The Skinny on Weight Loss Meet Nickie Helms
Nickie is a 45-year-old resident of Coeur d'Alene. She is soft spoken and gentle and an absolute pleasure to know. I met Nickie in February when she came into my office for an Ideal Protein consult. She had seen our ad in the Cd'A Press and had been reading our articles on weight loss. Her weight at that time was 262 pounds. Her dress size was "a tight 22 going on 24." Over the next few months my wife Victoria and I have gotten to know Nickie and her fiance Tom and have heard her story.
Nickie has had weight issues all her life.
"We grew up very poor - we ate a lot of pasta to make ends meet. I never learned to eat healthy," she said.
She says that her physique was very "unbalanced" having a proportional upper body but very large thighs. She started ordering diet pills through the mail at the age of 13-years-old, not knowing what was in them. She later obtained various diet pills from medical doctors without any counseling. What she found was that when she stopped taking them the results proved to be temporary and the weight came back ten-fold. Dieting attempts after that were basically "starvation" and allowed her to lose weight rapidly until about 21 years ago when it became hard for her to continue this kind of dieting.
She then tried many different diets such as Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Nutra Systems, and even became a distributor of Herbal Life, just to name a few. For the next 24 years her life was a "perpetual diet." The results were rapid weight loss to begin with, then would slow down and then she would lose will power. Eventually she either couldn't afford to continue or her will power would diminish and then she would quit and the weight would return.
Early in 2010 Nickie says our color ad caught her eye. She had been reading my articles and liked what I was saying.
"You were talking about balancing the body and not giving a car salesman pitch," she said.
She decided to come in for a consultation and afterwards knew that this was worth trying.
In her words, "This is an easy diet but hard to do. Hard in the sense of overcoming years of bad behavior, such as consuming two, 2 liter diet sodas per day." (In my past articles I revealed that drinking just one can of diet soda per day was the biggest dietary risk factor for developing the metabolic syndrome.)
In this article Nickie insisted that I linked the emotional techniques I used, whenever set backs occurred, to her success. She insists that this has been the only diet she has never cheated on.
How does Nickie feel now? She says she recently went shopping for clothes and suddenly realized she was looking in the "plus" sizes and realized "I don't belong in this section any longer." She is presently a size 11, weighs 160 pounds and is still losing weight.
She looked at me as I was interviewing her and said, "Bruce, I'm not fat anymore. I feel healthy now and I feel very fortunate because diabetes runs in my family and I was heading that way. I'm the same age of my sister when she came down with diabetes."
Nickie's goal is to weigh 120 pounds and with her will power and the Ideal Protein weight loss protocol I have no doubt Nickie will succeed. How about you? Has weight loss been a long time battle, or have you recently realized your weight is not where you want it? Call our office to schedule a free consultation like Nickie did or attend our next free class. (208) 772-6015 Come on Coeur d'Alene and Sandpoint. Let's shape up and get healthy together.