“I lost 18 lbs and 12% of my body weight, the accountability and structure Fit-4-Life offers really made the difference.” Janice Schank is the Fit-4-Life 90 Day Weight Loss Challenge 4th Place Winner. To be perfectly honest I wasn’t sure how Janice was going to do with her weight loss during the Challenge. She only wanted to lose about 15lbs, but I know how hard it is to lose those last few lbs. Her and her husband were doing a really crazy sounding diet “Fab Five” you fast 19 hours per day and eat only during 5 hours. It made me cringe just hearing about it, because I know what kind of damage she was doing to her metabolism. I also know Janice is super busy at work and doesn’t really have a lot of time to workout – she gave me 30 minutes 2-3x/week. I knew because of her limited workout schedule, nutrition was going to be absolutely essential.
Janice was a complete stud. I created a very evil 30 minute compound upper/lower body workout routine she could do at home a few times/week. And she came to all of our FREE Saturday 9-10AM Small Group Workouts – she worked out really hard. Check out the secrets to her success in her own words, check her video testimonial below.
“The key to my success was the free online food journal”. I highly recommend www.fatsecret.com or www.myfitnesspal.com with the free phone apps (which are totally awesome, you can scan food barcodes with your phone and all the nutritional info gets pulled in automatically). Janice absolutely loved fatsecret and tracked everything she was doing. Janice took it one step further and would actually plan out each day the night before with the online journal so she’d know exactly what she was doing the next day = Ingenious. If you use the journal after you’ve eaten then it’s already too late to fix it. You need to make sure you are getting in the right amount of calories, carbs, fats, & protein for each meal. If she was eating out she would get the nutritional info on their website (we provide that info for over 25 local restaurants) and figure out what she was going to eat.
Janice really appreciated my honesty. Weight loss is 80% nutrition and 20% exercise – she was shocked I said this because I own a personal training studio and thought I would promote exercise over nutrition. She focused primarily on her nutrition first which gave her the most bang for her buck for return on her time and effort. Don’t get me wrong she still worked out 2-3x/week.
Janice proves that food journals work! One of the best predictors of successful, long term weight loss is how often and how long you do a food journal. And do what Janice does plan your day out the night before for about 15 minutes. I guarantee you are much more likely to eat better if you have a plan. Just tracking your intake at the end of the day is a waste because it’s already too late to make any corrections. You can’t fix it the next day, once its done its done. We’ll tell you exactly what, when, and how much to eat based on your goals and individual metabolic blueprint.
Stop spinning your wheels, if you don’t have the time to use a food journal you don’t have time to lose weight and keep it off. It’s just that simple!! Visit www.fitlifeinc.com to schedule your free consult and body diagnostic.
