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Show ADVERTISEMENT VI.- - : vV, w j 7 ii .,. L 1 1 Mk L When I look at this picture, I can see now why my young'uns didn't want me to come to school. There was just too much of me at 196 pounds. Would you believe this is me? Well it ifc, on a trip to Chicago. Just goes to show what losing weight can do for a person. ' I jrk'-V- fifth 'k Ip r fa- JrJw t JT, T fyd V r I i 0 U if ?' ft'Aoj My children were ashamed of me, until I lost 78 pounds. By Darlens Globe-- as wf n. . J.jS . told to Ruth L. McCarthy have five daughters. Ages four, six, seven, eight and nine. With that many young'uns that close together, it was easy to get to 196 pounds by the time I was 27 years old. What was hard for me was that my older girls were ashamed of their mamma. They didn't want me to go to 3chool with them. I was just too gosh-aul fat I used to think it was heredity. But now I know better. It was what I ate. Plenty of beans, meat, potatoes and dumplings. And lots of bread and bacon grease. Why, I could eat a whole loaf of bread just by myself, if it had enough drippings. Then, too, there was my m'ght eating. You see, we live on three and a half acres of land in Cookeville, Tennessee. And although my husband, Ray, is a carpenter by trade, sometimes he'd help his parents on their farm. It's acres big and it takes a lot of tendsiventy-fiv- e ing. So if I was waiting for him in the evening, I'd just watch television and eat. Hamburgers. Cake. Ice Cream. Anything. I took in much more food than I needed, even though I got my share of exercise. I can't tell you how many times I've "run cattle." City folks maybe wouldn't know what that means. But when one of the cattle would break out of the fence, I'd have to run a country mile to get her. Then she'd hide on me. And I wasn't always in the mood for a game of hide V seek, let me tell you. Unfortunately, it didn't run off any of my weight. I remember once my husband and I As I walked up to the stand, went to a drive-isome fresh boys yelled, "Hello, elephant!" I wanted to die. I never told Ray because I had the feeling he was getting ashamed of me, too. He didn't want to take me anyplace anymore. And if he did, he most times didn't want me to get out of the car. Why, when I think back now, my stomach I f .t Til vl. was almost longer than my legs. That's a fact. When I'd get into the car, I'd have to push the seat so far back, my feet would hardly touch the pedals. And when I sat at my sewing machine, I couldn't work it with my knee. I had to put the pedal on the floor, I was that big around the middle. I can tell you I was pretty discouraged. And it wasn't like I hadn't ever tried reducing, either. I think I've sent for every diet gimmick ever offered. Besides which I tried a slimming chewing gum. And living on liquids. And then diet pills which my own doctor gave me. You're not going to believe this, but I gained weight on those pills. Honest, I did. Why, if the cost of them hadn't stopped me, I'd have been a king-siz- e blimp by now. I even had shots to lose weight. But when I discovered I was pregnant, I stopped. So up the scales I went again. I didn't think anything could ever help me. But I was wrong. There was something. And it really worked for me. It was a reducing-pla- n candy with vitamins and minerals, called Ayds. I read about it in a magazine. There was this picture of a lady who'd lost -- oh, I don't know how many pounds with the help of Ayds. I thought, why not me. I'd tried everything else. So I drove to the drugstore and I picked up a box. The chocolate fudge-typhappen to have dentures, so I didn't want the vanilla-caramkind. They're too chewy for me. But later, when Ayds came out with a new chocolate mint flavor, which also had a fudgy texture, I got that one. It was close to New Year's when I started. Ray really wanted me to lose, so he made me a resolution. "I'll give you a dollar," he said, "for every pound you take off." I guess he never thought I could do it. But I did. Once I found out that the Ayds Plan could e. help me control my appetite, I knew I was congoing to get the fat off. Now, mind-Ay- ds tains no harmful drugs. None. I found that by taking one or two before meals like the directions say, I wanted less to eat. Used to be that e I'd have a plate of food and I'd come back as many as three times. But with Ayds, I started eating off a little plate like a saucer. And even though I might come back for seconds, I was still eating half of what I did before. As the pounds began to come off, I started rolling on my hips -- fifteen minutes every night. And I wore a chin strap to bed. My triple chi n was beginning to sag into one, so I thought it could do with a little support. Finally, I lost down to 118 pounds. Seventy-eigdollars worth of weight. I know it's going to take some doing to collect from my husband. But the compliments I've had since have been worth a million times that. Now, Ray wants me to go everywhere with him. And nowhere without him. Unless it's to school with the kids. Where they used to be ashamed of me, now they want me there for all the doings. My baby keeps saying : "Mamma, you're beautiful." While my oldest girl keeps measuring me with hugs. "Oh, you're so skinny," she says, as she opens her arms wide and wraps them around my middle. Something she was never able to do, before I took Ayds. full-siz- ht el Before 5'3" 196 lbs 42" 38" 46" 24 BEFORE AND AFTER MEASUREMENTS Height Weight Bust Waist Hips Dress Size After 5'3" 118 lbs. 36" 24" 36" 10 |