About Me

My name is Kim Puzder. I am a thirty year old stay at home mom of two beautiful children, wife to a wonderful supportive man, and a new blogger.   I graduated with a Master’s Degree to be a teacher, but right now, I enjoy teaching my own children while I focus on my other passion: health and nutrition.  I was going through a rough time with depression this summer and I prayed that God would heal me.  I’ve heard that God helps those who help themselves, and now I am a firm believer.  As soon as I started taking the steps I needed to to help myself through this depression, I was blessed with this idea.  Overnight, all the pieces fell into place, and The Rule of Three Diet was born.  I feel so blessed in all areas of my life.  I still struggle with certain issues, but I’ve learned to take one day and one moment at a time. 

Life wasn’t always like that for me.  Here’s my story: 

My story starts when I was just 7 years old. I was on a balance beam in gymnastics in my little leotard. I heard my coach (who was probably in high school, but to me was an adult to be respected) whisper to her friend, “Do you think that girl’s fat?” The friend said no, but the damage had been done. Someone thought I was fat. I’ve harbored shame and embarrassment about my body from that day forward. I constantly wonder what others see when they look at me. To give myself a little credit I’ll tell you that I have grown up just a bit, and am feeling more and more comfortable in my skin. I am more fit now than ever before. I’ve felt fat at every stage in my life, but often I’ll take a look at an old photograph and wish I could go back to that body. That is, every photograph except my wedding photo. The biggest I’ve ever been was around the time I got married. I weighed 167 pounds and was squeezing into size 10. After we married, I joined Weight Watchers. I lost some, then quit due to lack of money. I joined and stopped several other times for this reason.

We moved to St. Louis and I tried Atkins. I’ve read and tried diets like The Zone, South Beach, The Mediterranean Diet, The Suzanne Sommers Diet, YOU on a Diet, and Precision Nutrition.  I’ve tried a ton, but I have never stuck to any one diet longer than I did with Weight Watchers. I’ve tried Slimfast, cutting portions, didn’t even finish a whole bottle of Metabolife, and various diets that nutritionists or personal trainers have given me. Trying and failing at all these didn’t do much good for my self esteem. After gaining 40 pounds with my first pregnancy, I was up to 180. I joined Weight Watchers and stuck to it.  Of course it helped that I got to eat 10 extra points a day because I was nursing! I was down to my goal weight of 127 in three months. Three months later, after doing Pilates and running 6 miles 3 times a week I was a size 0-4, depending on where I shopped. I was ecstatic! I have never been more proud of myself. I felt attractive and I wanted to help others do what I did. Looking back, I might have been a bit of a brag. I was a big Weight Watchers advocate. I stopped going to meetings, and the weight (about 5 pounds worth) would creep back on. Then I’d take it off by myself. This yo-yo cycle continued until I gained 40 pounds with my second pregnancy. This time, it took me 5 months to lose the weight on Weight Watchers, and I’ve never been that skinny again. I don’t think I ever will be, and actually don’t want to.  I have found, in “playing” with my weight, that I am most comfortable between 130 and 132 pounds.

It’s September 4, 2007. I have put on 14 pounds since December 2006 (almost a year ago now). In December, I decided I could go off my diet, and just start dieting again in January.  Didn’t happen.  I did start working out a lot, and maintained at 135 for awhile, but then I started to burn out at the gym, I hurt my back and couldn’t go to the gym and my eating habits didn’t change.  My family’s cabin burned down to the ground, we lost all our family heirlooms, and I got really depressed.  I started drinking a lot more than normal, still not revisiting the gym.  I signed up for Weight Watchers and took off 10 pounds. When I got within 2 pounds of my goal, I stopped and gained it all back the next month. I’m now at 144. I am sick that I let this happen.  I was in ‘alert mode’ when I was at 135, telling myself not to let this get out of control. Now I’m about 10 pounds heavier than that.

I do not want to go back to Weight Watchers for several reasons.  While I do think it is a great program, and one I’ve had a lot of success with, it is obviously not a plan that I can stick with. The most successful diet is one that you can stick with for life! I’m going to give The Rule of 3 Diet a chance. Of all the dietary and nutritional reading I do… this should prove* to be a safe and healthy diet. I’d like you to try it right along with me and let me know your struggles and successes. I’d love to know your questions and concerns, as I’m sure others will have them too. One of the most successful tools you can have in losing weight is a support system. Let’s be that for each other.

*I have decided to go back to school to earn a PHD in nutrition.  I have a long way to go, as I haven’t had even one nutrition class.  I’d like to use The Rule of Three Diet as my Doctoral Thesis.  I will need ‘test subjects’ (mwaa haaaa haaa! insert evil laugh) to write about.  If you are interested in trying to follow this diet, please contact me.  I’ll need to get some personal information from you like your age, gender, starting weight, basic measurements, and possibly copies of your Rule of Three Diet Charts.  You will be anonymous in my book, (oh, forgot to mention that, did I?  Of course, every good diet doctor writes a book, right?) should you want to be.  Otherwise, I’d love to show before and after photos of you in the Success! section.  I’ll need all kinds of data, even those that think they can do this and end up failing for some reason.  I’ll want to know why.  What were your challenges?  Any help you can give me will be appreciated greatly. 

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