Check out these photos and read our story if you don't believe it...
Jim (299 US pounds!) "BEFORE" photos taken January 13, 2007, the morning we started loosing weight.
Jim (192 US pounds!) photo taken January 12, 2008. 1 year weight loss of 107 US pounds WITHOUT SURGERY OR DRUGS!
Marsha "BEFORE" photos taken January 13, 2007, the morning we started loosing weight.
Marsha photo taken January 12, 2008. 1 year weight loss WITHOUT SURGERY OR DRUGS!
OUR STORY and HOW WE DID IT
Jim was born in 1955 and Marsha in 1957 and were married in 1975. We're normal Americans who (through childbirth, aging, pizza, pasta, soda pop, fast foods, chicken wings and lack of exercise) started out young and thin and ended up older, fat and flabby. Marsha began having serious problems with Rheumatoid Arthritis in 2001. The damage attacked her joints quickly, especially her knees, and caused her to have to start using a cane to walk, then a walker became necessary and finally we were shopping for a wheelchair because she could no longer hold herself up using the walker because the arthritis had destroyed much of her wrist joints.
She had successful total knee replacement surgery on both knees in 2004, but the surgeon warned that if she didn't loose weight her new knees wouldn't last long. She tried a couple of diet fads with little results. Her worst enemy was JIM who was not partnering with her in the weight loss. So let's get to Jim... While all of this was going on with Marsha, Jim was working as a manufacturing manager (as he has been doing forever), sitting in meetings and at his desk, crunching numbers, and working long hours with no time for much else but eating and sleeping. Jim was getting fatter and fatter.
Want to know how things can come back to bite you? Jim had a part time job at a clothing store in the mall while in high school that turned into a full time management position when we first got married. As a young "wise guy" when the mall was about to close and the customers had cleared out, Jim would sometimes slip into a size 50 suit coat off the rack and laugh his tail off as he joked around with the other employees about the "fat guys" wo came into the store. Those size 50 waist pants were another popular "Jim toy" to wave around. All fun and games when you're 17 years old and have a 28" waist. Fast forward to 2007 and we find Jim at 299 pounds having moved from size 42", to 44" , to 46", to 48" waist pants since 2001 and now those size 48" pants were straining at the seams and about to burst at the zipper. Jim NEEDED those size 50" waist pants of which he used to laugh so hard.
Jim and Marsha decided it was time to GET TOUGH and make a life change. Television in the fourth quarter of 2006 was peppered with ads for weight loss programs... You know... The ones that mail you their food each month. Their commercials were very convincing and we decided to jump in and commit to it to loose the weight. We did and it worked! Then we jumped out of it just a couple of months later because the program cost us about $600 per month PLUS all of the extra stuff we had to buy at the grocery to go with the program nutrition plan. We just couldn't afford it.
Jim began to study the purchased plan's nutrition information. Being an engineer and a statistics guy, Jim started to create spreadsheets with this nutrition data and collecting data from readily available products in the grocery store aisles. The same day we dropped the commercial nutrition program, we started the plan that Jim created. Then we waited. Then we watched. Then we worried. Then we wondered if we had just thrown away the progress that we had made in those couple of months on the commercial program. But guess what... Jim's program WORKED just as well as the commercial program! Look again at the BEFORE and AFTER photos above. That's 2 months of the commercial nutrition plan and 10 months of Jim's plan. And the weight loss continues. Jim reached his goal of weighing 175 US pounds in less than 2 years and Marsha continues to loose weight on the plan.
Want to know more? Want to loose weight and be healthier and happier? Want to feel younger? Write us at the email address below and we'll tell you how you can get on the Jim and Marsha plan. Those commercial plans work, but you can spend thousands of dollars each year! For goodness sake, TRY EITHER OUR PLAN OR ONE OF THE COMMERCIAL NUTRITION PLANS BEFORE YOU EVER CONSIDER SURGERY OR DRUGS TO LOSE WEIGHT! Don't risk your life using these dangerous weight reduction methods. Make the commitment to get your weight under control with diet and exercise and always under your doctor's advice. God bless you and we hope to hear from you soon.
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