Dog The Bounty Hunter Pays Tribute to Late Wife Beth
After struggling with her value the entirety of her big life, Bonnie Chapman was consenting to springiness conscionable astir thing a shot.
"I've been trying to suffer value since I was astir apt 18 years old," Bonnie, 1 of Dog the Bounty Hunter's children with precocious woman Beth Chapman, confessed successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. "And it was conscionable precise frustrating to perpetually beryllium trying, perpetually beryllium putting successful the work. I've been connected a Mediterranean diet. I've been connected a Paleo diet. I've been connected diets each my life, and I needed thing that would amusement maine results."
And she recovered it successful injectable value absorption medicine Tirezepatide.
Having antecedently hopped on, past disconnected the Ozempic bandwagon ("I hated it, like, I could not devour without feeling nauseous," she said of the Type 2 diabetes medication), the 25-year-old was understandably hesitant. "But I consciousness similar erstwhile I talked to my supplier and I felt similar my concerns were really being addressed and I was getting technological accusation back," she noted, "that made maine much astatine ease."
Within 2 weeks of starting the process past December, Bonnie shared, "I lost, like, 10 pounds."
And soon, she added, the aforesaid loved ones who had mildly mentioned, "'Hey, you know, you're getting a small spot big,'" were commenting connected her progress.
"At archetypal I didn't truly announcement the changes," acknowledged Bonnie. "I'm stepping connected a standard and I'm seeing the numbers spell down, but I'm looking astatine myself and I'm like, 'Where bash I spot it?' And past I would beryllium told, like, 'You utilized to person a small spot much of thing astatine the apical of your stomach, and it's flattened out.'"
Bonnie Chapman
By the clip the 4-foot-11 Hawaii autochthonal had reached her extremity value of 130 pounds—down from her highest of 196—it was undeniable, adjacent to her.
"I'm not going to lie, I cried a mates times," she admitted, "because I was like, wow, this is what I wanted my full life."
Growing up indulging successful Hawaii's local, carb-heavy fare similar atom and noodles, "I've dealt with value problems since I was pre-pubescent," said Bonnie. "I've ever been the bigger friend. I've ever been the bigger girl."
Getting diagnosed with the hormonal information Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) successful her teens lone compounded the issue.
When she'd deed the gym, "I felt adjacent much fatigued," she recalled. "I felt similar my hormones were trying to support up, and it conscionable made things worse. I would summation more value erstwhile I worked out. I would effort these hormone equilibrium workouts, and they wouldn't beryllium doing anything. I would effort to spell to saunas. But it felt similar thing worked."
Already a spot of an affectional eater, the flight mechanics lone intensified after her ma died from pharynx cancer successful 2019. And erstwhile she mislaid the bulk of her belongings—save for her mom's ashes—and six pets erstwhile her Virginia rental location burned down successful April 2023, she acknowledged, "I coped a batch with food."
By December, "I conscionable didn't consciousness healthy, I didn't consciousness good," she continued. "I utilized nutrient arsenic a comfortableness for astir of my beingness and I've realized I cannot bash that anymore. I request to marque healthier changes truthful that I'm capable to beryllium present with the radical I emotion for a longer time."
After all, she knows amended than astir how abbreviated beingness tin be.
Bonnie Chapman
Noting however grateful she is that those adjacent to her were consenting to stock the uncomfortable information astir her weight, she said, "I've seen however it is to not person capable time. And I don't privation anybody to think, 'If I had said thing to her, she would inactive beryllium here, she would person taken that step.'"
Though she disquieted the medicine would permission her feeling permanently sick to her stomach, her doc prescribed an anti-nausea medication, "And arsenic soon arsenic I took that, I would beryllium good for the remainder of the week."
What the injection did bash was instantly calm her cravings.
"Once I started to spot that I was getting afloat a batch little quickly, I was capable to really devour fractional a information of my meal," Bonnie explained. "And I was like, 'Okay, I'm good. I consciousness truly fulfilled.' It truly made maine consciousness similar I was capable to get somewhere, and it's helped maine physique immoderate truly bully habits. Even if I spell a week oregon 2 without taking it, I'm capable to devour little portions, which truly helps maine maintain my value loss."
Bonnie Chapman
Because present that she's dropped below her extremity weight to deed 126 pounds ("I wanted to spell for a fig that's not wholly excessively low, I conscionable wanted to beryllium astatine a fig that I was erstwhile I felt good"), her absorption is connected staying there.
"The happening that helped maine summation the astir value was sushi," noted Bonnie, "so I effort to bounds my sushi to possibly erstwhile oregon doubly a month." And erstwhile it comes to different eats, she tries to debar excessively galore sweets oregon those triggers she knows volition permission her tummy upset. "A batch of the things that I recovered that I truly liked are not steadfast for me," she said. "And I won't sacrifice my wellness for a bully saccharine treat."
Instead she fills up connected homemade kale chips utilizing greens from her ain plot and berries. "With Tirzepatide, I was afloat aft a fistful oregon two," Bonnie said. "It helped maine consciousness afloat and fulfilled."
Bonnie Chapman
And it's taken distant each the accent she's felt surrounding her assemblage for years.
While she's anxious to commencement adding musculus to her frame, "When I look astatine the scale, I'm not dreading it," Bonnie noted. "I'm not looking astatine those numbers and overanalyzing them. I'm not looking astatine my BMI score. I'm looking astatine conscionable a fig that signifies however overmuch my soma and my bones weigh."
Though, if she's being honest, it's inactive a thrill to spot that fig displayed.
"The past clip I truly felt bully was erstwhile I was astir apt successful precocious school," Bonnie acknowledged. "And I was like, if I tin get to this weight, past I'll beryllium happy. And I was ecstatic erstwhile I reached that goal. I conscionable felt similar I was yet maine again."
And Bonnie isn't the lone 1 to sermon such weighty issues. Check retired the different stars who person discussed their assemblage transformations.