‘Biggest Loser’ Trainer Erica Lugo Getting Surgery to Remove Loose Skin
Largest Loser coach Erica Lugo took to Instagram to share candid pictures of her physique after shedding 160 kilos and revealed she has a surgical procedure to take away her unfastened pores and skin.
“Actual, scary and uncooked transparency submit. Nervous AF as I sort and share,” she captioned two pictures on Friday, September 4, that confirmed her extra pores and skin and stretch marks on her midriff after she pulled her leggings down over her hips. “I’ve laboured actually exhausting to lose 160 lbs. I’m pleased with the muscle I’ve constructed, and I’m extra proud that I’ve been in a position to hold the load off for five years.”
“That is what I appear like,” she continued. “Unfastened pores and skin has been aside of my journey for five years. I’ve at all times been okay with it. It’s been my battle scar. However, the extra I start to construct muscle and get leaner I get the extra unfastened pores and skin builds up. No quantity of train or diet will assist the unfastened pores and skin pockets on my hips and abdomen.”
Lugo, who beforehand battle thyroid most cancers, admitted “it wasn’t a straightforward choice” to schedule the surgical procedure.
“It’s been one thing I’ve researched for years,” she continued. “I’ve been forwards and backwards for years, and I’m lastly scheduled September 22 with @athenixbody, and I couldn’t be extra nervous, scared however excited!”
She promised her greater than 647,00zero followers that she will probably be “monitoring each second of this journey. Simply had a pre-op name to prep myself for all of the submit op care. 2 weeks till we depart!”
Lugo, who grew to become a coach on the Largest Loser earlier this yr, admitted to Us Weekly in July that she struggled with her body image after arriving on the set of the present and telling the wardrobe folks that she wouldn’t put on crop tops.
“They have been so welcoming, and so they listened to me,” she instructed Us. “They have been so used to the trainers sporting crop tops regularly that they simply needed to change what they gave me and I cherished it. … I’m like, ‘I had a child, I weighed 322 kilos, that’s simply not gonna work as a result of I’ve stretch marks and unfastened pores and skin that may hang around, and I simply don’t really feel comfy displaying that on nationwide tv.'”
The gymnasium proprietor admitted she “bought a whole lot of warmth for my body-type being a coach on the present,” however mentioned that hundreds of ladies reached out about lastly feeling accepted as a measurement eight or 10.
“I’ve bought cellulite and stretch marks,” Lugo instructed Us. “I’m robust as hell, but it surely doesn’t make any effect on how superior I can work out and the way robust I’m or how educated I’m about health.”