Carol I used to think that those stories were all egaggerated too until I look back at my own.
most of the people on this board have been with me pretty much from the start of my diet and know it hass taken me 2 years 2 months 2 weeks 5 days to lose 14 stone 6lbs...in the first month I lost 36lbs. It gradually did slow down and you all know that it took me over 3 months to lose that last sticky 7lbs.
I think there are 2 reasons for that.
1. the more weight you have to lose, and the more you used to eat before you started the diet, the faster it comes off at the beginning.
2. all of us are different...we all lose and gain weight at different speeds.
Now I don't think those stories are egaggerated, but I do think that maybe the magazines are selective with who's stories they print and go for the ones that have lost the weight fastest.
Ali