Weight-wise, I’m ending 2006 in a better place than I started the year. And I still have two months left to lose even more pounds before the ball drops on New Year’s Eve and everybody else is dusting off their “I-will-lose-weight-this-year-for-sure” resolution. And you, too, have a couple of months to improve your waistline.
I learned the hard way that postponing weight loss until after the holidays can be a poor decision. In the past, I gave myself permission to eat whatever I wanted during this goodie-filled season because, after all, I was going to start a diet on January 1. Then an amazing thing happened! This decision to wait resulted in even more weight! When I finally got on the scale on the first day of the first month, the higher number caused even more self-disgust. This certainly isn’t a positive way to begin the New Year!
This year I’ve lost almost 60 pounds—over the last year, I regained 90 pounds of my 170-pound weight lost—and I’m not done! I’m planning to have another 15 pounds off by January 1 followed by another 15 pounds by the time spring arrives. (Even with my varicose veins, I’m planning to look great in a bathing suit next summer!)
This is how I plan to lose the remaining weight this year, and next. Follow my example and you, too, can delight in the number on the scale as 2007 begins....
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