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Cheri tells her story
My weight issues story started as a baby, when my parents were told by my grandfather to feed me every time I cried. “If she isn’t wet then feed her!” he would say. He wasn’t being mean, that way of thinking was just the conventional wisdom at the time. So I grew into quite a plump baby! I remember being in 4th grade and just wanting to unroll the extra flesh off me like unrolling a garden hose. When I entered high school, I began dieting and trying to lose the weight. Not knowing what to do, I literally stopped eating and dropped down to a scary 87 pounds. For the next few years I tried to manage my weight in many ways, never healthy ones that honored me or my body—in fact quite the opposite. I tried pills, throwing up, laxatives, crazy, fad diets, all in the name of looking better but never ever feeling better or good about myself.
During my last year of Theatre graduate school I began gaining weight again due to the stress of a break-up of a long term relationship. Instead of being supportive, the heads of the theatre department threatened me and told me to “pull it together and lose weight." They told me I was enrolled in their program to play a certain “type” of role and that wasn’t fat characters!
I did Weight Watchers after college and lost a lot of weight. I got down to about 130 pounds but began gaining it all back again. Desperate to try something easy and fast, I tried liposuction, which worked in the short term, but ultimately I gained that weight back too. And FYI, when you gain weight back from liposuction you gain it in other places because the fat cells from the areas they were sucked out are gone! I felt like I was at wit’s end. I knew I couldn’t go on living like this—going up and down the scale, but the years of dieting had taken my confidence away from me and left me with a lot of limiting beliefs and habits.
In 2005 I was asked to join a commercial weight loss program that incorporated exercise CDs. I began to lose weight with this program. For the first time I really found that I enjoyed exercise. I began releasing weight and took about 50 pound off. Then I couldn’t seem to lose anymore. I began to worry because I didn’t want to gain the weight back, but I felt that this was exactly what was going to happen. It was around this time I heard about Rita and her cognitive –based Shift Weight Mastery Process. I was open to the idea of hypnosis and knew that really if I was going to make a real change and keep the weight off for good, I was going to have to change my thinking—not just exercise more and eat less (time had proven that only got me so far!). I did my Shift back in June of 2009, weighing around 145. As of today, a year and a half later, I am 121- lbs, and don't feel like I ever deprived myself, starved myself, white knuckled it, nothing! I got to eat what I wanted, when I wanted, how I wanted, just by staying within my gas tank for releasing weight.
I have gained the confidence and internal thinking processes that really help me stay conscious and make healthy choices. My habits have changed and feel permanent. I also enjoy the support from Rita and other Shifters I have met along the way. This makes me feel like I am part of something bigger than myself, realizing we all are in this together and when we unite we are strong—not like when we are alone in our own diet world with those useless thoughts.
I thank you so much for all you do--Rita, you really are Shifting the world one person at a time. Alone we diet, together we Shift!!! xoCheri
My weight issues story started as a baby, when my parents were told by my grandfather to feed me every time I cried. “If she isn’t wet then feed her!” he would say. He wasn’t being mean, that way of thinking was just the conventional wisdom at the time. So I grew into quite a plump baby! I remember being in 4th grade and just wanting to unroll the extra flesh off me like unrolling a garden hose. When I entered high school, I began dieting and trying to lose the weight. Not knowing what to do, I literally stopped eating and dropped down to a scary 87 pounds. For the next few years I tried to manage my weight in many ways, never healthy ones that honored me or my body—in fact quite the opposite. I tried pills, throwing up, laxatives, crazy, fad diets, all in the name of looking better but never ever feeling better or good about myself.
During my last year of Theatre graduate school I began gaining weight again due to the stress of a break-up of a long term relationship. Instead of being supportive, the heads of the theatre department threatened me and told me to “pull it together and lose weight." They told me I was enrolled in their program to play a certain “type” of role and that wasn’t fat characters!
I did Weight Watchers after college and lost a lot of weight. I got down to about 130 pounds but began gaining it all back again. Desperate to try something easy and fast, I tried liposuction, which worked in the short term, but ultimately I gained that weight back too. And FYI, when you gain weight back from liposuction you gain it in other places because the fat cells from the areas they were sucked out are gone! I felt like I was at wit’s end. I knew I couldn’t go on living like this—going up and down the scale, but the years of dieting had taken my confidence away from me and left me with a lot of limiting beliefs and habits.
In 2005 I was asked to join a commercial weight loss program that incorporated exercise CDs. I began to lose weight with this program. For the first time I really found that I enjoyed exercise. I began releasing weight and took about 50 pound off. Then I couldn’t seem to lose anymore. I began to worry because I didn’t want to gain the weight back, but I felt that this was exactly what was going to happen. It was around this time I heard about Rita and her cognitive –based Shift Weight Mastery Process. I was open to the idea of hypnosis and knew that really if I was going to make a real change and keep the weight off for good, I was going to have to change my thinking—not just exercise more and eat less (time had proven that only got me so far!). I did my Shift back in June of 2009, weighing around 145. As of today, a year and a half later, I am 121- lbs, and don't feel like I ever deprived myself, starved myself, white knuckled it, nothing! I got to eat what I wanted, when I wanted, how I wanted, just by staying within my gas tank for releasing weight.
I have gained the confidence and internal thinking processes that really help me stay conscious and make healthy choices. My habits have changed and feel permanent. I also enjoy the support from Rita and other Shifters I have met along the way. This makes me feel like I am part of something bigger than myself, realizing we all are in this together and when we unite we are strong—not like when we are alone in our own diet world with those useless thoughts.
I thank you so much for all you do--Rita, you really are Shifting the world one person at a time. Alone we diet, together we Shift!!! xoCheri
Cheri's Advice
Cheri shares 8 pieces of advice with us from her successful Shift journey.
•1) Focus on your vision
(The Shift Process helps you set your personal vision for your future--the inspiration for sucess)
•2) Write my food down every day and send it no matter what. (A cognitive technique to help you relax about eating)
•3) Exercise
(Learn how to make exercise a habit you don't dread)
•4) Listen to the hypnosis CDs every night before bed.
(Learn how to use the powerful tool of hypnosis. For more information on self-hypnosis see link below)
•5) Get support. Ask for help.
(When you join Shift, you join a community of like-minded people. You are no longer alone.)
•6) Keep shifting!!! It's taken me a year and a half to go from 145 to 121 and take off these last pounds, but I knew this change was for LIFE.
(Shift teaches you to take the journey to permanent weight loss)
•7) Be easy with yourself. We're only human.
(Shift cognitive coaching shows you how to stop beating yourself up and take the struggle out of losing weight)
•8) I've experimented with cutting out as much bread as I used to eat and I swear that had something to do with it.
(Everyone is different. You will learn cognitive techniques that help you evaluate how your body works with less guessing.
Cheri shares 8 pieces of advice with us from her successful Shift journey.
•1) Focus on your vision
(The Shift Process helps you set your personal vision for your future--the inspiration for sucess)
•2) Write my food down every day and send it no matter what. (A cognitive technique to help you relax about eating)
•3) Exercise
(Learn how to make exercise a habit you don't dread)
•4) Listen to the hypnosis CDs every night before bed.
(Learn how to use the powerful tool of hypnosis. For more information on self-hypnosis see link below)
•5) Get support. Ask for help.
(When you join Shift, you join a community of like-minded people. You are no longer alone.)
•6) Keep shifting!!! It's taken me a year and a half to go from 145 to 121 and take off these last pounds, but I knew this change was for LIFE.
(Shift teaches you to take the journey to permanent weight loss)
•7) Be easy with yourself. We're only human.
(Shift cognitive coaching shows you how to stop beating yourself up and take the struggle out of losing weight)
•8) I've experimented with cutting out as much bread as I used to eat and I swear that had something to do with it.
(Everyone is different. You will learn cognitive techniques that help you evaluate how your body works with less guessing.
Cheri Before Shift
Cheri, like many of us, experienced a lot of ups and downs with weight
during her life before finally making the Shift and taking the weight off.
By Shifting her thinking, she knows she can now maintain her ideal weight for good.
Cheri, like many of us, experienced a lot of ups and downs with weight
during her life before finally making the Shift and taking the weight off.
By Shifting her thinking, she knows she can now maintain her ideal weight for good.
Cheri "Shifted"
In the last four years she went from weighing over 200lbs to what she weighs today—between 121-125 pounds. Read below for Cheri's inspiring journey and her Shift to success!
In the last four years she went from weighing over 200lbs to what she weighs today—between 121-125 pounds. Read below for Cheri's inspiring journey and her Shift to success!
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