Slim People in Progress

From Fat to Fit - Turn Yourself into a Weapon of Mass Reduction

Following is a guest post, actually a guest book review, by Sandi Lee...

Fat Facts:

• Nearly two-thirds of adult Americans are overweight
• Obese adults have a 50 to 100 percent increased risk of premature death
• 17 percent of adolescents and 19 percent of children age six to eleven are overweight.  (From Fat to Fit-Foreward)

It's bad enough having to go on a diet.  Most of us are faced with this dilemma at least once in our lives.  We quietly vow to watch our caloric intake as we "try" to exercise more.  Now imagine, if you can, making this decision and having an entire front page of your local newspaper cover your diet story, including reporting on all those personal, secretive details - like your current weight and measurements.  Plus, this same newspaper would also do a weekly feature tracking your progress.  YIKES!!  

Carole Carson knows exactly how this feels: she was the dieter being tracked.  "I tried to grasp the implications.  Everyone - my neighbours, my friends downtown, everyone!  - would know my measurements and weight…"

However, the publicity didn't stop Carole.  In fact she embraced the challenge to loose 40 pounds before her 60th birthday (16 weeks away).  Carole said, "I would expose my ups and downs, my progress and lapses, my measurements and weight and even my thoughts as I reinvented myself…" (excerpt From Fat to Fit).

The Biggest Losers Can Keep it Off

I love watching The Biggest Loser.  It's inspirational to see these people lose so much weight and look so fabulous, in addition to the health benefits losing weight can bring.  My concern and the big question is, can they keep it off?  As the new season starts, there's lots of articles and publicity to increase viewership.  Here's a great picture gallery by Yahoo that shows it is possible to keep it off.

Ten of the Biggest Losers are pictured with tips from trainer Jillian.  Click here.

50 POUNDS!!!!!

I did it!  I finally reached a weight loss of 50 lbs!!  It's taken almost two years, but I never lost sight of my goal.  I still have about 14 lbs. to go.  But boy, it really feels great to have made it to this milestone!!

I was cleaning out my inbox last night and came across some pictures from a couple of years ago.  Here I am at my heaviest (that's my skinny niece with me):

Here's one when I had already lost 35 pounds:

I guess it's time to take some new pics.  Thanks to all the support I've had and still have, including Denise, my buddy and fellow blogger, my sister Sheila, all my Walleyball and WW mates, everybody at It figures and of course to my WW leader, Flora.  I don't think I could have done it without you guys!!!!

Greg Grunberg is a Weight Watchers Hero

When I logged into my WW account today to track my points, I saw a familiar face...Matt Parkman, the LAPD cop in Heroes.  His name is actually Greg Grunberg and it turns out both he and his wife go to Weight Watchers. Read his story about why he started going and the tactics he uses when he's on the set all day.

Best of Archives: Support is Powerful

A newspaper article from January, 2006, still hits home for me.  It's an inspirational story about a family sticking together and supporting each other to lose a combined total of over 300 lbs.!  Here's the Blog post.