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triple D's success
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Dana (TripleD) - THM Success Story
Before: 170+ lbs. (April, 2000)
After: 126 lbs. (January, 2001)
Nothing hurts worse than when you are trying to hide being fat and someone notices. I was the queen of long tailed, over sized shirts, and leggings--all that fit me at the time. My 3 year old was the only one brave enough to be brutally honest...she said "mommy your tummy is as big as daddy's..."
She was right...I looked 5 months pregnant and my youngest was 1 1/2 already. I never noticed just how much I had let my body stray from health until she uttered those words. The next day, April 6, 2000 I went on Total Health Makeover and was reborn. I had bought the book 4 months earlier but had not really seen myself as being fat. I was "just a little chunky," I kept telling myself. But after my daughter's statement, it made me realize just how fat I had become. My whole diet was fast food, dairy, meat, and sugar. You can see that in my "before" picture. I was addicted to dairy and my face in that picture tells the story.
I wanted to change, I had to change...and I did. I went cold turkey on everything...I gave up meat, sugar, dairy, caffeine. It was hard, but I was determined. I think the hardest thing for me was that the scale did not seem to move very fast and that was discouraging. So instead of weighing, I took measurements of my arms, legs, thighs, butt, breast, tummy and kept a journal of that progress. The measurements were moving faster than the scale. It is very nice to see the inches start to melt away. Even though the scale had not moved much, the measurements were changing and that was the progress I needed to "see" to keep me motivated.
Now I have lost 45 pounds since April 6, 2000. I went from 170+ to 126 pounds. I have lost 5 inches off my legs, 5 inches off my butt, 4 inches off my waist, 2 inches off my arms, and 4 inches off my breasts. I went from a size 14 to a size 6. Though many times along the way I was discouraged...(when I hit plateaus), I always found support from Marilu's online classes, books, and message boards. I am thankful everyday that I started this program: it changed my life. I feel better now than I did in my entire 20's, and I know now that I WILL be healthy the rest of my life.
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