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By: Maureen (breakingfreeandfindingme.wordpress.com)

Maureen (breakingfreeandfindingme.wordpress.com) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:50:55 +0000

Hi Andie! I just wanted to let you know how much of an inspiration you are to me! I stumbled upon your blog when I was looking for inspiration after suffering from binge eating/emotional eating after a significant weight loss and the depression that ensued after gaining some of it back. I cannot wait to read your book!!! I use your recipes all the time and am actively using your tips to listen to my body and find my way to a happy, healthy, me. Your blog also inspired me to start my own blog documenting my recovery and journey towards health and happiness. So, basically, I just wanted to say, THANK YOU!!

By: s.m.

s.m. — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:40:58 +0000

I’m 5’5″ and 90-something pounds. I have anxiety and take medication that has completely killed my appetite. I’ve never been one to weigh myself (but have gone to the doctor recently so now I know), but I think I’ve lost maybe 20lbs to get here. Doing no exercise, actually. And as much as my body scares me, as embarrassed as I feel wearing anything body-hugging around my family and knowing I look skeletal, being this thin has also triggered something in my brain that makes me afraid to eat at the same time. I mean, I can go out to eat and eat my entire burger and fries meal and that’s ok, I don’t feel guilty because I’ve done it all my life. I never gain weight. I listen to my desires and, actually, I know if I did gain weight from it it’s a GOOD thing. Yet force feeding myself, purposely trying to gain weight? That is terrifying. So then I find myself restricting my intake for no reason, comparing myself to others just because they “can’t” eat a cupcake I believe I “can’t”, either. Society/the media/our own past habits, whatever, has us so brainwashed into thinking we can’t eat food, that we should always be striving to lose weight, that we aren’t allowed a pleasurable eating experience! But of course I can have a cupcake! I know this and I needed to read this post. You eat. People eat. Humans were given mouths and stomachs and hunger signals and they don’t function on photosynthesis, because they were made to EAT. I need to eat. No more foolishly depriving myself when I, now rarely, have a craving. I have a great metabolism, and I need to remember to EAT. Without my appetite, I’m not fueling my body properly and I need to remember it’s going to take actual effort, at this point, to actually gain weight. Most people here are mentioning how they’re afraid of returning to their former weight, but I’m at the opposite end of the spectrum and this post has helped me, just the same. Thank you.

By: Jennette @ the dieting dietitian

Jennette @ the dieting dietitian — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:33:19 +0000

Oh, you nailed it! I am going to reference this article on my blog. Very inspiring and exceptionally well written. Thank you for your real life experiences!

By: Pheralyn

Pheralyn — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:26:14 +0000

In reply to rebekah (clarity in creation.). Just discovered you via a Gala Darling post. You are soooo inspiring! Thank you so much, Andi, for having the courage to take this journey and then taking the bold move to share it with us. You are a brave and powerful woman and I applaud you. Bravo!

By: Alyssa :)

Alyssa :) — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:53:07 +0000

You are such an inspiration to me!!! I started off in August at 240 pounds. I struggled with eating disorders and trying to starve myself or throw everything up that I ate in order to lose weight. It never worked for me.. I finally put my head on straight and started simply eating healthy and exercising. I am now at 203 lbs and am so ready to see that 1 as a beginning number. You really inspire me. Congrats on your success. I am hoping to be down to 160 by the end of February. :)

By: Jeri

Jeri — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:29:54 +0000

Thank you for writing this! I really needed to read this. I lost 170#. It took me 2.5 years. I’ve regained 35 lbs and am not happy about that. That being said, it was very hard to maintain my “goal” number weight. It was VERY HARD to maintain that. I felt like everybody was looking at me in a different way and that every time I left my house, I was in a photo shoot.

Probably that first 10-15 lbs is my comfort zone. The rest is depression eating. You are so right ~ being thin doesn’t make you happy. You have to find that joy whether you are thin, or not. Thank you for the reminder. I have been struggling. Your words have affirmed what I have been feeling for over a year now. Congrats on your weight loss. You look fantastic!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 02:04:44 +0000

I’m so glad I found your site. You made me cry.

I had WLS – the sleeve – this past March. It’s made weight loss easier (well if you call having pneumonia three times this year and a leak easy, then I guess…) but I’ve lost about 95 lbs. In 2008, I had lost 80 lbs by working out 7 days a week, but after my mom died I went into overdrive. My dad’s death 9 month’s later, I hit burn out city. I also went through a deep depression, as you can imagine, and I got to a place where I was tired of being depressed. I can’t do 8 miles a day and I’ve been “killing” myself to ‘get to goal’ by doing 1000 calorie workouts as much as possible. This last bout of pneumonia has shut me down totally from working out and I am seeing I can still eat and do this w/o exercise. I just need to figure out my daily caloric intake (as 900 a day isn’t going to work for life… remember I am a weight loss surgery patient so yeah, that’s low).

Now that I’m almost to my goal, I wonder how I can live in this body, at this place. Your entry about maitenance really helped me to begin to see that maybe I can live this way – forever. I just need to listen to my body and “tweak” things up a bit.

Kudos to you for keeping the weight off. I pray to have the strength you have had, to listen to myself as you have learned to do, to sit still and not bolt and overall, more than anything else, I hope to be successful like you.

Bless you for enlightening those of us out there that need to see the light to know we CAN do it too. xx

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:34:36 +0000

Thank you for writing your blog. I stumbled across it today from Pinterest.. This post in particular I think I will read and read and read. In the past year I have lost 90lbs. I have about 25 more to be at my goal. I live in fear some days. I ask myself if I eat this, will I gain it all back? If I stop running or lifting will I stop being able to see muscles in my body? I need to let go of the fear (which was heightened when I gave away all of my ‘big’ clothes). Thanks for your help with this.

By: Elaine Morinelli

Elaine Morinelli — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:57:43 +0000

Second Comment:

I can now sit in the middle seat of an airplane aisle and my hips do not touch the sides of the seat.

I can wear a pair of pants that fit me around the waste, the hips and the thighs. All in the same pair. No flab hanging out. Is that even possible?

People say “you’re so ‘good’ that you don’t eat fast food any more.'” It’s not a question of good. It’s a question of, do I want to live or not? And having chose to live, do I want to be healthy and vibrant and enjoy my life? I don’t even WANT the stuff any more!