Really Losing Weight

I lost a lot of extra weight--about 45 pounds worth--and I did it by myself, without Nutrisystem, or Weight Watchers, or Core Rhythms, or Hoodia. I learned a lot of stuff in the process, and a lot of stuff these companies don't want us to know about losing weight. This blog essentially a bunch of tips I've learned, and it's for anybody who doesn't have the money or interest in dabbling with drugs or excessive exercise regimes or group efforts or expensive frozen dinners.

Now--I'm not knocking those plans, I just don't think they're necessary. And of course--if you start any kind of a weight loss program, you should talk it over with a doctor anyway. This isn't really a diet program, anyway--it's collected knowledge that I picked up, and I feel like I should pass on what I've learned.


This is me with my best friend M; since I didn't ask her permission to use her photo, I blurred out her face. That's me in the front, in 2005.

In the summer of 2005 when that photo was taken, I was 51 years old, I stand 5'4" tall and I weighed 175. That's a BMI of 30. That's obese. It took all of a year to get down to 137. Today, I vary between 130 and 132, and at my height that's a BMI of 22.7, well within normal range. I'll upload a picture later on (I'm considerably grayer but thinner). Hope this helps somebody out!