Tue, Jun-03-03, 14:41
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Senior Member
Posts: 964
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Plan: My own plan
Stats: 317/309/160
BF:
Progress: 5%
Location: California, USA
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Hi Everyone,
With Joans permission, I am quoting from her journal. (She wasn't sure how to cut & paste here) Joan was invited to be a guest speaker at a Curves weight loss class. This is your post about how that went
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I gotta tell everyone that last evening went great. In fact I even was able to convert some that were doing low fat and weight watchers to low carbing. Also out of 12 women there were at least 4 that wanted to know if they could come and live with me and Bob for awhile.
Now I did not prepare anything to talk about, cause as Bob says I am never at a loss for words. After I introduced myself and told the group that I had previously done Jenny Craig and was hungry on that program all the time. Then last year I decided to try low carbing. Now the first thing that was coming out of the ''soothsayer'' low fat, WW, ladies was ''all that fat, all that meat'', blah, blah. So my next reply was to ask each lady that was doing low fat and WW, how much weight they had lost since Jan. well it seems the weight loss was not impressive at all. So after I told them how well I have done this year due to getting serious about low carbing, mouths were dropping open, I even had to get on the scale for them to prove it. Which was great cause that is when I found out that I had lost another 2.5 pounds and that has brought me to 269, OH YEAHHHHHH..
Okay out came the food. Have you ever witnessed people that do not want to admit when they are soooo totally set in their beliefs that it is like pulling teeth to get them to say, ''OKAY, I'M SOLD''. Sooo, now today guess what I'm going to do. I'm going to do a low carb cook class here at our house. The women that decided they wanted to do low carb, was so afraid of the cooking part. So I told them if they wanted to come to my house today, we would make crackers, chocolate cheesecake and pork rine chicken in the over and the one thing none of them can believe is the mock mashed potatoes. So that will be the surprise for them the mock mashed potatoes. So these 4 ladies are suppose to be here around 10 this morning and we are going to have a ''LOW CARB COOK OFF'', I'll do just about anything to get these people to see the light.
I also told those that wanted to begin low carbing that as a rule the weight comes off pretty fast, but it will also slow down and for me the thing I have to do to not get discouraged is the ''pant-o-meter'', cause I feel I lose inches much faster than pounds.
Get this they have asked me to be an ''honorary member'' of their MOnday night weight-loss group, LOL LOL.
After, my little ''pep-talk'' was over, I did have to run cause we were also celebrating Kevin's b'day (Bob's oldest son) and when I left the house, I told them to go ahead and eat, but DO NOT OPEN any gifts till I return and I had already told the owners of Curves that I would only give them 30 mins. cause I wanted to get back to the birthday celebration. Okay Brenda and Sara called after their meeting (Brenday and Sara own Curves) was over and the food was eaten and told me that these women were so impressed with me and the knowledge that I had about low carbing and how committed I was to this WOE/WOL, in fact I think they liked the ideal of it being referred to as a WAY OF LIFE. Now I did have one woman that there was no way she was going to be convenced that lowcarbing was healthy, in fact I was told she would not even sample the food, her loss, LOL LOL.
Anyway this woman said to me, ''everyone I've know that has done Atkins when they went off it gained all the weight back'', well my reply to her was this....I can believe that, cause when I did Jenny Craig and lost 80 pounds and went off it and went back to my old way of eating I gained all the weight back., same thing happened the 20 times I've done Weight Watchers, so now what is your point?? The way I see it if you go back to your old way of eating yes, you will put the weight back on, however, I feel so good not eating carbs and sugar , better than I have ever felt while losing weight, so I don't think gaining it back this time is going to happen at least not to me...... It was funny cause this lady was not going to be sold and I was a ''smart A**" and ask her how many times she had done Weight Watchers, she wouldn't answer me, LOL LOL.
Okay I think that was about it. I need to get myself orgaized for this morning, so I'm going to change my stats and move on. Talk later and thanks to everyone that has stopped by. Love ya all, joan
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Then Joan posted the results of her cooking class today. Here is that post....
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Okay the cooking class went great, but here is the ''YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS'' part. Remember the woman who would not try my low carb food. Well, she called about 9:30 this morning and wanted to know if she could come to today's cooking class. Of course I told her yes, but then I added, you have to remember YOU are in my home and no matter if you do not agree with the low carb eating, since these other ladies will be here, I want you to keep your negative opinions to yourself. I thought this was a fair enough deal.
Not only did we cook, but I also showed them my Atkins books and my recipe book (that Sally knows about) that has 500 low carb recipes. We did the crackers and I had to laugh cause I have trouble with the rolling pin, but one lady was having a real problem with it. Anyway it was a ton of fun and made crackers, chocolate cheesecake and I did my bbq pork rine chickenm but this time I took Tracy's ideal about the mayo and gotta tell ya, it was wonderful. So we all had lunch together and I do believe the first three ladies are really going to be a success, and I hope you are setting down, cause Ms. Negitive ask me if she had any questions could she call me. Now how bout that for winning over.
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I think Joan deserves a huge round a applause 
Last edited by Meadow : Tue, Jun-03-03 at 14:44.
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, LOL LOL. I'm so glad you wanted to post my adventure in the Curves forum. I think this is such a great group.
) there were all these other people going through exactly the same thing as me, and we talked and "did lunch", etc. now I am on my own and I miss having lunch with people who are in the same boat as me, etc.
But at least now we know what it is... the horrible climate down here has activated my asthma, so now that I have medication I should be able to stay healthy until I get away!
Thanks everyone!
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