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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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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

WHY MY MANY DIETS FAILED FOR YEARS

MOST OF MY DIETS FAILED BEFORE I DISCOVERED DIET MASTERS BECAUSE THEY WERE CRASH DIETS AND NEVER INCLUDED FOODS THAT I ENJOYED. THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL INCLUDES SOME POSITIVE THOUGHTS AND SEVERAL HINTS.

 1.  Practice these three words:  "No thank you"...NOT "I am on a diet." Even our close friends often try to coax us to eat the wrong foods that will sabotage us.  Just talk to yourself and say, "It looks wonderful, but I am really trying to lose weight and this will slow me down."

 2.  Why my many diets failed:  I would often lose some weight but failed to get as trim as I wanted to, so I would tell myself,  "I don't look slim anyway, so I may as well eat this."

 3.  I was always dreaming of my next feast.  I had no plans on how to keep the weight off.

4.  Serving food family style...Some of you might not know the definition of those words.  It means scooping  large amounts of of food into bowls on the table and helping ourselves  to what we want instead of putting each persons' food on a dinner plate. Many of us eat twice as much when they eat this way. 

     
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