100 Days of Weight Loss

Well I have been maintaining my 37 pound weight loss for 2 and a half months now! I am getting more confident that I will be able to keep it off as I continue as a health coach. I love love love seeing my clients succeed. So here are the stats for some of my clients who gave me permission to share their success.

Me 37 lbs
Jake 25 lbs
Susan 39 lbs
Ken 40 lbs
Annette 47 lbs
Karen 41 lbs
Hollie 20 lbs
Alexis 39 lbs

WOW!

I had the opportunity this week to participate in a training call with the author of a great book called 100 Days of Weight Loss. The authors name is Linda Spangle and she is now a TSFL health coach, but she has been helping people lose weight for 20 years!!! I just bought the book on Amazon and it is full of great ideas. I thought I would share an excerpt from her book. I know I relate to a lot of what she says and I thought some of you would too.

"In my 20 years of working with overweight individuals, I've found that one problem shows up again and again. In spite of their initial enthusiasm, most people average three to four weeks on a diet before they fall off the wagon. The reason? Real life gets in the way!"

"As many dieters do, you probably start out strong. But then you get worn down by life challenges such as family, work, stress, finances, or even emotional struggles. At some point, the need to feel better becomes stronger than your desire to lose weight. Before long, you slip off your diet and reach for a piece of chocolate cake or a bag of potato chips."

"After you've messed up, you may have a hard time getting back on your diet. Eventually, you just give up on your goal of losing weight--at least for a while."

"Does this sound way too familiar? If so, you may need an entirely new approach for managing your weight. While a healthy diet and exercise plan can certainly help, sometimes it takes more than that. What you really need is an easy set of tools that will help you to calm , nurture, and energize yourself so that food doesn't have to do it for you." Linda Spangle