Brad Parham He lost 280 pounds!
"I think the big difference was that this time was forever. I've always said
that I lived to eat and now I eat to live."
"There's a huge difference. I decided 'sure I can eat three meals a day, but make it
three meals that count. Make it three good meals, healthy meals that you know aren't
going to kill you, you know? Make it three life meals."
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Dr. Kathy Bobbit, Ph.D. She lost 218 pounds!
"Full means something totally different now to me. It means being able to do
everything. It's like going for the gold ring on the merry-go-round. It's being
able to do everything I've ever wanted to do."
"It's a like a whole totally new life. In the last three years I've done more living than
I did in probably the 20 years before that."
"If we follow our dreams, it can happen. It may not be immediately, it may not happen as fast as
we want it to happen. But I think it can happen!"
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Dr. Monica Sweeney She lost 20 pounds!
"Food used to control me. Then I decided that I was not going to let food control
me anymore. I put it in its proper perspective. I stopped living to eat. I
stopped using food for every emotion that I had."
"So I want to tell you you can do it. There were times that I never thought I
could do it, but I feel like if I can conquer this, anyone can. You can do it. The
first step is just to make up your mind. And the second step is not to do it as if
it's for a day or two, but that it's going to be a way of life.
"So you're not
rushing to finish it, like a diet, so that you can go back to doing what you were
doing before. It's not like that."
"You have to think of it as a way of life, and
once you determine you want to do it and are going to do it, then you can do it."
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Phyllis Mendell, Ph.D. She lost 30 pounds!
"My weight used to be an issue in dressing, in shopping-- in looking
in the mirror. It invaded me in a way that said:
you must be pretty worthless."
"Today I'm freer. I can go to the beach, and wear a bathing suit, and
not think about it."
"Perfection is not the game. The game is feeling good, feeling healthy."
"Face the sadness. Face the pain. See where the hurt is, and address that."
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Bonne Pisetzner She lost 60 pounds!
"For me, losing weight meant bulimia, diet
pills, and overexercising--but I never tried eating
correctly. I mean I never tried the thing that's the easiest, which
is to do everything in moderation. Now I have an eating plan. Not a diet, a plan."
"Right now, though, I'm happier than I've ever been. It's
all about learning. For example, learning that if you pick a
weight that you can't maintain, then that's not an ideal goal to
shoot for. It's not hard work this time, keeping the weight
off. It's not an effort, it's not a diet. I do have an eating plan.
But I also have a living plan, and that's the most important
part."
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