The Woman who Lost her Butt!

This was me in August 2003. Between August and December 2003, I put on even more weight. In December 2003, I made the decision to be slim. I do not have a picture of myself immediately before I started to slim - for obvious reasons - but rest assured that I was more obese when I started, than this picture illustrates.

 Chantal Now

August 2003,
not yet at my heaviest!
August 2004, I'm on my way!
This was me in August 2004. It has been 8 months and I have obviously slimmed down, but I still have a way to go.

November 2004,
I’ve lost 190 pounds!

This is me in November 2004, only 11 months after I made the decision to slim. At this time, I have released 50% of my initial starting weight. I have not yet reached my goal weight, but I am now an average size and can shop in regular size women's stores for clothes.

How Did It Get So Bad?

How could I possibly let this get so out of control? It is not for the lack of trying. I followed every type of diet that existed, but always, I would lose the willpower to stick through it. I would fall off the diet and no matter how hard I tried, I could never continue or regain the momentum that I had initially had at the start of a new diet - that new moment of hope in an overweight or obese person's life. Always, the hope that started me on whatever program, became despair - always because I could not get control of my appetite, of myself. Something would go wrong - the regular stuff of everyone's life - and that would spell the beginning of another failed attempt.

What was wrong with me? Why was I so weak?

If you are overweight or obese, you already know first hand what I mean.

Making a List and Checking It Twice

I had physical problems so maybe one of these was the real reason behind this unrelenting weight problem. So I consulted many different western medicine health professionals. But after doing everything that was recommended, still the weight persisted.

Everyone has emotional problems. Could one of these be the real reason? So I consulted many different health professionals, worked hard at solving my "issues", but still the weight persisted.

After many, many tries at it, I just had to start thinking that I should just love myself the way that I was, grossly obese, and just learn to live with it. In other words, I could not see any other way than to give up on the idea of ever being average weight, let alone a slim person.

Love myself grossly obese? No way - but without any apparent options, what else could I do but try to delude myself with this thought.

But always at the back of my thoughts was the lingering question: "Why, oh why could I not figure a way out that would work and be permanent?"

I'm a Successful Person in Other Areas - Why Not This?

I am a successful person in my career.
I am a successful parent.
I am successful in my relationships.

I have tackled and overcome many difficulties and challenges in both my professional and personal life.

Why could I not figure this out and come up with a solution that would work for me - for this specific problem?

Here was an Approach that I had Never Tried Before

A friend and colleague of mine, Patricia Wall, had developed a set of techniques that she used successfully to lose weight. When used consistently, Trish’s techniques are able to teach your body to cooperate in becoming a slimmer person. They are based on alternative health modalities using energy work.

I had used energy work to tackle and overcome other difficult personal problems in my life with great success. It was obvious that I had nothing to lose but the excess fat that was entrapping me.

So Where Am I Now?

When I made the decision to slim, various sources that I consulted told me that I needed to reduce my weight by 240-250 pounds. Trish had achieved a personal reduction of 50 pounds in one year while using her energy healing techniques. At that rate, this would take five (5) years to reach my goal. I was not willing to wait that long.

To speed things up, I decided to both use Trish’s “Naturally Slim Person” techniques and follow a very restrictive doctor supervised food plan. In 11 months, while using both, I have achieved 80% of my planned weight reduction, and rarely “cheated on my diet”.

Yea, right! Not cheated? Who are you trying to kid?

You are thinking – “so she’s lying to herself, how could someone be on a very restrictive diet and not cheat over 11 months?”

I guess you are right, but cheating during these 11 months consisted of eating 50 grams of extra protein, or of eating one allowed fruit too many for that day, or of eating one more melba toast than was allowed. Technically, I even cheated while on vacation, which meant having to substitute one kind of allowed protein for another that was similar, but not allowed (for example eating skinless chicken legs and thighs instead of the diet-allowed skinless chicken breast).

Yes, that’s right. I even followed the diet as best as I could during the two vacations that I took in those 11 months. I even followed the diet through the Christmas holiday season. And I reduced significantly during all of those situations.

So How did the “Mind over Weight ” Program Help at All?

The “Naturally Slim Person” program has taught me how to address all the emotional issues that, in the past, sabotaged all my previous attempts to slim. It has taught me how to focus on this one goal. It has taught me how to treat myself with compassion and love, without using food. It has taught me how to succeed in this one area, but it also has taught me techniques that can be used in all areas of my life.

So why “The Woman Who Lost her Butt”?

I have had a big butt since I became 12 years old. I’ve always had a big butt, even at my slimmest before now. Since October 2004, I do not have a big butt. I now have an average sized butt. In these 11 months, I’ve lost over 20 inches off my hips and over
19 inches off my waist.

I want to share with you the other half of the story, and as far as I am concerned the MOST IMPORTANT half of the story.

Yes I used the Bernstein diet, but that was to handle the physical component.

In many previous attempts (too many in 30 years to count), I discovered that I would be able to go so far and then I just could not go any further. The end result would be that I would gain everything back and then some more on top of that. What's new about that? This is a common story.

I needed to find a way to tackle the underlying reasons for my weight
problems - those reasons that were making it impossible to succeed.

I investigated physical reasons, found lots of them, found solutions
for them, yet no visible effect on my ability to lose weight, keep it off, and not regress.

I investigated emotional reasons, found lots of them, used traditional
Western medicine approaches to tackle them, and again could not keep it off.

Then I started using techniques that Patricia Wall developed. BANG! SUCCESS!

Patricia Wall teaches a workshop "Naturally Slim". The contents of the workshop will cover techniques that you can perform yourself, as required, that help with dealing with the emotional and subconscious reasons that anyone can have for "being overweight".
These are real reasons and invariably sabotage your efforts at "eliminating excess weight" unless you can "eliminate the underlying reason".

Yes, the excess weight is a consequence of eating too much, making poor food choices and exercising too little....but why are you REALLY eating too much, choosing poorly and exercising too little? The REAL reason can be tackled with the techniques being taught at this workshop. Once the real reason is eliminated, the excess weight can also easily be eliminated. These techniques teach you how to ELIMINATE the reason, not just "understand" it. When you eliminate the reason, you eliminate the sabotage in its many forms.

In my current success with eliminating my excess weight, I have used
The same techniques that will be taught by Patricia Wall. Without using these techniques, I am convinced that I would yo-yo back to the way I was, and would never have been able to "go all the way" to a normal weight for me.

Thanks for listening.Regards, C V

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