Losing Myself, But Not Entirely; How I Lost a Whole Other Me and Kept Her from Coming Back

By T. L. Ingham

How I lost one hundred and thirty-five pounds, a whole other me, and successfully kept it off; after a lifetime of struggling with obesity. The author's personal perspective on healthy eating 101. It is sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, and thoroughly informative.

• Language: English
• Publisher: T. L. Ingham
• Release date: Jun 26, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476013701

T. L. Ingham

About the Author:T. L. Ingham was born and raised in upstate New York, before living short stints in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Illinois, and then finally, Indiana where she lives today, residing with her husband and their two dogs. She can be reached at http://www.facebook.com/tl.ingham.1

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Losing Myself, But Not Entirely

How I Lost a Whole Other Me and Kept Her from Coming Back

By T. L. Ingham

For Bryan. You inspire me daily.

Losing Myself, But Not Entirely

How I Lost a Whole Other Me and Kept Her from Coming Back

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Copyright 2012 Tammy L. Ingham

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Processed Foods Are the Devil

The Four Wall Rule

Obey Your Cravings a.k.a. Cravings Are My Friends

Never Say NO

Never Super-size Anything

Make Your Own Packaged Meals

Don't Buy a Fryer

Stuff Yourself with Salad

Olive Oil Is More than Popeye's Girlfriend

Dark Chocolate and Coffee

Graze

Condiments

Food Faux's

Never Skip Breakfast

Eat When You're Hungry, Stop When You're Full

A Happy Plate

Embrace Who You Are

Introduction

Let me start by saying, this is a personal journal of discoveries I made on the road to healing myself. It is not intended to replace any doctor's recommendations or restrictions. I am not a doctor, I am not a scientist. I am just a woman who spent the vast majority of her life battling weight issues. I do not have a doctorate; I have life experience.

So why then did I decide to write this?

Mostly I suppose it was because people I know, and some whom I have never met but know of me, were so spurred on by what I had accomplished, and they wanted to know how I did it. Would I share? I found myself (and my husband) being asked so many times, 'How did you lose weight? How did you keep it off?'

Like any other woman of size, (or at least most, I'd venture to say) I wanted nothing more than to be svelte, sleek, petite, and slender. So I dieted. I tried everything that was out there and nothing ever worked for long. Afterwards, (after I fell off the wagon), I would inevitably gain back even more weight than before. Eventually I just gave up.

At my heaviest I weighed 269 pounds, a confession I am making for the first time in this book. Never before have I admitted my weight to anyone; I was so ashamed of it. There was a time just the thought of saying those words would have reduced me to tears. But now I own it. I own who I am and who I was; because at the risk of being redundant, who I was has brought me to who I am.

I would love to be able to say that one day I stepped on the scale, saw the needle teetering towards that 270 mark, only an inch away from the 300,