Welcome visitors to my inner most thoughts on the progress I'm making on the "Body for Life" approach to diet and exercise. I appologize up front if I get a little rabid in my personal comments related to the modern commercial weight loss and fitness programs. My blood gets boiling when I think about all the money spent on programs that are NOT designed for a lifetime of change. The commercial programs have good intensions but fail to make the connection with getting to the root of what it will take YOU to change your life for a lifetime. Prepackaged food will never teach you how to shop at the grocery store or show you how to read labels or help you figure out what really makes you have cravings in the first place. I've been on every diet imaginable and unless you eat and prepare food that you can buy anywhere, or know what to select at a restaurant, then you have just thrown away your money on a program that will fail long term. I won't bore you with my long liteny of arguments to get back to basics as I'm sure you'll get a sense of where I'm coming from after keeping up with my blog for some time.
A little background on myself and why I am an expert and what works and doesn't.....I've lived it. Yo-Yo dieting, morbid obesity and finally a current weight loss of 140 pounds with 35 more to go. Visit my blog at www.rockbrookwomensgym.blogspot.com to get the full story on my journey so far. This blog is exclusively for a decision I made 4 weeks ago to try the "Body for Life" program by Bill Phillips. I currently own a gym and one of the Personal Trainers that works here is a Body for Life Champion. You may have heard of her, Kelly Adair. Anyway, although I've owned the gym for 1.5 years I felt I didn't need the extra help from any program but I was over-exercising and still eating some of the wrong things. I used to believe calorie in/calories out and couldn't figure out why I plataued in February of 2008. I decided to start Body for Life to fine tune my understanding of how and what to eat. I only had 40 or so pounds to go and let me tell you, the last weight is the toughest to lose. It was sticking to me like glue no matter what I did. I was suffering from over-exercising and it still wasn't coming off. All of a sudden, I'm off my platau and I now feel I've reached the final "enlightenment". It isn't calories in/calories out, it's what and when you eat in combination with the RIGHT exercise.
This blog is dedicated to my final journey to be the best I can be!
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