Amy Aspey is a Life Time Fitness member at the Parker-Aurora club in Colorado who recently committed to vastly improving her physical condition. She had a strong desire to become healthier, fitter, stronger, and to enhance the overall quality of her life. Amy is journaling her 12-week Metabolic Makeover on the Assessments & Testing page every Wednesday. Read her past entries:
My sister and her family are in town visiting, so the fact that I still lost 1 pound this week is a major victory! My grand total is 11 lbs lost at the start of my 6th week. Not bad, if I do say so myself!
I was telling Jen (my Nutrition Coach) that my confidence level is at an all time high. I really don't consider myself to be on a diet -- yet, I'm still losing weight. I love this!! For the first time in my adult life, I know I'm going to achieve my ideal weight. It might take a while, but I'm going to get there and stay there. In my nutrition sessions, Jen gave me some valuable information, but then it was up to me to absorb that information and use it. Every week, I had homework. And, just as in life, you get as much out of homework as you put into it. She could have just given me a meal plan on day one and said, "Follow this and you'll lose 1.5 lbs a week." Only that wouldn't have been any different than all the diets I've ever tried...and failed. Instead, I had to do the work myself:
• I had to come up with a system to track what I was eating.
• I had to enter what I ate into an online calorie counter and confirm I was eating the correct number of calories a day.
• I had to come up with the meal plan that followed my exchange allotment.
• I had to measure my portion sizes to make sure I ate what I said I ate.
And I had to do this on a daily basis! It's been a large time commitment, and as a result, I really feel I've earned my weight loss. Thanks Jen, for being there to guide me through this lifestyle change. Obviously, I've never been able to do this on my own, so I credit you with a lot of my success!
If you are interested in documenting your own Metabolic Makeover on the Assessments page, please contact Marissa Kristal.
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