One Awesome Woman 110 Pounds Lighter!

Tricia has already lost 110 pounds!  She approached her weight loss this time by her own prescribed diet and exercise regimine; which means it is EXACTLY the right way.  It took her over twenty years to figure out that she could do this without spending money on the lastest new fad, diet or diet pill.  


Her approach:

• Calorie counting using My Fitness Pal app (free) 1200 calories per day
• Using the Endomondo app (free) to track her fitness
• Saying no to the food at work and all around her (said this was hard at first)
• Bringing her lunch to work
• Declining invitations to lunch and would offer instead, to each bring their lunch to work and sit together
• Finding time to exercise at the end of a long work day and using Endomondo for tracking exercise (she started on Saturdays and realized she could fit more in- baby steps!)
• She sticks with 1200 calories regardless of exercise time (she does not eat more just because she burned more)
• Planning what’s for dinner 
• She has support at home and work (we are all her biggest fans!)

Why it is right and why it works:

• Portion control
• Meal planning
• Healthy choices
• Calorie awareness 
• Goal setting
• Exercising 
• Saying no 
• Consistency

There is nothing in her self described plan that tells her what she can and cannot eat.    It took her about one month of using My Fitness Pal to familiarize herself with the calorie content in foods.  Calorie content awareness and understanding nutritional values helps her make the right choices, allowing the concious decision to eat a food or not.  Consuming only 1200 calories a day, helps you make the choices you want to make and ask yourself when you are tempted, “is it worth it?” 

If you have ever dieted and lost weight, you understand the natural progression and ease of saying no to certain foods once the weight starts coming off.  Losing weight inspires. Each day is easier when you see results.  Her initial goal was much less than 110 pounds. Here goals become larger as a natural progression of her acheivement and success.  We will share her maintenance weight when she decides what she wants it to be.  She is on FIRE!

Health Inspires.  

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