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Welcome back to the Peptides for Women podcast.
I'm Jennifer Woodward, and I'm pretty damn delighted to
introduce you to my friend Delaney today.
So we met a couple weeks ago. Maybe I'm being presumptuous
calling you my friend, but we just had a great conversation
before we hopped on the recording today.
You've got a fantastic story. You are multifaceted, and I'm so
excited for people to get to hear about what peptides have
done in your life and what you have done in your life.
So let me tell you a little about Delaney.
She got a divorce two years ago and she started her journey on
peptides. Following that, she's since lost
98 lbs and she's built the life of her dreams while helping
other women reinvent themselves. And I got to see a front row
seat to that you guys. Delaney is the real deal.
She is definitely an open book. And so I am extremely excited to
get to share her story on the Peptides for Women podcast
today. Delaney, thanks for helping on
how you doing. Hi, good.
I'm excited. Thanks for inviting me out to do
this. This will be.
Fun. Yeah.
Thanks for saying. Yes, of course.
OK, You've had an incredible transformation, but I kind of
want to start at the beginning, and I don't mean two years ago.
Tell me about what you were like as a kid.
Like out the womb, Yeah, yes. So I grew up in a, I would say,
a functionally dysfunctional household.
You know, I always had a roof over my head and we were taken
care of. But my parents were very
toxically married. You know, they did get a divorce
eventually. And it was one of those things
where it was a relief to me and my sister.
We were like, celebrating, like, so excited about that, which
probably is not very normal. But I did grow up playing
sports. So my whole identity revolved
around softball. My dad was my coach.
And then I went and got a scholarship to play in college.
And so yeah, I, that was really like my whole life, everything
had to do with softball. And my dad and I were very
close, you know, through him coaching me and stuff.
But he was definitely very, very hard on me as well.
And sometimes that's a good thing, right?
Like, I definitely developed good character skills from that.
But I don't think I had like the, the typical childhood per
SE and probably have some daddy issues.
Definitely, definitely do. But yeah, so my parents got
divorced. It wasn't one of those things
that was like a bad impact on me at all.
It was probably healthier for them to split, actually.
And then went on to college, played for a Division One school
in Baltimore, MD, and it was in the best shape of my life.
But after my career ended is really where, I don't know, I
just went downhill, started, you know, gaining a ton of weight,
just lost all responsibilities. I went from having a team of
women and, you know, structure and discipline.
Like if I didn't show up to practice, I'd lose my tuition.
So having all that accountability and structure
went away overnight after my whole life of having it.
And I just, yeah, went downhill. I don't know how much money to
dive into that. No, no, that's great.
So do you feel like you were lonely?
After I finished, yeah, very lonely.
All my teammates, you bond and build this like sisterhood in
college, and then they're all from all over the country.
So they would go back to where they were from and start their
lives. And I stayed around that area
because my hometown is a small town.
I say bumblefuck, Pennsylvania. It's like all cornfield.
We got a Chick-fil-A like recently, and people lost their
mind. It was like the craziest thing
ever. So yeah, I was like, I'm not
going back there. So I stayed around that area
where I went to school and just didn't really have much
connection. And I think I just sought that
out in the wrong people like met and yeah, just ate my feelings
and blew up well. I mean, you did have an
impactful relationship. I mean, you met a guy, you
actually got married. And so walk us through kind of
the beginnings of that relationship and maybe some of
the toxicity that you saw at the very beginning of the
relationship, but weren't yet equipped to handle or deal with.
Yeah, so I'll talk about I had a relationship before my
ex-husband and I actually like, I got the date tattooed on my
arm the day that I finally got out of it because it was so bad.
It was, it was crazy. It was one of those where I
ended up having to move to another state to get away
because he was like a stalker and just a psycho and very
abusive, cheated on me all the time, just like crazy narcissist
and like, yeah, yeah. And I was like, it took me
forever though. I was kind of addicted to the
chaos in that relationship. Like we'd break up, I'd leave
him, move out, my family would help me move into a new
apartment. And then I'd go no contact for a
month. And then I'd get drunk and send
my location for some late night rendezvous.
And then then he know, then he knew where I lived and wouldn't
leave me alone. And then it would just, it was a
cycle for years. So I finally got out of that.
I actually got sober at the time because my, I'm not sober now.
I just have to preface that it was very situational.
My therapist at the time was like, you need to get sober
because every time you get drunk, you call him up and
you're putting your life at risk because he's crazy.
My therapist was like, in all my 20 years of practice, I've never
told somebody they should go buy a gun.
But I'm telling you, like you, you need to because he was just
like scary and so. Did you did you go buy a gun?
Yeah, yeah. Bought a gun.
Yeah. So there.
I mean, there were times where I would leave after finding out he
was cheating on me. And he would send videos of him
like pouring gasoline all over my items and my clothes, like
I'm destroying your stuff. Like if you don't come home,
Like he was crazy. And the last straw actually, we
went to a casino down the road where I where I lived in
Baltimore and we got in a huge fight And I, I took an Uber home
but got into a car with a random man because I was wasted
thinking it was my Uber driver. And luckily nothing happened.
The guy was nice and took me home.
And then my ex at the time was like, you need to come back and
pick me up right now. And I was like, I'll send an
Uber. Well, I had my dad's car at the
time because I was, my car was in the shop and I drove my dad's
car, totaled it, like drove it into a medium, blew out all the
tires, was driving on rims like all the way to pick him up at
the casino. Drove home parallel park,
smashed the car behind me, smashed the car in front of me.
And then when we got in the house, he took a knife to my
dog's neck and was threatening to kill her.
He didn't obviously, but I immediately switched into this,
oh fuck. I got to go into like whatever
survivor mode and tell him whatever he needs to hear to
make him feel like, I'm so sorry, we're going to work this
out. Like.
And then the next morning I called my family and I was like,
I need help. And I started going to a A and
that's where I started my journey of sobriety for three
years at that point and left him.
That was the last time I ever saw him and I had to move away
to I was in Baltimore at the time, but I moved to South
Carolina with my dad just to start over.
And that's where I then and after really just trying to
focus on me, I came across my then ex-husband.
So we met and he was very stable at the time.
So it was somebody who was a business owner had a shit
together. And I'll be honest, I was at not
my heaviest, but I was definitely like 220 lbs.
My heaviest was 250. But when I met him, I was a
bigger girl. And at the time I remember
thinking like, how in the hell is some guy who's like, you
know, he was in shape and everything, like he wants me
looking like this. And so I kind of just took what
I could get. I, I thought like, Oh my gosh,
you know, so I, so I did, I, we started dating and the red flags
weren't like crazy there in the beginning, but it was after we
had gotten married is when I remember we got married very
quickly. So like probably like we are
engaged 6 months in and then married in that same couple
months after. And I remember the first time he
ever, like, screamed at me and called me, you know, a stupid
fucking cunt, a dumb bit, like just names that I was like,
whoa, I've never been spoken to like that.
I mean, I've been in crazy relationships where I've never
had somebody be so explosive with their anger.
And I felt like I was always on egg shells.
And I was like, who the fuck did I marry?
And then I lost respect. And honestly, you can only be
spoken to like that for so long. It's like a dog being put in a
court. Like, you get barking worked out
for so long before you start barking back.
And, you know, we were together for three years.
And towards the end is where I was like, I fucking hate the
person I'm becoming. I stooped to his level
screaming, you know, calling him all the names in the books too.
And I was like, he is pulling out the worst in me.
Like, I've never had somebody trigger me like this.
I've never. And I, I was like, I got it.
I got to get out. And I, yeah.
So I did finally worked up the courage.
And I mean, there's a lot, a lot of story there, but I don't know
how much. I kind of want to know how you
got out. Like, well, I mean, that that
must have been a little terrifying because you're in a
new place. Like you're not living around
your family, right? You're with the one you've been
with. For my dad, yeah, my, my dad and
I live together. So I moved in with him and then
when I met my ex-husband, my dad is we kind of had a falling out
because I think he felt, I'll be honest, I am the type that when
I fall in love, I get very consumed with that person and
nothing else matters. And my dad took that very
personal and and essentially we didn't, my dad and I didn't talk
then for like 5 or 6 years after I started.
Did he not come to your wedding? Well, we, we ended up going to
the courthouse, we were going to have a full wedding and we were
like, no, let's buy a house with that money instead because it
was so expensive. So we did.
But it's crazy because my relationship started off where,
you know, I didn't have much income of my own at all.
I started network marketing at the time and I, I quit my full
time job to just focus on it. And I had 0 success.
I mean, I think my first year I made $5000 and I spent 8000.
Yeah. So I was like living the dream,
just whatever. But I also wasn't applying
myself like I should have. Looking back, however, yeah, I
was. I had just filed bankruptcy.
So there's so many different parts, but the, the ex that I
had left that was like crazy and, and, and threatening and
everything he actually had opened up, he had his own
business. He was opening up lines of
credit through my social without me knowing.
And so I ended up racking up $35,000 worth of debt.
And yeah, I ended up having to do bankruptcy.
So this was now six or seven years ago.
So yeah, filed bankruptcy, literally got cards, you know,
they gave you these cards to rebuild your credit after
bankruptcy. They're terrible re/max all
those out was months behind. I mean, I was just financially
so irresponsible at the time and yeah, had really no income
coming in. And so when I met my now
ex-husband, you know, who had a shit together, he had just
bought a house at the time and I moved into it with him.
So we kind of just really started off very, very fast.
And it was like he was a security, you know, blanket for
me and stability, you know, and so I just, I ignored a lot of
stuff out now would never tolerate.
But yeah, so, you know, and he he did, he helped, he did, I
will say, I mean, he did help me in the beginning, like
financially, paying off debt, getting, you know, my shit back
together. But it was a good investment for
him because I had switched to another network marketing
company at the time. And that's where it all took off
for me. And that's where really my full
career with this whole business model started.
So I joined a company and within, Oh my gosh, my first
year there, I cleared $500,000 and it was like, what the hell
is happening? You know, somebody that's never
had money like that before and girl, I spent it.
I don't have a dollar about like, you know, a lot.
Luckily I make good money now and I'm smarter with it.
But like, at the time, yeah, I didn't tell you where the hell
that money went. I mean, we just lived it up.
But they're off. Yeah, I mean, I, I became kind
of, he had his own construction business and I was, you know, I
did the whole, you quit your job.
You don't have to work like, so, you know, because at the time, I
mean, I had months where we were having $70,000 coming in and I
was like, why go break your back doing all this manual labor when
we're good and we didn't have kids at the time like nothing So
but I feel like that dynamic shift of me almost becoming the
breadwinner, you know, and providing, I don't know if it's
just like it started really going downhill.
And then I'm sitting there like, how are you going to speak to me
and call me a lazy fucking bitch and all this stuff all the time
when I'm bringing all this money?
I've retired you. I bought, yeah, a brand new
truck. So I just was giving, giving,
giving, giving and still felt not appreciated.
I mean, there would be times where I would hit, you know,
huge milestones in my business and he'd be asleep and I'd be
like, Oh my gosh, we just got a $200,000 bonus and he fuck off.
I'm trying to sleep, you know, just not nice.
So not nice. Not nice.
No, it was, it was a lot. But as far as I think you had
asked, like when did it end? I mean, I knew a year and a half
before I left I needed to get out.
I would literally fan fantasize about I wanted to move to
Dallas, TX and live in a high rise with floor, you know, the
ceiling windows and just be able to I was like, Oh my gosh, what
I've been able to do successfully in this business,
you know, while being with somebody like this is crazy.
Imagine if I was by myself with no distractions and could just
focus on me and and my business like it would explode and I just
kept fantasizing. I would look up apartments and
just visualize, but I was so comfortable also at the time to
get out. I think I knew that the moment
that I made the decision and drew the line in the sand, it
was gonna be like, shit, we gotta go to work.
This is gonna be crazy. Because what did end up
happening is I actually went through a lawsuit because that
was the top producer at that company.
Well, look, the company that I made the the big money with, I
ended up getting recruited to another company, offered a big
sign on bonus, left and then got sued because I had such a large
team follow me. Luckily that company that I went
to covered, you know, most of the lawyer fees, which was
amazing. But still though, it's not even
the money. It's the like mental wear going
through like a lawsuit. But yeah, we during that is when
I got the marriage got so toxic and terrible.
My weight was packing on. I now is at 250 lbs.
I had lost my spark with my income.
I you know, I regretted leaving that company.
I felt like I made a rash decision, thought the grass was
greener and it, it wasn't. And so my income plummeted.
And then before you know it, I'm financially, financially
dependent on him again. So now he's back working and I'm
probably bringing in on my own 1500 bucks a month.
And so when I knew I needed to get out, that was my biggest
thing was like, like, how the hell am I gonna afford to
survive on my own? But I I ended up getting back to
that company that I that I had left the.
Original company, yeah. The CEO opened his arms back up,
even though we went through the lawsuit, we, we dropped it all
and I went back and I did, I blew it.
But I knew what I could do there.
Yeah. And after a month there, I was
like, OK, I'm able to, to leave. So I did.
I, I told myself I'm like, I need to get out before my next
big check hits because that's going to be my start over money.
And I did, I was like, but I need like I need.
That was the hard thing is he didn't cheat on me that I know
of. Like there was never that like
hard like I gotta go because you did something so horrible.
It was just like, we are not each others person and you are
horrible to me the way you speak to me and treat me.
So yeah, there was the last fight was November 7th.
Well, the night before, I'll never forget it.
I folded his clothes, put it in a laundry basket next to his
bed. And he got up in the middle of
the night to go to the bathroom and he bumped into the laundry
basket and he just fucking lost it.
Like you dumb fucking retard, how do you do?
How? Why would you put the shit right
here, right where I walk through the clothes everywhere.
And I was like, OK, I didn't care.
Yeah, I was like, I'm done. I knew that morning.
So he left for work and I texted my mom and was like, can you
please come pick me up today? Like, and I grabbed all my
things that I could and my dogs and moved in with my mom for a
couple months while I found and then I did, I moved to Dallas
and I Hi guys, OK, Windows and have since you know, I, I, I got
on the weight loss shot with a terzipotide.
And that's what I want to talk about for sure.
I mean, yeah, from what I gathered, you said like you were
at your highest weight when your marriage ended right around
2:50. If you're looking at your
socials like you're really open with this on your social, as you
can see, not only do you not look super healthy then, but you
can just tell like you're mentally exhausted.
I mean, you're like crying in your videos.
Like you can tell the look in your eyes, you're just like done
right? And then you start to see this
progression towards someone who truly is getting her spark and
her glow back. And So what was the shift for
you? I think I even watched a couple
of your videos like, well, you're taking the shot for the
first time in your leg, like sitting on the floor all worried
about it. So what were those circumstances
that brought you to the point where you're like, this might be
an option for me to go on tours up a time?
Well, so yeah, when I went to leave, my mom was like, I have
never seen you cry so much in your life.
Like, you got to get out. Like, that was her telltale sign
for the divorce, too. With my dad, she was like, I
cried every day. And you're such a happy, fun
person. And I knew that I was miserable
because of my marriage, but I also was miserable because of my
weight. Like, it consumed me every
single day, like, fantasizing. I would lay in in bed and I
would scroll social media looking at other people's
transformations and just like, get, you know, hits of dopamine
and bursts of motivation and then do nothing the next day
with it. And I tried every diet, every
supplement, every, you know, program out there.
And some things would work a little bit, but it was always so
restricting. It was always so like, oh, my
gosh, you know, like, I'm miserable doing this.
Like, yeah, I'm gonna do Weight Watchers and restrict myself,
but like, I'm not happy. I want more food or I'm, you
know, because food was my comfort.
I mean, I've always been a foodie and I still am, even
though I'm on a shot, which I love.
It's just I eat instead of for a family of 6, I eat for a family
of one. But it was literally, I had a
girlfriend who was on it and I had gotten out of the marriage
and a month later I had a, one of my Doctor Who was like a
family friend. He was on it and he was, you
know, really helping a lot of people get set up on it.
And so I was like, OK, I'm going to explore the options at the
time. I mean mine was not covered
through insurance so I was paying $1100 a month.
Hold on, this is even while you're at £250, your insurance
did not pay for it. That is fucking madding to me.
Yeah, yeah, no. You had to have sleep, you had
to have like diabetes and sleep apnea.
You had to have like 2 obesity related conditions.
But my friend who was like 180 lbs was getting hers for $25.00
a month and had no other, you know, it's just her, I guess.
She had really good health insurance.
I don't know. Yeah.
Everything I even went and bought health insurance, like
extra to try and see if that would work.
And no, so I was paying 1100 a month out of pocket, which, you
know, at the time I didn't have it.
I was throwing everything on credit cards.
But I knew I knew that that would be the number one thing.
Like whenever you know those exercises where they're like,
write down all your goals, your top ten goals.
And it was like, now what's the one if you accomplished first
would lead you into achieving all these other goals.
And for me, it was always my weight.
I mean, it was always my weight since college, I had gained,
like 100 lbs. So, you know, I knew that I was
so miserable in my skin, like I had no confidence.
I was just, like, a shell of a human.
And, you know, people always are like, well, I'm the number one
thing I get on my pages. Well, if you would have worked
on yourself while you were married, you wouldn't be
divorced. And I'm like, well, listen,
yeah, I'm like, First off, he met me when I was a big girl,
OK? He's a chubby chaser #2 I left
his ass. OK?
Don't get it twisted. And #3 like, do you know how
hard it is to try to fix yourself and better yourself
when you're in such a toxic, horrible situation at home?
Because for me, that was my one thing I always turn to was food.
I mean it. Food didn't yell at me.
Food made me feel good. And even though it was only a
little temporary hit of, of relief, and then I felt like
shit and guilty again after, it still to me was like something,
you know, that that made me feel good.
And I was addicted to that. And it was this because I'm
like, the thing that's keeping me fat is the only thing that's
also making me feel better for a little bit.
And yeah, so tried everything else out there.
And when I saw my friend get on it, she was dropping weight and
she had no side effects. And she's like, this is amazing.
And because I was considering weight loss surgery at the time,
that's how much I was like, desperate.
I was like, I will drink in battery acid at this point if
you just get the damn weight off me, OK?
Because I knew that was what was holding me back.
And so then I did. I visited my friend who was a
doctor. I was on it and I got on it and
within the first, I mean the first week I lost 5 lbs and then
I dropped almost about 20 lbs my first month.
Now obviously I had a lot to lose so it came off faster, but
it was the whole food noise thing.
I mean like whoa, for the first time ever, I don't have a single
thought about what the hell I'm going to eat at my next three
meals. I'm not like I was a defensive
eater. So like when I would order food,
do not touch my plate to eat anything when on the shot, I'm
like, oh, you guys want to try? You want to try?
You want the oh, yeah, that's fine.
Because I I I didn't need all of it, you know, like I would need
a fraction of what I was used to.
But yeah, it gave me gave me my whole life back.
And then my obsessive thinking about, you know, wanting to lose
weight and fantasizing about wearing sexy little outfits once
I do and how would I carry myself and how would I act and
would I find a new love that, you know, it was like this
healthy relationship. I all all these like thoughts.
I didn't have those obsessing thoughts any.
I just felt like, Oh my gosh, this is so freeing.
You felt normal. You felt like.
You're free. And your body were transitioning
toward what normal people think, like and feel like.
I'm like no wonder it's so easy for some of y'all to like.
I stay all snatched and sexy. 100%.
Like, I can't even imagine. This is what you're like, you
guys. This is normal like that to me.
I didn't know what I was missing until I got on it and I
realized, you know? Oh my gosh.
Yeah. It gave me my whole life back
and then some. I do know exactly what you're
talking about. I often tell that story here.
That same thing like the food noise for me went away in
basically a day, like one day. And for somebody with the
history of bulimia eating disorders for decades, like,
that was so huge for me. I also love your concept of a
defensive eater. If my husband Beau is listening
to this, he knows, like, I grew up with food scarcity in my
house. Like, we just did not have a lot
of money. We didn't go out to eat.
My mom didn't spend a lot of money on food.
And so when I first started dating my husband, like, I'd be
like, no, I don't want any French fries.
I'll just eat some of yours. And then he tried to, like, eat
some of my food and I'd be like, no, no, this is mine.
Like, I don't think so, buddy. And now I just feel like I am
not emotionally tied to food the same way that I was for 40 years
of my life. It is kind of crazy.
It is crazy and I don't even wanna look at how much I spent
on DoorDash at the time, but I swear I kept it in business in
my local area. It was breakfast was, you know,
always like Dunkin' Donuts or Starbucks or Chick-fil-A.
Then lunch was Chipotle or Chick-fil-A.
And then we'd go out to eat for dinner or we'd order pizza and
it was like, that was my life. And that's all I, that was all
that I look forward to was food. Like it was like, let's go out
to eat. Let's do this.
It was the only time I enjoyed having any interaction with my
spouse was around food. Yep, I definitely hear that too.
So I I think it's a really interesting thing that like
shifted for you too. It sounds like there's a lot of
mindset that went into your transformation, almost like your
body was just waiting to catch up to your brain, which was
waiting to catch up to your circumstances.
So you being able to find access to to his appetite.
And then really, I mean, kind of being brave enough to go on it.
This wasn't a huge thing two years ago, right?
Like not certainly not like it is now, no.
And so, you know, having access to a physician, seeing that your
friend went on it without any side effects must have been
really validating and encouraging for you.
And then you just kind of took off.
So walk me through that story of you losing 98 lbs.
I've seen you in real life. You are smoking, like smoking.
So I, I know that it wasn't just like the weight falling off like
you cut your hair, your makeup is gorgeous, like you just.
Walk, I got my titties. Done.
You got your titties done. Actually got my titties out.
So sometimes I'm like, oh, I put my hands up and like, you know,
like, oh, I miss my boobies sometimes, but not really.
You just kind of made this whole shift.
And so walk me through what that looked like maybe every like 10
or 20 lbs that came off like how, how, how did your mindset
change? How did your body change?
Yeah, well, I feel like too, I put a lot of emphasis on my
physical appearance because of how much it impacts my self
esteem, my confidence, my mental state.
And I will tell you, I mean, it is what it is.
You are treated way differently when you and I don't even know
if it's just the size, you know, of me losing all this weight,
but it's how I carry myself. And, you know, if you're, if
you're 300 lbs and you can be that bitch, that confident, own
a room, good for you. But that was not me.
You know, I faked a lot of that confidence.
I was always a fat funny friend, you know, who, who put myself
down before anybody else could, you know, because I, I just, I
hated how I look. I think it's harder to when you
know what it's like to be in shape, you know, having that
background in sports. Like I didn't real, I remember
being 135 lbs and thinking I was so fat at the time and, and
being insecure and God was like, you know what, we're going to
blow your ass up to 250. So then you appreciate it
finally. And I was like, really?
Do we have to go through this for 10 years?
But I hear you. Like I've learned.
And now it's funny because yeah, I lost my 1st 20 lbs, you know,
my first month and I was like, whoa, this is crazy.
For the first time ever, ever, I was like, Oh my God, this is
actually going to work. Like this is real.
Like it's happening. Like all these, like I'm going
to do it one day. It's finally here.
And then it just kept melting off.
I mean, I was just losing and losing and losing and my, it's
crazy because I look back. I mean, even when I hit 210, you
know, I look at myself then as I am now and I look back and I'm
like, Oh my gosh, I was still really big then.
But my whole way of like how I showed up and carried myself.
I mean, I was like dancing everywhere, having a good time,
loving my body, wearing cute stuff.
And I was like, damn, that's crazy.
Because even now, you know, I catch myself because I'm used to
my new body now. I've been here for so long that
I start to get a little nitpicky with myself and then I have to
be like June, remember when you were 250 you would have given
your left tick to be 152 lbs Like that's, you know, cuz
that's where I'm at right now. But sometimes I get a little
nitpicky. But I will say, I remember
hitting 199 and that was the first time in over 10 years that
I had seen that number on the scale and I just lost it.
I was so emotional and again, it was one of those things where I
was like it's, it's real. This is really happening and my
life has been given back and I, I started really marketing that
on social media just being really real and raw with my
journey of healing from divorce, but transforming my my physical
appearance, which transformed my emotional like my spark came
back. I started feeling myself yes.
Then I chopped my hair, which 10 out of 10 recommend if you are
on some sort of healing journey something about that.
I mean, I have beautiful long hair, but I just got the A line
Bob chopped that shit off. And then I actually said the
company I was partnered with, we sold supplements like holistic
supplements and no shade to supplements.
I want to just preface, I think they're important for certain
things, but ain't nobody losing 98 lbs some, you know, turmeric.
Say it again. Say it again for the women.
In the back pounds with some turmeric and cayenne pepper.
OK, Now maybe it helps a little bit with something, I don't
know. But I was in a position where I
was, I was partnered with this company.
It was my full time income, OK. Like I had built my whole
financial independence after divorce on this income.
And I was a top producer there. And I was on the weight loss
shop the whole time and I was not, they knew, but I was not
allowed to talk about it. I was not allowed to share.
And I'm, you know me. I'm an open book.
I don't have any shame. There was never one part of me
that was like, you know, I am embarrassed of being on the
shot. I was like, no, this stuff is
life changing. Everybody needs to hear about
it. But I had handcuffs.
I was restricted. I could not share.
It was against their policies and procedures.
I had put up one post, one time and was immediately like, take
that down like it's a medical claim.
No, no, no. So there I am in this spot where
I'm, like, losing all this weight.
All these people are inspired by my transformation, and they
think that by getting on the supplements that I was selling
at the time, it was gonna produce the same result.
Yeah, it was really hard. It was really hard because it
wasn't for me like just like a side hustle of a couple $1000
that I'd be like, OK, it's fine, I'll give up.
It was like all my, my whole livelihood was dependent on this
and I couldn't sleep with myself and I felt like a fraud.
And I was like, I have to be able to share my truth and get
out of this. And then, you know, that's
telemedicine company came along and I was like, wait a minute,
wait a minute, wait a minute. You can, you can promote the
very thing that changed my whole life that I know works.
Like there ain't no bullshit here.
Like, stuff works and I can actually make even more money
than I'm already making. Then you know what I mean by
aligning with something that is so near and dear to my heart
that actually will work for people.
It's like, Oh my gosh, I thought it was brilliant.
I thought it was so brilliant, the whole concept of it.
So I did. I left it all behind, started
over. I sold everything in my
apartment to survive off of and had like no money in my account
at the time because my income had dropped at that other one.
I think a lot of I'm just gonna be real supplement companies.
I don't know how they're gonna manage if that's all they're
letting people sell, if they're gonna be restrictive because
nothing can compete with peptides, with medical grade
peptides. So it's like you're I saw first
hand the dip there. And then I was like, I got to
get the hell out of here and I got to be able to share my
truth. And then, yeah, I partnered with
our telemedicine company 6 months ago, seven months ago.
And it's been the biggest blessing ever, ever.
Love it, making so much more money, helping, but that's the
other thing is everybody that like I help with this actually
is seeing results and then I actually feel like a good human.
Right, right. Well, and with your background
and your story, not being able to have quality access to
quality peptides when you need them.
I mean, for you to be able to give an opportunity to women who
are hurting and scared and nervous and have their own
vision boards of how they're going to look and show up in the
world when they finally are at their goal weight is really
important. So I agree, I have this
conversation with functional practitioners all the time.
Like there is a point in time when functional medicine stops
working. Like I feel like I can get a lot
of my women 90% of the way there with functional medicine tools
and lab testing and supplements and hormones.
But the last 10% for women and men too, is so incredible that
we finally have freaking tools at work.
And peptides are great. They are, yeah.
Yeah, there's no denying that. There's no denying it.
OK, so we have a physical redemption story.
It's beautiful to see. You've got a brand new social
media account. It grew in four weeks to like
18,000 people, I mean. Almost 13,000 Yeah 13. 1000 in a
couple weeks. I mean your your story is so
impactful. Like even people who probably
have not gone through exactly what you have gone through
resonate with how real and vulnerable and I mean authentic
you are. And that that one is at Dell
after divorce, right? Yeah.
Dell after divorce? Dell after divorce.
OK, make a note, you guys go follow her.
Her page is very, very, very inspiring.
But that's not the only redemption story there is.
I know on your vision board there was like, will I ever fall
in love again? Yeah.
So do you want to share that story about?
It of course that it's actually funny.
So Alex and I, so Alex is my my boyfriend.
We met through the previous opportunity where I was at and I
was, you know, killing it, but couldn't share my truth.
And we met, we fell in love. We built our foundational off of
friendship. Probably we we, he came into my
life four months after the divorce just as a friend.
But obviously feelings started developing.
I was definitely crushing. He was crushing.
And then we had a few company events where we met in person
and then the sparks just kept going.
But it's crazy because he did not know I was on the shot.
And he, it's really funny. He was always anti the shot.
Like he was posting stuff, you know, cuz when you're in a
position where you're marketing something holistic, that's an
alternative to the shot, your marketing position is always,
you know, this is so you're gonna get the same results, but
naturally. And right complete.
Bullshit, and we know that now. But.
Well, in his background he's in, it's in fitness.
Right. Like he's a bodies instructor
and yeah, he's very much more holistic, clean and like really
conscious about what he puts in his body where I'm not as much
like that. But yeah, he would post stuff
and like I was like, Oh my gosh, I could never tell him, but he's
so against it. So he would come to visit me
when I lived in Dallas and I would hide my shot in the closet
in a freaking lunch pail. And I every every like couple
hours I would go swap out the ice pack.
Like it was this whole thing. One time he extended his stay
coming back from trip and I what he wasn't supposed to stay at my
house. So I had my needles in the trash
can, all my syringes in the fridge.
And I was I had to order a pizza to the apartment right when we
got up to the door, send him down to go get the pizza so that
I could run in. And like, I mean, it was crazy.
And so then our relationship progressed so much to where we
were long distance for a while, But he's like, I want you to
move out here. He has two daughters from so he
was also divorced. He has two daughters.
I don't have kids yet, so it made sense.
Like I didn't really have, have anything holding me in Dallas
where he has, you know, daughters out here in
Sacramento. So yeah, I, I ended up being the
one to relocate and move in with him here.
And it's been amazing. So much better than long
distance. But I was like, what am I gonna
do? Move in and like have a storage
unit where I go have a fridge and go shoot up once a week in
there. And like, I can't fucking do
that. So I ended up telling him when I
reached the point too of like, I can't keep, keep this like a
secret anymore. And my finances were already
tanking at that last company. So I was like, OK, I'm gonna
tell him. So I did.
I would FaceTime and I was crying.
I was like so nervous. And then he I said it.
I was like, so I've been on the shot this whole time and that's
how I've lost my 98 lbs. And he was like, oh, I don't
care. I don't care about that.
And then I start crying even more because I'm like, Oh my
God, your reaction was so great. And I thought you were going to
break up with me and hate me and expose me.
We're all yeah, it was this whole thing because literally 2
days before I told him, he shared on his story this other
influencer who was came out about being on the shot and he
was like trash talking her. I'm like, so so your fears?
Were well found everybody in my life screenshot it to me and
said because my friends and family knew I was on it they
were like you better take this shit to the grave girl like no
way no way can you tell him and so then he was actually really
cool about it and then I told him about the opportunity to
partner with the telemedicine company and sell it.
And I was like, I have a friend here making $30,000 a month
selling these peptides. And he was like, like, well, I
mean, it would be a smooth transition for you going from
push and holistic to this. So I did.
And he was so supportive. And then he's like, well, maybe
I want to try a little bit of it.
And I was like, OK, well, you can microdose.
So yeah, he started microdosing, fell in love with it.
I mean, he looks amazing compared to like where he was.
He doesn't even realize it. But I look back on pictures and
videos of him, I'm like, whoa, you're inflammation.
You have a jawline now, like everything.
And so, yeah, he got out and then he started.
I mean, we're both now on 6 different peptides each and he's
full blown peptide like he calls himself Papa Peptide.
That's the whole thing. And we work the business now.
We do full time. He left that company to do this
with me, and we're building it into a huge, you know, empire
here of being peptide dealers essentially.
I love it. I love it.
I mean, just getting to do what you love doing and are clearly
very damn good at, with someone who understands you and loves
you for who you are and what you've been through, I think is
a beautiful transition to your story.
I won't say ending because it's probably only just begun, but
getting to get little glimpses of it as I got to, you know,
when we were at our LA weekend and then just looking at your
social media, you can see just how happy you are.
You're just happy. So happy.
Yeah, I had him on my vision board.
I had after the divorce. I made a vision board and 99% of
everything crossed off like. All right, wait.
What's the 1% I got to know? What's the 1% you haven't?
I had 100,000. I wanted to put in investments.
I haven't reached that yet because I have a spending
problem. I make a lot of money and I
spend a lot of money. So we're working on that
actively 0. My gosh, I actually, I had
Doctor Dean Jones on the podcast and we were talking about GOP
ones for addiction and how they're using it with alcoholism
and substance abuse. And there are even studies
showing that people who are addicted to like shopping shop
less when they're on a GLP one. I was like Doctor Jones, I
actually was waiting for the GLP one to kick in and stop my
shopping habit. That hasn't yet happened.
He's like, maybe you just like shopping.
I was like, oh fuck, I do. I do like.
Because when you get all sexy, you just want to wear sexy, like
fun stuff all the time. I'm like, I'm addicted to it
now, you know? Which you definitely rock.
So do tell me, what are some of your top places to shop now that
you have your revenge body? Well, honestly, boutiques, local
boutiques, because when I was plus size, I was limited to
Torrid. That was like that.
And and if you go to TJ Maxx, they got a little little tiny
rack for you plus size. But now it's like, Oh my gosh, I
can shop at Zara. I can shop at like all the cute
little boutiques I shop at out where I get all my sexy outfits
for like events and stuff is outcast clothing.
I don't know if you've heard of them.
But I have not. But you know, I'm gonna look
them up now. They're very revealing.
Some of it I'm like, is this a dress or lingerie?
You know, it's funny because I had a lot of hate.
My old upline actually was like, I don't talk to her at all
anymore, but she was one of the ones that was like, you just,
you know, you give up pick me energy.
What does that mean? Just like seeking attention
because I was showing up very, you know, I was rocking my new
body, my new titties, I was wearing sexy stuff and I was
like, you know what? Not one ounce of me showing up
like this has anything to do with anybody else.
But when you spend 32 years hating the way you look and
being insecurity, finally fall in love with yourself and you
feel sexy and confident, all you want to do is just bask in it.
I mean, my best friend, it was fine.
We were in the back of an Uber one time and I was watching my
story, my Instagram that had posted and she's like, you know
what? My favorite thing about you
losing the way it is? And I was like, what?
And she's like, you smile at yourself all the time when you
watch videos and pictures of yourself, like you're smiling.
And I'm like, Oh my God, you're right.
Like I do. I can't get enough.
And it's not a boastful thing. It's like, I love how I look
now. I I'm obsessed with myself for
the first time ever. I get it.
You know, I used to think the whole self love thing was so
like rah rah because I was so on the other side of it.
But now that I'm in it, I'm like, oh, I get it.
This is like every woman needs to experience this.
You're to a level where you feel content instead of striving
right? Like you're just kind of settled
finally. Yeah, I feel so good.
Yeah, just great. Yeah, yeah, I, I feel similarly
and I think a lot of my clients kind of say that to me in my
coaching practice. I have this like thing that I
say to my clients like they'll lose weight, they'll feel
better, they'll be sleeping through the night, their
hormones are balanced and they're like, but I just need
another 5 lbs. And so I always say to my
clients, bitches never happy, right?
Like we're just not like we all. There's always something more.
I think that's just the human condition.
Like we're just like created to strive and push.
And so it's very hard to sit in a position of content,
especially when you've achieved some of the things that you've
achieved, like you've hurdled some major mountains, right?
Did you just say you're 32? Now 33, but when I started
hitting the milestones, it was 30.
I had been 32, yeah. OK.
I mean, that's pretty impressive for a young in such as yourself.
So congratulations. Thank you.
But I do. I'm the same way.
I get very like, OK, now I want to get my my ribs contoured and
then he's like, can you stop? Like, I'm like, I want some lipo
here, you know, just I'm never satisfied, but that's good.
I feel like you should always be striving, you know?
Yeah, gotta be something to work, to feel.
Good, you know. Yeah.
And just to keep you motivated and keep you showing up in the
world. We live in a capitalist society.
So working your business and trying to build and grow, I
don't think it's unhealthy, but I do love that, like underlying
theme of contentment for you. And I think if you can be
content in your circumstances, then you can appreciate all of
the blessings all the more, you know?
Yeah. For sure.
OK, so I kind of want to talk about where can people find you?
I've, I've previewed some of your Instagram and there are
other places like a website and whatnot.
So will you share those for our listeners?
Yeah, so I do 99.9% of everything on Instagram.
So my Dell after divorce account is going to be more geared
towards, yes, I show my weight loss, but it's more speaking to
other women who have gone through heartbreak and lost
themselves in, you know, bad relationships.
But I do have my real shock girl shit account still on Instagram
where that's primarily all about the shot and peptides and my
transformation. But on my account, my Dell after
divorce, I wrote a book called Split Happens and it's just it's
everything. It's it's not like a self help
book by any means. It's a bad bitch Bible.
OK, like how to become that bitch.
And it's not just for divorced women.
It's great for any my publisher. She was like, I love my husband
to death. But like I've learned so much
through your book. Like this is so good.
Every woman needs to read it. So yeah, I have that LinkedIn,
my bio on my Dell after divorced account.
And that's really it. I mean, most of my stuff is just
I I share my journey. I mark my provider with my
telmis and company and that's it.
I love it. I love it.
I told you before we hopped on to the recording, but I spent
probably an hour binging your content after after a weekend
away and just walked away feeling empowered.
I really did. So I feel like that you've got a
gift there to share with women. Like, yes, I did this, yes, this
happened to me, but also this is what I learned and this is how
you can do something similar. And it's not out of reach for
you whether you have 10 lbs to lose, whether you have
inflammation you want to lose, or 98 lbs to lose.
Like at least now there are options for women who previously
felt like there were no options. And I think that that is
incredibly empowering. Yeah, well, thank you.
That's that's the goal. I just want everybody to know
it's never too late, you know, to reinvent yourself and start
over and not settle. And if there's anything you
don't like about yourself, you have the power to fix it.
You know, if you tried everything out there, please try
peptides because you know, you had mentioned earlier about like
it's good. You just don't but I was very
hesitant at 1st and I thought I was like Oh my God I grow like a
Unicorn horn out my head getting on these things.
But I was very uneducated is what I learned and I got
educated. I saw the results myself and my
blood work has never been better.
That's another thing, I was like pre diabetic before and now I'm
not so. Yeah, incredible, Incredible
what it does to your body inside now.
OK, so as we closeout, you mentioned right now, you and
Alex are both on 6 peptides. Bo and I are the same.
I talk about my peptide stack all the time, but run me through
really quickly what your peptide stack is right now.
OK, so just started TA-1. Can you say the word I don't
even? Know I miss an A1 for you guys
to go. I forget what I call it.
I just say TA1TA1 BPC 157TB500 The Wolverine stack and then I'm
on GHKCU. Oh my gosh the Holy Grail.
Like my skin glow up is insane. And honestly since adding in the
the BPC because I know that the BPC and GHK together is like the
glow stack, I have noticed my skin has gotten even better.
Adding that into glutathione which I love.
I I can't even describe it but it's just I feel so much better
on it. I'm peeing a lot more so I know
it's cleaning it out. But also if you are a drinker
like I, you know, I like to drink sometimes a few glasses of
wine here and there. I have no hangovers anymore on
that, so that's amazing. That is amazing and a great
trick. Yes yeah NAD obsessed with that
for my energy, so I'm on Tier 2 of that and then cheers appetite
the the wine. I will never, never go without,
not because I have to be on it forever, but because of all the
other, you know, health benefits with it.
So yeah. Good, good stuff, I think.
I think I was 6. Well, oh, he, he does Tessa IPA,
he does Tessa IPA and oh the skin.
I'm on our prescription skin care as well.
Me too, I like that stuff but my husband just ordered his too.
I was like can you please stop taking my prescription skin
care? It was formulated for me.
You need to buy your own. So finally, he did.
Well, that's the problem. He tries every single one of
mine. Yeah, he loves it.
And I'm like, great, I, I literally was like, we're both
on so many like this is crazy. Thank God we're making really
good money here because every time I try a new one I'm like
okay well this is budgeted in for life because how do I go
without this now? That's how I feel.
It is a slippery slope of peptides to be sure.
Girl, that was a fantastic discussion.
I really appreciate you being so open and I mean, sharing all
this information with women. So, Dell Dunham, thank you for
your time today. You know, I'm gonna hit you up,
come back on the show, maybe get Alex on here, too.
Get a couple a couple show on. He's all about the podcast
stuff, so that would be amazing. I love it.
All right. Any final thoughts for our women
out there? No, just do it, be open minded,
take the leap and you will thank yourself later.
I promise you that. But thank you for having me.
This is fun. It was very it just flowed.
Yeah. That we just like to honor a.
Little peptide conversation. I really appreciate you being a
pep talk. Yeah, pep talk.
Oh, my goodness. All right.
Thank you, Delaney. And thank you guys for listening
to the Peptides for Women podcast.
We will be back next week with another great episode, so stay
tuned.