She Did Not Believe Me

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Registered: 10-07-2008
She Did Not Believe Me
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Sat, 09-26-2009 - 2:47am

Being with Fitness and Health was a good thing for me along with learning about portioning, water, getting wonder ideas and tips from everyone and losing the 8 pounds from the start. It was up to me to let this go and stop or continue the trip. My decision was to continue with everything. Feb 2008 came and I lost another 4 pounds. I kept going still walking the Leslie Sansone walks and walking outdoors and keeping records on Fitness and health and in a notebook. 


 


One of the ladies at Fitness and Health suggested biking.  My unused bike was dusty and cobwebby sitting on the porch, so I cleaned it up and decided to use it since I do not have a stationary bike. My swhusband suggested putting the gears on the lowest setting as if I am riding hilly areas. We do not live on hills so this was a good idea and made me work at pedalling harder. This was added on with my walks everyday. I biked everyday for a long time as if I was training for events.


 


I saw my neighbor and told her I would be 10 pounds less before summer came. She did not believe me, so I challenged myself. By June I was also learning about using hulahoops from Hugs. I struggled for 1 whole month because I never hulahooped before. By the middle of Jun, I met my neighbor again and told her I was 10 pounds less.


 


I loss 28 pounds in Jun 2008 and have been controlling since then. Just for fun to see if I could go down one more I challenged myself again and did make one pound down.


 


This was a good trip, but I am still on the trip. It is not finished yet because I will not go back to my overweight range. I did go for a recent exam for the tests and to show my doctor what a different person I am now when I last saw him in Oct 2007. He had been asking me a few years before 2007 if I did exercise, etc. I told him no.


Then he wrote down "regular exercise and to reduce my weight " would help me prevent other things from occurring. When I saw him recently, he looked at the records from Oct 2007 to this month and realized the weight I loss , he was impressed. He tells patients to reduce and exercise, but I suppose I may have been the one that followed his advice.


 


That Oct 2007 was something I had to start . I had to do.  No one could do this for me. I did it kind of slow, but never gave up and kept going.

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Registered: 10-01-2007
Sat, 09-26-2009 - 5:33pm

oh, no, Julie!

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Registered: 02-05-2007
Sat, 09-26-2009 - 5:42pm
Awwwwwwwwww, Thanks Pat,
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Registered: 02-05-2007
Sat, 09-26-2009 - 5:52pm

Very glad you are back here and ready to start again.

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Registered: 04-19-2005
Sat, 09-26-2009 - 7:09pm

What an inspirational story.

Kuan - Mom to Lydia and Isaac
-  A setback is only there as long as you allow it to be.  <

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Registered: 10-07-2008
Sat, 09-26-2009 - 7:29pm

Thanks Kuan...your welcome.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Sun, 09-27-2009 - 12:00am
that's great Aileen. I love them 2. I'm on the Goblet of Fire. I get real busy and had to turn it back in. I was on disc 13. What book are you on?



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Registered: 10-07-2008
Sun, 09-27-2009 - 12:19am

Chamber of Secrets Book 2.

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Tue, 09-29-2009 - 12:46pm

Hi Sweetrose,


This is a very inspiring story and our editors are interested and would like to share this. If you'd like to consider this, please email me at cmkarlam@gmail.com . :)




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