Why did I join/start? I've always had a good balance in my life with work, fitness, spirituality, and home. I accepted a big promotion over two years ago and in order to transition to my new role I started ignoring my personal fitness. My desire to run and do anything active on a consistent basis [...]
I started my fitness and health bursts in 2001. These bursts of exercise, healthy decisions, and trying miracle foods were easy and all yielded nice results when I was single and in my 20’s. After years of this, my family and friends all joked about my new addiction to “weird eating” which truly was just [...]
I started swimming competitively at age 7. I swam 2 hours a day 6 days a week at a minimum until I was 17. I swam 4 hours a day in the summer. That being said, I never learned to eat like a normal person. I could eat all day and it didn’t matter. My [...]
Prior to this challenge I pretty much adhered to my daily calorie allotment and exercised on a consistent basis. I quickly realized when I switched over to eating by carb/fat/macro it didn’t match up and many of the foods I ate were not nutrient dense. I have learned how to eat more nutritiously and although [...]
I think I am a typical woman. I would describe myself as a happy, friendly, positive, outgoing, sarcastic person. I LIKE attention as long as I have brought it on myself. I do not have a “perfect” body and my weight has bounced up and down. I hit my highest weight in my [...]
I have spent my entire life - since I was a teenager - fighting with weight, body image, and self-esteem. I have “controlled” it in various ways. Dieting never worked, I always regained the weight. My self-image was very poor. No matter if I was thin or “fat”, my self-image was not great. Facing my [...]
I’ve always been into group fitness, doing mostly cardio,& running. Weights of course once and a blue moon, but never anything crazy. I wanted to do this challenge to finally see if lifting weights really makes a difference. And I was looking to lean out. I can be pretty determined when I put my mind [...]
I am a former two-sport collegiate athlete, working mom of three over-scheduled kids, lover of all things sports who could no longer keep up with her kids. As a mother I put myself last both mentally and physically…eating off the kids plates, never sitting down to eat a meal with vegetables, a glass of wine or [...]
I think most of us have a love/hate relationship with the scale. I used to, but now I see the scale as a mechanism to tell me whether my nutrition is on track or off track with my goals. The scale is a tool. We should use it as such. We use a mirror to [...]
I have a very broad client base ranging from people who want to get ripped to people who want to workout a few times a week. Some clients just want to get a few workouts in but are not ready to tackle the scary nutrition stuff. I watch as folks compare their paths to others and [...]
