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	Slim for Life "There is a program called "Slim for Life" of Weight Loss International that has helped more than 500,000 people lose weight (including teenagers). It's that popular! They also raise money for charity and donate time and money to care for overweight senior citizens and others who have special needs." - Overweight Teen Solutions
	The Slim for Life Program "If you want a weight loss approach that really works, then Slim for Life is well worth your time." - Shaun Edwards: Virtual Bodies
	The Slim for Life Program "I've been closely monitoring weight loss programs now for over 30 years.  I can genuinely recommend Slim for Life, since the data I've collected on the program shows me it is decidedly successful because of the unique approach it takes" - Dr Rod Evans: The National Diet Center

Chloe Stone speaks out

Site: Escaping the Fat - The Journey of Taking Back My Life
Site: Chloe Stone Speaks Out
 

WLI: Chloe, thanks for you time.  You've been keeping a journal of your struggle with your weight.

Chloe: Yes, I have.  I've always been someone who has been in control of my life, but when I caught a reflection of myself in a mirror, what I saw staring back at me looked even worse than my mother!  Well, you can imagine that my first reaction was just to cry.  But when I eventually pulled myself together, I thought I needed to track what was happening to me.  So that was the beginnings of my journal.  It first started as handwritten notes in an exercise book, but eventually became my own web site.

WLI: How did you first approach losing weight?

Chloe: Well, my first approach wasn't so much an approach, as it was just asking around my friends and trying the first thing recommended to me.

WLI: Was that a weight loss program?  And how successful was it?

Chloe: Yes, I started on one of the popular commercial diets where you attended meetings and counted food intake.  When I started, I weighed in at 198 pounds, which was far too heavy for my frame.  I went along to their meetings, and, I must admit, felt pretty intimidated by the whole experience.  I found the meetings were run by people who looked like they needed to lose more weight than I did.

WLI: What was your next step?

Chloe: Well, I pretty much gave that program up as a bad joke.  I saw another popular diet program on television that provided pre-packaged food every week.  I felt that, this time, I would be able to give the program a really good go.  I managed to stick to it for a couple of month, but I found the food they provided tasteless, and the tiny portion sizes left me feeling starved.  But that didn't work either.  I couldn't stick to it.  By the time I gave up the program, I actually weighed more than when I had started.

 WLI: How did you discover Weight Loss International?

Chloe: OK, well we were discussing dieting at work one day, and a number of my colleagues told me they were on this "Slim for Life" program and had found it quite successful.  So I signed up for it via the old web site, and had the whole program delivered to me in around 2 or 3 hours.  (By the way, your new web site looks quite amazing).

WLI: And what was your experience with Slim for Life?

Chloe: Oh, quite different.  The whole program looked fresh, and professional.  What did surprise me, actually,  was the amount of information Weight Loss International was actually giving me.  As in, the program taught me the complete theory behind losing weight, so by the time I'd been on the program for a few months, I actually felt I had a pretty good understanding of exactly where I'd gone wrong in the past.  Now, this was quite different to what I'd experienced in the past.  The other commercial diets keep their "weight loss theory" pretty close to their chest, so you follow their routines step-by-step, but you don't actually come away knowing anything more about how to keep the weight off than you knew originally.

WLI: What were the best points of Slim for Life?

Chloe: Well besides skilling you up on exactly how to lose weight, like I said, I think maybe the first pleasant surprise was the price.  My original diet was costing me about $600 a year, and the other one was about $75 / week.  So Slim for Life just had a once off upfront fee which was a fraction of that.  So I knew right from the start what my total outlay was.

WLI: Have you discussed the program with other people?

Chloe: I sure have.  Originally,  there were about 8 girls at my office doing Slim for Life.  Then when I joined up, I did the program with my daughter, Jill.  And even now, since I've been running my web site about losing weight, everyday I get new e-mails from people who have been trying other diets or who are currently on Slim for Life.  So, you could say I now have a whole dieting network.

WLI: And what about cakes and chocolate?  Have you given those up?

Chloe: Er, no.  But I haven't needed to.  With Weight Loss International I've actually learned how to incorporate chocolate back into my diet in healthy amounts, so that it doesn't make me fat.  You see, it's all about having a balanced eating approach.  Which is good, because I don't feel deprived.  There's no way I could stick to a low-fat "lettuce and mung beans" type diet.  It's just not in me.  So yeah, I've learned I don't need to.

WLI: Finally, have you managed to keep the weight off?

Chloe: Well, considering this morning I weighed 128 pounds, I'd say most definitely.  I've managed to stay around that weight, now, for about four years.  And these days, I don't really feel like I'm dieting, as such.  I just follow the "healthy" ideas which the program originally taught me, and it's all become second nature to me.  And I can still go out with the girls for a steak and bourbon every Wednesday, and know that because, the rest of my lifestyle is so good, it's not really going to have much of an effect on me.  I'm actually pretty happy.