{"id":28478,"date":"2023-01-02T05:30:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=28478"},"modified":"2023-01-02T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T10:30:13","slug":"lakeland-nurse-practitioner-wanted-to-be-a-good-example-for-her-patients-and-loses-90-lbs-to-inspire-others-to-transform-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/01\/02\/lakeland-nurse-practitioner-wanted-to-be-a-good-example-for-her-patients-and-loses-90-lbs-to-inspire-others-to-transform-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland nurse practitioner wanted to be a good example for her patients and loses 90 lbs. to inspire others to transform their lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While many people will make a New Year\u2019s resolution to shed pounds, one Lakeland woman recently lost a lot of weight and is inspiring others to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jeanna Parker has been overweight all of her life. She recently lost 90 lbs. and now is helping others transform their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is truly the only time in my life that I have maintained any sort of weight loss,\u201d said Jeanna Parker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parker struggled with her weight since she began emotional eating as a young girl. At her heaviest she weighed 240 lbs., but the nurse practitioner wanted to be a good example for her patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI felt like a hypocrite, and I felt like a failure. I feel like one of the things that I experienced was what a lot of women experience, who play multiple roles. They put everyone else before themselves,\u201d Parker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, she decided it was time to make a change for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI changed every single thing about my habits, and it wasn\u2019t just the food. I had to conquer those emotional setbacks that were creating the need for me to stuff those emotions with food,\u201d said Parker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She cut out fast food, eats six small meals a day, and works out three times a week. In two years, Parker has lost 90 pounds. The 50-year-old, recently underwent extensive surgery to remove excess skin from her arms and upper body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRemoved 5 lbs. around my waist of skin. I’m very happy with my results. I’m excited to buy a bikini for the first time in my life at 50,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parker documented her weight loss journey on Instagram. \u201cI put fat Jeanna jogging around Lake Morton out there because it held me accountable,\u201d Parker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That accountably turned into inspiration, as others are motivated by her transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe taught me that I don\u2019t live to eat anymore. I eat to live. Just opened my eyes to what is possible,\u201d said Shannon Eickenberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parker owns a med spa and is now teaching others how they can also make a lifestyle change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a diet. That was what I had always failed at. When I really tapped into why it was important for me to make those changes, then that became my vision,\u201d Parker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She plans on having surgery for the excess skin on her legs sometime next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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