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When I was 38 years old, I took a good look at my life, and didn't like what I saw. I was divorced, overweight, unhappy, and raising a 12 year old boy by myself. When I finally got the courage to be honest with myself, my future looked very bleak. My husband left me when I was 30 years old for a 20 year old woman, and I was bitter and broken hearted at the same time. To make matters worse, I was voted "Best Looking" in my high school years, but the weight I had gained hid almost every trace of my physical beauty. Furthermore, I was livid that men who used to beg me to go out with them, now wouldn't even look in my direction. I decided to change. I decided I wanted a happy life, and that included a loving husband and hopefully a "step father" for my son. This "change" didn't take place overnight, I thought about it for almost 2 years before I actually went into action. Then, on December 3, 1987 I woke up and knew that my days of being fat and unattractive were over. Nobody took me seriously, especially since I announced my new plans at the brink of the "eating holidays". But something important had clicked, I knew in my heart that I would never be fat again. Amazingly, following the Weight Watchers Plan was relatively easy. There was plenty of food to eat, and I began to look and feel SO GOOD within a few months! I weighed 170 pounds when I went to Weight Watchers. I asked the "Weight Watcher" Leader not to tell me my weight, because I knew it would upset me terribly. I reluctantly stood "backwards" on the scale, so I couldn't see where she was putting the numbers. But a sinking feeling crept into my heart when I "heard" the weigher move the measurement block to the "150" lb. slot. I hadn't been on a scale in years, I'd always been slim before, so the idea of "dieting" terrified and infuriated me. But I said to myself, "I will stick to this plan as long as I am not hungry". I will follow the plan precisely, as long as I didn't feel constantly starving, and I do lose weight. And that is exactly what I did. I challenged myself to become a beautiful woman again, and I won! When I left Weight Watchers that first night, I opened my new membership card. To my dismay, right before my eyes, it read: 5'2", 170 lbs. I couldn't believe I weighed almost 200 lbs! The last time I was on a scale I weighed 115 lbs., and that was 7 months after I had given birth. But as I said before, something "clicked", and I stayed on that plan from December 3rd to June 1st. Since I had lost the weight in the cold of the winter, my neighbors only saw me coming and going in my heavy winter coat. But by June the weather was getting warm. And I was a size 5! I went from a size 16 to a size 5 in 6 months! As I began dressing in my summer clothes, people who had known me for years literally didn't recognize me! Suddenly, my single, male neighbor, who I silently swooned over inside, took notice of me. I hated him for that. He never acknowledged my prescence at all when I weighed 170 lbs. Now that I was 110 lbs. I guess I passed his physical requirements. He didn't even realize I'd been his neighbor for years, he asked me when I moved in? I did go on a few dates with him, and quickly realized how shallow and obnoxious this man was. Yes, he was handsome, but his personality was so ugly I couldn't go out with him after 3 dates. I was offered a position as a "Weight Watcher" lecturer/leader, but raising my son and working full time, were all I could handle. Now it is almost 20 years later, and I've weighed 125 lbs for the last 5 years. After the novelty of being "skinny" at 110 lbs. wore off, and I realized that I actually got TOO thin, so I reached my goal weight of 125 lbs., and have maintained it ever since. I feel great, I actually look better at age 57 than I did at age 38 when I weighed 170 lbs. I would love to help anyone with the same problem.
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