Waking up at 3:00 A.M. severely limits the amount of time I can commit to maintaining a proper diet and more importantly to an effective exercise regimen. That aside, being in my mid 40s I have found that a bowl of ice cream that used to calm my nerves on a crazy day now adds like 10 pounds in a single sitting! Seriously, I knew it was time to make a change when after a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend I was presented with the question by my sister (who is a nurse mind you) if I had ever had my thyroid checked!!! That was my first wake up call...the second came when I decided to step on my dust covered scale in the bathroom and it showed a couple of numbers that had previously been reserved for the days of pregnancy! Only this time, sans baby, sans the bulky clothes, sans anything but me and me (much more of me than I had quite frankly expected!!)
I quickly jumped into action and did what most of the women I know do...joined the local gym and bought food only after spending hours in the aisles of my local supermarket reading every nutritional label to make sure it had only 0 grams of "everything" that sounded like it would force me to spend more time on the treadmill. Quite frankly, a lesson in circular fitness...eat less, work out more, eat too much, work out more, forget to work out, eat less....ahhh enough already!
Enter Medifast Weight Control Centers!!! Was I skeptical, you bet...as I had been with every other weight loss program...but it had one thing that the others didn't...PROOF! My producer Zach for one, who I watched lose more than 80 pounds. One of our account executives who I work with on a regular basis lost close to 40 pounds. Our broadcast engineer lost more than 40 pounds... and each of them have kept it off! Proof enough!
My original goal was to lose 20 pounds and to date I have met my goal. After talking with the Medifast Weight Control Centers staff I realized that I now can safely lose another 10 pounds and actually get back to the weight I was before my son was born! At one point in my life...unthinkable...now...reality!
ZACH FROM MAGIC 107.7
Thank you Medifast Weight Control Centers!
Ever since about midway through high school, I have been overweight. I used to be pretty active with sports, but after I failed to make the summer basketball team, the activity went way, way down. Add to that a summer job of working at a fast food restaurant. It was a recipe (pun intended) for disaster. I quickly became “The Big Guy” of my group. Over the years the weight fluctuated a little, but I continued to get heavier and heavier. I didn’t know how to eat healthy, I didn’t know how to get back into shape…I was out of control and didn’t know how to turn it around.
So from high school, through college, and all the way up to a couple of years ago (about 10 years) I kept putting on weight, despite a gym membership that I put into use probably once every 3 months. It’s a real tough thing when not only was I “Big Guy” with my friends, but complete strangers would start calling me that. That really got frustrating.
But my wake up call came as my health started to deteriorate as I closed in on 300 lbs. As I would lay down for bed at night, I could feel my heart pounding. I mean, why would my heart be pounding while I’m laying down? I would often get short of breath, and overall…I just felt bad. And, with a ratio of 1 healthy day to every 3 months of bad eating and no exercise, I was going down a bad road.
Finally, I walked through the doors of my new favorite place…Medifast Weight Control Centers! I was ready to lose the weight, but didn’t know how to do it on my own. After talking with the counselors at the Medifast Center, I quickly realized that with their help, I could lose the 80 lbs. that I put on in the last 10 years. They explained to me that if I stuck to the plan, it could be done within 6 months.
2 lbs, 4 lbs, another 2 lbs…every week, weight was coming off. It happened so quickly that I noticed so many little things from week to week. I bought a pair of pants after losing 30 lbs. Then, 3 weeks later, had to replace them when my waist size went even smaller! Even my shoes started to feel too big!
Every week, I went into Medifast Weight Control Centers, I got the help that I needed to keep up with my weight loss. Some days were better than others, but those were the times that the support really helped. Along with the great tasting food you get on the program, the support is there to get you to your goal.
A lot of people followed me through my weight loss last year…and a lot of those people made the choice to call Medifast and created their own success stories. Its time to create yours!
