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-96 days Posted by Yvonne on 4/26/2018, 8:27 am How's everybody doin'?? I'm doing great. Today, I am going to try to start walking with the help of my foot sleeve. Slowly around the park. Yesterday was another good day. If I stack up enough of those days, I'll be there!! Keep sipping and slurping. Cambridge is the answer to obesity. I saw a commercial for Weight Watchers with the major stockholder, Oprah, walking towards the camera. But, they only showed her face!!! I'm not stupid. Oprah is still obese and SHE owns Weight Watchers!

Yeah...I saw that too Posted by Pam T on 4/26/2018, 5:34 pm, in reply to "-96 days" AND she still photo shops the HECK out of her magazine covers! But I can't judge her for that because we all know what a beast it is to lose weight and keep it off. She's just like the rest of us on this roller coaster ride. Money can't buy you love and it also can't buy you skinny. I'm so glad you are doing so well with your Cambridge and with your recovery. Every pound you toss aside is one less that your ankle has to support while it's healing. Very awesome!!!

Don't insult my intelligence!! Posted by Yvonne on 4/26/2018, 5:40 pm, in reply to "Yeah...I saw that too" I know we all have our challenges with weight loss. But, don't buy stock in a weight loss company, promote its value and still be as big as a house three years later and expect me to believe in the product.

Re: Don't insult my intelligence!! Posted by Pam T on 4/27/2018, 2:15 pm, in reply to "Don't insult my intelligence!!" I was never able to get to my goal weight, much less maintain my loss for any length of time with WW...and I did it more times then I can count. That was my failing of course. The weigh ins would start to trigger bad behavior in me every time. I would lose initially and be all enthusiastic about weigh-ins, then start to cheat here and there causing my weight loss to stall. By that time it was all unraveling and I would go the route of not eating on weight in days, or taking diuretics or laxatives, stupid stuff like that. I'm pretty sure it was the same for my mom. I remember one time she got down to a 14 or 16. It was amazing! That lasted about a week, lol! The one time Oprah did lose all her weight was on Opti-Fast. She admitted that her big reveal show where she pulled the fat out in a wagon was the last day she weighed that. She "celebrated" with a cheeseburger and it was all over. She blamed the diet for being a very low calorie liquid diet as the reason she was unable to maintain.

Self-hatred Posted by Yvonne on 4/27/2018, 11:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Don't insult my intelligence!!" Me and Oprah can "blame" any diet, but it is our own failure to understand the root of this addiction and then try to correct it. Weight Watchers is NOT going to do it. I understand that now. However, I have to admit that Weight Watchers in its original form (back in the 70s) taught me about balanced nutrition and I thank them for that. Eugene Boe's Cambridge handbook about how Dr. Howard in London understand all of these reduced diets. They are just a "set-up" and unless there is a life-threatening situation in one's life to force one to lose the weight, these other diets usually don't work. It's the "appetite" that needs to be reined in. Cambridge does that for me.

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