My Story
My Story
My name is Susan and my weight problems started early, but not naturally. As a child I was very, very skinny, so much so, that my teachers would send notes home to my mother about it. She did all she could, then took me to my doctor and insisted he DO SOMETHING! Well, he did. He gave me some kind of tonic to make me eat……..I was never easily thin again.
From that point on I was a chubby little girl. As a teen, I was able to take weight off with protein and salad for several days and my activity level was high enough to help the effort. I could usually stay in a size 12/13, I am large boned and was never able to wear anything smaller no matter how much I lost. At graduation, I weighed 129 lbs.
Four years of marriage added pounds and at age 25, I weighed 150 and was divorced. The single partying lifestyle of the mid seventies made it difficult to keep weight off. At 28, I remarried and weighted 170. A few months later, we discovered Herbalife and I got down to 160 for a very short time. It also messed up my system so that any sugar that I ate really made me sick, I got over that and gained for the next couple of years.
At 32, I had a bout of depression and shot up to 220. A year and a half later, unable to find work, my husband and I became long haul truck drivers. That packed on the pounds and by age 38 I weighed 260! I looked like someone had blown me up like a balloon.
In 1992, I got out of the truck and took a job in technology in San Jose, CA. I began counting protein, carbs, fats – mostly fats and lost 35 pounds. I was very careful about what I ate and jumped on the mini trampoline as much as possible. After 260, 225 felt tiny! I bounced around 225 up and down for years and in 2001 discovered OHI. I followed their plan loosely and lost 35 lbs in 3 months but could not keep it off as life got busier and busier, going back up to about 215 and hovering there for a couple of years. Then in 2004, I went back to OHI for 2 weeks and followed the program very strictly, losing 21 lbs in 14 days. I could hardly make it to the airport to get home, I was so weak, but at 194, I it felt wonderful!
Upon arriving home, I discovered that my husband had lost his job and with that stress, the weight crept back on, eventually climbing back up to 245. In 2005, I got the flu and lost back to 225, which seemed to be my set point. It was easy to stay there and eat whatever I wanted. I had given up, I was fat and there was NOTHING I could do about it.
UNTIL…….
September 2007, Kauai, Hawaii, waiting for my husband to get ready for lunch, I was channel surfing and came across Kevin Trudeau selling his book “The weight loss cure”. It sparked something.
I have always thought that there was a KEY and this looked like it could be IT! However, I did not buy the book. I searched online and found “Pounds and Inches” by Dr. Simeon. During the next two and a half months, I researched and searched for a way to do the HCG program on a limited budget. It was not happening.
Then we searched on HCG in Mexico and discovered that it was called Gonakar. Just after that discovery, we took a trip to Rocky Pointe, Mexico, a place we visit yearly to relax and stock up on meds that can be purchased over the counter there. Gonakar is one of the meds that can be purchased without a prescription. In addition, it is very inexpensive. The syringes, bottles and biostatic water cost more than the product to inject.
INJECT……..that word still makes me weak, but as my husband says, “the desire to lose weight has to overcome the queasiness of a needle”. It is not easy, but not as hard as being fat forever.
Come with me on the journey to a thinner new body.
