Fitness Fridays: Brittnie Henderson Went From Blood Pressure Meds And Sleep Apnea In Her 20s To Down 200 Pounds In Her 30s

If you talk to Brittnie Henderson, within minutes you’ll learn that the 30-year-old Greenville, North Carolina native is hilarious. She has a lot of wit and personality, and as you will find out, can throw a “Yes, honey” with a distinct Southern drawl in any kind of conversation and make you smile. So you can probably understand my shock when she told me that at one point in her life, not too long ago in fact, she woke up every day crying.

“I just felt lost,” she said. “I felt like I couldn’t control my own body.”

Henderson has been battling with her weight for as far back as she can remember, trying to find the solution that would finally stick in teas, weight-loss programs and all of the infomercial products you can find when you’re up late watching TV. At her highest, she was over 400 pounds. Weight loss seemed impossible, and she was on the brink of getting surgery to change things. But Henderson decided to bet on herself one last time.

“I kind of got to the point where enough is enough,” she said. “After finding exercise methods and meal plans that stuck, she’s now down to 193 pounds. She’s lost more than 200 pounds and is still going, and she’s done it all the natural way.

We chatted with her about how she went from blood pressure medication and sleep apnea in her twenties, to finally being on the way to living her best and healthiest life in her thirties.

MadameNoire: Would you say growing up that you were active?

Brittnie Henderson: Not really. I used to dance and stuff like that, but it was never serious. I did try out for cheerleading but didn’t make it. You know, growing up as a marvel, life is really hard for the little fat girl.

So you would in fact say that weight is something you have struggled with all of your life?

Yes. Weight has been a never-ending cycle for me, being that I would use food as a coping mechanism. I would be upset because I’m bigger, so I would eat because I’m upset, which would make me bigger. Never-ending cycle.

That partly answers my next question about your eating habits in the past. What was the most extreme way you were eating at one point, and how has your diet changed for the better now?

I used to eat like a full large thin-crust pizza from Pizza Hut. This is real life. I would eat that in one sitting with a Jersey Mike’s sub on the side. Listen, life was hard. But now I’ve changed as to where I eat low carbs. I started low-carb when I first stared on this journey. I cut out bread, pasta, sodas, basically I eat less than 50 grams of carbs a day. I haven’t had a soda since like 2016.

You stared your journey in 2016. What made you decide that it was time to make a change?

I hit rock bottom, basically. What happened was, I’m a serial quitter. I’d been trying to lose weight and doing it half-a–edly for God knows how long. What happened was, I was kind of on a journey, but I hurt myself. I ruptured my achilles tendon back in June 2014. When I did that, it was just a downward spiral. I was so heavy because I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t use crutches because I couldn’t hold the weight up. So basically, all I did was lay in bed and eat. I gained 60, 70 pounds just sitting in the house. I wasn’t working. I was going through a bad breakup. I was displaced from work. I was unhappy with how I felt every day. I would wake up crying. Something I should be able to control is my own weight. At the time I was 28. I’m on blood pressure medication, medication for headaches, I …

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