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so this is Susan I just want to explain

a really interesting great success story

Susan had some law office like you said

just kind of tell us a little story

about when you were junior high school

and what happened okay I gained weight

during high school I started when I was

104

I was 152 when I graduated so I went

from being quite thin to really being a

little too heavy somewhere before

college I got a job that required me

long walking a long distance to and from

work and without realizing it I lost

about 15 pounds that summer maybe 20

pounds then in college the weight loss

continued I graduated from college at

104 again got married a year or two

after that over the course of my 25-year

marriage I went up to 298 pounds Wow now

you just kind of study this with Clara

dynamite yes and you did Finn Finn I did

I did go to weight loss specialist and

be on 15 for awhile which I think was

somewhat helpful to me but I I don’t

know I didn’t go back so I didn’t keep

having been prescribed I did neutral

systems and I did other other programs

more or less and then when you were at

your peak how did people view you can

you feel that they look at you

differently I think my children were a

little embarrassed or maybe more than a

little they sometimes made comments

about so-and-so I thought you were

pregnant or things you’re pregnant oh

yeah and I felt too Shrieve it a little

bit like a nonentity or as somebody who

maybe wasn’t very bright or very smart

or very ambitious

since I was wait a lot it’s amazing how

people look at people differently if

they’re away and almost like you’re

accused lower something like that or

they’re lazy or if you just exercise

more any better the other point is them

there is a turning point I think it was

around Christmas time that you decided

that you have to turn things around tell

me a little bit about that I was well I

didn’t like the fact that my weight was

never stable but it was a constant going

up that was pretty scary I have a son

and three daughters one day I looked up

when they were teenagers and said my

daughters are all looking a little

chubby what is going on oh my gosh Susan

what are you doing

you know you’ve been hiding your head in

the sand you have to do something about

this other than that it was a good point

in my life and I just decided to start

eating healthy and walking which I did

and after a few months I got this idea

that maybe I should try a trainer which

I did it’s been fabulous I love my

trainer I love working out and I lost

over 18 months I lost about a hundred

and sixty pounds now she she has some

consistency and she enjoyed it

as compared and you didn’t look at it

something that was very painful you look

forward to working out I did I’m very

lucky in that way I don’t I didn’t have

any preconceived notions that oh I’m

going to hate this and in fact I don’t

hate it I like it a lot and I’ve always

in addition to the strength training

I’ve done a variety of cardio but my

main cardio is walking and it’s the most

satisfying to me and I think the you

know as they say the cardio you are the

exercise you’ll do is the best one

because your body type was more than a

dream about your type of midsection

right definitely

so the walking would be the best thing

and you walk just tell tell them how how

long you would walk her time and then

okay my what five or six times a week I

started off I think doing a mile or two

miles but then my standard walk became

six miles and that may or june after

having a healthier lifestyle for six

months and having lost about 100 pounds

i signed up for a 17 mile walk and I did

do that it was a 17 mile one day walk

and I did do that so about six months

after I started so you’re walking off so

um six cents a week yes and you were

walking in two hours each time yes in

your spare time that’s right that’s

right and you were were you working the

time - uh I work for myself so yes I was

working and I did have four children oh

it’s kind of squeezed it in there but

it’s but it’s pleasurable for me and

attention reducing and I made it a

priority definitely great you know your

your viewpoint and I’m really interested

in your attitude because it’s so

positive you never really have any

doubts you didn’t have any anything

you’re just going to go for it and it’s

just going to happen right it’s a

cooking point that was my viewpoint

because I knew that I was lucky with a

basically healthy body I didn’t think I

had any issues or physical things that

were really stopping me I knew that I

ate horribly and I knew that I didn’t

really exercise so if I change some of

those things I had to have resolve see

then that’s just the thing if you remove

any other barriers someone has like

stating that she didn’t have that so you

seem to plug in the right type of

workout which is not intensity at first

and then you’re not then you got into

intensity interval training yes does

that continue to work with the trainer

and then how do people look at you now

when people see you walking down the

street like tell me what they say well

we happen to move change neighborhoods a

little bit at the time that I started so

over the years I’ve run into a lot of

people who haven’t seen me in a long

time and generally if I say hello to

them they have no idea who I am just

totally clueless and then sometimes from

the voice they’ll say Susan and yeah and

they’re just overwhelmed

extremely supportive thrilled impressed

it was certainly very motivating and

very gratifying it is to admit I’ve met

a really good friend recently who I

haven’t seen in about 10 years

and she had no idea who I was no idea

and then you feel better

energy-wise - a little bit better oh I

do i I feel great

all the time I I know my body will do

whatever I ask it to do I never think

about it one way together that’s exactly

the attitude that someone needs so she’s

and she’s actually 42 it she didn’t get

before don’t just I wish I was 42 I’m 54

I’m gonna be 55 into it incredible so

you can see that she’s so alive and that

really helps out and then what would you

say if someone who is struggling in

their 50s to give them a little help I

would say you can do it you know don’t

pay attention to the articles that say

you’re postmenopausal you’re middle-aged

it’s harder blood than that that just

ignore them just ignore that yeah well

really just ignore it and do what you

know you should do I mean make your diet

healthier and do some exercise that you

enjoy great thank you so much and I just

want to just step up and just so we can

see you don’t have a stomach anymore and

if you do you need to push that back a

little bit so you can see can you see

the waist so there’s absolutely no waist

and you’re not sucking in your stomach

but now that I like that matter now so

this is stuff this is fantastic so well

done thank you very much thank you very

much

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