Success Stories - PINA
August 30, 2009 – My journey began with much uncertainty and even more skepticism. While I witnessed my dear friend drop 10, 20, 30, and at present date 60 pounds with the Center for Medical Weight Loss (CMWL), I wasn’t sure this plan was for me. I walked into CMWL on that hot August day with so much motivation. I was motivated to lose weight and get healthy. I couldn’t fathom that the weight was why I was waking up every morning with aches and pains. Only in my 30’s, I should not have been feeling pain in my body… but I was. I remember meeting with my friend in a diner, of all places, and she looked great! That is when she introduced me to the Long Island Center for Medical Weight Loss! She told me that if I was really interested in losing weight to go to the Center for Medical Weight Loss. I will forever be indebted to her!!
Examining the print out of my Body Mass Index (BMI) was one of the scariest times in my life. I looked at those numbers and realized that I was slowly but surely killing myself. I wanted to cry. How could I have let this happen? I had no other choice but to try yet another diet. I remember telling Dr. G., “my weight loss therapist”, that I was 100% motivated to lose the weight. The first week I had lost an astounding 9 pounds! At the end of the first month, I had lost about 20 pounds and I felt great! I continue today to work with Dr. G. and The Center for Medical Weight Loss and am happy to report that I have lost a total of 109 pounds! I look in the mirror and finally recognize the person looking back at me. The person that had been lost for so long was buried under 109 pounds of weight. It took my losing all of this weight to realize that I was falling into a depression. I masked my feelings of inferiority and feelings of not being important enough with being the perfect host and being accommodating to everyone around me. Only now do I realize that society treats overweight and obese people negatively. I have experienced it; I have lived it for my whole life.
Dr. G. has given me my life back. I walk with confidence now! I walk without aches and pains! With about 10 – 15 more pounds to lose, I am so close to my goal and realize that the true work will soon begin. I will be put to the ultimate test... MAINTENANCE!!! However, I am confident that I will use all that I have learned from Dr. G. and his weekly homework assignments to maintain a healthy and comfortable weight. It’s been said that “Nothing tastes as good as thin feels!”
That’s the truth!!!