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Before/After
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Body Type:
A
Smart Behavior:
Emotional Eater
Start Weight:
256
Current Weight:
202
Goal Weight:
175/190 and stay
Posts: 5058
Joined: 12/23/2003
Status:
offline
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LOST 110 LBS
Part 1
I have had such great success with the 6wbmo that I want to forward my journal here so I can include pictures of my progress so I will never forget where I came from. It is like a dream come true. February 23, 2004, I weighted approximately 288 lbs, according to which scales I was using at the time, could have been more. I have weighted over 300 lbs as shown by my profile pictures, On July 18, 2004, not quite 5 months, I made it to the unbelievable place we call Onederland (199 lbs). Which I haven't seen, honestly since 1966.
I look down at my legs and wonder who they belong to..............I look in the mirror and see me back in school, (I see past the few lines)........... I realize how much I have missed by being trapped in "that" fat shell for some 30 years. I had no joy in anything, everything was an effort. My family suffered too since I never wanted to go or do anything. I feel so much younger now, it's hard to realize how old I am, which I'm not saying................I can sit on the floor now and climb in the back seat of a 2-door car, which is unbelievable to everyone......................Now for the toning.............
Thank You so very much, from the bottom of my heart, Michael Thurman and staff, for being here and having a place to come to and talking about our goals and learn not to treat ourselves with food but use alternative means of reward and be more active, especially since I can move more now........If you look in my profile you can see some of the transformation. I do feel like a butterfly...........ready to spread my wings............
I also use the Smart Tapes to retrain my thinking process. That is where we can fail if we don't change the way we look at food.
I am living lean now. Next month will be my 1 year anniversary...
This is my first month, LL, and I'm pleased to say, I am so proud of myself, I have been out to eat every night this week while visiting my Dear Daughter (DD), helping her and her new hubby of 5 months move. I am so careful of what I choose; keeping the information I have learned over the past few month in mind and knowing what can happen if I eat fattening foods. So I choose salads with grilled meat, low cal. dressing on the side, and lots of lemon water, and I'm fine with it and it feels good knowing how much better my tummy will feel not eating the old way.....................I don't need it.......
Anyone reading this, hang in there, your dream is around the corner.........
hugs
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Part 2............
My Profile:
I have lost a total of 130 lbs, but at my goal of 175 I have gone from a size 26/28 to a 12/14, and lost 86.5 inches. AT 158 lbs I could wear a size 10. But have settled at around 175.
The health benefit are wonderful, I went from having no energy and having lots of pain, to walking a total of 6 to 8 miles a day. My diabeties is gone and I am now more conscience of my health; in that I "can" do something about it and the way I feel simply by controlling my diet and deleting processed foods that was adding to my chemical imbalance and effecting my moods with depression and anxiety. I have lots more confidence now and don't mind going out now, not just because I have more energy but because I know I look sooooooooo much better, I enjoy getting dressed now, before it was a sack dress, the looser the better...............NO MORE SACKS............
I feel I will be able to maintain my weight, having learned so much through this program on the how's and Why's the system works. I have been successful due to the support group in the chat forum that Provide Live Science has provided. The daily contact and committment has been a life savor since you where helping others as you were helping yourself. I found the more I talked about the program the more I sounded it down into myself. Anything you believe you can do..................But you Know, even if this was for a few years only, it would be so worth it for the time I have it. I will appreciate the new body I have achieved and know that as long as I choose the right foods for my body, I can keep it.........I also realize I would be turning in my new body for unhealthy foods and I would be trading in my new thin body for an unhealthy one and this would result in me being, once more, confined to the sofa and inactivity and headed for a wheelchair, which is where I was headed.........My whole family is so pleased with my progress, I become the center of attention every where we go, because they can't help bragging about me. I feel good about myself...............
Another plus for the program, in how I did it, the statement "Eat more, exercise less" is true in the sense that I have found that while learning to live lean, which has been only for a short time now, I have to make sure I eat something every couple of hours to keep from getting hungry, this is the KEY, not lettling yourself get hungry, this is what I HAVE to remember, if you get hungry you will make bad choices...............and start justifying. So I carry foods that are on plan with me at all time, and this is what I have to remember to do for me to continue to be successful................Healthy foods is medicine for your soul/well being.............................The exercise part is knowing you don't have to kill yourself at the gym for hours and hours, we have been giving the moves we need for a healthy body and what works for our problem areas so we can concentrate on those and not do ones we don't need.................I love this plan, we are being taught how to make our body work more efficient, and over the years we succum to the TV ads on fat producing foods which sets up craving, and when you know.......what this will do to you, you can make the choice not to harm your body by partaking in these drugs/addictions.
These are the things I will keep going over in my mind to keep this my main objective. I will enjoy my new body to the fullest.
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