HEY FATSO!

HEY FATSO!

I bet just reading the title stung a few of you.  I know it did me!  The sting of that word stills rips my heart.

I was the fat kid in school.  Now I wouldn’t say I was grossly overweight.  I was under 180 until after I graduated from high school.  But I was bigger than the other girls.  I wasn’t tiny and cute.  And I wasn’t happy.

I was called fatso, fatty, tubby, pig, you name it; I was called it.  Those words just shred the confidence and self-esteem of a child.   They do the same to adults but children have these little hearts and minds that are still forming.  It’s difficult for them to process it as anything but hurt and hate.

My first diet was at 8.  I’m sure I was on at least one diet a year, and sometimes 2, for the next 10 years.  My mother kept a book in the top drawer of her chest of drawers.  When I got married at 24 she still had it.  What was in that book?  My weight and measurements she took on Saturday.  If the numbers went down, I was worthy.  If they stayed the same or, heaven forbid, they went up, well, there wasn’t much value in me.   It seemed to me that the only thing that mattered about me was my weight.  Things like sewing, crocheting, playing the flute, playing the piano, writing poetry, refurbishing furniture, and making gifts for others didn’t seem to bring any value to my life.  I was just a number on the scale.  A big fat number.  Oh, and I hated that book. 

I can remember many times seeing myself as a big fat egg.  Always in my mind there was this thin person who wanted to break that shell and scream, “This is who I really am!”  But I couldn’t.  I was fat.  And all fat people know that if you get into an argument with someone, you will leave the confrontation.  Why?  Because when the other person says, “Oh yeah?  Well, you’re fat!”, the argument is over.  There is no come back to that. 

I wish I could say that only mean boys at school called me names.  Oh they did, right through high school.  I acted like I didn’t care.  But girls called me names too.  And of course I got called names at home.  It was not a happy existent for the little girl I was in the picture above at 5.

Overweight children have a very sad, lonely, alone life.  Oh, they may present to others that it doesn’t matter and they are happy go lucky and funny.  But it does matter.  It is just a terrible way for a little kid to have to grow up.  I never believed anyone loved me and I never believed anyone would.  Even after I married, it was 10 years before I truly  believed my husband loved me and wouldn’t leave.

For an overweight child, words said, and even words unsaid can cut to the core.  If I heard my mother say it once, I heard her say it a hundred times, “You have such a pretty face but”, and then she would shake her head.  Oh, I knew what came after but, “BUT YOU’RE FAT!”  It was like fat was all there was to me.  I hated it and I hated myself.  And I hated the people who made me feel so worthless.

I wish I could say that when I became an adult it was different.  It wasn’t for many years.  I would have people come up to me in a store and say things like, “You don’t need to be eating that” or “We don’t have anything in our store to fit someone like you.”   I tried to remember when I stopped being verbally abused by strangers.  I think it was when I became a manager at my job.  I gained some confidence and since then I don’t think anyone has ever said anything to me like that again.  If they had, I would probably have fileted them like a fish and left them twitching on the ground.  Yes, they had taught me well; you can use words to hurt deeply.

I trudged through my adult life gaining and losing; gaining and losing.  That’s what I had done since I was 8.  I was allowed too few calories, losing weight quickly.  When I would go back to eating normally, I would gain the weight back and more.  I was losing muscle and gaining fat.  I became fatter and fatter with each successive diet. 

Finally, I just gave up.  I knew I would die fat and didn’t really care when.  I remember in the spring of 2013 I declared to anyone who listened, “I’m never dieting again or even trying to lose weight.  I’m going to eat whatever I want, when I want and as much as I want.”  And I did.  By now, the only thing I saw in a mirror was my eyes.  I knew they were pretty and nothing could make them ugly.  Well, except the dead look that stared back at me.

But that all changed when I started using Skinny Fiber.  I took responsibility for what I put in my mouth.  I made my own choices and learned to live with them.    I started looking at my body in the mirror wearing nothing.  It was so hard.  Even now I have problems with two areas of my body.  However, I have learned to appreciate and love my body, even as fat as it was and is, for taking good care of me all these years.  Sometimes it was the only protection I had.  I began to try new things, some I had feared trying.  I started pushing energy outward instead of just inward.

I have always been a loving and caring person but over the last 20 years, it had waned.  I found that again inside me.  Giving is something that gives me such joy.  Even if it is just sending a card to someone in the mail, it makes my heart warm.  It made me feel whole.  I began to feel complete.  I began to be that loving and caring person again.  I was changing from the inside out and the outside in. 

How I wish my little younger self had been able to find that.  Her world would have been a completely different place.  But I will tell you:  I live with no regrets.  I don’t think I would have become the person I am today if I had not gone through all the years between 8 and 61.  I was like the Israelites roaming the wilderness for 40 years.  The Promised Land was so close to them but they just couldn’t see it.  That was me.  I see it now.  I’m heading to my Promise Land and I’m going to try to take as many people who have struggled with their weight with me as I can.

And to my little 8 year old self, I say this:  “You were beautiful inside and out.  You were so talented and creative.  Even though you will endure much in your life, you will make it to that Promised Land.  And you will be in my arms when we get there.  Thank you for keeping me safe.”

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caryn cannatella

Skinny Fiber Sales:  www.caryncann.com

WOULD YOU LOSE WEIGHT & GET HEALTHY FOR THE CHILDREN IN YOUR LIFE?

WOULD YOU LOSE WEIGHT & GET HEALTHY FOR THE CHILDREN IN YOUR LIFE?

My children arrived when I was 40 and 41 and their dad was 50 and 51.  I was morbidly obese.  I lost weight and exercised when they were 8.  After I took the trip I had lost the weight for, I started gaining it back.  In January 2013 I weighed 317 pounds.

I was fat, miserable, unhappy, disgusted and my clothes didn’t fit.  I didn’t care what I looked like.  When you get that big you figure you are invisible to everyone so you become invisible to yourself.   I lost a little weight during an illness but that was it.

In early July, 2013 I saw a post on Facebook for a product called Skinny Fiber.  The slogan was “Eat less, Feel full”.  Yeah, right.  It had a 30 day money back guarantee so I ordered it.  I planned to send it back at the end of the month.  Fifteen months later I am ordering a bottle every month and sharing my success with others so they can experience the weight loss and return of health that I have had with Skinny Fiber.  I am a product of the product.  I know it works and I want others who have given up on losing weight to know it too!

Don’t get me wrong.  There’s times when I could eat everything in the Ice Cream section at my grocery store.  I’m not perfect.  I try to do my best but sometimes I fail.  When I’m unable to exercise, it is hard to get back in the groove even when I know I will feel better.  I don’t give up.  I just recommit the next day. 

If you are overweight you know it is so much easier to eat unhealthy than it is healthy.  You have to plan to eat healthy.  You have to buy the right foods to keep in your house.    With unhealthy food, you rip open a bag of chips, or a box of cookies, or a box of ice cream.  After you eat it, you don’t feel satisfied.  You just feel fat.  The bottom line is this:  You are the ruler of your mind and body.  If you get your head right, your body will follow.   I know it from my own experience.

In April of this year I had to tell my children that their father was terminally ill and had very little time to live.  When I was talking to my daughter, Ashlie, she was so strong and not one tear fell.  But I could see in her eyes, that there was something she was thinking.   I looked at her and said, “I’m not going to die, Ashlie, for a long time.”  She started to cry and said, “do you promise?”  I promised her I would live at least 25 more years.  I plan to keep that promise.

And the only way to keep that promise is to continue to eat healthy and continue to exercise.  It might take me another year or even two to reach my goal of 180 pounds.  The time is irrelevant.   I’ll be 62 or 63 either way.  I can be that age and weigh 180 or I can be that age and weigh more.  Either way, I’ll be the same age.

My question to you is this:  What if your child or your grandchild ask you to promise them you wouldn’t die?  And if you are overweight, you know what they mean.  Would that be enough for you to start losing weight and getting healthy?  

Sometimes when we are overweight and have been for years, we just don’t think we are worth the work to lose weight and get healthy.  Trust me, our kids and grandkids think we are.  We can’t live forever but we can give them and ourselves many more years if we choose to just make better choices.

If you want to start your journey towards losing weight and getting healthy, come do it with me.  I have lived what you are living.  I have struggled the way you are.  I have felt what you are feeling.  I know the pain of being fat.  And I know the change that can come when you begin to shed those layers.  You can become a new person from the inside out and the outside in.  Let me help you.  Check out Skinny Fiber and then decide that today is the day you choose to live a longer and healthier life.  We can and will do this together. 

copyright 2014

caryn cannatella

Skinny Fiber Sales:  www.caryncann.com

THE MAGIC IS IN YOU!

THE MAGIC IS IN YOU!

I wish I could teach overweight people what it has taken me 53 years to learn.

There is no magic pill.  There!  I said it!  That is the child in you using magical thinking.  When you are a child you can apportion responsibility to others.  But when you become an adult, all the responsibility lies with you and you alone.  You are the only one who can change what you eat.  Are there products that can help you lose weight?  Yes, and I found a great one in Skinny Fiber.  Because of its ingredients, it has helped me become so much healthier aside from the weight loss. 

I always had reasons (excuses) why I was overweight.  Whatever the reason was, it wasn’t my fault.  My favorite was “I don’t really eat that much”.    Which was true, if you added “at meals”.    I have always been a secret eater.   I don’t eat much at meals but if I’m by myself, I can put the food away.

Another favorite was “I have slow metabolism”.  True, my metabolism was slow but I did nothing to help it.  I lived on carbs and diet soda and my exercise consisted of getting up and going to the kitchen!

I loved this one.  “I have a longer intestine than most people.  The food stays in there longer so I absorb more calories.”  Sounds great and of course, it succeeded in the responsibility for being overweight placed on a part of my body instead of me.

I would proclaim, “I eat healthy.”  Well, I did like fruit and did eat some vegetables.  But having an extra large pizza topped with lots of vegetables and eating the whole thing is not really eating healthy.

Losing weight is not an overnight journey.  Gaining it wasn’t and neither is losing it.  If you truly want to lose weight and keep it off, then you have to make changes.  Skinny Fiber provided the impetus for me to start my last weight loss journey that is more like a leisurely walk than a sprint. 

First you have to decide that all the excuses are going to be placed in the garbage.  You have to own responsibility for your own body.    You have to believe that you are worthy and deserve to be healthy.  Then you have to start making better choices.  You don’t have to do everything at once.  When I started Skinny Fiber, the only journey I was on was to prove them wrong and get my money back.    The only thing I changed was drinking 150 ounces of water daily and taking 2 Skinny Fiber capsules twice a day.  I did that for an entire month.  I ate whatever I wanted but I stopped when I started feeling full.

After seeing that I had lost 10 pounds the first month, I knew I could do this.  The days turned in to weeks and the weeks into months.  I started making better choices about my food and food intake.  I have learned to listen to my body.  Unfortunately for me, my body does not digest or process carbs very well.  Now that doesn’t mean I never eat carbs.  I do but not every day and when I eat them, it is in moderation. 

When you lose weight slowly, like you probably gained it, your body adjusts.  Even when you do overeat on occasion, you probably won’t gain a pound.  Now if you go on a food fest for a week, well, you know what happens.

All my life I wanted that magic pill; that magic something.  I remember after losing about 40 lost pounds, I just got it.  There is nothing and I mean nothing magical that is going to take the fat away.  The magic is in you.  Once you realize that, you will be empowered.  You will know that you can change your weight, your health and your life.  Could I have done it without  Skinny Fiber?  I doubt it.  I’ve never been able to in the past.  But I get it now.  It’s about responsibility.  Being responsible for taking my Skinny Fiber, for drinking my water, for moving my body and for the choices I make regarding my food. 

And when I do that, do you know what happens?  MAGIC!  My life has become magical.  The magic truly is in me.  And it is in your too!  If you need help getting on the path to finding the magic in you, contact me.  I will help you wherever you are.  Choose to find the magic in you and become that healthy person that already lives in you and is yearning to break free!

copyrighted 2014

caryn canntalla

Skinny Fiber Sales:  www.caryncann.com

NEED SOME EXTRA MONEY?

NEED SOME EXTRA MONEY?

Most of us do!  You have an opportunity to join my team with Skinny Fiber and start making money immediately!

Yeah, but what does it cost, you might say!

There is a one-time fee of $10.  Watch one of the videos (they are super short) and you get $8 back!  So it is really just $2 to become a distributor.  This is what is called the Training Bonus.

The only other requirement is to buy one bottle of Skinny Fiber or Ageless each month!   If you don’t need to lose weight or need a skin product (the best around!), then sell it to a friend who does!

NO INVENTORY TO BUY!  NO PARTIES!  NO POWDERS!  NO PACKAGED FOOD!  Just two capsules you take before two meals a day.  Add a lot of water to your day (half your body weight in ounces) and then just eat regular food until you start to feel a little full.  That’s it!

We are paid 8 different ways.  The more people you sign up, the more you make!  You get paid a Fast Start Bonus.    This are paid weekly!  Whatever you sell before Thursday’s cutoff, you will receive payment for new sales (Fast Start Bonus) the Friday of the next week.  You are paid a commission each month when they purchase another bottle.  You get paid on the bottles your distributors in your downline sell each month based on your ranking. 

You can spend as little as 1-2 hours a day building your own business.  Each level, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, and Crown Diamond, will increase your monthly commissions.  When you reach the levels of Gold and above and retain that rank for 3 months, you receive another bonus for that!

What could you do with an extra $300 + a month?  We have distributors making $5000, $10,000, $40,000 and even $100,000 a month.   If you walked into one of our events, you would never know who is making the big bucks and who just started.  We all look and act the same. 

This is the greatest MLM company you could work for!  8 different ways to make money, great training, and the company’s motto is WE WANT THIS TO BE THE LAST COMPANY YOU WORK FOR.  Our CEO says often that he wants us all to be able to retire and take care of ourselves and the generation below us.  How awesome is that?

Now, this is not a get rich quick scheme.  You do have to put in time working.  You have to build your team.  But where could you be in a year?  Or two?  Or three?

Check out the SBC Movie (it’s short) and come join my team.  We have the best weight loss product, Skinny Fiber, on the market!  All natural, made with 3 plants, no caffeine, no stimulants!  I’m a product of the product and I’ve lost 60 pounds in 15 months.  Our skin product, Ageless, is the best skin serum around!  It makes your skin feel so good!  MOVIE:  http://CarynsChamps.SBCMovie.com.  

When you finish the movie you can sign up there to be a distributor or click this link, www.caryncann.com , click ORDER HERE in the upper right hand corner and select BECOME A DISTRIBUTOR!  That’s it!

Don’t wait!  Get signed up, Purchase your monthly bottle, and make some sales!  Remember, initial orders by Thursday of each week pay the Fast Start Bonus the Friday of the following week.

What’s holding you back?  You could have money for Christmas, vacation money, etc. by Christmas!  COME JOIN ME!  It’s a great company! 

Hope to see you on my team soon!

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caryn cannatella

Skinny Fiber Sales:  www.caryncann.com

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HOLIDAY FOODS

HOLIDAY FOODS

Have you decided that now is the time to finally try Skinny Fiber?

I know many people say, "I don't want to diet during the holidays."  Let me see if I can put this in perspective. 

Skinny Fiber is NOT a diet pill.  It is a weight loss supplement.  You don't diet.  You eat regular food just like your family.  It is plant based, no caffeine and no stimulants.  Skinny Fiber will allow you to eat all the things you normally eat during the holidays, just less of it!    We do encourage people to eat whole foods and you do have to drink LOTS of water and take two capsules twice a day, every day.  But you don't have to give up everything you love about the holidays!  Last year I lost 6 pounds between Thanksgiving and Christmas losing Skinny Fiber!  Did I eat holiday food?  YES!  Did I gorge myself?  NO!

Researchers say that people gain 5-10 pounds during the holidays.  This just means you have that much more to lose in January!  Why not get on board with Skinny Fiber, start losing weight now and still enjoy those holiday treats?  You will just want less of them.  Why?  Because Skinny Fiber makes you feel full, cuts your cravings for sweets and revs up your metabolism.

C'mon and join the Skinny Fiber team!  You will be glad you did!  With Skinny Fiber you don’t have to give it all up!

Order your Skinny Fiber here:  www.caryncann.com.

Copyrighted 2014

Caryn Cannatella

Skinny Fiber Sales:  www.caryncann.com

IMPERFECT PROGRESS

IMPERFECT PROGRESS

How many times have you resisted change because you knew you wouldn’t or couldn’t do it perfectly?  I know I have, especially when it came to weight loss.   My thought was “I’ve tried before and I always failed.”  I always failed because I always quit!  I always quit because I wasn’t perfect. 

This morning I heard someone say “imperfect progress”.  It immediately resonated with me.  I have never used that term but I certainly know that is what I have been doing for the last 15 months.  When I started my last weight loss journey with Skinny Fiber I decided I would be doing it differently this time.

I realized that I couldn’t be perfect.  I knew that I would “cheat”.  I changed the way I approached this journey.  No food was off limits.  If I wanted it, I would eat it but in moderation.  I admit, there have been a few times that I wanted it, I ate it and it wasn’t in moderation.  BUT HERE IS THE DIFFERENCE!  I didn’t beat myself up over it.  I tried to figure out what made me overeat when I wasn’t hungry.  And the most important thing I did was I didn’t quit!  Nope, the next morning I was back on my program.  This has kept me sane and on track for these past 15 months.  I have never stayed on any weight loss plan more than 6 months.  EVER.  And I’ve been doing this weight loss thing for 53 years.

There is no perfect change because we aren’t perfect.  What we can have is imperfect progress.  Sure we fall.  But all we have to do is get back up and start anew.  That is the difference in failure and success.  As long as you get back up, you have progress.  It might be imperfect progress but it is progress just the same.  If you stick with it, you will reach your goal.  How I wish I had learned this decades ago.  But I’m learning it now and it has brought me freedom in this journey and this journey is bringing me freedom in my life.

This works no matter what the change you are trying to make.  It doesn’t matter if it is weight loss, finances, a career, school, etc.  Try it and see!  Reach your goal with imperfect progress.  You will definitely get there.

Why don’t you join me in my imperfect progress of my last weight loss journey with Skinny Fiber?  It could be your last weight loss journey too.  And if you don’t need to lose weight, then join me in my imperfect progress of building my own business with Skinny Fiber.  Just click the link below for either.

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caryn cannatella

Skinny Fiber Sales:  www.caryncann.com

Email:  caryncann@gmail.com

A GOAL WITHOUT A PLAN IS JUST A WISH

A GOAL WITHOUT A PLAN IS JUST A WISH

Are you just wishing or do you really want to accomplish something?  If you have a goal, you have to have a plan on how to reach it.  Yes, you may stumble along the way, but then you just go back to the plan.

How many times do we all say things like, "I wish my house was paid off."  "I wish I weighed 100, 50, 25 pounds less."  "I wish I could go to college."  "I wish I had another job."  "I wish I could retire."  We all do it.  Wishing is like so many other things we do in our life.  It's a waste of our time.

Put that time to better use.  When you wish for something, decide if it is important enough to you to actually want to do it.  If it is, then set it as your goal.  Write it out!  And then set smaller goals to get you to that main goal.  It's difficult to set a goal that is in the future when you cannot see progress of smaller goals along the way.

Here is how I started saving over a decade ago.  I had no savings and had never saved a penny.  I wished I could save 10% of what I brought home.  One day I got a raise at work.  It was $6 a week.  My friend Debi said, "what are you gonna do with all that money?  But a dozen donuts?"  lol 

What I decided to do was save it.  And so I did.  Each week I would put that $6 in savings.  It grew slowly but for the first time in my life, I had a savings account.  Then I paid a credit card off.  I was paying the minimum plus the interest each month.  That gave me about $16 more each week.  I added that to the $6 and now I was saving $22 a week.

I now save more than 10% of my income.  It is a great feeling to look in my savings account and see money.  When an emergency comes up I no longer have to decide, "do I fix my car or do I pay my electric bill?" 

This process works for any goal.  I did the same procedure when I wanted to start tithing.  It worked when I started jogging.  All it takes is choosing a goal, writing it down with smaller goals, and then putting your plan in action.

Once you do that, your goal is no longer just a wish.  It's a plan that you can accomplish.

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caryn cannatella

Skinny Fiber Sales:  www.caryncann.com

FAMILY TRADITIONS

FAMILY TRADITIONS

I give my parents a lot of credit for the traditions I was taught growing up.  Some of them have become part of the traditions my children and I have incorporated in our family.

My most favorite Christmas tradition is going out on Christmas Eve and looking at all the beautiful Christmas lights.  I have done this every year since I was 4 ½.  My mother was big and pregnant with my younger sister that year.  In fact, she arrived just 2 days after Christmas.  Mama was just miserable so my daddy piled us all in the car and we took off looking at the lights and decorations.  I was in awe!  There was one house that had every song and theme represented on their yard.  The house and lawn were covered in lights but the most lights were on the roof!  It just thrilled me to see all those lights on one house!

My children are in their 20’s and still look forward to going out on Christmas Eve and looking at the beautiful yards and houses all lit up for Santa’s arrival!  We have found our own house that just drips with all the stories of Christmas plus lights everywhere in the yard, on the house and on the roof. 

That one tradition has carried over to other parts of Christmas.  Every year my kids get a new stocking.  And every year that stocking is filled with goodies and presents.  No looking in the stocking until all the presents are opened!  Every year we buy all new lights and ornaments.  Now, we do have our special ornaments that we have collected through the years, but each year, we use different colors.  Even for the outside!  And most every year my daughter convinces me to buy a real tree. 

Along with that, we have certain things we cook and bake at Christmas.  We normally have lasagna or Ham for Christmas dinner.  I know lasagna sounds weird for Christmas but their dad was Sicilian.  What can I say?  We make strawberry candy out of jello mix.  We make cookies out of Ritz crackers and peanut butter.  We make a batch of Texas trash.  And usually we throw in a new recipe just for fun.  And of course, you have to have that Christmas music going everywhere.  I admit when they start playing it the day after Thanksgiving on the radio, I am pretty tired of it by Christmas but those first 3 weeks or so are just heaven!

Now, it’s only October so I haven’t started planning everything for Christmas yet.  But Thanksgiving?  Yep, I’ve already started collecting my food items in anticipation! 

We have our family traditions for all the major holidays.  And don’t forget about Halloween!  We still decorate the house for the little ones.  Ok, it’s for us too!  Lol

I think family traditions are so important.  It’s the glue that holds the family together for those special times of the year.  You know you are part of a family when you have traditions that are special just to your members.  If you don’t have any family traditions, start one this Christmas.  Your kids will thank you for it. 

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caryn cannatella

Skinny Fiber Sales:  www.caryncann.com

WHEN PEOPLE LEAVE YOUR LIFE

WHEN PEOPLE LEAVE YOUR LIFE

Today on my way in to work I started thinking about some people who chose to leave my life and the lives of my children.  The first couple of years after this happened, I admit it bothered me.  It made me sad.  I finally decided that all I could do was accept and respect their choice and move on.

While I was roaming around those memories, the song "He lifts me up" came on the radio.  I started thinking about how I have been lifted up during this past 15 years without them in my life.  I have been blessed with friends coming into my life who are like family.  Men and women.  Older and younger.  When I need them, they are always there for me.  I have a beautiful woman who is only 5 years older than me who calls me her daughter.  It makes my heart so full.  My children have always been the center of my life and they are even more so now as they grow into adults. 

I thought, it's true that I have lost those 3 people from my life.  But look what I have in return.  Brothers and sisters, a mother, friends who know the true meaning of friendship.  And I have a rock solid relationship with my kids. 

Sometimes we look at what we have lost rather than what we have gained.  My life is overflowing with blessings and love.  Don't waste a day thinking or mourning for something that was.  Spend your time thinking about what is.  Open your heart and life up to the possibilities of the blessings that can come to you when you stop trying to relive the past.  Move into the now and see what has come into your life that maybe, just maybe, you would have missed out on if others hadn't left your life.

And then take a big ole' breath and exhale while you say, "I am truly blessed".  Because you are.

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caryn cannatella

Skinny Fiber Sales:  www.caryncann.com