking
Speaker 1: the other way and going down the wrong path. I
Speaker 1: know that I'm guaranteed to go somewhere greater than where
Speaker 1: I am right now if I just keep following and
Speaker 1: seeking God. And I want the same for you, guys.
Speaker 1: Your worth isn't found in a relationship status. Mine isn't either.
Speaker 1: Trust me. I know God's timing is always perfect, and
Speaker 1: he's writing our love story right now, your love story,
Speaker 1: my love story. He's writing it. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: be praying for trust and patience and contentment for you guys,
Speaker 1: and asking God to just continue to bless you guys
Speaker 1: and protect you. And whether you guys are in your
Speaker 1: singleness or you're not, exert love, show kindness, love on
Speaker 1: each other, whether you know you have a partner or not,
Speaker 1: love is beautiful. And if you're single and you don't
Speaker 1: have a partner, love on yourself. Love on yourself, and
Speaker 1: that is the most important love you can get besides
Speaker 1: receiving the love of God. You guys, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for listening. I hope you guys have such a
Speaker 1: beautiful week and I will see you guys next Tuesday. Bye.
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