Before and After

"No guesswork, just the facts ...and results" Age 51 Weight: 158 to 143 Body Fat: 34% to 27% Time: 16 weeks

My Story

I guess because the son has some really good suggestions and a great tracking program and the result for me is a 15 pound weight loss in 12 weeks. Darn, if you asked some of the names of my personal friends, I would list butter and whipping cream! I am like the little kid that wraps her fingers around the door frame so she won't have to give up playtime to take a nap. At 50, I thought I deserved to eat what I wanted. But it is more fun to watch my body and my face becoming leaner and my clothes getting looser than it was to maintain my hard line commitment to the freedom of choice when it came to food.

Like many dieters, I have tried a lot of things lots of times. As a matter of fact, I was trying to do Weight Watchers online when Dave showed me the Balance Log.  So I thought how different can the two really be? Here is the answer.  This program is all about me, just me and my metabolism and my calorie intake. It is like a science fair project or lab experiment. I thought I knew so much about my diet and the foods I ate, but until I started entering my food and saw what I was really eating compared with the known fact of my metabolism which Dave measured for me, I realized how far off base I really was. No guesswork, just facts. And results! Every week I am getting smarter and every week I am losing weight.

So for me this has become a game. Sometimes I even enter foods just to see what it will cost me if I eat them. What a reversal in attitude. This is fun. When was the last time you ever heard anyone say that about a diet?

-Patty King