Introduction
Congratulations on being open to an exciting, new chapter in your life.
Before we get started I wanted to encourage you with my experience ...
When I was in my teens, I never worried about my weight - I could eat
"whatever" without a second thought. However, that changed - and
without me even noticing.
In my early twenties, I lived on my own for a few years. I didn't own any
furniture, let alone a bathroom scale. Before I knew it, I was just a few
pounds from being considered obese. [For men, that's an extra 25 of
body fat.]
That started a weight loss and gain cycle that lasted for the next 30 years.
I probably lost- and gained back over 300 pounds. I suppose that's the
reason I never became extremely heavy- I kept trying to lose weight over
and over. For some reason, carrying extra fat always bothered me- a lot
more than some people I suppose.
It wasn't so much as how I looked, as much as how it made me feel.
Some people don't seem to have a problem with being overweight, but for
me, it was a self esteem issue. I felt like other people saw me as lazy or
undisciplined [and it made me feel that way a lot of the time too].
So I'd try to lose weight. Sometimes I would give up in a few days. Other
times I would succeed for three or four months. But without exception,
the weight ALWAYS came back on.
That is, until I got a wake up call at age 49, and I became determined to
do more than lose weight. I made up my mind I was also going to do
something more with my life.
For reasons I can't totally explain, it's become my mission to spread that
word that anyone can have the body and life they always wanted- without
giving the money sucking diet and weight loss industry another dime.
[There's just something about people that exploit the emotions of the
naive and vulnerable for profit that REALLY bothers me. And when I see
bogus web sites or fake diet blog authors telling women nothing worked until they "discovered" Acai or Hoodia, it makes me all the more
determined to get the truth out.]
Sure, I could tell you that all you have to do is pop a magic pill from
Africa- and all your excess weight [and weight related health problems]
would disappear.