The ‘Aha Moment’ comes to us in so many differnet ways. For this Mom, it came to her after realizing that she was as big as the SNOWMAN in her backyard.
The DailyMail reports: Mrs Kirkby, 60, from Macclesfield, Cheshire, said: ‘ ‘When I saw that picture and saw that I was bigger than the snowman, I felt so embarrassed. I knew I had to take action. I had no idea I looked that big.’
She first started to put on weight after the birth of her children Fiona, now 27, and Andy, 24.She said: ‘I just didn’t know how to lose the weight. With two children to bring up, I was always busy with them.’
But then after the snowman was built in her garden at Christmas 2001, Mrs Kirkby decided she had to do something about it.
She said: ‘When you are bigger than the snowman in your garden, it is definitely time to take action. The snowman looked positively slim compared to me.‘I was a size 26 and I wore elastic skirts all the time, yet I wasn’t really aware of how big I looked until I saw that photo.’
So in January 2002, Mrs Kirkby decided to join Slimming World and changed her diet. For breakfast she now had cereal and low fat yoghurt. And for lunch, she ditched the jam sandwiches and instead had a baked potato with beans. Then for dinner she tucked into pasta.She said: ‘I was surprised at how easy the diet was. I’d always thought it was going to be impossible to lose the weight as I’d never been able to stick to a diet.
‘But this diet was easy to stick too, and I never felt hungry. just the thought of being bigger than that snowman kept me going.’
The pounds came off slowly but surely. It took her more than seven years for her to lose a staggering eight stone, but recently she hit her target weight of ten and a half stone.When she had lost five stone, she also discovered a life threatening hernia in her stomach, which was operated on by doctors.
She has now thrown away her elastic skirts and is now a slim size 12.
She said: ‘I feel absolutely fantastic now – like a different woman. i feel so much healthier and losing the weight has even meant that my hernia was discovered…… you can read the full story here at the DailyMail.
I know that I have had my share of humiliating moments. Those too, will be in the past. If you have an inspirational story or know where I can find one, just leave the information in the comment section and I will gladly look into it….
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