Diane Carbonell shares weight loss and weight maintenance strategies
Before I gained 150 pounds in my 20’s, I honestly thought that people who were morbidly obese were probably lazy and spent a lot of their time sitting or laying on the couch. I feel bad that I assumed that and have learned a lot about making assumptions about people as I have gotten older. Continue Reading…
No matter whether I weighed 200 or 300 pounds, I never really gave up trying to lose weight. Sure, I’d try to talk myself into temporary contentment for a short while, but before long, I would try some new dieting strategy in the hope that I could get to a healthy weight and stay there. Continue Reading…
After I lost weight, I not only lost about 25 inches off my waist and 150 pounds off my frame, but I also lost a best friend and gained a bunch of self confidence. Many things in my life changed after my drastic weight loss, and almost all of them were positive. However, Fox News Continue Reading…
Being overweight wasn’t just hard on me, but it was also hard on my family. I was often tired, and lacked energy for participating in activities that most people do without thinking. Going shopping for clothes, standing for long periods of time, walking up stairs and playing with my children were hard for me. I Continue Reading…
After my third child’s birth I lost my usual 15 pounds and was depressed to realize I would once again be gaining weight and heading further into the 300′s. I felt so out of control and incredibly unmotivated. In early ’97 I went to the doctor for a check-up. It was right after that visit that my desire Continue Reading…
I’ve been thinking about the legacies we will leave behind when we have passed from this world. There is an elderly couple in our church who had 5 children. Those 5 children gave them 25 grandchildren. Those 25 grandchildren have given them 23 great-grandchildren, with several more on the way. She and her husband may not have Continue Reading…
What do you think when you see a person jogging down the side of the road? I hope you think: Good for them I wish I could do that Wow, they are fast I wonder how far they go? You know what I thought when I saw a jogger? I thought, “Go home. Get a Continue Reading…
Food was a struggle for me. Why then, was food my first choice in times of stress, boredom, anger, unhappiness, happiness or nervousness? At the end of a long day I’d hold an opened carton of Breyer’s ice cream in one hand and a spoon in the other, shoveling the ice cream in right from the Continue Reading…
I don’t like limits. Limits aren’t fun. Limits box me in and often times I hurt myself trying to get out. During my obese days, I didn’t have any limits on the food choices I made. If I wanted an entire 16 ounce bag of peanut M&M’s, then that’s what I had. If I wanted Continue Reading…
After many years of obesity you would think that I would have clued in to the fact that I needed to be careful around delicate pieces of furniture. But even I didn’t realize that I should be careful around my own dining room chairs. Read what happened during a family birthday party, when an encounter with a chair went very wrong. . .
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