Lexi Reed celebrated her weight-free victory on Thursday, telling followers that “sometimes the scale doesn’t show the full picture.”
“Every day I feel more like my old self, I feel healthy, my hair is coming back, I’m wearing bright pants, I’m finally seeing progress,” Reed aka, @fatgirlfedup wrote on Instagram in the caption of a gym mirror selfie of her wearing bright green pants and hair down, loose around the shoulders.
She also shared that she’s “back in her smaller workout clothes again!”
The fitness influencer previously shared that hair loss is just one side effect of her battle with calciphylaxis — a rare, debilitating disease that the Mayo Clinic explains occurs when “calcium builds up in the small blood vessels of fat and skin tissue.”
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Reed shared her ongoing battle with calciphylaxis. Lexi Reed/Instagram
It causes “blood clots, painful skin ulcers and can cause serious infections that can lead to death” – and for Reed, the often fatal disease led to 59 weeks of treatment for painful sores all over his body last year.
But while documenting her health journey on Instagram since going into remission, she took time to admit that “like all great things, progress takes time.”
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When asked by a fan if she uses any special hair products, Reed commented, “Honestly, I haven’t done anything different to my hair so I would say diet has helped 😍.”
She previously said her husband Danny “grilled A LOT” — which led to more protein in her diet.
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And proteins are necessary for healthy hair, as Live Strong reported.
Reed continued her post, writing, “Progress also requires the belief that if you show up day in and day out, you will eventually look up and your hard work will pay off.”
As Reed shared in a tearful post on Christmas Day, she dropped below 200 pounds. for the first time since re-starting her weight loss journey after remission from calciphylaxis.
“I weighed 199.4 lbs. I’m back in ONEderland! That means I lost 86.8 lbs. since March. This means that today for Christmas I am giving myself my health,” she wrote at the time.
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Reed started her weight loss journey in 2016 at 485 lbs.
But as she continued in her post, “Sometimes it can be hard not to see results right away, but time will pass anyway, so you can spend it wisely and believe in yourself. Get started today!”
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