Check out this text I got from my son Travis. “Hey your diet is no carbs, no sugar right?”  I replied,  Low carbs, low sugar.   Our next phone conversation I asked him what all the diet questions were about.    He said there is a girl at his work that was talking about being on a diet and he tried to talk diet talk with her.  ITG diet talk, poor kid he hasn’t even been around since February and he is even preaching ITG!  The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.  After trying to fight the diet fight, you know the one when the person you are talking to tells you that they know what they need to do to lose weight, and back in the day they lost so many pounds and blah blah blah.  He finally realized he couldn’t out talk a girl on a diet. 

So he went for the big guns…Pictures!  First he showed her the picture we took in 2009 for prom (shown).   Then he busted out the picture we took at his Security Forces Graduation July 14, 2014.  The pictures got her attention and she wanted to learn more about ITG diet.  Travis even commented to me how big I was, I think seeing the pictures reminded him how big I actually was.  I will keep Big Tina pictures around forever, I never want to forget that I don’t want to go back.  Makes me feel good that Travis was proud enough of me to bring out my pictures, both of them, Big Tina and Little Tina.  As good as I feel about myself for defeating obesity, that feeling is tripled when I coach someone else to succeed and beat obesity. 

Tina Sly