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 Cookies, cookies, cookies!! MMMM!! And so easy! Hi, I'm Ginger and I am excited to be telling you that I lost 30 pounds the "cookies" way. (Smart For Life) I have been maintaining two months now. Let me tell you a bit about myself. I gave birth to 4 children but that isn't how I gained my weight. I was always very slender. But when I was in my mid 30's I slowly began to gain weight. So I started to try every diet and exercise plan that came around. I'd loose a couple pounds with some of them. But to my great frustration the weight would come back and as those lost pounds found their way back they would bring a couple unwanted friends. Then when I was 45 I moved here to Tennessee from California and that first year I gained 10 pounds. I was frantic now because they were coming in 10 packs. This is when my friend Karleen told me she and her husband were opening a Cookie store. At first I looked at this tiny cutie and thought, "Good for you girl". But she started to tell me about it and the more she said the more I wanted to know. Yes the cookies are good for you. No they don't taste bad like those awful protein bars. You just nibble all day then a reasonable meal at dinner time. This put me in mind of the only other diet that had worked for me. Five or six small meals a day. The reason I didn't stick with that one though was that it so much work! I was shopping, cooking, weighing the portions, and eating all day. It was very exact what I had to eat, when, and how much. It was a full time job being on that diet. But I knew eating half a dozen tiny meals would work. WOW! What a difference: here eat six cookies and only one meal to prepare or you could eat out. It's normal, everyday, real people food. You don't have to cook one meal for yourself .then another for the family. The food isn't the only thing with this diet. Also there is a doctor on board. That isn't all either. Let me explain and anyone that has been on a diet for more than a couple days will understand this one. It's the Naysayers and Saboteurs. One time I was sitting at my kitchen table, friends and family were coming over, and in walked one of them with a desert. They went and got a dinner plate, put it on the plate, then brought it over and, I kid you not, put it right in front of me, the way a person would serve a plate of dinner to a person. I looked up and asked this person what they were doing. They knew about my diet. Their reply was, "What? Merriah is coming over with her kids. I bought it for the kids." "Right", I thought. I was sitting at a large, empty table if that were the case they could have at least put it at the other end of the table or better yet there was also a large empty counter behind me. Another time I went to a movie with a friend. As we walked in they said "I'm going to get some pop corn do you want some?" I said "no thanks." They asked, "do you want a candy?" I sighed loudly and said "No" They got impatient and demanded, "Well what do you want, a hot dog, a pretzel? Just tell me and I'll get it for you? I told them, "as you know I am on a diet and have one of my cookies with me" Then I asked "why are you doing this?" What I really wanted to do was yell "what I want is some peace. Why don't you people just eat what you want and let me alone. I don't stop you. Why do you insist on trying to drag me along with you. But that's where the 'Smart For Life' people come in. I would call Karleen and say, "someone is going to die." She was there to encourage me to keep on and to just let them alone. In time they'll get use to the new way you eat and learn to accept it and leave you be about it. I was also told I was "no fun", when I wouldn't join in on their food fest. But the good people with the 'Smart For Life' plan got me through that too. Now, Let me tell everyone here what is fun. Last month my girlfriend of many years came to Tennessee for a visit and was thrilled to see the new thirty pound lighter me she remembers from years ago. The second day she was here she wanted to go on a hike. The last time I had gone on a hike was a month before I started with Smart For Life. As is my habit I put a small water bottle, my ID, and a ziploc baggie of nuts and raisins in my fanny pack. When I go hiking it is the only time I use this fanny pack because I like to have my hands free so I leave my purse in the car trunk. So when my friend said let's go hiking I grabbed my fanny pack and threw it in the back of my car. When we got to the place we were to hike and I put my fanny pack on I screamed. It was sized for my old waist line but now it slid down around my hips. My old waist size is my new hip size. I knew I was fitting in clothes I hadn't had on in years but I hadn't really seen the difference I had been looking at myself everyday in the mirror. I really hadn't seen. What is fun? Fun is feeling good! Fun is having the energy to live your life with! Fun is feeling proud of yourself! Fun is fitting into your clothes! Come on let's have some fun. The good people at 'Smart for Life' will be there for you every step of the way. One day when you scream, "oh my! My old waist size is my new hip size" then we'll all laugh and cry with you. For Your Success, Ginger Curley Click thumbnails below to view client testimonials:
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