SIERRA
BEFORE AND AFTER

Hi! My name is Sierra, and I am one of the millions of people who have struggled with weight loss. I have gone up and down; sometimes chubby, sometimes obese, occasionally thin. Every time I got near my goal weight, my bad eating habits would creep back in and I would find myself FAT AGAIN! I was always looking for the magic pill, the psychological breakthrough, the one thing that would let the thin me, the REAL ME, come out! I was starting to give up and give in to being fat for the rest of my life.

In June of 2005, I slipped and fell in my bathroom, hitting my face hard on the tile floor. I was shocked when I saw the photos of myself a few days later, not because of my big black eye and bruised face, but because of the size of my body!! I looked like a huge blimp! I had to weigh close to 300 pounds, if not more! It was my major wake-up call and I knew I had to do something fast. I had known I was fat, but I didn't realize I was THAT FAT.

I had manifested a lot of wonderful and incredible things in my life using the Laws of Attraction and Divine Right.  It is something I learned more than 15 years ago from a dear woman named Marilyn.  I manifested the life of my dreams, several acres of ocean front rainforest property in Costa Rica, photographing, researching, and taking people to see dolphins and whales, being surrounded by monkeys, toucans, macaws; almost anything I wanted by writing them down like I already had them and then visualizing my life with those things.  

I had used the Law of Attraction to get thin before, but gained it back quickly.  It was time to do it again, because now my knees were killing me and I was REALLY REALLY FAT!  Not only that, I was running my eco lodge and a marine research and conservation center and of course,  taking people on dolphin and whale watching tours.  I am constantly in a bathing suit on the beach, in the tropics.  I just couldn't stand being a fat mermaid anymore!!!

I had been reading a lot of emails and websites about the health and weight loss benefits of green tea and decided to give it a try along with my Attraction Plan. The only thing I had to lose was over 150 pounds!  I did some research and was impressed by the quality of green teas that I discovered.  I placed my order.  Even Lipton sells green tea these days, but I knew I needed the REAL THING straight from Japan, with all the properties and benefits still present in the tea, not an inferior and highly processed product. After all, I had a long road ahead of me and wanted to be sure I had the full strength weight loss aid to do it.

I began to visualize myself as if I already had the body I wanted, and I wrote down statements in my journal such as "I am thin", "I wear a size 5", "I am healthy and strong".  You get the idea.  I also cut out pictures or printed them from the internet of clothes I wanted to look good in.  I put them on a board and looked at it every day.

On August 15, 2005, I drank my first cup of green tea. Within 4 hours, I got my period. My menstrual cycle had been coming only every 3-5 months for a long time. Being obese, and especially yo-yo weight cycles affect your body in many negative ways. My period has come every 26-28 day since drinking that first cup of green tea. I have not heard scientific claims regarding this, and I am certainly not a scientist, but I know 100 percent that the green tea regulated my system for the first time in many years. I am sure that it has positively affected my metabolism too. 

Green tea, made in the correct way, is delicious, especially the higher quality ones. It nourishes my body in so many ways that I do not feel hungry all the time and I am satisfied with much less food. It has helped me in so many other ways and I felt the difference immediately. 

October 2005

Green tea is not a magic potion that allows you to continue bad food habits and overeating. One can not expect to eat fried, greasy and highly processed foods and still lose weight just because you are drinking green tea. You have to change your lifestyle to include healthy eating habits and exercise. You have to think like and become a thin person!

I was also hearing a lot about The South Beach Diet. I had ordered the book and read it cover to cover and it just all made sense to me. It interested me because it is a lifestyle and not a "diet" (I hate that word).  I liked the online support and all the recipes and daily meal plans. I joined South Beach Online and started it on the same day that I started drinking green tea.  I was curious about their claims that following the South Beach Diet took away cravings.

After several weeks of loyal green tea drinking and following the South Beach Diet, I found that my cravings had gone away, and I was able to further modify my eating habits to eliminate almost all processed foods, eating only fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and fresh fish. That's when my weight loss really took off!

I certainly would have lost weight anyway with my change in eating habits, but the green tea gave me the strength and will power to go all the way this time, and much faster than it normally would have taken. I continue to drink green tea every day. 

I brew two cups in the morning and then use the same tea to make several cups more which I store in the fridge and drink cold throughout the day. However, my favorite is the hot tea in the mornings. It gets my metabolism going and fills me and satisfies me. There is something to be said for sitting down and taking the time to enjoy a hot cup of tea, especially one so beneficial to your body. YOU DESERVE IT!

I have now lost over 170 pounds in a little over a year by faithfully drinking green tea and changing my eating habits. I presently weigh 130 pounds and wear a size 5/6! I weigh less than I did in high school and feel healthier than I ever have in my life, at age 42!

MEET THE NEW SIERRA!

JUNE 2006


JUNE 2006

I have also included on this website some of my Tips for Successful Weight Loss as well as some great products and other Weight Loss Tools & Aids to help you begin your road to becoming the new thin you!  GOOD LUCK!

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