Monika Barkley

The following e-mail is the original FIRST correspondence from me to Dr. Phil…

Hi Dr. Phil….. I’m Monika Barkley from Goldsboro, North Carolina and I would LOVE to participate in your weight loss challenge! I’m at the dreaded 200 lb mark with my ideal weight at 145 to150 lbs. I’m President of my own construction company in Goldsboro so I can bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan or I can help sent it to Washington (I’ve been a political campaign coordinator for 20 plus years!) so I can pretty much control everything in my life except my stress eating and weight. Every election year I can pretty much guarantee (Habit) I am going to gain weight….. now depending on how much weight I gain during a campaign depends on how stressful a campaign is and last year I got rather fluffy. You can look at my love me wall of all the campaign’s I’ve worked in and think it’s a different person in every picture at the beginning of a campaign then at the end. When I saw this video of me trying to “change the world” the only thing I could think of was sweet Jesus I needed lipo on my head! This fact is why I need your help Dr. Phil….. I desperately want to break that yo yo, stress eating diet or lack of a diet that I am on. Please help me break that cycle because it’s getting harder and harder to get the weight off but easier and easier to put it on….. in fact when the local women’s investment club I’m in purchased stock in Krispy Kreme donuts I gained 3 lbs! I’ve been on (need a scroll and roll it on the floor) these diets but I desperately want to break that cycle and be on a healthy nutrition and exercise and mentally focused plan that will help me finally break the cycle and get the weight off and keep it off for good. I think I’d be a great person for this challenge. I’m a business woman, political woman always on the go and I’d be a great test case to teach other business women how to get healthy and get active on the run! I’ve always been physically active….. gymnastics, football, sports in general. I’m chairman of the Ambassadors for the local Chamber of Commerce and we have an annual Ambassadors Social. I have not lost the limbo contest in the last four years…..but tell me Dr. Phil how can I possiblyyyyy win the limbo contest this year….. IF I CAN’T GET MY BUTT UNDER THE POLE!!!!!