In my previous post, I shared with you some of my motivation for wanting to make serious change my life and wanting to get healthy and to achieve a whole new level of fitness. One of my biggest hurdles was, as it is for most people, I didn’t know what to do on how to effectively loose weight and to become healthy and fit. I know how to be in maintenance mode, but frankly it had been 19 years since I was in “maintenance” mode and just like with anything else on the Internet, there are a million “experts” out there that look like “The Incredible Hulk” or have little to no “cred” on how to loose weight safely, permanently, etc.
I started to do some searching on local resources to where i live. I found that the local hospital has a program that was fairly inexpensive, meet a couple times a week and would provide me with nutrtion counseling & accountability and a trainer that will help oversee/ coach our group workouts and be available to answer questions if need be. The cost of the program included the use of the cardiac rehab gym. This program was called “Healthy Weigh 4 Life”. It was a great 8-week program that really helped me to get started on a good foundation and to work in healthy habits throughout my life. It was during this program, that I did struggle at times with changing my diet. Then a couple of realizations came to me during this time:
Weight loss is 70% diet and 30% increased activity-
Laurie LaRock [my trainer in Healthy Weigh 4 Life]
My Journey 2 Fitness 