I'm Regina Smith - wife, mother of four -this is my secret to my 86# weight loss. My story begins my HS Sr year when I turned to bulemia to lose a few pounds. I was miserable-an active teen, abusing laxatives and diuretics, drained of strength and needing to know every bathroom location on my university campus. In 1983, at the age of 19, I read about Karen Carpenter's death-that scared me enough to stop the bulemia. But I didn't stop overeating, I just turned to another solution:DIETING. By 1998 I had dieted 1/2 my life and at the age of 35, miserable again, I was tired, hopeless and resigned to accept I was a large woman. I was depressed-I wasn't large as a kid or in HS-something wasn't right because I hated being overweight. Dieting didn't help-I weighed nearly 225# doing that! Then one night I saw on TV a program called Weigh Down. I heard "eat your favorite foods", "never walk down down the dietetic food aisle again", "no have-to exercise"-magical words to a dieter! But there was also a connection being made to God. I grew up in church, so I had to check it out. What I found was THE cure-Weigh Down took me back to the way I ate as a kid: natural hunger and fullness. Overeating was going BEYOND the body's natural cues built in by God; the food didn't need to change, I needed to change. "The rest is history," I lost 86#! When I followed the principles of Weigh Down-no diet foods, no counting anything-I grew closer to God, my marriage improved, our teen daughter lost 20#, and my husband lost 60#. As a family we are changed-but not just on the outside, the bigger changes have come from within. My before and after pictures are included so you can see - this is real!
