I am another Hawaii girl on Oahu who found this forum and I love it!
My name is Christy-Charity but of course the name Christy was used already and so my handle is Charity. Call me whatever!
I started Freshman year of HS at 110 and gained 10 lbs per year until I was 165. I stayed there for a while then I tried the Akins diet and jumped to 185. I ate all the fat but I would cheat and eat rice or other sugars and so poof 20 more pounds--it was the worst. I got back down to 160 for my wedding 2 years ago but of course was not happy with my wedding pictures (I am only 5'2"). Oh well, what's more important is who I married and his name is Michael. We have been together 9 years now.
We got pregnant about a month after getting married (we didn't waste any time!). Right before giving birth I was 211! Holy smokes! I got down to 195 naturally right after having Angelica (Geli' for short).
I had been dieting for all of my twenties and here I was 195 at 28 and I was never fit for all of my twenties. I didn't know what to do and decided that maybe the lapband surgery was my answer. I called every hospital on Oahu. No one would really consider me because I am not fat enough and have no other medical problems. Finally one hospital said, "Come on in to our info session and we will work with you". During the info session the Dietitian came up to speak for all of 5 mins. She said that people who don't qualify due to age or risk or whatever sometimes choose to do Medifast with her monitoring them for free after a minimal initial consult fee and that the hospital pays for her services as a gift to the community or something like that. Then she showed actual results of several of her patients that year and said they lost just as fast as post bypass patients.
HOLY SMOKES!!!!!!
That really got me excited! I can loose just as fast as a post bypass patient?????
I got started right away and lost 30 lbs in 3 months. I called it MENTAL GASTRIC SURGERY. If you do it just mentally, then there is no surgery risks and healing time when trying to care for an infant. If I looked at it as surgery, then it made it more permantent in my mind, like something I couldn't cheat on.
What really excited me was when the dietitian ran my result she found that almost ALL of it was fat and not water.
I love medifast.
My family went to the Mainland for several weeks on Vacation and I fell off the wagon.
It has been several months now and I have gained back 9 or so lbs.
I just visited my bestest friend in the whole world
in Florida for 10 days and inspired her to start when I restart. I ordered her some food and shared my experience. Her name is Stephanie and she is on fire 
!!!! She is just the boost I needed to restart and be as excited and motivated about it as I was in late January. I am only about 45 lbs away from being hot!!!! I can do this. It's only 45lbs!!!! I can do this! Expecially with Steph and this forum's help 
.
Thank you all for your time!!!!
Congratulations on the loss and on getting right back onto the program. Good for you for sharing your success and the knowledge of 'how-to' with your friend!
WB, CC!!
( we joke with eachother like that, he's a great guy don't get me wrong).
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