Back in the olden days when I was in elementary school ( mid 60's, to 1970) we were required to wear dresses. It wasn't until my last semester in 6th grade that girls were allowed to start wearing pants. I remember always being uncomfortable in a dress because I was a chubby kid with chubby thighs and sitting with my knees together was down right painful at times. All my thin friends had no problem with this of course and even had the ability to sit ladylike with their legs crossed at the knee, something I only aspired to be able to do. This actually became a lifelong measurement of my femininity, sitting comfortably and relaxed with my legs crossed. I do remember one teacher in particular who would make embarrassing comments whenever she was able to see up my skirt while sitting.
It's funny how even today, at the age of 56, I still am aware of how sitting with my legs crossed is important to me. For several decades the thighs would not cooperate and I was right back to elementary school, trying to sit without sprawling. Now, I can casually cross my legs with no resistance and feel perfectly ladylike and feminine. It's the little rewards sometimes that mean the most when you lose a lot of weight.
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Showing posts with label 100 pounds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 100 pounds. Show all posts
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Success Story!
Hey guys! I just had to share with you all. I have a customer that I have been working with off and on for the past few years. Like many of us, she'd had a hard time committing to her health and weight loss. Being a single mom of 4, she had a hard time making herself a priority, but after a doctor's appointment last year where she learned that she was diabetic, she had a fire lit under her and she jumped in with both feet, fully committed to getting the weight off and getting her health under control. When she called me last Feb, there were lots of tears (on both our parts!) and she was scared and doubtful, but we got her going again and I am pleased to say, today she reached her goal! She lost a total of 138 pounds and is no longer on any meds for diabetes! She has turned in to a total gym rat and told me that for the first time in her life, she feels excited about what's to come. We talked about dating (she's not ready) and about my skin removal surgery (she has an consult appointment for a tummy tuck and breast lift next week, they call it a "Mommy Makeover" ) and she sounds so happy!
She would be the first to say that this took more emotional momentum then her diabetes Dx alone could maintain. It was her kick-start, but if she hadn't invested time and energy and effort in to creating a new lifestyle along the way, she never would have reached her goal. She had always been one of those who was desperately trying to lose weight for an event. Weddings, reunions, vacations, every time she contacted me it was for an upcoming social gathering that she didn't want to be the "fattest girl in the room" for. This time, she said it was different. Her focus was off of what other people would judge her for, and 100% on giving herself and her kids a better, healthier life. Now, instead of them all sitting in front of the TV and eating, they go out and do stuff!
I asked her if she would come and post her story here on the board, but she isn't one to share on social media. She did give me permission to tell her story for her.
I know some of you have a similar story. Some of you start with the best of intentions, only to lose your momentum and quit until the next attempt. She wanted me to tell people that she now realizes the sacrifice Cambridge requires of us, to forgo regular food for a while, is a tiny price to pay in hindsight. Going in, she felt completely doubtful that she would be able to stick with it after all her failed attempts, but now..looking back, she realized that like Dorothy in "The Wizard Of Oz" she had the answer all the time right in her own back yard...or, more accurately, within herself. Once she took the focus off of outward influences, and instead focused on her own desires for her life, things fell in to place and she got out of her own way.
I hope her story inspires you to stop and examine your internal dialog, your motivation, your willingness to embrace a new lifestyle, and your belief in your ability to change. Never underestimate your ability to change.
She would be the first to say that this took more emotional momentum then her diabetes Dx alone could maintain. It was her kick-start, but if she hadn't invested time and energy and effort in to creating a new lifestyle along the way, she never would have reached her goal. She had always been one of those who was desperately trying to lose weight for an event. Weddings, reunions, vacations, every time she contacted me it was for an upcoming social gathering that she didn't want to be the "fattest girl in the room" for. This time, she said it was different. Her focus was off of what other people would judge her for, and 100% on giving herself and her kids a better, healthier life. Now, instead of them all sitting in front of the TV and eating, they go out and do stuff!
I asked her if she would come and post her story here on the board, but she isn't one to share on social media. She did give me permission to tell her story for her.
I know some of you have a similar story. Some of you start with the best of intentions, only to lose your momentum and quit until the next attempt. She wanted me to tell people that she now realizes the sacrifice Cambridge requires of us, to forgo regular food for a while, is a tiny price to pay in hindsight. Going in, she felt completely doubtful that she would be able to stick with it after all her failed attempts, but now..looking back, she realized that like Dorothy in "The Wizard Of Oz" she had the answer all the time right in her own back yard...or, more accurately, within herself. Once she took the focus off of outward influences, and instead focused on her own desires for her life, things fell in to place and she got out of her own way.
I hope her story inspires you to stop and examine your internal dialog, your motivation, your willingness to embrace a new lifestyle, and your belief in your ability to change. Never underestimate your ability to change.
Sunday, October 12, 2014
How To Lose 100 Pounds Fast
Originally Posted by Pam Turner on 03/18/12:
When I research the keywords that draw people to my site, this is the one most often used, "How to lose 100 pounds fast". There are two things to note here, one that being 100+ pounds overweight has become common all over the world and two.. that no one wants to endure the complicated process of trying to lose on a conventional food diet. Most diets can give you 1/2 to 2 pounds at most per week. If you are looking at 100 or more to lose you are also looking at a year or more to do it on a diet like Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig . The slow rate of loss coupled with the amount of planning and preparing they require can be discouraging and ultimately the reason to quit. I speak from experience.
I started going to WW when I was 9 years old. I went all through my growing up years and in to adulthood. I would lose some weight, but never get to goal because it took so long, the meetings cost money and I hated the weigh-ins. Like most I employed some dieters tricks to see some loss on the scale. I would cheat throughout the week and then on weigh in day I wouldn't eat anything accept asparagus. Asparagus is a natural diuretic and could usually be good for a half pound or more on the scale of temporary loss. As soon as that meeting let out you would see all the people go across the street to a restaurant to go get ice cream ! In spite of their best efforts to teach everyone how to lose and keep it off, it was all a game for most of us. Get away with what you could and then starve for weigh in day. No lessons learned there. I am often told by prospective clients that the new WW doesn't work for them. Back in the day when they were very specific on what you ate it did work, but now there is too much freedom and it's too easy to make a mistake or cheat.
After a lifetime of dieting and gaining and dieting and gaining I have finally jumped off that track and have spent the past 11 years enjoying my freedom from obesity and food obsession. Had it not been for Cambridge I would still be in that trap...if I were still alive that is. It is likely I would be in a wheelchair by now from all the arthritis and the diabetes and heart disease I had suffered from for most of my late 20's, 30's and entering in to my 40's. I was almost there at the age of 42. Had I not lost the weight and regained my health I shudder to think what I would have gone through by now.
Everything that had plagued me for most of my life could be tracked back to lifestyle choices. That is the case for the majority of you reading this. If you caused it, you can correct it. If you make a mistake writing a letter, do you just say "Oh well, I had nothing to do with that so I guess there is nothing I can do to fix it"? Of course not! You delete or erase and correct it. The choices you have made in your life that have brought you to the point you are at right now are all within your power to change. Your body is designed to forgive the mistakes you make. If you cut your finger, does it not heal? If you break a bone or get a bruise or a sprain... pretty much anything you do to it... your body will make every effort to fix, repair, rebuild and restore to health and balance. In spite of its current challenges in dealing with your weight and the health problems that come with it, you haven't died. Keeping in mind that it is your body itself that has fought to stay alive and functioning, can you imagine what it can do if you begin supporting it in it's efforts? Wow!
Cambridge is not a magic snake oil in a can. It is not a cure for obesity. It has no power to prevent you from going back to your old habits as soon as you lose the weight, only you have that power. What it is, is a method for you to lose your weight at the fastest rate possible. What you will lose is fat and not muscle or bone or other lean tissues. This was documented in the 11 years of research that was done on the product. Typically when people lose weight rapidly through calorie deprivation on a crash type diet they are losing a good amount of things they don't want to lose. Surgical weight loss is a good example of this. These people lose their weight through malnutrition and malabsorption. A good amount of those pounds will be muscle and bone and there is the potential for organ damage etc. On Cambridge you are feeding your body better then you likely are now, but the low calories (keeping in mind that a cal is not a nutrient, but a way to measure how much energy is produced from the food) allow you to burn fat like crazy! It gives your body the chance to do what it does best...heal.
There are lots of ways to lose 100 pounds fast, but only one that I know of that is safe...Cambridge! I lost 94 pounds in 4.5 months and went on to lose a total of 120 11 years ago. I had no reason to think I was capable of accomplishing that in the beginning, but it didn't take long for me to realize that Cambridge was the tool and I had what it took to use it to build my new life. You do too.
When I research the keywords that draw people to my site, this is the one most often used, "How to lose 100 pounds fast". There are two things to note here, one that being 100+ pounds overweight has become common all over the world and two.. that no one wants to endure the complicated process of trying to lose on a conventional food diet. Most diets can give you 1/2 to 2 pounds at most per week. If you are looking at 100 or more to lose you are also looking at a year or more to do it on a diet like Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig . The slow rate of loss coupled with the amount of planning and preparing they require can be discouraging and ultimately the reason to quit. I speak from experience.
I started going to WW when I was 9 years old. I went all through my growing up years and in to adulthood. I would lose some weight, but never get to goal because it took so long, the meetings cost money and I hated the weigh-ins. Like most I employed some dieters tricks to see some loss on the scale. I would cheat throughout the week and then on weigh in day I wouldn't eat anything accept asparagus. Asparagus is a natural diuretic and could usually be good for a half pound or more on the scale of temporary loss. As soon as that meeting let out you would see all the people go across the street to a restaurant to go get ice cream ! In spite of their best efforts to teach everyone how to lose and keep it off, it was all a game for most of us. Get away with what you could and then starve for weigh in day. No lessons learned there. I am often told by prospective clients that the new WW doesn't work for them. Back in the day when they were very specific on what you ate it did work, but now there is too much freedom and it's too easy to make a mistake or cheat.
After a lifetime of dieting and gaining and dieting and gaining I have finally jumped off that track and have spent the past 11 years enjoying my freedom from obesity and food obsession. Had it not been for Cambridge I would still be in that trap...if I were still alive that is. It is likely I would be in a wheelchair by now from all the arthritis and the diabetes and heart disease I had suffered from for most of my late 20's, 30's and entering in to my 40's. I was almost there at the age of 42. Had I not lost the weight and regained my health I shudder to think what I would have gone through by now.
Everything that had plagued me for most of my life could be tracked back to lifestyle choices. That is the case for the majority of you reading this. If you caused it, you can correct it. If you make a mistake writing a letter, do you just say "Oh well, I had nothing to do with that so I guess there is nothing I can do to fix it"? Of course not! You delete or erase and correct it. The choices you have made in your life that have brought you to the point you are at right now are all within your power to change. Your body is designed to forgive the mistakes you make. If you cut your finger, does it not heal? If you break a bone or get a bruise or a sprain... pretty much anything you do to it... your body will make every effort to fix, repair, rebuild and restore to health and balance. In spite of its current challenges in dealing with your weight and the health problems that come with it, you haven't died. Keeping in mind that it is your body itself that has fought to stay alive and functioning, can you imagine what it can do if you begin supporting it in it's efforts? Wow!
Cambridge is not a magic snake oil in a can. It is not a cure for obesity. It has no power to prevent you from going back to your old habits as soon as you lose the weight, only you have that power. What it is, is a method for you to lose your weight at the fastest rate possible. What you will lose is fat and not muscle or bone or other lean tissues. This was documented in the 11 years of research that was done on the product. Typically when people lose weight rapidly through calorie deprivation on a crash type diet they are losing a good amount of things they don't want to lose. Surgical weight loss is a good example of this. These people lose their weight through malnutrition and malabsorption. A good amount of those pounds will be muscle and bone and there is the potential for organ damage etc. On Cambridge you are feeding your body better then you likely are now, but the low calories (keeping in mind that a cal is not a nutrient, but a way to measure how much energy is produced from the food) allow you to burn fat like crazy! It gives your body the chance to do what it does best...heal.
There are lots of ways to lose 100 pounds fast, but only one that I know of that is safe...Cambridge! I lost 94 pounds in 4.5 months and went on to lose a total of 120 11 years ago. I had no reason to think I was capable of accomplishing that in the beginning, but it didn't take long for me to realize that Cambridge was the tool and I had what it took to use it to build my new life. You do too.
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