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Show AdvM-ttnnnt- ) I charmed my snake-catchi- hubby ng by losing 79 pounds. By Wannette Davis I declare, at 223 pounds, I was the nippiest girl in Jacksonville, Florida. Now if I had been a rattlesnake, my husband would have appreciated my size. He catches them and he could have sold me to a reptile show for a pretty penny. But being his wife, I know now that he really wished for me to lose back to where I was when he married me. Morris never insulted me in front of people, though. But at home, he'd kiddirgly say: "You as told to Ruth L. McCarthy all look like a short bale of cotton, Wannette." Unfortunately, I never took the hint, because, honest, I really didn't think I looked as bad as I did. You see, I love to cook and I used to load that table till it groaned. I'd take turnip roots and boil them with neck bones, then add corn bread to the pot liquor and come up with the most delicious dumplings you ever tasted. As you can see, they mostly wound up on my hips, along with my sausage sandwiches and home-bakepea .h cobblers and pineapple upside-dow- n cal es. It's no wonder I gained 50 pounds when I was pregnant with my daughter. After she came, I tried to get those pounds off, but I couldn't budge them. Finally, I took some diet pills, but they made me so Morris just threw them out the back door. Even my Pauline, who came to live with us, couldn't stand me and went back to her real mother. I tell you, I was such a size around the fit. And since I had a job, it made it hard dressing. I remember, at work one day, I just broke right out of my skirt. So I called up Morris and told him to buy me a new one right away. Well, he got a big one, but it still bunched up over the humps. I just went into the ladies' room and cried. But I wouldn't let him change it. I worked in it the rest of the day and it hung in my closet till I gave it away. Finally, my boss lady suggested I try the Ayds Plan. I said: "Will you go along with me?" And she and some of the girls said they would. So I went to the drugstore and bought a box of the plain chocolate fudge-typ-e Ayds. (I noticed they had a chocolate mint fudge and a chewy vanilla caramel kind, too.) Well, anyway, I started taking two Ayds before meals like the directions say. With a hot drink. Coffee for me. And the Ayds Plan really helped me to cut back my appetite. Like for breakfast, I began having half" grapefruit, a scrambled egg and bread with a little butter, whereas before I'd have about five canned biscuits, sour cream with maple syrup, sausage, eggs and anything else I wanted. Yes, the Ayds Plan really made a difference in how I ate. The girls and I, we used to get weighed three times a week at the drugstore. I was so d big at first, I had to start with the scale weight. But I tell you, the day I lost enough to start with the weight was the greatest. The girls all wanted to cele- brate with chocolate cake. But I was so happy, all I wanted was black coffee. I wasn't nervous reducing with Ayds, either. You see, they don't contain any harmful drugs. Why, my stepdaughter even came back to us and started on the Ayds Plan herself. And by the time I'd lost 79 pounds, she'd lost 33. Morris sure is proud of us today. Prouder'n if he had caught a rattler. We've even little between a us. From now on, I'm pact got to so he can be sure around, going keep Ayds to get his arm around me. d high-strun- step-daughte- r, hips;-nothin- ."V r !: r-- i V h.'-CD- i O V A ' 200-poun- Here I am at 223 pounds. And wearing a splashy plaid at that. I sure wanted to be noticed. 100-pou- Before and After Measurements Before After Height S'5SA" 5'5K4" Weight Bust 223 Waist Hips Dress lbs. 144 lbs. 46" 36" 3T 5T 27" 22 '4 14 40" This is how I look at 144 pounds. And nobody's touched tip this picture. You just ask my neighbors. six-fo- -- J ot g, |