Susan Foster, RHN- Registered Holistic Nutritionist
Consultant Rachelle Wood Nutrition- Charlottetown
My weight loss journey spans at least 25 years. I was raised in a house hold where the food guide consisted of 3 food groups: White bread, Kraft dinner and chocolate. In high school I remember getting the student discount at weight watchers, there I was a teenager in a sea of gray haired elderly ladies. I lost some weight and felt great. My confidence was on the rise finally,but then my healthy habits began to slip as I ate like my friends ate. One does not want to draw attention to ones self, when you are a teenager trying to eat salads, while everyone else is eating fries. Soon the weight was back on and more. This sets the tone for the next 25 years of my life. I would watch the numbers on the scales go way up, then back a little, then way up and up and up. I let my "well meaning " family and friends dictate how I should live my life, right down to what I should eat. I was always the fat friend, fat sister, the largest one in the photo, you know the one trying to hid in the back. There was even a fiancée of 6 years tell me he would not marry me because he would not have a fat wife. I tried to lose weight for him. In my head that seemed like a good idea at the time, lets just say, he was never seen again and neither was my waistline. At my heaviest I was close to 90 lbs over weight, at 5 foot nothing, not good. After making up my mind, I decided I was not going to be fat/frumpy/dumpy anymore. So off to the Canadian school of Natural Nutrition I did trot. There I learned that you really can change your life by changing what you put in your mouth.
Walking down the street one day, in a pair of new jeans, "feeling like - all that, and a bag of chips" I thought I looked great. First time I could fit into blue jeans in such a long time (thank you Jesus for elastic waist pants). I happened to catch a glimpse of myself in a store window. "Oh the horror" I had no idea who that Fat/frumpy old woman in my reflection was. That was not me, that was not the life I wanted to lead, fat and frumpy old cat lady. Seriously in my head I looked darn good, ok maybe I had gained a little weight, it's that the dryer keeps shrinking my clothes. It was a day I will always remember, I really had no idea my love affair with chocolate had really gotten so out of hand. Going to the Canadian school of Natural nutrition really changed my life for the better, now I get my "high" not from chocolate, but from helping other people change their lives as well. If you keep doing what you've always done, you will get what you've always got. So try something new small "Positive Changes" can make a big difference in helping you live the life you've always wanted.
Photos of Susans Weight Loss Journey- COMING SOON
Rachelle Wood, Susan Foster - April 2009
