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MY YEARS AS A FOOD ADDICT

I was a heavy eater by the time I was 5 years old, only it was called a "healthy appetite" in those days, and they called me cute and chubby. By the time I was 18 I was a compulsive overeater. At 5'6", my weight ranged between 125 to 149, but only because I spent part of almost every month on some diet or another. I must have gained and lost more than 500 pounds on various crash diets before I turned 40.I could eat 3 half gallons of ice cream a week and 3 candy bars at the movies. At my favorite Oriental buffet I would start with 6 egg rolls and fill my plate (and myself) so much that the owners lost money. No matter what diet I tried, I dreamed of my next “fix”… boxes of cookies, bags of potato chips or maybe a whole pizza.I’ve always been an upbeat person with a good marriage, two children, and close friends, but on my 40th birthday I was feeling depressed. I took a walk on the beach and realized that my compulsive eating had to stop. I decided that I wanted peace more than pizza and vowed to put my extensive dieting knowledge to work. I re-read all of my material on the subject and designed a way of eating that would satisfy me and finally curb my appetite. My determination paid off in spades and changed my life. The numbers on the scale remained below 130 and before I knew it, I was helping curious friends and neighbors. That was the beginning of a long and exciting career founding and directing Diet Masters, teaching dieting classes and low calorie cooking and even self publishing 6 dieting books. Best of all, my weight has been stable between 124 and 129 for 39 years while I eat food that I enjoy.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

SOME MATERIAL FROM ONE MEETING

I have saved some of my Diet Masters' written meetings and and they are full of good advice and will open your eyes.  If you wake up one morning and cannot understand how you gained two pounds read the following question that was asked in class.

" I can't understand how I could have gained that weight, I had a very low calorie dinner and before dinner I had a little wine and peanuts".
After speaking with her after class, she confided that she had 4 small glasses of wine which would have been about 400 calories and about  a cup of peanuts which would have tallied another 800 calories.

                                           SOMETHING ELSE WE DISCUSSED

I asked the class if they had ever heard about a diet from the 80's that was called "THE STARCH BLOCKERS' DIET".  This diet did not just block starch calories as they promised, it also contained a poisonous agent which blocked  the obsorbtion of many foods including protein.

When they were taken off the market at drug and health food stores some people would buy them under the counter at flea markets even though they knew that they were dangerous to their health.
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