Show (Advertisement) I ate my way through eleven countries Then I lost 80 pounds 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 When — o as told to Ruth L McCarthy as if Bratwurst in Germany Souffles in France eat Meat pies in England It was eat eat from one country to the next until we finally came home to Salford 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 ty 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 bom 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 18 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 Sach eating as this pushed me so 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- Air-Lif- t) I weighed close to 197 pounds in this picture taken during one of our g trips through Arizona sight-seein- ‘WINTER 0 'WOMAN 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 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 17 pounds I knew I could go down as much as I wanted Look at my pictures See what I mean? Before and After Measurements |