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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oh, no, Julie!
Very glad you are back here and ready to start again.
What an inspirational story.
Kuan - Mom to Lydia and Isaac
- A setback is only there as long as you allow it to be. <
Thanks Kuan...your welcome.
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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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