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Show odvertisemeyit UHL 21 CO lost? pew By Joyce Caldwell as told to Ruth L. McCarthy belong to the New Hope Baptist Church in Pelzer, South Carolina and when our pastold everyone in the congregation to bow down on their knees and pray, Ill tell you I needed new hope to pull myself up. I sing with the choir, so I was right up front where everybody could see me. And at 212 pounds, it took every bit of angling I could do to get myself on my feet. Id like to have died. Itor That wasnt the only embarrassing incident that happened in church, either. Another time, when I was singing, my panty hose slipped with every breath I took. Why, I was afraid to let out a high note for fear theyd drop right down. Youd have thought with all that Id have done something about my weight long ago, especially since Im a Licensed Practical Nurse. Working in the hospital, I knew from the doctors that I ought to get those pounds off. But somehow my own homemade chocolate pound cake and pies were my weakness and my temp- tation. It wasnt that I ate so much at meals. It that I ate so often. There were never any was scraps around our house. Why, I had the poorest dog in town. Once I tried some reducing pills, but I got so nervous, my husband could barely live with me. So I finally gave them up, even though I knew deep down he wanted me to No matter whether I was photographed up close or at a distance, I still looked fat. lose. He never said so, but Since I weighed 212 pounds , its no wonder my son called me Big Mama when wed go to some soThen Id have an egg and toast. At noon, maybe cial at the news office where he works, Id accuse him of not introducing me to his friends. Guess it I'd have soup or a hamburger and, of course, was my own conscience, Ayds the same way. And in the evening Id have feel inferior. me pretty much the same meal as Id cook for my making took a it Actually, trip family meat and a vegetable or a salad, someto Washington, D.C. and times banana pudding or a little piece of cheese the discovery that I cake. But thanks to taking Ayds, Id eat much needed slacks with a 36 smaller portions than I used to, because the waist to open my eyes. Ayds plan really helped me cut back. Not only that when I reWell, I started losing one or two pounds a turned home and looked week. Doing it that way kept my skin firm, too. in the mirror, I sudAnd, believe me, I had the kind of fat thats difficult to lose. Not fluffy like, but real hard. in saw myself years denly to come a big, big womWhy, you could hardly pinch me. One thing Id like to say. Occasionally, when knew an. I then that it was time to do something. I was losing, Id get a hunger spell. It was psyI talked to one of my chological, I know. Like a terrible urge to eat. So Id let myself breakover and have what I neighbors about my problem and it was a good wanted. To my way of thinking, you just have day that I did. You see, to get that feeling out of your system. Then Id she knew about those go back on the Ayds plan. And you can see reducing-pla- n from my pictures, it worked. I took off 70 candies, incidenwhich pounds, enough to make people where Im now Ayds, tally contain vitamins employed say: Didnt you have a sister workand minerals, but no ing here some time ago? Ill tell you this. When you hear something drugs. The Ayds plan worked just fine for her, like that, you know that theres always new hope. I found mine, quite simply, in a box of Ayds. so she gave me a handful of the candies to try. Soon after, I bought a box of the chocolate fudge kind at the drugstore and started on the plan myself. Id take two before never could have worn this bulky sweater and jacket if I hadn't lost 70 But baying clothes for vacation tune is a pleasure, now that Im down to 142 16 breakfast like the direcwith a hot pounds. tions say pounds. drink (for me, coffee). PARADE MARCH 12. 1972 |