Caryn Is Winning The Weight Battle

Healthy Hope!  Healthy Life!  Healthy Inspirations!

Full figured, plus size, large and lovely, no matter how delicately I tried to label it, I was fat.  Because I had tried and failed at other plans (Weight Watchers, New Weight, South Beach, Adkins, to name a few) I had lulled myself into a false acceptance of my oversized figure.  I thought that I was OK with my size until my mother mentioned that she had seen a relative who had great weight loss success with Healthy Inspirations.  And as my mother put it, “If she can do it, you can too”.  That really touched a nerve with me.  I felt a twinge of desire to be different.  Apparently I was not at all right with my fatness after all.  I was thirty-one years old, obese (size 18+) with high blood pressure, no exercise tolerance, and I was eating my way to diabetes and heart disease.

The Healthy Inspirations way gave me a glimmer of hope.  What most impressed me about the program was the support and encouragement that was provided.  Healthy Inspirations was unlike any weight loss plan that I had even encountered.  The friendly Lifestyle Consultants met with me three times a weekly and held my hand as I baby stepped my way through forty-nine pounds of excess weight.  The structure, nutritional education, support and encouragement that were provided to me are the reasons for my success.

What is so amazing is that the Healthy Inspirations plan actually lives up to its claims!  I followed the nutritional guidelines, exercised using the circuit, ate sinfully delicious protein snacks and lost an average of 2.5 pounds per week.  The steady progress is motivation in itself.  And more importantly, I was never hungry!

Everyone around me has watched me change.  People frequently comment on how good I look (in my new size eight jeans).  My results have even motivated others to examine themselves, their lifestyles, and their desires.  Three of my co-workers have enrolled at Healthy Inspirations and two others are contemplating their decision.

Currently I am in the Healthy Balance portion of my Healthy Inspirations plan.  I have lost a total of 49 pounds and counting.  I have gone from a size eighteen to an eight.  My health is much improved.  I no longer require medicine for high blood pressure, and my cholesterol is down.  My energy level is through the roof!  I can ride my bike, I can run, I can play with my son even after working as an RN in a busy operating room.

Thanks to Healthy Inspirations, my future is bright and filled with hope.  I am winning the weight battle.  I am revived and I am alive!  What a blessing! 

Caryn B.
Lynchburg, VA

*Caryn was one of eight finalists in the "Are You Inspired" essay contest