About Debbie

Let's Be Deliciously Skinny Together

 

I first got a grip on the real reason for overweight in 1976. I’d been on diets before that but extreme programs that didn’t give lasting results. Much to my dismay, in 1976 I got on my bathroom scale and saw that I weighed 244 lbs. Even though I am 5’8” –  that is a lot. It was a very depressing moment. 

How I lost 100 pounds and kept it off is a story that you will get to know through my blog. To this day I feel heavy emotion when I think of that moment and it brings tears to my eyes to tell you about it.  It’s not an easy thing to say. 

When I was that heavy it was hard to even get out of bed and face another day. I had nothing to wear. Nothing fit except huge sack like clothes. I was embarrassed. I could just hear people say “she’s fat”. I knew they were thinking it if they didn’t say it. A boy I was interested in at the time refused to go out with me at the suggestion of a friend. His response was “She is fat. And all she has to do is just eat less.”

I knew others were thinking “I don’t want to hire her. It will give a wrong image to our company.” Or “I don’t want to be friends because other people might think I am a fat person just by association.” Or the classic one “she would be so pretty if she would just lose weight.”

Even my own father said to me “Why are you eating that? You are already fat.” I was crushed.

I thought “They don’t know me. I am a great person. They just look at the exterior. And that’s not me.”  But I did care about the image I put forth. I really didn’t want to look that way. Despair is the only word to describe how I felt at that time, overwhelming despair and hopelessness.

As I write this, almost everyone who knows me has no idea I was ever that heavy. If any comment at all, they call me “small”, or say “you don’t need to lose weight”. If only they knew.

I enjoy having others say to me, “Have you always been skinny?”  But until today I was reluctant to ever clue them in that I had such a weight issue. I didn’t want to be thought of as a fat person. Impressions of someone tend to last. I just never revealed all I had gone through.

Always, I wanted to help others achieve the same results that I have. Keeping weight off permanently defies the statistics that say you cannot do that. The majority do regain the weight they lost and sometimes more.

I am not flashing before and after photos because I am not selling an instant weight loss pill, or a magic shake mix. I am not here to convince you that what I say will transform you.

I am here speaking from the heart. I know the pain, the agony, the depression and self loathing that goes along with being overweight. And I know how big the challenge is to lose it. And bigger yet, to keep it off.

I also know how incredible it feels to conquer the issue and to get compliments like “You look so thin.” Or  “You look so great.”  It’s such a thrill to go into a store and grab a pair of pants in a small size and have them look great on you!

This whole subject has been my passion for over 30 years now. It’s my desire to share with you what the true data is about achieving and maintaining your ideal weight.

Join me in my journey to reveal everything I have learned. It is my sincere desire that you will find help in losing weight and keeping it off.