Slim-Down Secrets – Good Housekeeping

The following article by Caroline Bollinger entitled, “Slim-Down Secrets” was published in Good Housekeeping Magazine.  Below are excerpts from that article. You can read the entire Good Housekeeping article HERE.

For me, life has always revolved around eating. I’d munch away while preparing dinner, wolf down food during the meal, and nibble on leftovers as I cleaned up afterward. I used to be astonished by friends who didn’t eat every scrap of their lunch. After my son was born, my hunger for food grew even stronger. I started and ended each day thinking about two things: myself (what I didn’t have and what I wished my husband would do for me) and food. If my baby cried during dinner, I’d got to him, but inside I’d seethe because my meal had been interrupted. I was miserable, and to dull the pain, I’d eat…

…When size 20 pants starting fitting me perfectly, I could no longer deny the fact that I was huge. My first reaction was to turn to fen-phen, a weight-loss drug. The pills helped me drop 30 pounds, but one day I learned they could cause serious heart damage. I stopped taking them immediately, but I cried as I rocked my son to sleep that night because I realized how reckless I’d been with my health. Of course, the second I threw out the drug, the fat flew back on. I went to my ob-gyn for a safer diet pill, but instead he gave me the phone number for the Weigh Down Workshop. “Don’t bother with pills,” he told me. “This plan will help you get long-term results.”