Mary Lost 43 Lbs and Wears Size 2!

Age: 54
Height: 5′ 2″
Start Weight: 156 lbs
Current Weight: 113 lbs
Total Loss: 43 lbs
Start Size: 12/14 X-Large top
Current Size: 2/3 Small top
Bust: 43″ to 36.5″
Waist: 40″ to 29″
Hips: 39.5″ to 33″
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Well, I guess the photos speak for themselves. They do not lie! Me before Kimkins and me after finding the real deal — Kimkins!
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My name is Mary and my story is one you may be able to relate to.  I was always the cute, chubby one growing up.  Being brought up in an Italian family I ate lots of pasta and pizza. There was always cooking and baking going on and it was a comfort.  As a result of that, that is what I did when I became a Mom.
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While I was pregnant with my son I gained 68 1/2 pounds. My son only weighed 8.8 pounds and I lost only 7 pounds.  I was now at 198 1/2 pounds.
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Then a friend introduced me to her “Fat Dr.” I took diet pills & water pills and went in once a week to get a shot. I got down to the 120s and it was great. BUT I continued to do this Yo Yo practice most my life.
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In between going to the fat doctors I tried many diets that you may have tried:  The Cabbage Soup Diet, The Grapefruit Diet, The Apple Cider Vinegar Diet, South Beach Diet and the list goes on! I know where every “Fat Dr.” is and went to many of them. I could never find nothing that I could stick with so I would gain weight and run back to the “Fat Dr.” I continued this PRICEY practice until the summer of 2007.
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All within a year I had a series of “life” events that made my weight plunge up to almost 170 lbs. My mother passed, one of my best friends lost her battle to cancer and then I lost my dog to cancer.
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My comfort was food it was my best friend! I baked, I ate, I baked, I ate. I would buy donuts, eat the whole bag then go get another bag to hide it. I would buy candy and eat a bag all through the day and did this for several days. I was out of control.
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Then I resorted back to popping my diet pills. I think it was the chest pains and then pains in my kidneys that made me stop and ask myself, “What am I doing to myself?” I am popping pills and apparently it is effecting my heart and kidneys. I have done this to my body for too many years. When I stopped taking them the pains stopped … hmmmm.
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All my life I have done nothing but abuse my body. I would quit going places. Quit going to church cause I felt bad and was ashamed of how I looked. It was an excuse, but at the same time it was the truth. I felt horrible. Carbs were my “crack”. I really never had any overweight friends, so there was no one that I had to really confide in or anyone who really knew the darkness of being overweight.
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I have a wonderful supportive husband who has loved me no matter what I weighed. Nor has he ever said anything negative to me about my weight.
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I had checked out diet places like the names y’all have heard Jenny Craig, Quick Weight Loss, etc. and I just couldn’t afford that. So it was time for me to have a “Come To Jesus” meeting with myself and bend my knees. I just prayed to God for strength and direction. I had to give this to Him because I was a mess.
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One day standing in line at Walmart I went up to grab my big ’ol bag of M & Ms (the ones for sharing, but I didn’t share them!) and my Diet Pepsi (hey, it was “diet“!) I was reading all of the magazines and then my eye caught the article on the Woman’s World cover. So I eagerly bought it and couldn’t wait to get home and read it.
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Well, I read it over and over for a week. I prayed about it and just kept coming back to it. After much prayer I felt this was what I was supposed to do so I joined Kimkins. I found my way around the website and did a lot of reading at first. But all I was still doing was being on the outside looking in, so I really didn’t have the support I so needed. (Who’s fault was that???)
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It took me actually joining in a group challenge and getting that much needed support to make this work for me. You have got to have a foundation and joining a group is the best place to start. Be honest with yourself and the others. Tell them your struggles and you will rise above it. I didn’t at first. I would do great with the KK [Kimkins] plan then I’d fall off the wagon and go MIA. Does that sound familiar to any of you?
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My weight started to creep back up. I was literally sick in bed and then I got a phone call from one of my “sisters” in the group. That was another “wake up” call for me. (How did she find me??? Another God “thing”!!! ~ thank you Carla & Tea!!!)
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I had been praying, but not real honest with myself or my group. I was so tired of feeling like a failure and embarrassed, too, but again I felt God leading me back to where He first took me — Kimkins.
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So it was confession time, I put on my Big Girl panties and jumped back in. I was determined to be honest and determined to get to my goal. If I fall I admit it to the group and keep moving forward.
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My advice to anyone reading my story is that Kimkins is the real deal. All the work has been done for you. You have different plans to choose from. Mix them up, but find yourself a group to get involved in. Follow someone who has been successful. Read and ask them what they did.
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Where else can you go 24 hours a day 7 days a week in your PJs and get support? It is all here. All within this website called Kimkins!!! It has been my saving grace! I lost the weight and I have a very supportive sisterhood of friends! PRICELESS!
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Thank you God, thank you to all my sisters who supported me in this journey and thank you Kimmer!
[Kimkins members can read Mary's personal journal, Trusting in Jesus, now!  If you're not a member join here.]