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I have to agree that eating healthy is a major key. However, some of us eat the bad food for comfort, for stress reduction, or just because it is there and the will power is not.
I am 31 years old. I have three kids. This time last year I weighed over 70lbs over what my frame is supposed to be. I had gestational diabetes with my two youngest children and my mother has type 2 diabetes. My whole life, I heard the same thing from her that I was saying to myself - "I know I shouldn't eat this, but..." and I would make up an excuse. I had tried every diet under the sun and nothing worked at helping my will power to avoid the sugary, fattening, pre-made crap that the stores shove down your throat as you walk into the doors. I tried Metabolife, when it first came out - lost a lot of weight, then found out the health problems associated with it and stopped taking it. I ballooned right back up. It isn't that I didn't know how and what to eat to be healthy. It was that I didn't have the will power to say no anymore to the junk. I tried the South Beach Diet, the Adkins Diet, the starve-yourself-because-you-have-lost-all-hope diet - nothing helped control those cravings that knock you out because "IT WANTS CHOCOLATE NOW!"
That was until about three months ago. I started that Apple Patch Diet. I don't get the jitters. I don't stay up until wee hours of the morning waiting for the energy to leave so I can sleep. I don't eat fifteen cookies at once anymore. And I have lost 26 lbs. I know it isn't WOW, what a large amount in so short of time! But that is because you don't want to lose the weight quickly. It is more likely to come back. But with being able to finally have away to control the cravings instead of them controlling me, is WONDERFUL!
I also have more energy to do things with my kids. I am down from a size 22 W to a size 18. My goal by next summer is to be in a size 12 comfortably and a size 10 tightly. We'll see how it goes. But for now, I have learned how to change my eatting habits, with a little help. Because sometimes people just DON'T have a strong enough will power to do it on their own. Comfort eating can be just as addictive as cigarette smoking. I know this cause I am an ex smoker too.
One last note, as not to ramble on. Exercise is also an important key. Cause if you start at 220 and drop to 150 - where do you think that extra skin is going to go? I use a daily workout of cleaning floors and changing diapers mixed with 20 minutes on an exercise ball, a thirty minute walk after dinner and sometimes a couple of laps in a pool - if the accessability is there. It's not a lot, but it sure is helping tone some flabby areas that I have wanted gone for years.

Oh if anyone would like information on the Apple Patch Diet - You can email me directly and I can give you the sight that I order off of.

08-23-2007, 12:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
mallison76 DD Beginner Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1	Healthy Eating is a major key I have to agree that eating healthy is a major key. However, some of us eat the bad food for comfort, for stress reduction, or just because it is there and the will power is not. I am 31 years old. I have three kids. This time last year I weighed over 70lbs over what my frame is supposed to be. I had gestational diabetes with my two youngest children and my mother has type 2 diabetes. My whole life, I heard the same thing from her that I was saying to myself - "I know I shouldn't eat this, but..." and I would make up an excuse. I had tried every diet under the sun and nothing worked at helping my will power to avoid the sugary, fattening, pre-made crap that the stores shove down your throat as you walk into the doors. I tried Metabolife, when it first came out - lost a lot of weight, then found out the health problems associated with it and stopped taking it. I ballooned right back up. It isn't that I didn't know how and what to eat to be healthy. It was that I didn't have the will power to say no anymore to the junk. I tried the South Beach Diet, the Adkins Diet, the starve-yourself-because-you-have-lost-all-hope diet - nothing helped control those cravings that knock you out because "IT WANTS CHOCOLATE NOW!" That was until about three months ago. I started that Apple Patch Diet. I don't get the jitters. I don't stay up until wee hours of the morning waiting for the energy to leave so I can sleep. I don't eat fifteen cookies at once anymore. And I have lost 26 lbs. I know it isn't WOW, what a large amount in so short of time! But that is because you don't want to lose the weight quickly. It is more likely to come back. But with being able to finally have away to control the cravings instead of them controlling me, is WONDERFUL! I also have more energy to do things with my kids. I am down from a size 22 W to a size 18. My goal by next summer is to be in a size 12 comfortably and a size 10 tightly. We'll see how it goes. But for now, I have learned how to change my eatting habits, with a little help. Because sometimes people just DON'T have a strong enough will power to do it on their own. Comfort eating can be just as addictive as cigarette smoking. I know this cause I am an ex smoker too. One last note, as not to ramble on. Exercise is also an important key. Cause if you start at 220 and drop to 150 - where do you think that extra skin is going to go? I use a daily workout of cleaning floors and changing diapers mixed with 20 minutes on an exercise ball, a thirty minute walk after dinner and sometimes a couple of laps in a pool - if the accessability is there. It's not a lot, but it sure is helping tone some flabby areas that I have wanted gone for years. Oh if anyone would like information on the Apple Patch Diet - You can email me directly and I can give you the sight that I order off of.