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Dawn's surprising findings
Sent: Thursday 3rd February 2011 4:14 PM
To: Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Salis
Subject: What a difference
Dear Dr Amanda,
It has been 8 days since I started my Success Diary.
After 40 something years of yo yo dieting, peppered with binge eating and not knowing "normal", I can now see "normal".
What a freedom, what a revelation. I love seeing myself act normally around food, not using emotional upsets as an excuse to overeat. In fact, it seems a silly thing to do - I finally respect myself enough to not use my stomach as a garbage dump. Even in the face of emotional meltdown the other day, I still did the Success Diary and didn't overeat. I had one beautiful nougat that I
relished and enjoyed.
Before starting the diary I weighed in at 66.0 kilos. Today I weighed myself again and was 63.5 kilos!!! Wow. I am thrilled.
I wish you were here so that I could hug you - if you think 6 years of "diet torment" was bad, you can think of people like me who have tortured themselves for nearly all of their lives. I honestly thought that I was mentally ill. Thank-you, thank-you.
BTW, it was your DVD presentation that finally made me "get it".
With immense gratitude,
Dawn
It always makes my day to hear from people like Dawn when they discover that losing weight doesn't have to be the restrictive torture they may have known in the past. Go Dawn!
If you'd like to let me know how you're getting on with your Success Diary adventure, click reply and send me a note. I'll be glad to cheer you on.
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What the experts say...
"Dear Amanda, I just wanted to write you an email to thank you for changing my life in such an important way. I was an overweight child and obese as a young adult consequently most of my life has been about battling with my weight. After losing weight with a popular weigh loss group when I was 19 I thought I had solved the problem but I was wrong. Post weight loss I could no longer lead a normal life if I wanted to stay thin. I would breakdown in tears every time I had to go out for dinner because I knew it would result in more weight gain and I began to exercise obsessively and get furious if anything interfered with my grueling regime. This abnormal behavior did not help my weight problem though and after a year of gradual gain I began cycles of starving myself, which would inevitably be followed by a binge. This went on for two years with me trying to hide my problem from people. Within 4 years I had gained 8 of the 20 kilos I had originally lost. A year ago I read your book and at first I thought it must be too good to be true because the only way I had ever known weight loss to happen was through starvation and suffering. Six months later however I decided I had nothing to lose by giving it ago. The change has been gradual. Firstly I threw out my scales then I started drinking full cream milk (something I have longed to do since I was 12 years old when I was first forced to swap to skim milk because of my weight problem). After this I worked on being able to gauge when I was full (I never had a problem gauging hunger). This took a long time because I was so used to eating carefully weighed portions. In six short months, though, the binging has stopped, I no longer have a breakdown at the thought of going out to dinner and I have already lost 4 kilos. So thank you Amanda, your wise words have given me the courage to change for good and now I know I will never have to be fat again."