For most of my adult life I have heard people say, "You are so lucky, you never have to worry about your weight."   I would tell them that was a good thing because I love to eat!   I always believed that if you exercised enough you could eat anything you wanted.  That philosophy worked well for me until I reached my thirties.   Two children, eating on the run and sporadic workouts finally took their toll.  While my weight gain wasn't huge, I noticed I was gaining about two pounds a year and I didn't like it at all!   My family, friends and coworkers all thought I was crazy, but clothes hide a lot and I knew the real story.  I tried Atkins and felt terrible, I tried Weight Watchers and felt crabby and hungry.  The minute someone tells me I can't eat something, I am starving all the time!  I needed to find a program that worked for me.

 

A friend of mine was doing Body For Life and I decided to look into it.  While doing a search online, I found Physique Transformation and knew I had found my answer!   I found out I was only eating about 1700 calories a day and 20% of that was fat!  I had always thought of myself as a healthy eater, but when I entered my food into the PFA, I found I had an "F" diet, not an "A"   I found the PFA easy to use and once I got the hang of it was able to generate an A menu in a matter of minutes.  I believe this program worked for me because I was able to eat the food that I enjoy.  By the end of conditioning I was eating over 2700 calories each day and had only gained one pound.  In spite of the extra calories, my clothes seemed to fit better!  My coworkers were amazed at the amount of food I was eating and wanted to know how I could possible lose weight while consuming so much food?

 

I chose to end my rotation two weeks early even though I was 3 pounds short of my goal. I made this decision based on my idea of what I wanted to look like.  Even though I hadn't made it to my goal of 125#, I had decreased my bodyfat from 22% to 14.3% at the end of my 10th week.  Despite what the scale said, the mirror told me I had succeeded

 

While this program demands a lot of attention to detail and time, it is within anyone's ability.  I have two small children and very little time to myself, yet I was able to find  the time to make the program fit my lifestyle.  Preparing menus and meals ahead of time made it very easy to stick with the program.   In maintenance, I am finding that I not only learned a lot about food, the information I learned is ingrained in me now.  I can't imagine eating any other way