Introducing the first Kimkins husband & wife success story team -- Tim & Bridget!

Here's their shared story, see Bridget's story for her pics!

Let me first say it began with prayer. Tim started praying in September 2005 that I would find a diet to help me lose the weight. I was miserable with not only myself but my life. I should have been thankful for all the blessings in my life like my husband and four beautiful children, but I wasn't.

I thought all that time I wasn't happy because of the extra weight I was carrying around for the last 16 years but it was more than that. There were so many issues that I needed to forgive myself for. Thoughts that I had, actions that I had done, feelings I didn't know what to do with or handle. I didn't think God would answer such a trivial prayer. I thought it was just vanity but I knew in my heart He could wake me one morning and I would be thin.

Turns out His plan was better than mine. He has helped me deal with the issues and has used the Kimkins program to heal me.

On June 1st, 2007 (a year and a half later) I was shopping at the local Wal-Mart (love that store) and the latest issue of Woman's World magazine was staring at me. I put my hand on it and said "Aw- forget it", but then something inside me said, "You always buy them anyway".

So I looked closer at Christen smiling at me and seeing her in only half of her jeans made me think, "Yeah, right". But then when I saw that it was an "alternate to Atkins". I knew Atkins had kinda worked for me two years before that so I said, "Why not?"

Read the article during my downtime on my bus run and knew that the foods listed were foods I could do. I had decided that I would start the next day. Only problem was I had no good proteins in the house. We had a soccer game on Saturday morning and I chose to eat a hot dog. I knew I could on Atkins and figured, "Why not?" I hadn't joined yet so I didn't know I couldn't eat the hotdog. I had to run a fundraiser dance that night and gave up on the diet for the rest of the day.

That was the last time I ate pizza and Dairy Queen.

So I tried again on Sunday. Still not having the right foods, but tried anyway. I was determined to get to the store on Monday and buy the right foods. Tim was not going to do the diet with me, but when I came home from shopping (he does our food shopping) he said "Tell me about the diet again."

When I read him the article he said "That's it!!!" And we committed right then and there. I wanted to wait a week before I joined the program figuring I could make do with the menu ideas in the article. But by Tuesday night I asked Tim if we could join and he was OK with that. That opened a whole new door for me. I loved the chat room and the forums.

I realized I still needed to make corrections in some of the foods that I had bought. I kept a chart on my weight loss and had taken measurements back on Thanksgiving of 2006 since my family was going to start a "Biggest Loser" challenge. I told Tim he needed to also and at first he was only weighing every now and then. This is a chart of our loss:

Bridget

Highest Weight: 208
Current Weight: 139
Total Loss: 69 pounds
Highest Body Fat: 52%
Current Body Fat: 35%

L Arm 14 1/2" now 11"
R Arm 14 1/2" now 11"
Chest 45 1/8" now 37"
Waist 43 1/4 now 31 3/4"
Hips 50 1/2 now 39"
L Thigh 27 1/2" now 22"
R thigh 28" now 22"

Bridget's starting size should have been a 20W in jeans, but squeezed into the 18W til they were ripped out. Refused to buy another larger size so wore the same jeans everyday. A lot of washing. Now 6 is starting to get big- can put on 4's but not button or zip yet :)

Top size 16/18W or XL (pushing an XXL) to a 3/5 or 4/6 or a Small
Starting underwear size 9 now a 5.
Starting shoe size 6 1/2 XXW now just a 6 1/2 XW. Wide feet always :)
Blood pressure was in prehypertension after one month on program it was registering normal
BMI- "extreme obese" to "prone to health risks". 9 more lbs and I'll be at "desirable". No longer on Advair for my asthma!

Tim

Highest Weight: 225
Current Weight: 161
Total Loss: 64 pounds
Highest Body Fat: 45%
Current Body Fat: 24%

Tim is on maintenance and is usually between 163 and 165 pounds

L Arm 14" now 11 1/2"
R Arm 14" now 12"
Chest 45" now 38 1/2"
Waist 43" now 33 1/2"
Hips 45 1/2" now 38"
L & R Thigh 24" now 20 1/2"

Tim's starting size should have been a 40. 38's were too tight, again refused to buy the larger size knew he had to do something about it. Shirt size XXL , neck size 18 now a 15.
Blood pressure was in hypertension 156/93 (10/16/07- 130/70) within a month on program was in normal
BMI- "obese" now "desirable" After 3 weeks no longer had to take "the little purple pill" (Nexium) which he was taking for 3 1/2 years

So how did we do the program with 4 children. That was simple. We made (or they made) the protein we could eat and made a starch for them! Our biggest help was preparation ahead of time. Tim was great for that!