A Couple’s Journey From Thick to Thin and Instagram Influencing

Fed up with their weight, Lexi and Danny Reed embarked on an incredible weight loss journey. Unlike those who decide on small steps to lose weight such as including water in their diet or eating more vegetables, Danny and Lexi took a whole different route all together. This decision would ultimately change their lives forever.

For Lexi losing, the weight has been a constant battle she has had to deal with her whole life. She speaks on how she tried to use Weight Watchers and follow weight loss programs, but they never yielded results. And if she did make progress and drop a few pounds, she would always gain

When Danny met Lexi, he didn’t care about her weight and accepted her as she came. He could also relate to her plight as he also struggled with his own weight. According to Danny, when he was younger and active in sports, he was able to sufficiently manage his weight.

Lexi admits that the couple’s favorite pastime was binge-watching Netflix and ordering in their favorite junk food in lieu of healthier options. Taking care of themselves and their health took a back seat; in her own words, they became the 765-pound couple.

Lexi openly talked about coming from a home where money was scarce, therefore buying processed foods was easier than buying healthy foods. She was raised in an environment that made it difficult to develop healthy eating habits.

All of that changed when Danny declared his love for Lexi and asked her to marry him. She eagerly began her wedding journey to marry the love of her life.

Lexi eventually was able to find herself a wedding dress and marry Danny. Like every other couple, they started looking at life after the wedding, they wanted to have children but to achieve this they had to face some difficult truths.

One of Lexis’s dreams was to visit Universal Studios to see the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. She realized that if she had any hopes to travel, she had to get healthier, as she couldn’t fit into a plane chair.

Lexi was becoming disillusioned with their “Netflix and Chill” lifestyle and was wanting to embrace more in their life. Yet, it was hard to stir the willpower to really change it.

“I ‘d wake up each morning, my muscles would be stiff, I would be exhausted, but I would also immediately be well out of breath.” Lexi said.

Lexi Reed was only 25 years old and weighed a whopping 485 pounds. Danny, her husband, averaged 280 lbs. Many normal tasks were becoming complicated, including riding a bike or even taking a walk.

With the incoming of a new year, the couple made a resolution to take their health and fitness seriously and make true fundamental changes.

Danny entered their commitment with less enthusiasm than Lexi. He was comfortable with the way they led their lives. Coming home to bum on the couch all day and eating comfort food was an acceptable way to live.

To keep themselves accountable they created obstacles for themselves to avoid reverting back to old habits. They placed bets with their friends to keep them in check, and they declined temptations.

When a friend learned of their plan, he agreed to help. Danny and Lexi took the risk of making a measurable commitment to abstain from alcohol and cheat eating for 30 days.

Lexi was determined to change her lifestyle. “We were fed up with the life that we were living and all the things we couldn’t do as a couple” Lexi is an adventurous soul and there was much she wanted to see and do.

Because of what she weighed Lexi experienced serious joint pain and required a gym that could withstand her weight. She also felt insecure about working out in front of people.

For a gym to meet Lexis’ expectations, it had quite the requirements to live up to. For starters, to go along with her joint pain, it needed to have the right equipment. She was also quite self-conscious so she needed a less populated gym for her comfort.

With the exercise aspect of the journey taken care of, if they were going to make any progress, they needed to watch what they ate. They stopped going out and ordering takeaways and started making homemade food. This way they could control the intake.

Numerous people would like to lose some weight and get in shape but struggle making it a priority. Lexi decided to frame her journey as a job, a serious task, and a commitment that she couldn’t simply walk away from.

According to Lexi, minor changes yield large results if followed through consistently. The fruits of their labor began to show itself on the scale.

Danny and Lexi insisted that what they were doing was not dieting but a complete change of lifestyle. She strongly believed that diets were a temporary solution to a problem whereas they needed a permanent one, so she chose a whole new lifestyle for them instead.

It is safe to say that this couple was each other’s cheerleader. Without Danny, Lexi would not have been inspired to change her lifestyle and without Lexi, Danny would not have been bothered to leave his comfort zone.

As Lexi continued going to the gym, she became even more confident in herself. She started taking even more classes and suddenly going to the gym wasn’t as bad. She even made some new friends.

The hardest part about working out is that sometimes you put in the work, but the results take time to show. You might be doing everything right, you go to the gym, you’re eating healthy, but the scale stays the same.

Although Danny did not weigh as much as his wife, he still weighed quite a bit. By joining his wife on the weight loss challenge, he also lost the excess weight he had put on, as evident by his great results.

When Lexi started working out she weighed close to 500 pounds but as of May 2018, she had lost 312 pounds. She reaped the fruits of her labor and she was over the moon with the results.

As a means of progress, Lexi started an Instagram account with the handle @fatgirlfedup where she would post her pictures just to challenge herself and motivate anyone taking on the same fight as her.

Soon Lexi and Danny’s story had spread to anyone and everyone, and they quickly became a bit famous. Most news stations ran their story increasing the spread of their inspirational journey.

Now at a healthier weight, Lexi says that she no longer feels enslaved by her own body. She says she is grateful for the journey and continues to enjoy it every single day. Although she says she loved herself when she was bigger, life is more enjoyable in her current weight.

For Lexi, looking back at how far she has come is a constant in her life. Looking back at all the hard work she had to put in to get to where she is today was not an easy task to forget. Lexi is always open to sharing.

The majority of Instagram influencers tend to try and appear flawless and trying to relate to them is difficult. Of course, they have their personal struggles and failures; they just don’t show them.

Lexi insists that weight loss is just as mental as it is physical. In the summer of 2018, she encouraged her followers to speak nicely to themselves because as a person you’re always listening. She insists on the importance of the way we speak to ourselves.

Lexi likes to remind her followers that the gym can also be fun. She insists that you don’t have to live in the gym to get and stay healthy. Lexi and Danny like to mix up their routine by incorporating different workouts.

It is possible for some people to be intimidated by the idea of working out in a gym, especially if it has a lot of people, and you are just starting your fitness journey. Lexi likes to encourage people that you do not have to go to the gym to get in your daily activity.

Up until now, Lexi still admits that she is not always motivated to go to the gym or stick with it either, but she quickly learned that she did not take care of herself first. She would never get it done because she would immerse herself in other things.

Ever since Danny and Lexi started their weight loss journey together one thing has remained constant- their love for each other. It was their love for each other, their goals, and their dreams that pushed them into creating a healthier lifestyle for themselves.

Lexi is proud of the fact that she lost all her weight without having to go for surgery, using diet pills, or any other measures that people tend to rely upon. Instead, by changing her eating habits and consistently going to the gym, she was able to lose her weight.

Lexi advises people on the kind of meals to take while still maintaining their healthy journey. She notes that often the kind of meal people order in restaurants is not the problem, rather the accompaniments that come with the food such as salads with dressings.

The little things in life can mean the world to you or get under your skin. The one thing that always bothered Lexi was her limited choice of clothes when she weighed close to 500 pounds. She did not have a lot of options to choose from.

Lexi was finally able to nurture the adventurous components of her personality and see new things as she had always wanted to.

Lexi’s inspirational quotes and honesty about her journey connected to a lot of people. She gained thousands upon thousands of followers

In February of 2022, Danny posted a photo of his wife onto her Instagram account. In the photo, Lexi was unconscious in a hospital bed.

Two days later, a screenshot of a GoFundMe appeared on Lexi’s Instagram called “Support Lexi Reed in her Medical Expenses.” It became clear that the couple was asking for help.

Many followers pointed out that on the website allfamousbirthday.com, Lexi’s net worth was listed at $1.5 million. This did not sit well with Lexi. “People on the internet are reading that I have all kinds of money, which is insane to me, because I clearly don’t.”

According to Forbes magazine, influencer wealth is extremely hard to calculate due to the fact that they make most of their money from brand deals.

Lexi admitted that although she could have afforded health insurance, she did not see a reason to invest in it. Lexi said she rarely goes to the doctor and has never been diagnosed with with a condition.

According to Lexi, her household income has dropped due to her hospitalization and she has been unable to work or even walk.

All and all, many of Lexi’s supporters did offer to foot some of the bill of her expensive medical costs. However, the website GoFundMe.com did remove her from their site.

Lexi still doesn’t know what caused her organ failure but said the doctors do not think it was because of her weight loss journey.