After her mastectomy in 2019, April Capil was at a weigh-in for reconstructive surgery. She watched in disbelief as she saw the nurse add more weight to the arm of the scale until it read 204.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere I was having major surgery to reduce my risk of a cancer recurrence, but it turned out that obesity was an even greater risk to my health,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Capil had been overweight most of her life because of poor dietary choices and inactivity. Now and then, she would work out for a short stint before abandoning ship because of injury or scheduling. \u201cIt\u2019s clear my weight gain was due to a lifetime of emotional eating,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I just wasn\u2019t active enough for my body to burn off all those empty calories.\u201d<\/p>\n
Only two days after that fateful weigh-in, Capil met with a weight-loss doctor who recommended a metabolism reset and provided her with a nutrition plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving a doctor-supervised program was important to me, both to hold myself accountable and to make sure I was losing weight in a healthy way,\u201d Capil says.<\/p>\n
She also committed to exercising at least two days per week, and in less than a year, she had lost 50 pounds. \u201cThen I adopted a whole-food diet that balanced my macros, and I lost another 10 pounds,\u201d she says. Capil accomplished that loss by trading her favorite high-carb foods with vegetables, her beloved rice with cauliflower or broccoli, and her pasta with spaghetti squash or zoodles.<\/p>\n
These days, Capil runs or walks two to three times a week and exercises with resistance bands. \u201cI\u2019ve always had a flat butt, but I\u2019ve discovered the power of hip thrusts and glute bridges,\u201d she says. \u201cNow I love training my glutes and am super proud of the booty I\u2019m building, one rep at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Capil works as a health coach and recently published a book she hopes will inspire others to pursue their weight-loss goals. \u201cLosing weight I never thought I could lose and having a body I never dreamed was possible has been even more life-changing than surviving cancer,\u201d she says. \u201cI thought I was living the fullest life I could possibly live, but\u00a0 I was wrong. Now I want to help others achieve this same level of happiness with themselves and their bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Motivation is key when trying to accomplish a big weight-loss task, and Capil turned to Oxygen for that extra push. \u201cI have an Oxygen cover featuring Jamie Eason Middleton on my bathroom mirror to motivate me and keep me going,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve always admired Jamie and also Erin Stern, but it\u2019s the women in Oxygen\u2019s Success Stories that turned out to be my biggest inspiration. I may never be a fitness model, but I can see myself in those women now, and it makes me feel so proud of all the work I\u2019ve done to get here.\u201d<\/p>\n
After her mastectomy in 2019, April Capil was at a weigh-in for reconstructive surgery. She watched in disbelief as she saw the nurse add more weight to the arm of the scale until it read 204. \u201cHere I was having major surgery to reduce my risk of a cancer recurrence, but it turned out that obesity was an even greater risk to my health,\u201d she says. Capil had been overweight most of her life because of poor dietary choices and inactivity. Now and then, she would work out for a short stint before abandoning ship because of injury or scheduling. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[114,204,205,206,676,687,203,207],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens-health","tag-healthy-living","tag-mind-and-body","tag-motivation","tag-style-and-beauty","tag-success-stories","tag-success-story","tag-womens-fitness-personalities","tag-womens-health","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}