Hello Everyone, I guess I'm not too good at this introduction stuff - so I thought I would try it again. I'm 45 and 5'5 and weigh a whopping 200 and something (I don't even want to know what comes after the two zeros). I tried the LAWL diet last year and actually did loose 30lbs. with ease, I probably would still be on the plan if I hadn't gotten so wrapped up in the new Krispy Kream shop that I stopped doing what was actually working for me. Let me start from the begining . . . All my life I have been a skinny toothpick of a girl. I was very active when I was younger with dance classes 3 times a week, acrobatics, drill team, school tumbling team along with walking all over the town as a teenager (no wheels). At the time I didn't even put together the fact that all that excercising had so much to do with my trim physical appearance. Unbelievably when I was younger I hated being so thin, well little did I know when I got in my mid-thirties I wouldn't have to worry about that any longer. I wasn't as active as I had been throughout the years and it never crossed my mind that I couldn't eat anything I wanted and still not gain a pound! But once while my husband and I were at a October Festival we stopped at a booth where the man guessed your weight and you win a little prize (at the time I had a corndog in one hand, a lemon slush and pepers and sausage in the other hand). The man took one look at me and said; "Here you take the doll, I don't like to insult anyone!" UGH, I was beyond devistated! I couldn't believe that I was that fat, I didn't feel on the inside as if anything had changed. When we got home I took a good long realistic look at myself in the mirror and actually saw myself. I could see that I had gain some weight, but that guy at the Festival really put my figure into a new perspective for me. What a wake up call! I went on every diet I could get my hands on and then I walked all over the city until I had lost some weight and felt I was somewhat attractive again. But in a few years I was even worse than before and as bad as it was in my thirties it wasn't half as alarming as when I turned forty! Fat seemed to be in places I didn't even know I had and since my husband of 15 years didn't care if I'm fat or skinny (some men really know how to suck up) I didn't really care either after a while. Until the day I caught a glimpse of myself in a store window and for a few seconds I didn't recognize that person and then it hit me like two tons of bricks . . . IT WAS ME!!! I couldn't believe that I was so heavy, I didn't feel like I looked like a circle with eyes, but there I was big as all outdoors. After a few more years of fad diet after fad diet and along the way learning that I have High Blood Pressure while working at a radio station I volunteered to be the spokes person for the LA Weight Loss Program in exchange for the plan free. It was great at first, but since I wasn't paying for anything I didn't really notice that the prices for their plan and the extras were so outrageous! Until, I started to backslide and had to purchase the juice for a whopping $29 and that's when I started listening to how much the bars were to purchase and how their only true focus was to sell, sell, and sell as many of the extra items as they could. I was mortified to be associated with this program and decided to back out. Even though the plan actually did work for me - when I followed it. I discovered that I didn't like endorsing a plan that had so many hidden cost attatched. And I think the saddest part is that the program is WONDERFUL and if the LAWL organization put more emphasis on their clients instead of pushing their bars and the host of other essentials to people that are vulnerable and desperate they would have not only more clients, but a more positive reputation. All they have to do is look at the Ci Ci's Pizza chains - they work on volume, meaning that they are'nt concerned that their pizza is cheaper than other pizza franchises, because they make up their profits through how many people come in, not on high prices . . . Volume! The LAWL program could really benefit from this advice. Anyway, here I am starting all over again and I was so glad when I stumbled onto this Fabulous website . . . thanks threefatchicks for giving people like me a place to discover, vent, learn and to at least have a chance at fighting the battle of the bulge with friends and well wishers. Okay, I'm going to put this out now and hopefully someone will email me and start a wonderful journey with someone who is open and caring and ready to put the fat in the fire once and for all!
