"You Can Never Fail when You Don't Stop Trying"
Stephen Parzuchowski - Online Weight Loss Coach
Lost 127.4 Pounds
I was heavy, chubby, voluptuous, overweight, obese (fill your adjective of choice in here) my entire life. I could say I tried "everything" but it isn't really true. I tried the typical plans, weight watchers included several times. I didn't do packaged food (never could really swallow the cost of it). I tried all natural pills, powders, and vitamins. I never binged, starved, or took laxatives. But I didn't always go about it the healthiest ways.
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Lost 112.4 Pounds
We were both overweight all their lives, well, at least as long as we can remember. We both come from families of overweight relatives, so we both had heredity and poor eating/exercise habits working against us (not an excuse, just a fact). Of course, as we got older and settled into our own adult family life, a sedentary lifestyle (we both usually went from sitting behind a desk all day to sitting in front of a TV all night) and eastern European/Midwestern US comfort food meals (think, for example, 12 deep fried chicken wings smothered in BBQ hot sauce with a double order of mac & cheese on the side with a cup or more of nice creamy coleslaw dripping with mayonnaise…don’t forget the draft beer!) caught up with us. We were both very overweight (Karen especially) and John, in particular, had some serious health concerns (including asthma, high cholesterol and blood pressure, diabetes, mild artery blockage, etc.) which meant he was taking all the attendant medications. Karen found herself getting winded with the very least exertion, experienced intermittent racing heart rate, sore feet in the morning, etc. We were basically a health mess!! And, to make matters worse, we had regrettably dragged our son, Jay, with us into this morass of “overweightedness” (a kind of parental negligence for which we will probably never forgive ourselves). Then, in January of 2007, we decided we really wanted a change. We just knew it was something we had to do, for ourselves, but also for people who loved us.
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