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Diet... To me it is not a foreign word. I have tried everything! I am your typical over weight young woman. I have been heavy most of my life but in the last year the weight just seemed to keep adding to my stomach, hips, thighs, and nothing I do seems to get rid of it.

I finally stepped on the scale one morning and I was a whopping 174 pounds! I started to cry, feeling sorry for myself, guilty for the food that I would eat behind my husbands back, depressed for not feeling beautiful, and drained because I did not feel I could lose the weight that was not only attacking the outside of me, but the inside most of all!

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I decided I was going to eat salad for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I mean how could someone gain weight on salad??? Three days later I was no heavier but definitely no lighter. On top of practically eating only salad all day long I was also working out at the gym all week. Mondays and Wednesdays my husband and I do a 50 minute spin class, Tuesdays and Thursdays I do Zumba, and Mondays and Thursdays we do an ab blasting class. And still I was not losing a pound! That morning I decided I needed help so I emailed Heather to see if she could possibly help me. I figured she would have no other words of wisdom for me. I was already eating a low calorie, low carb, low fat diet and doing three classes each twice a week, what else could she tell me?! When I received an email back from her that day I had to read it twice. She said that she was "exhausted" just reading my weekly workout and diet routine! Exhausted??? I could not believe my eyes. I called my husband right away and read him the response. He suggested I give her a call and make an appointment during a time when he could come with me. He is my support system! My first appointment I thought I was going to keel over when Heather said that I was NOT eating enough! I could tell that she saw the doubt in my eyes so she looked at me and said, "Trust me!" From that moment I decided I was having no luck doing this DIET thing on my own and that I would give it a little time using Heather's methods to see the results. I rescheduled with Heather giving myself two weeks for a trial period. Two weeks is not long but knowing that my honeymoon is in August and I had set a weight goal for myself; I wanted to make sure I was staying on track, or should I say, I wanted to make sure that Heather's crazy plan was going to work! During the first two weeks following Heather's plan there were meals so big I could not finish. One of the best things about this plan is that I got to select off foods that I like to eat, so when Heather put together a meal plan there was not one thing on there that I disliked, not to mention that I get three full meals and two snacks of real foods, not just salad! So two weeks passed and it was time to see Heather again. We talked a while and then she said it was time to weigh in. I felt my hands start to sweat and my heart start to pound. I stepped on the scale and to my delight I had lost 5 pounds. 5 whole pounds!!! Next came my waist and hip measurements. In the end I had lost a total of 2 ? inches off my waist and ? inch off my hips!

I am already starting to feel like super woman. It is one thing when your husband looks at you and tells you that you are beautiful, I think he is supposed to do that no matter what, after all, he did promise "for better or worse!" But then I have Heather, a complete stranger, tell me she cares about me and as long as I am willing to put forth the effort, which is a lot easier than what I was trying to do on my own, I can reach my goal by July and any goal that I set for myself because I am now not only building my outer strength but my inner strength is starting to shine! Heather is my second support system and I know that without her guidance and strength I would not have achieved what I did in two weeks!

Thank you Heather for all of your kind words, and firm strength!

~ Mindy