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Patti Loses 74 Pounds With Kimkins! Print E-mail


Introducing Patti
Start: 244
Current: 170
Lost: 74

I was born and raised in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, the smallest province, just north of Maine. As a child, I was skinny, like my two beautiful sisters and my mother. My weight problems didn’t start until I hit adolescence.

When I was married at the age of 23, I was 200 lbs. Thank goodness I married a loving and gentle man who doesn’t care what size I am.

At one point, I discovered Atkins and lost a lot of weight, down to 141 lbs in fact, but could never keep it off. My emotional eating was always my downfall as I yo-yoed my way through my twenties and early thirties. After hitting that all time low, I starting gaining steadily. And when I quit smoking in 2004, my weight skyrocketed to 244 lbs. I ate without discrimination or thought and became an angry and frustrated person.

My love for filmmaking kept me going, but I hated seeing myself on camera, so I stayed behind the scenes, telling myself that was what I wanted. I even gave up singing and only performed occasionally. Oddly enough, when I was on stage, I never thought about my size or about being judged. The pure joy of entertaining was enough. Until I stepped off of the stage and the sadness returned.

I began to notice changes in my thin and handsome husband, as well. He had gained a lot of weight and I blamed myself. My desire for poor food choices was affecting his health as much as mine, if not more so. After all, I gained my weight all over, whereas he was gaining in the scariest place possible — his abdomen. At 36 he was 40 lbs overweight himself and on the road to a heart attack. And although neither of us had experienced any health problems to that point, darkness loomed as our forties approached. Unable to do anything about it and unwilling to fail again, I did nothing.

About two years ago, one of my sisters introduced me to Louise Hay and her teaching about emotions being the center of my problems. I signed up with my life coach, Michelle Burns of Quantum Leap Coaching, and never looked back. With her help, I have learned to accept and love myself and not let emotions control what I put in my mouth.

And that’s where Kimkins came in.

With the absolute perfect timing only the Universe can devise, I spotted the cover of Woman’s World that changed my way of eating completely. I bought that magazine and signed up that day. In the first few months, I lost 30 lbs pounds and felt better about myself than I have in years. This January, I committed myself fully and to date have lost 70 lbs, down to 174 from that hated 244. Not only do I have the help of my life coach, I also have access to the best support group I could ever ask for.

I love the forums and post every day, catching up with friends I only know by screen names but who have become an important part of my journey.

And now that chat is available, I’m really getting to know the women who I’m on this road with. It is such a tremendous help every day to know they are behind me, no matter what happens. And yes, I’ve fallen off of the wagon a time or two, but the key for me has been getting back on. And I do. Rather easily, actually. Without the pain of punishing myself. The carb monster’s voice is weak these days. I know that this time I have the tools and the freedom to get to my goal and stay there forever. I prove to myself every day that it is possible. And I no longer call it cheating, or treating. I simply try to add foods back into my diet. If they don’t work, I set them aside again for a while until they do.

Healthy attitude, healthy mind, healthy body. That’s me. And when people ask me how I did it, how I lost this weight, I tell them, "With the help of my friends at Kimkins."

Thank you, Kimmer.

Patti Larsen
 
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