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Show advertisement upset us so, we both went out and ate away our frustrations. But to get back to the Fire Department, the girls who worked in the investigation division, like me, were put on the second floor. And Ill tell you, those fire fighters had u ball watching our legs going up the stairs. Why, they never missed a pair of slim ones anyway. As for mine, if they bothered to look up, all they saw was oversized knees, rubbing together. That didnt stop me, however, from looking down and developing a crush on Ricky. At this point, Id like to say that in every overweight persons life, there comes a moment of decision,, motivated by desire or shame or ambition or fear. A moment when a person knows its time to lose weight. And I knew when I saw Ricky that the only way I was going to get his attention was to take off those pounds. Past experience told me that reducing pills werent for me. A girl friend at work, however, had some of those reducing-pla- n candies, Ayds, so I tried them. And I liked them so much, I bought a box ofthe chocolate fudge kind and started on the Ayds plan right away. Incidentally, I read the contents on the box and it was reassuring to learn Ayds contain vitamins and minerals but no drugs. Id never been a breakfast eater, even though I know thats an important meal. But before lunch, Fd have two Ayds with hot coffee, as the directions say, and they really helped curb my appetite. I was completely satisfied with a salad and maybe meat. For supper, Td have two more Ayds with coffee, followed by broiled meat, salad again, a vegetable and perhaps fruit. But Ayds were the biggest help to me in the evening, because they kept me from filling up on tons of calories while I watched television. And for someone who was used to eating a hundred miles an hour, thats doing me eighteen years to get up to It205tookpounds. Then got a glimpse of the I Casanova of the Fire Department, Ricky Arnold, and it took me only nine months to come down off that peak and turn his head. But of course, I needed a little help. Fortunately, I found it soon after I went to work for the Department in Savannah, Georgia. That was the only place I could get a job, thanks to the kindliness of the Fire Chief. He saw something beneath all those years of custards, cookies, fried chicken, potatoes and which is more than they did at another gravy place where I was interviewed. You see, a girl friend and I had tried to get telephone operator positions there, but the supervisor said we were so fat, neither one of us would be able to get between the seats at the switchboard. This something. Well, even the first month on the Ayds plan, that weight really started to come off. It must have shown, too, because Ricky actually asked me for a date. He took me to the beach and I felt so wonderful, I refused to eat even a custard. Love had completely taken me over! I was determined that the Ayds plan and I were going to get me my man. Of course, Ricky Still played the field while I was going down, but I was getting to him. When I dropped below 150 pounds, one of his friends asked me out and I went just to make him jealous. And to get back at him for once saying I looked like I had inner tubes under my chin. Well, Rick got so furious at my dating another man, I knew Fd turned the tide. Anyway, the happy ending is that Rick and I got married a little better than nine months after Id been on the Ayds plan. I was just below 125 pounds. Dont think Ive given up the plan entirely, . There is always a box of though, even-nowI need them. You see, Rick insists if Ayds ready, that I get weighed every single day. He checks on me, too, because he wont tolerate my being over 130 pounds. So I know I have to stay between 125 and 130. And the Ayds plan helps keep me there. Believe me, this is a true story. There are plenty ofwitnesses. The fire fighters Ricky worked with, thirty men per shift with three shifts, all saw how the Ayds plan worked for me. |