I came to the realization that I needed to lose weight when it became difficult to buy uniforms for my job.  I was working as a police officer, and unfortunately for me, the stereotype of cops loving donuts was true.  Actually, it wasn’t just donuts.  I had, and have, a weakness for anything sugary.  My [...]

I was more than fat, I was obese.  A friend of mine that I met at Curves introduced me to CSlim. She had been taking it for a week and was noticing better weight loss than with exercise alone, and they were offering a free trial so I decided to try it too.  I ordered my [...]

I knew I had to do something about my weight when it started to be hard to walk.  My joints were straining under the extra pounds and my doctor was worried about my heart.  It was getting dangerous to be so overweight and I knew I had to do something fast.  I’m terrified of surgery, [...]

I heard about the South Beach diet in one of my women’s magazines.  The article said it was a safe, healthy, and effective way to lose weight.  The holidays had just gotten over and stores were starting to put out swim suits already.  I decided that by this time next year I’d be buying myself a bikini. [...]

I joined Weight Watchers after battling the bulge for years.  I had tried every fad diet that crossed my path in the last twenty years and nothing worked.  Every time I’d lose a little bit of weight with a diet, I’d gain it all back and then some.  I was seriously considering plastic surgery, but [...]

One day my girlfriend invited me to go to the gym with her.  I automatically declined, not really being a gym person, but she didn’t give up.  She kept asking me to go with her every day after work and each day she would give me a new reason why I should go.  Finally, I [...]

I put on a lot of weight when I was pregnant with my twins.  Everyone told me to worry about the weight after the babies were born and woman after woman told me that the weight would melt off once I was chasing two kids around.  Well, it turns out that women like to lie [...]

This is going to sound ridiculous, but Jerry from the Subway commercials changed my life.  I saw him on Oprah a few years ago and he was saying that he lost weight by walking to Subway and eating the lower calorie sandwiches every day.  The part of his story that stuck with me is that [...]

I was always the fat girl growing up.  I was physically active, and my mom tried to make healthy meals for our family, but despite that I still weighed more than my friends.  By the time I was in high school I started crash dieting, and sometimes my mom would diet with me for support. [...]

I started my weight loss by hiring a personal coach. I knew I didn’t have the drive to make the necessary changes myself, so having someone in almost constant contact was extremely helpful. My coach knew when to push me and when to back off. The hardest part of losing weight was changing the way [...]