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Posted June 15, 2005
I am not yet at my goal (my initial goal at least), but I have to tell you, I feel great. Especially over the past 3 weeks. In total, I have lost 65 pounds of my 79 pound goal. I have been on this program since January and absolutely love it. I have gone from a size 20/22 pant to a size 10 and an XXL to a S/M. I bought my first size 10 pair of shorts this past weekend. This was just 2 weeks after I bought some size 12 pants because I couldn't keep the size 14's and 16's that I had from falling around my ankles any longer.
I LOVE THIS PROGRAM!!!! I have told dozens of people about it because I have been asked. I work in a pretty high profile position for a large company. I travel frequently, and eat every meal on plan. Sometimes, due to my work schedule...especially when travelling, I can't get in any cardio. When there are only 6 hours of the day you aren't working...I tend to use them for some sleep time. I have been losing an average of over 3 pounds per week, and I haven't gotten sick of the food or this program once.
I find the ways to continue to eat on plan and on schedule. This includes when I am in front of a customer, out of town, for several days in a row. If you really want this, you can do it!!!
Some new discoveries...novel concepts... I hadn't travelled in the past 2 months until a couple of weeks ago. I had no idea that airline seats were actually built to accomodate a whole person!!! They can! I am living proof. When I do my laundry, I still pull items out (especially my new shorts) and wonder who in the household they belong to.
I don't apologize for needing to eat MY food. I don't even respond to the comments that my food must have no flavor...I am a great cook, and love everything that I prepare. I don't apologize for my frequent bathroom breaks, or my enormous bottles of water. I am being good to my body...and that's all that matters.
I hope that those who are reading the success stories realize that this is very acheivable. I never, ever, ever thought I would get this far. I wasn't even looking to lose the weight when I began. I happened to have the TV on one morning for background noise while I was reading my e-mail at 6am. The back of my brain was listening and what it was hearing was an infomercial...and that infomercial was making a ton of sense. This was a couple of weeks before Christmas. The more I heard, the more sense it made and the less attention I paid to my e-mail. When I heard about the money back guarantee...I decided to do it. I was going to spoil myself with a remote car starter as a Christmas present to myself. I figured that I would try this instead. At that point, since I wasn't really planning to embark on this type of weight loss journey, I thought I had little chance of success. So, the worst that would happen, is after the 6 weeks, I could return the program, and still go buy myself the car starter instead.
Guess what...I didn't return it...It worked and worked and worked. I am almost to the goal I set at the beginning (and I can't believe it). The way I set my goal was to look at the "normal" weight range for someone my height, and pick the very top number. Well, I know now that I will be setting myself a new goal once this one is attained. It is TOO EASY to do, to not get my body where I would like it to be.
I hope every single person who reads this post or tries this program enjoys the same success that I do. Best of luck...and thanks so much Michael!
Posted August 1, 2005
...now it is time for a new goal. I weighed in a day early this week - on Sunday because we were heading to the Poconos Blues Festival, and I knew that I would not be able to weigh in this morning. I weigh 149 pounds!!!!! What a great feeling it was yesterday morning, to step on that scale and see 149. I headed out to the car, and had tears in my eyes...my boyfriend looked at me and asked me what was wrong. I told him that I had done it! I achieved that goal that seemed so unattainable a short 7 months ago. My weight is down 79 pounds from 228 at the start. Last week, I lost 1.5 inches off my waist!!! I was feeling "skinny" so I measured...I lost that off my waist in 3 days!
Well, I have attained the goal that I set, that I never thought in a million years I would reach. When I started, I thought to myself...If I can do this for a day, I can do it for a week. If I can do it for a week, I can do it for six. If I can do it for six, then I can do it for as long as it takes. Well, in 30 weeks, I have lost 79 pounds and 100 inches!
And now, it is time for a new goal [:D]
This is too easy to not keep going and get my body into the shape it should be. I thought when I started that it would be amazing to fit into a 10 or even an 8, but figured I had little to no chance of that happening. Well, I am in a size 6, and but still have some fat to lose from years and years of bad eating and no exercise. I am setting a new goal...another 21 pounds to bring it to an even 100 pounds at the end of this loss journey. My boyfriend said that he didn't want me looking anorexic. What a hoot! Anorexic, that's something I have never been accused of, imagine that!
I set my goal, acheived it and am continuing on...to my perfect body because it is too easy not to just do it. Every single person out there, who is reading this post....YOU CAN DO IT TOO!!!!! I wish everyone the success that I have had (and then some) and I have to thank Michael and all the supportive people on these boards...especially the BMOS's.
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