Letter From Noreen Foley - Who Has Lost An Amazing 90 Lbs!

I've had a weight problem for a few years now.  I joined different clubs, but I could  never reach my target weight, I always found it difficult, then I'd get fed up and leave.

When I was pregnant with my first child, I had toxaemia and my weight ballooned up to eighteen stone. 
I managed to lose some of it, but I couldn't seem to get below twelve and a half stone.  When I got pregnant the second time I had toxaemia again and my weight went back up to eighteen and a half stone.  I tried dieting myself, but never managed to lose any weight.  I'd wake in the morning with good intentions and I'd be fine until dinner, then I'd blow it and think Oh, I'll start tomorrow.  I remember playing with my daughter one day and I upset her when I said "I'm sorry I'm just a big, fat, horrible Mommy", she gave me a hug and said "no you're not, you're a big, fat, nice Mommy".  That innocent remark from my four year old daughter really cut me to the core.  It was coming up to Christmas 1991, so I didn't even try dieting then.  We were having a New Years Eve party and I wanted to buy myself something nice to wear.  I'd never actually tried anything on before, I'd always bought size 18 elasticated clothes and I'd stretch the elastic to its limit.  Sometimes I'd even slit the waistband both sides to make a little more room for comfort.  This time I wanted to buy myself something that fitted me properly.  I went into the changing room with a size 18 elasticated skirt, I could barely get it on, so I went for the next size and the next and the next, I ended up with a size 24/26 skirt.  I always knew I was overweight, but I could easily kid myself that I wasn't "that big".  I could look in a mirror and easily take off a few stone.  I couldn't believe it - I sat in the changing room for an hour sobbing my heart out.  I vowed there and then that I would do something about it.


On 1st January 1992 I weighed myself, I was seventeen stone six lb.  I dieted myself for nearly three weeks, then I began to get fed up and I knew I needed help, so I decided to join SUPER SLIM SLIMMING CLUB.  It was the best decision I'd ever made.  On 20th January 1992 I walked through the doors.  I felt really apprehensive, I thought everyone was going to look at me and think YUK!!  I couldn't have been more wrong, everyone was really happy and supportive.  I weighed in at sixteen stone seven lb.  I started on the Fat Buster diet and I lost eight pounds the first week.  It was brilliant and it was so easy.  It was nice being on a diet where you didn't have to weigh and measure everything you ate.  Before I knew it I'd lost a stone.  That was my first real big step to reaching my target weight.  The weight continued to go slowly but surely.  I had a lot of support from my family and friends.  I couldn't have done it at all without them.  I had my bad days like everyone else.  If I ate too much one day, I just made sure I had a really good day the next.  My biggest downfall was chocolate.  I found it really hard to give up, but I did manage in the end.  I can live without it now!  It's nice to have as a treat now and again, instead of for breakfast, dinner and tea.  I could sit down with a 400 gm bar of chocolate and still have afters and not think twice about it.  It makes me cringe when I think about how much I used to eat.  It's a wonder the corner shop didn't go out of business when I stopped buying my goodies there.

When I reached about twelve stone, I almost gave up.  I fitted size eighteen clothes properly now and I didn't look or feel too bad.  I couldn't believe what  I was thinking of.  If I felt o.k.  then imagine how I could feel and look at target.  I could look gorgeous.  I gave myself a swift kick up the backside and got stuck into some serious dieting.  I reached target on 24th May 1993.  It was a fantastic feeling when the scales said ten stone one pound.  It was an even better feeling when I received my badge and Certificate.  I bet it was like winning gold at the Olympics.  I've done it and I'm so proud of myself and so are my family and friends, although I don't  think they truly  believed I would do it.  To anyone wanting to lose weight, all I can say is, do it for yourself and no-one else.  You have got to be 100% dedicated to losing it, because it doesn't happen overnight.  It's a long hard battle and I've finally won it.  IF I CAN DO IT ANYONE CAN.
 
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