Just a thought.

How unfortunate that I have to share my name with the poster who for whatever reason felt the need to post that garbage. You have no idea what an inspiration you are to so many people. I have struggled with my weight for a few years now. I have 3 beautiful children, but after 3 pregnancies I gained quite a bit of weight. Unfortunately I haven’t been successful in losing it…that is until I found your site. You showed me that it IS possible, and that there are so many options to plan healthy meals for myself and my family. I was incredibly unhappy with myself because of this extra weight I have been carrying around. It’s not the image I want to portray for my kids, and they deserve so much more than to have a mother who sits around the house because she’s so unhappy with herself that she doesn’t want to go out and enjoy life. I’m 32 years old, and for the past few years I’ve been living a very sedentary life and wallowing in my misery from all of this unwanted weight. When I found your website something inside me clicked, and I knew that I didn’t have to live like this anymore. That was 5 weeks ago, and so far I’ve lost 16 pounds following WW. I already feel 110% better. I still need to lose about 50 pounds, but the changes I’ve seen in my body already have motivated me even more. I’ve been fortunate to be able to come to your site and find delicious healthy recipes that make this new healthy lifestyle so much easier. You have truly turned my life around, and all I can say is THANK YOU! Thank you for sharing your story, and thank you for continuing to inspire me every day. BTW, my husband thanks you too! He has been truly amazing through this process, and he tells me everyday how great I look and how much happier I have become.

The poster above could not be more wrong. How incredibly powerful I feel now that I am using my energy and inner strength controlling the food I eat, writing it down, feeling GREAT AND VIRTUOUS about it, KNOWING that the size of MY hips has A LOT to do with how great I feel about myself and how I have so much more life and energy in me to be the very best that I can be for myself and my family!!! This is how I’m finding my happiness, and I’m so thankful to you for helping me along the way! Thanks, Roni!!! :)

Everyone has to find happiness and peace in their own way and it sounds like many of you have, so kudos to you! For my part, I’m still trying to figure out what happiness looks like in my own life. The only part I’m sure of is that FOR ME, happiness includes not dieting and making peace with my body the way it is today. Good luck to all of you in your search for happiness in your own lives.

Carrie

PS: for those of you who were speculating, I came to Roni’s site because a friend of mine linked to it in her blog and I was curious :)

While you often make concrete “food” & “point” discovery posts, you also have a lot of material on your blog about self confidence, about managing busy lives and somehow keeping up, about the health benefits (not just weight loss) of exercise. Maybe people can just take the parts of the site that speak to them.

I appreciate the balance between more “behavioural” sides of the site (e.g. Stages of Journalling) with the more “philosophical” (e.g. learning to love and take care of ourselves).

I like that you don’t pretend to have all of the answers and that you don’t profess to speak for anyone but yourself. It’s a journey that we’re all on , one that leads not to where society wants us to be, but where we’re confident in ourselves. We need to find our own way there, but we can be there for each other–or at least try not to hurt each other.

Thanks for what you do and how you do it.