Age: 52
Height: 5′ 6″
Start Weight: 176 lbs
Current Weight: 147 lbs
Goal Weight: 135 lbs
Total Loss: 39 lbs
Clothing Size Before: 12
Clothing Size After: 6 (some 8′s)
My name is Veronica, but everyone calls me Roni.
I have 3 beautiful sons and a loving, caring and supportive husband of 27 years. My 2 older sons are 24 year old twins and my youngest is 20 years old.
My journey with Kimkins actually began in June ’07 when at the check out in the grocery store, I bought the Woman’s World magazine featuring the Kimkins eating plan. I looked back in my account profile 
and on June 8, ’07 I purchased my membership to Kimkins and didn’t do anything with it after this. It wouldn’t be until Jan of ’09 and many extra pounds later that I would begin to actually interact and use my Kimkins membership.
Why??? I guess, the biggest reason among others, were I had no experience with interactive groups on the internet. I knew I had to start some place, but just wasn’t sure if this would really work or just be another fad.
After eating myself silly through ’08 and looking at myself at the end of the holiday season with discontent, I knew it was time to change. I had to change my eating patterns, my lifestyle and I was finally desperate enough to get off the couch and make the move. I was miserable and I remember saying to myself after celebrating New Years, “2009 is going to be the year I change how I feel about myself!”
I had tried so many other diets and had little or no success. I was at my heaviest of 176 lbs. and knew I had to find my inner happiness, shed the person that I saw staring back at me in the mirror and get back to a routine exercise and healthy eating plan.
I have always had some form of exercise in my life but now I was eating more and not exercising enough. The eating wasn’t quality food consumption, but junk and empty calories with no realization of how many carbs, calories and fat grams I was consuming a day.
Kimkins to the rescue the beginning of 2009!
I was apprehensive at first and was more of a lurker on the KK [Kimkins] site than an active poster or participant. I familiarized myself with the site and then joined Kimmer’s Boot Camp challenge. I learned much from the others who had also signed up within this challenge, joined other challenge groups and/or reading personal journals.
We did challenges, learned how many calories, fat grams and carbs were allowable each day for our weight, age and height. I had never bothered to learn how important this is to losing weight effectively and in the long term.
I learned how exercising affects my body, muscle groups, weight maintenance, endurance, overall health and long term health. All these things I had never taken the time to learn nor did I know how important proper food consumption is to our bodies and to that of our families.
I believe it is so important to interact within a group as this is so beneficial to one’s weight loss in so many ways. If you lurk and don’t involve yourself in groups or challenges no one gets to know you, you are invisible to others — you don’t get the full advantage of the whole KK [Kimkins] program. It is fun if you get in with a group that shares your same interests and makes the whole experience easier when you are having fun while losing weight.
I joined another group called the Cabana Boys Cafe, after Kimmer’s Boot Camp challenge and still keep in touch with many of these dear friends. The CBC group, was instrumental in much of my weight loss in the Kimkins program. The motivation, inspiration, enthusiasm, fun and love we shared in this group was above the top and wish we could of bottled what we had! I have to be honest and say that is one of the downfalls of getting really close to others in the challenges — others are going to move on and so will you.
Take in and learn all you can about this WOE [way of eating] here at Kimkins, but know these “special friends” that you meet here will remain in your heart and in your lives if you want them to and hopefully you may get to meet them personally. I’m still hoping to meet my present and past friends on this site. If you put your heart into something, you know that you have given it your best and shared a part of yourself that hopefully has made you a better person and that you have helped someone else in this journey.
If you want something bad enough know that it is going to involve blood, sweat and tears. No, I’m not talking about the 60′s-70′s (??) band … LOL! I’ve fallen of my treadmill and skinned and bloodied up my knees. I’ve worked up many a sweat and had it dripping off of me with gross delight. I’ve shed many a tear climbing on the scales when I didn’t see the number that I thought I should. Or have shed tears of joy knowing that I have met a personal goal!
Kimkins has taught me that it is all part of the plan, but when we clean up the knees, towel off the sweat and wipe off the tears the results will be a slimmer, healthier and more happy YOU!!
I have gotten so many compliments from so many friends, family and acquaintances that knew the “old” me versus the “new” me. I have been able to give them advice and tell them how Kimkins changed my life. It is life changing when you take time to take care for yourself, watch how we influence others and how we can impact those around us in so many positive and healthy ways.
In closing, I would like you to take the step/steps and do this for YOU, for those you love and for those who love you! Start Kimkins, follow through and never give up!
Live simply, love generously, serve faithfully, speak truthfully, pray daily and leave everything else to GOD!
Roni
