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In a roundabout way, Sandra Wadsworth credits her dry cleaner with motivating her to lose weight.

“In 1993,1 finally accepted the fact that my dry cleaner wasn’t shrinking my clothes,” laughs the 41 -year-old Brandywine, Mary-land, resident. “And I admitted to myself that my zippers weren’t breaking because my clothes were poorly made.” Sandy knew that, at 150 pounds, she was heavier than she had ever been, because her eating habits were out of control. But every time she tried to lose weight, she quit as soon as she made even the most minor mistake, like choosing a “bad” food or eating too much. Embarrassed by her inability to stick with a weight-loss program, she refused to discuss her problem with her family or closest friends.

Eventually, Sandy sought help from Weight Watchers, thinking that a structured approach to weight loss might be what she needed. Through the program, she learned how emotional upsets such as boredom and stress drove her to binge on junk food and fast food. “I also became aware of my habit of ‘unconscious eating’— munching on a handful of M&M’s at work and not remembering whose candy dish I had raided,” she says.

Even more important to Sandy was the rebirth of her self-esteem. “Weight Watchers helped me see that I wasn’t a bad person because I was overweight,” she says. “I just needed to learn healthier habits.”

After 5 months in the program, Sandy lost 20 pounds. She has stayed at her goal weight of 130 pounds for more than 5 years.

Sandy admits that she has had her share of slip-ups. The difference is that she no longer views every setback as a failure. “Everyone makes mistakes,” she says. “The key to weight-loss success is turning each mistake into a learning experience.”

WINNING ACTION

Challenge all-or-nothing thinking. So you ate a half-pound of your favorite chocolates. That doesn’t mean that you failed, that you’re a bad person, or that your diet jis over. Acknowledge the blip and just pick up where you left off. Even the most successful “losers” slip up.

That’s called being human. The trick is to learn from the situation and keep trying. Every day really is a new day.

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