How about a simple, if my wife and me can, you can type story?

In December and January of this last year my wife of 27 years landed in the hospital for over 2 weeks because of her body was simply giving out. At 328 pounds, the excess weight was literally weighing down her lungs and heart so much, she just couldn't move another inch or catch her breath.

It was time to do something! Even though my wife is 67 years old and has battled obesity her entire life (including a intestine by-pass surgery back in the 70's that didn't really work), she'd learned how to live in the mid 200's pound range from her mid-teens on. Then our daughter died unexpectedly at age 39 followed by me having a leg chopped off which sent my wife down an emotional toilet where food became her obsession. In less than a year she gained an additional 70 more pounds. She couldn't tie her own shoes, put on her pants or get up fast enough to go pee. She'd hit bottom.

The doctor told me that if Anne went on a 1,200 calorie a day diet along with exercise, she'd finally be able to shed this fat that was killing her. Since I do 99% of all the cooking, I went crazy learning anything and everything about how to make every calorie count. The first thing we did was we started an hourly log. If my wife intakes a single bite, she logs it down. Thanks to a free little program for my IPhone, there's not a food out there that I can't learn the calorie count on. Any place to eat, brand at the grocery store or food type, their all at hand so we always know exactly how many calories she's just ingested.

Now 4 1/2 months later she's down 61 whopping pounds. She's eating a balanced diet and there isn't one gimmick in our new diet plan, but please understand we never call it a diet. Instead we always refer to it as a new way of approaching the way she eats and relates to food. The results are real and because we're not only loosing weight, we're changing her patterns about how she lives, I feel very confident that we're not going to see that yo-yo effect like so many experience. No diet plan ever holds for long because the patterns and habits that helped the person get so huge were never changed. That's where Anne's success is and that's where I'm sure anyone else can have just as good of results.

If anyone wants to know exactly what we're eating and how we're doing it, please feel free to contact me and I'll share all. Don't worry about it costing a fortune, in fact our food bills have actually dropped. Don't worry about spending hours a day with food prep because I'm not. Do worry about the negative effects carrying around all that weight is having on your quality of life.

By the way Anne was taking two 60 mg shots of insulin a day and now we're down to 20 mg twice a day so her sugar numbers have never been better.

If my wife who loves food more than anything else can do it, I know anyone can. I'm here to help if you'll let me. Bob.