This post isn't about me, it's about my wife (who will kill me if she finds out I posted this).
We've been married over nine years, and she has weighed about 250 for most of it. It hasn't really bothered me because I think she's beautiful and sexy no matter what she weighs. But it has always bothered her. She had moderate success with Weight Watchers, but ended up not being able to keep it up.
This year she tried LA Weight Loss. As a result, as of right now, this week she has lost fifty pounds. She literally works her butt off for it, though. She works out every day or walks on the treadmill. And when she uses the treadmill, she walks at a very fast pace for two miles! I can barely do one mile at a moderate pace.
I will not lie to you, she does do LA Weight Loss's supplements and things. But they're working. AND we are BOTh learning how to eat more healthfully. Ever since she started, we have both made major changes in how we eat. Although she is restricted to certain kinds of foods, there is enough variety built into the program so so that she can have a varied diet. She can only have certain portion sizes and weights, and we are both careful to do exactly what the book says. As a result, she's skinnier, happier, and enjoys the multitudes of positive comments she gets from everybody every day.
Me, I weigh about the same as I ever did: 165. I put on about five pounds since I took a desk job last year (it's all at my gut), but am still skinny at 35.
As an aside about LA Weight Loss, of course I had my convictions when she first signed up (it's expensive, oh yes it is. You pay up front, but that's an incredible motivator right off the bat). But I have never read about LA Weight Loss horror stories and deaths caused by the program. (Remember Phen Phen?)
I also have a lot of respect for ANY organization or person, be it Weight Watchers, LA Weight Loss, Richard Simmons etc., which exists to help people get healthy. I mean, Richard Simmons has made entire life out of it. How cool is that?
allen