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Maine Firefighter fights excess weight with Weight Watchers
When Weight Watchers of Maine launched its Fit to Rescue ME program in the spring of 2013 offering free Weight Watchers meetings to firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical technicians, Phippsburg firefighter, Dana McClean signed up. He successfully fought fires, but wasn’t as successful fighting his weight. http://wabi.tv/2014/05/21/weight-watchers-offers-free-program-maine-police-fire-rescue-personnel/ Mclean confides, “Since I was a very young […]
Are you making a crucial weight loss strategy work for your success
Reducing calories is a crucial strategy. Although some fad diets would have you believe weight loss isn’t about calories, make no mistake. Creating a calorie deficit is of great importance to successful weight loss. Without it, there is no weight loss. There is another factor, however, that is a crucial success factor and is extremely […]
A community where I was never too fat to fit
Why I work for Weight Watchers
My job at Weight Watchers started for the same reason I sold encyclopedias and cosmetics. I wanted a set for my girls and the best way to get one was to earn them by selling them. I had a successful World Book Encyclopedia career. Yes! I went door-to-door, making cold calls selling encyclopedias. If I saw […]
How to remain anonymous in a weight loss group support meeting
The benefit of a group support meeting is the strength each individual finds by everybody working together to overcome a common problem. Young, old, black, white, male, female, employed, unemployed, etc., etc., etc. weight struggles aren’t just the problem of some small subset of the population. No matter how different people are in every other aspect of their […]
Don’t Become a Fat Victim of Your Environment
There is food everywhere you go, and everywhere you look. There are signs and video and audio messages describing delicious food, telling you where to go to get it, promising it’s worth the trip and a good way to spend your money. You are hard-wired to want food when you think about food. You think […]
Stupid Things We Say To Ourselves That Keep Us Fat
Weight loss isn’t easy, but it’s possible. Losing weight improved my life. It’s made it easier to do the things I love to do. I fit into a kayak and I have the energy to paddle it. It’s easier to get on the floor to play with my grandchildren. I reduced my risk of heart […]
New Diet! No Willpower Needed to Reach Your Personal Goal!
Losing weight takes willpower, doesn’t it? Not with this diet! No willpower is needed! Instead of willpower you use “want-power” to get to your goal! What’s the difference? Willpower is used to try to stop yourself from doing or getting what you want. Want-power is used to get exactly what you do want! Here’s an […]
How to Survive Your Diet
Me: Your diet survived the weekend? That’s great! Your diet survived the weekend and are you going to survive your diet? The answers I get often overlook the part about, “Are you going to survive your diet?” Seems like the dieters are too happy about how they avoided a temptation than to consider how their […]