CONFESSIONS OF A STRUGGLING FATTY

CONFESSIONS OF A STRUGGLING FATTY

I’m struggling on my last weight loss journey.  Yes, I’ve been stuck on a plateau for the last 6 months.  I still haven’t gotten back to jogging regularly since my car accident.  But those aren't really the problem.  Those are just temporary setbacks. 

The loss of weight has not and still is not apparent in all of my body.  Because of the over 50 years of gaining and losing over and over my skin has no elasticity.  My lower abdomen is just a huge flap of mainly skin.  The last time I weighed it, it was 25 pounds.  If I lived on 1000 calories a day the rest of my life, it would still be there.   It feels like a parasite feeding off of my body.   Underneath this appendage, my stomach is flat.  I have looked in the mirror so many times in the past few months with my stomach lifted so I don’t see it.    I look small and normal.

The other part of my body that is so out of proportion is my upper arms.  They are just humongous and have decreased very little with all the weight I have lost.  When I look at my arms, I see my normal size fore arm attached to an upper arm that is the size of a thigh.  It’s bizarre looking to say the least.  And it’s frustrating.  

It’s very difficult to buy clothes to fit me.  My pants have to fit over this huge stomach.  That means they will be baggy in the legs and waist.   Last week for the first time, I actually noticed that the seams on the sides of my pants end up being about 3 inches on the front on both sides of my hips.     My waist is about the size of a 14.  But my stomach requires an 18 most of the time.  The same with tops.  My torso is a large or x-large.  My upper arms are a 3x.   I had someone tell me not too long ago (in a very loving way), “Girl you need to get a shirt that fits you!  That one is about to fall off!”  It was.  Off my body.  It fit my upper arms.

The only way I see to have a body that is really my body is to have cosmetic surgery.  It’s expensive.  Very expensive.  Especially since I only want to have it done in a hospital and not a surgical center. Every day since January 1^st, I have put it out there to the universe, “I am going to have my surgery by January 2016.”   I tell you.  I have no idea how that will happen.  I just know in my heart it will.

Until then, I am going to keep working my program and get back to my jogging.  I want to lose 60 more pounds by the end of the year.   I know that after my surgery I am going to feel like a prisoner who has been released from their prison.   My body will at last be the body it should have always been.   And that person who has been kept hidden inside for over 50 years will be freed!

Yep, I’m struggling but not giving in or giving up.   I’m back on track and I see the finish line.  I’m the only one who can get me there.  And I’m going to make it if I have to crawl across that line with bloody knees that no longer have any cushion in them!  I have come too far to ever give up!

My plea to you is this.   If you are overweight please don’t wait until you are 60 to decide you deserve to lose weight and get healthy!  Don’t use your weight as an excuse to put off living.  I’m telling you the years go by faster and faster. 

Tell yourself daily:  I am worthy!  I deserve to be healthy and lose weight.   Decide that you are going to make those changes to complete your last weight loss journey.   Find a meal plan that you can live with, find an exercise you enjoy, and try Skinny Fiber.   It isn’t a magic pill but it will help make your journey much easier.

Are you ready to join me in getting healthy and losing weight?  If so, click here and order your SKINNY FIBER!  www.caryncann.com

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LET THE KID IN YOU COME OUT!

LET THE KID IN YOU COME OUT!

When my kids were little I admit I allowed them to be creative.  Some would say to the extreme.   Even before my kids were born, I cherished the creativity of children.  In our first townhouse we left a wall blank in the dining room.  This wall was where my nieces and nephews could draw pictures and leave messages.  It was so cool.

When we moved into our first house it was really nice.  We loved it.  When Ashlie was 18 months old she began to draw.  She chose the walls in the foyer as her canvas.  At first I was just livid!  My first home!  Why did she have to do this?  One day my brother said, “Let her draw on them!  It’s just paint!”  And she did.  By two she was watching Pappy on Public TV and becoming a great little artist.  She still is to this day.

Cody’s creativity came out in writing.  He had severe problems reading until I bought him his first Harry Potter book.  The more he read, the better his writing became.  Couple that with his very imaginative and creative stories he loved to tell and you have a budding author on your hands.  I fully expect him to become a published author someday.

I tell you this to give you a little background.  Before Ashlie and Cody started to kindergarten, my nephew Franklin stayed with me during the day.  One day I told the kids we were going out shopping and to get ready.  When I called them to the door, I wish you could have seen them.  Franklin was in a Batman costume.  Cody was in a Spiderman costume.  Ashlie was wearing a red one piece swimsuit.  They were all wearing cowboy boots.  Ashlie had tied a towel around each of their necks.  And, of course, they were all wearing black sunglasses.  They were HEROES.

What was a mom to do?  I stifled a giggle and said, “c’mon and get in the car!  Ya’ll have crime to fight!” 

It’s ok to be creative.  It’s ok if you are different.  It’s ok if you stand out in a crowd.  Embrace your uniqueness.  Let the artist in you come out.   Do something that makes you feel like a kid but might make others stare at you.  So what?  Feel that freedom again.  It will make you feel alive!  Trust me!

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caryn cannatella

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ARE YOU TIRED OF BEING OVERWEIGHT?

ARE YOU TIRED OF BEING OVERWEIGHT?

Are you tired of being overweight?  Whether it is 10 pounds or 100 pounds, most of us want to take off the extra weight and get healthier.

And if you are like me, you know what to do.  I probably know as much about food as a nutritionist.  After 50+ years of dieting, I know the caloric content of most any food I eat.  I know how to exercise.  I know the basics.

So what is the problem?  Sometimes we just need that extra little help that motivates us to get started and keep going.  That's what I needed 18 months ago.  And that's what I still need! 

You are no different than me or anyone else.  We have all the knowledge.  I have probably been a patient of 30 weight loss drs.  They have all the answers.  And every one of them was FAT.    We are no different than all those drs.  Knowledge will not make you lose weight.  Action will.

This is one of the reasons I love Skinny Fiber.  No, it is not a magic pill.  No, it won’t make you lose 30 pounds in 30 days.  No, you can’t eat like a little pig and expect to lose weight when you take it.

BUT!  It will help suppress your appetite.  It will help with your metabolism.  It will help with your digestion.  And it will help prepare your body to lose weight.  Will it make losing weight a breeze and something you can do without thinking about?  Not completely but it will help.  Will you lose inches even when the scales scream at you, YOU ARE STILL FAT!  LOOK AT THE NUMBERS ON THE SCALE!  Yes, you will lose inches even when the numbers don’t move as quickly as you would like.

I’ve been on the diet train for more years than I’ve been off of it.  There are days that I do great and eating healthy isn’t a struggle.  But let’s be honest here.  Losing weight has its days of struggles.  If it didn’t, well, you know.  None of us would be fat.  That’s the truth.

Skinny Fiber is a supplement that will help you lose weight.  It will help you with your appetite.  It will assist you with your metabolism.  It will improve your digestive system.  It will help you stay focused.  It can improve your sleep.  As you lose weight you will have more energy.  More energy means movement is easier.  More movement means more calories burned.

It’s one big process.  None of it is a stand alone deal.  In 1979 I had my stomach stapled.  I lost about the same amount of weight I have lost with Skinny Fiber.   After a year, the weight started coming back.  It wasn’t long before I had gained it all back and more.

Skinny Fiber is a tool.   It can help you.  But it will not do all the work for you.  There is nothing, and I mean nothing, that is going to magically transform you from an overweight person to a healthy weight person.  You have to have skin in the game.  It has to be important enough to you that you choose to commit to it.  You have to want it enough that you are willing to take that journey no matter how long it takes.  If it takes two years, so what?  In two years you will be 2 years older.  You can be two years older and be the same size you are now (or larger) or you can be two years older and be a lot slimmer.  The choice is years.  But either way, you will be two years older.

I have struggles even after 18 months of using Skinny Fiber and losing weight.  There are times that I just want to eat 2 servings of something or even 3.  Sometimes I do.  Then I feel terrible.  I feel like I’m a failure.  It’s just something that many of us have to face on a regular basis.   Sometimes we just have to face the facts.  We are never going to be able to eat anything and everything we want or as much as we want and have a healthy weight. 

So what should we do?  Give yourself a chance.  Try Skinny Fiber.  What if it works for you?  Decide to dedicate 3 months to losing weight and getting healthy.  That’s what I did and for the first time ever in my life, I have consistently lost weight.  Is everyday a success?  No, but more days than not are.

Come join me on my last weight loss journey to health and fitness.  Once you are on the path you will find out what I have.  The only magic to losing weight is YOU.  You are all the magic you need. 

Step out in faith and give yourself another chance.  It worked for me.  It’s worked for thousands of others.  It can work for you too!  Let’s do this together!  Order your Skinny Fiber here:  www.caryncann.com

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caryn cannatella

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START A 12 WEEK WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE WITH ME!

START A 12 WEEK WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE WITH ME!

I'm starting a new 12 week challenge tomorrow.  This is to get back to the basics of my low carb eating and renew my focus.  I'm believing this will help break my plateau and get me back to losing. 

Anyone up for joining me?  Got a wedding coming up?  A quinceanera?    A reunion?  A big party or celebration?  Wearing a swimsuit this summer?

Let's do it together and make it happen.  Take a before picture and your measurements.    Even though you might not see it, pictures and measurements don’t lie.  Weigh and then put that scale away until the 12 weeks is over.   Trust your clothes and measurements to tell you the truth.

I'll be using Skinny Fiber and low carb.  You can use any meal plan you like.  If you would like to add Skinny Fiber, click here to order:  caryncann2.com.   It will help you.  I has me and thousands of others. 

It's always easier to do it with others than all by yourself.  My goal is 20 pounds in 90 days.  That's a little more than 1.5 pounds a week.    Between reducing calories and moving, I think that is a reasonable goal for me.    Make a realistic goal for yourself.  Just remember:  to lose one pound a week you either have to eliminate 500 calories a day from your eating, increase your activity to burn 500 calories extra a day or a combination of the two.

I'm doing it!  Alone or with others.  I'm doing it!  It will break my plateau and put me back losing and on to my next goal.

We all get frustrated.  We all want to eat junk.  It just doesn't seem fair.  Hey!  I have finally gotten it.  Life is not fair.  I don't think it's fair that people that weigh twice as much as I do don't have diabetes.   I'm sure thin people don't think it's fair that they have high blood pressure when a big girl like me has blood pressure of 110/70.   We all have a disadvantage of some sort.

You play with the hand you are dealt or you roll over and give up.  WE DON'T GIVE UP!  WE RISE LIKE THE PHOENIX OUT OF THE ASHES OF WHATEVER IT IS THAT HAS SOUGHT TO DESTROY US! 

And then we just don't survive.  WE THRIVE!

Let’s do this!

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caryn cannatella

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO WIN A COACH TAXI TOTE?

WOULD YOU LIKE TO WIN A COACH TAXI TOTE?

I recently bought my first designer purse.  I know it is just a purse but it makes me feel amazing when I carry it!  And I want to share that feeling with one of you!

I am having a customer appreciation for the month of March!  For every bottle of Skinny Fiber or Ageless you purchase during March, you will receive an entry for the COACH TAXI TOTE shown in the attached picture.    For every person you refer who orders, you will receive an entry for them too!  If they purchase one, you get one entry.  If they order two, you get two entries, etc.    YOU MUST MESSAGE ME THEIR NAMES SO I CAN LINK YOU TO THEIR ORDER FOR THE ENTRIES!

This give away will continue from March 1 through March 31 at midnight, CST!   If you have ever wanted to try Skinny Fiber or Ageless, now is the time to do it.  Just think…come spring you could be walking down the sidewalk with YOUR new COACH TAXI TOTE slung over your shoulders. 

You will look and feel fantastic as you strut towards that new healthy leaner body using Skinny Fiber!

To get your entry, this is the place to go:  www.caryncann2.com.

Let your friends in on this amazing give away!  You know how to do it!  On Facebook, press that little button that takes it to your timeline!  On Twitter, click that Retweet button!  And tell them to let you know when they order!  You don’t want to miss those extras entries!

Winner will be announced on April 2nd!  Good luck to you all!

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Caryn cannatella

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