Woman Sheds 16 Dress Sizes For Son’s Wedding

Though she would once eat half a fried chicken in the grocery-store parking lot, Rose Anne Schulman has made headlines recently for dropping eight dress sizes simply by dieting: In contrast to her old self, Schulman now removes the skin from her rotisserie birds and limits herself to one piece. And this is just one example of little changes the former dance instructor from Atlanta made to go from a size 20 to a size 4 in only a year and a half.

Of course, if you ask Schulman, she has no clue how much weight she’s actually lost because she was too embarrassed before she lost weight to weigh herself. But she can pinpoint the problem that initially caused her to gain so much weight: According to Schulman, she didn’t pay much attention to her diet when she was working because her daily regimen of ballet, tap, clogging, tap and jazz dancing had long kept her in peak physical condition.

When a broken foot took her off the dance floor, however, Schulman says she continued eating the same amount of food as a way of mourning her lost career. And so it would continue, with Schulman continually gaining and losing weight, until two years ago, she found herself shopping for a dress to wear to her son’s wedding; after trying on dress after dress, she finally found one that didn’t make her look like, what she describes as, “a potato sack,” only to have the store’s saleswoman tell her the dress Schulman liked would look better if she lost 5 pounds.

The saleswoman’s obvious rudeness aside, Schulman treated her comment as a wake-up call. By merely watching what she ate, cutting out cake, croutons, mayonnaise-based dressings and, yes, rotisserie chickens, she not only made it to a size 16 by the time of her son’s wedding; she’s cut that dress size in half since.

The biggest key to her success, according to Schulman, has merely been watching everything she puts in her mouth. Now, she no longer tastes food as she cooks, and as an example of the many other small changes she’s made, she points out that she now chooses low-sugar instant oatmeal for breakfast, rather than the regular packets, which contain 160 calories.

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Dr. Charles Goldsmith Dr. Charles Goldsmith started his career as an OB/GYN over 30 years ago. He ran a successful practice but noticed his clients consistently requesting assistance with weight loss. After countless hours of research and studying the numerous aspects of weight loss, Dr. Goldsmith determined that weight loss is very complex and needed to be supervised by a physician.