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By Cathy Cox
Testimonial Manager
In July of 2006, Marcia B. was forced to cash in her reality check. Pictures from her son’s wedding were staring her in the face, and she didn’t recognize the person looking back at her. Never having had a weight problem growing up, she realized that the times had changed, and the 10 pounds a year had taken their toll on her body.
Marcia weighed in at 260 pounds then — too much even for her 5’9 frame. She recalls seeing those pictures. “It broke my heart that I had allowed myself to get to that point,” she says. “I looked old and tired; I had nothing to wear. I was a size 26. The pictures pushed me over the edge and I realized I didn’t want to spend my life like that.”
Marcia knew diets that required in-person meetings were not for her, and found other diet plans to be confusing and lacking in structure. So Marcia checked into eDiets.com and found just the right combination of diet, support and structure she needed to start her journey towards success. She chose the eDiets Combination Plan, and loved that she could build a plan to fit her personal needs and tastes, all the choices and variety she had, and the customized shopping list that made shopping for her new healthy lifestyle easy!
Since teaming up with eDiets, Marcia has dropped a whopping 73 pounds, and gone from a size 26 to an incredible size 12! How did she do it? By printing out her weekly shopping list and menu, and following her meal plan. She says not having to think about what she was going to cook for dinner each day took a lot of pressure off — all the planning was already done for her! And since she and her husband both love to cook, he joined in the fun, too! And guess what… He’s lost 30 pounds, too, a happy little side effect of supporting his wife of 29 years!
The menus and shopping list have proved to be an indispensable tool for Marcia. She spends some time once a week going through and customizing them, “so everything is ready for the week, just like setting clothes out for work the next day before bed. All I have to do is show up!”
Marcia also began incorporating fitness into her life again. As a young mom, she was very active with her kids while they were still at home. Over the years that followed though, she’d become increasingly sedentary. She went from couch potato beginnings to plans to run a half marathon later this year! Talk about a total transformation! Today Marcia works out regularly 5-6 days each week. She runs on the treadmill for cardio, and has recently started making the switch from machines to free weights for her strength training and putting more focus on core training and balance.
A key part of Marcia’s weight-loss success, she says, is the benefits of receiving support and information from her fellow dieters and friends, as well as eDiets Chief Fitness Pro Raphael Calzadilla (she really values all that she’s learned from him on the Exercise and Fitness board he moderates!)
But what is receiving support if you can’t give? Marcia also enjoys meeting people new to eDiets or who may be facing some obstacles that she’s already faced and overcome, so that she can help them through them as well. The friendship, companionship and support have really been key to her success to date, as well as in her continued motivation to set and break new goals. Marcia said it’s what keeps her coming back! “Anybody can buy and read a book and put a plan together, but we need each other! We’re not meant to do this alone!” We couldn’t have said it any better ourselves!
Marcia wants to leave everyone with one small piece of advice: “Try to start each day with, I’m going to give it my best shot today, and remember to always just try to put one foot in front of the other every day. This is a day-to-day process and commitment, it won’t happen overnight.”
She often calls on something she learned about on the Exercise and Fitness board with Raphael — the “Moment of Truth.” Whenever she is tempted to skip a workout or eat off-plan, she calls on that and it reminds her that “RIGHT NOW is the time to decide that I’m not living my life that way anymore.”
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