I walked by the store window and glanced at the reflection staring back at me. The person I saw was overweight wearing tight clothes. “Is that really me”, I asked myself. When did that happen? Where was the slender attractive woman I used to be?
I was always slender growing up, never had a weight problem. My friends and I would look at fat people and say “why don’t they do something? If I was overweight, why, I would just go on a diet”. Yeah my friends agreed. Then we would continue to pig out on our French fries and mac n cheese at 1 am in the morning. Overweight? Gee wonder what causes that. I knew that I would never have that problem. I had a modeling agency that wanted me to model for them. People would approach me and ask me if I was a model. Well after all, I was 5’10 and everyone knows that tall people don’t have weight problems.
I gained 81lbs with my first baby and lost 56lbs the first week. A month later I only needed to lose 10lbs and it came off in no time. A few years later I was pregnant again. This time it was a troubled pregnancy and in the last trimester I was in and out of the hospital a few times. Finally in the eighth month I delivered a beautiful baby boy. He died in the delivery room. Again I had gained around 80lbs but only lost 10lbs. I didn’t care about losing the weight and I didn’t. Nine months later I was pregnant again. This time we had a healthy baby girl. I weighed about 260lbs afterward. I went on many diets to lose the weight. I’d lose and then gain it back again. I was discouraged because the weight came off so slowly and I didn’t like the diet plans that I was on. After a while I got used to the weight and convinced myself that I really didn’t look that bad. In my mind I was still that slender attractive woman.
One day at church I ran into a friend that I had not seen in about 7 weeks. I could not believe my eyes. She looked so good. I asked her what miracle plan she was on and she said, “It’s Michael Thurmond’s Six Week Body Makeover”. What the heck was that? I had never heard of it. I asked her how much weight she had lost and how long it took her to lose it. She told me she had lost 25lbs in 6 weeks. I was amazed. I had to believe it because there she was right in front of me. I went home that afternoon, called the number and ordered the kit. I could not wait to get it. A week later, the kit arrived and I soon found out that I was a B body type. I read over the material and it just made so much sense to me. So that’s why I haven’t been able to lose weight. I decided then and there that I would commit to 6 weeks and just see what happened. Six weeks later I was down 30lbs!!! Wow! No pills, no magic wand and if you can believe this, no exercise! That’s right, I didn’t work out not one time. It was so easy I couldn’t believe it. So I continued the plan started exercising and toning and in about 5 months I had lost 65lbs. It was incredible.
I was so proud of losing the 65lbs. I was like a celebrity at church, work and school. Everyone was talking about it. I decided to maintain that weight with the Living Lean plan. I also started walking and toning. Our bodies look better when they are firm. I fell into a routine easily and actually enjoyed it.
About six months later I gradually started to fall back into my old eating habits. I had forgotten all too easily what had made me gain weight to begin with. I was back to eating pasta in front of the television at 10pm and bowls of ice cream and cookies. I started to gain back some of the weight. Slowly at first but then a few unhappy events happened in my life. I became the emotional eater. I didn’t care what I ate. I could tell my clothes were getting tighter, but somehow I just couldn’t stop eating. “I’m still slender looking” I thought. Nobody will notice. In about four months I had gained 25lbs. I had some pictures developed and was in shock when I saw myself. Pictures don’t lie you know, they tell the truth. Again I asked myself “when did that happen”? Well you know the old saying that if you return to old habits you get the old results. That’s exactly what had happened. So after an abrupt snap back to reality I returned to what I knew was sure and would work. Today I’ve lost a total of 78lbs on Michael Thurmond’s plan. I’ve formed new eating habits so I don’t consider it a diet, but a normal way of eating.
I walked by the store window and glanced at the reflection staring back at me. I stopped, surprised, because this time it was a slender, attractive woman, happy and stylishly dressed. Never, ever give up on taking care of yourself. Just remember, you are in control, and this plan is the answer that you have been looking for. Get started on one of your life’s greatest accomplishments. I did it and so can you!
A special thanks goes out to Dolores who has been an endless source of information and a constant cheerleader!