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Show (Advertisement) I ate my way through elevee countrie So Tiee 0 DOlffids. By Helga Heckel you are married to an Air Force you can be pretty sure of one thing: moving around. And if you like food the way I do, the whole world turns into a smorgasbord. Bratwurst in Germany. Souffles in France. Meat pies in England. It was eat ... eat . . eat from one country to the next, until we finally came home to Safford, Arizona. Then I took a look at the one ugly souvenir I had brought back: my fat. I was 197 pounds! And I knew I had to lose a part of me. I am German by birth and I was used to good, solid food always. Yet at my marriage I weighed only (after the Berlin 110 pounds. It was not until my first daughter was born that my weight really went up. Then it seemed there was no stop to it. Every country we went to, I picked up new recipes as I added dimples to my elbows and another course to our meals. Dinners in our house got so long, my husband had to have two cigarette breaks just to get through them. I don't know how he ever stayed slim. For I just got fatter and fatter. The last dress I remember buying was size I8V2. After that, I made my clothes and went as high as a 42 pattern. All those "pasties"! used to make certainly didn't help. Maybe you never heard of them. They are like turnovers, filled with diced beef, carrots, potatoes and seasoning. It's an old recipe which came from Cornwall, England to the Finns of northern Michigan where my husband was raised. The copper miners used to take "pasties" with them underground for lunch, because they taste delicious cold. But I like them hot better. Such eating as this pushed me s close to 200 pounds on the scale that finally I knew I must do something to reduce. I had been reading stories in magazines about those ladies who lost weight with the Ayds' Plan, and I thought I should buy a box of these reducing plan candies. We have to drive about 125 miles to a shopping center, so on one trip I went to the drug section and got the chocolate fudge-typ- e Ayds. The caramel kind was too chewy for me and they didn't have the butterscotch fudge then. I had never tried a reducing product before. Just some exercise. And once a carrot diet that turned me so yellow, I was afraid. I also tried to control my appetite by myself, but that was too hard. I needed something to help me and Ayds did, when I took them like it says. And the directions say they contain no harmful drugs. With Ayds I really was able to eat less. I even started to cook less. I made meals of meat and vegetables and fruit, with- - When Air-Lift- n?l ' - as told to Ruth L. McCarthy - rT ! ), LA jMm A - ) weighed close to 197 pounds in this picture, taken during one of our sightseeing trips through Arizona. Winter. ra 'WOMAN Can you believe I now look like this? 117 pounds! And my new slimness has helped me lose a lot of my shyness. WW- -.. out eating any bread or potatoes. And I began to lose pounds on the Ayds Plan. At first I thought that if I lost weight, maybe I would lose my strength and get weak. But I did not. I did all my own housework and gardening without getting tired at all. I can still even tear a big catalog, like a telephone book, right in half. I saw a man do that on television once and I practiced until I learned it also. My husband says now that I am down to 117 pounds that we get better mileage on our sports car. I don't know whether he is teasing me or not, but this much I know: he likes me slim again. And now, please, I would like to say just one more thing to anybody who is reading this and wondering if this Ayds Candy can really help. I say to you that the hardest part of reducing .( - - t ".if... v. v A,S i ' is to start. It's like going to the dentist. You know you must do it, even if you are afraid. But once you make up your mind, it immediately becomes easier. That's how it was at first for me on the Ayds Plan. But once I had lost pounds, I knew I could go down as much as I wanted. Look at my pictures. See what I mean? 17 Before and After Measurements Height Weight Bust Waist Hips Dress Before After 5'3Vfc" 197 lbs. 45V2" 5' ZV2" ...... 117 lbs. SW 36" 26" ;43" . . . Pattern size 42 33V4" . . . Store size 8 |