Miss USA contestant reveals how she lost 170 lbs. after humiliating theme park experience

Tonight, Miss Michigan Amber Uhler will stand on stage in Miami, Florida, waiting to hear if her name is called as the winner of the Miss USA pageant.It’s quite a different look than five years ago, when she weighed 300 pounds and a doctor warned her that she was on her way “to an early grave.”Following those words of caution — and a humiliating experience at a trampoline park — Uhler, 41, decided to lose the weight for good.And she’s certainly flaunting her success.“I know, I’m crazy,” she told People.

“I signed up to be in a bikini on television after losing 170 pounds.” Five years ago, Uhler was morbidly obese and prediabetic when she got a double wakeup call.First, her doctor told her that due to her health, she likely wouldn’t live to see her kids graduate college.Days later, at a trampoline park with her kids, she found herself stuck in a foam pit.“It didn’t cross my mind that I might not be able to get out.

I didn’t realize how much my weight was limiting me until I was waist-deep in that pit, completely stuck,” she told Canvas Rebel.“I tried everything to pull myself out — pushing, grabbing, crawling — but my body simply wouldn’t cooperate.”“Three big, beefy muscle men formed a human chain to try to pull me out, and even they couldn’t do it, and they thought they were going to have to call the fire department,” she added to People.

“I’ve never been so humiliated in my life.”Uhler, like many women, struggled with a body changed by childbirth.She’d had three kids in four years and found she was living a “half-life,” unable to even climb the stairs in her home.That doctor’s visit “saved her life” she told FOX 13.

She knew she needed to make a huge change.“I knew I wanted to lose a crazy amount of weight, and I knew I needed to have a crazy goal to go along with it,” she said.That crazy goal was to compete in a beauty pageant, which she committed to.“I knew I was going to have to be de...