- Name: Wesley Etienne
- Location: London, UK
I've struggled with my weight since I was around ten years old, and 13 years later, I found myself still struggling. Food was my emotional comfort and what I depended on to get me through the tough times; and there have been a lot of tough times.
I booked a holiday to Florida in February this year (2012), and the day to fly out was the 1st September. I knew that I didn't want to fly to my dream holiday destination and still look and feel the way that I did. I wanted help and after a search around the internet, I came across Slim & Save. It sounded perfect as it was everything you wanted from other VLCD diets, but it had the best variety of meals and flavours to choose from by FAR. I knew this was the one for me and started off on the diet.
Part way through the diet, I decided I was going to enter a body transformation contest and I took up weight training to help me sculpt the body I wanted, so I started adding chicken and vegetables into my diet to help me get better results from my training.
The combination of training and Slim & Save was the key to me staying on track and now I know I can go on my holiday feeling the best I've felt in years, and looking loads slimmer too! Losing so much of my weight has made me realise that being so big was holding me back so much in life. A lot of good things have happened to me since starting this diet and I'm sure it's because I've had the confidence that a better body can give you.
I would say to anyone thinking about starting this diet, you MUST have a really, really good reason for wanting to lose weight, something that is of upmost importance; if you don't have clear goals, you will fail. Also, if you have a rubbish day and you come off the diet, don't worry; just do what you have to and get back on it the next day. If you keep on pushing that wall, eventually it will fall, so don't ever give up, no matter how long it takes you. You'll have bad days, good days, bad weeks, good weeks, but you'll get somewhere eventually if you keep on trying. No one ever got anywhere by giving up! So don't be too hard on yourself and keep on trying, because I never gave up and I've never been so proud of myself! You can be proud of yourself too!
