Hello everyone! I just wanted to pass on a note of inspiration regarding one of my clients, Barbara. As I tell most new clients upon getting started, 100% of those folks who work the program consistently and determinedly pertaining to nutrition, cardiovascular and regular strength-training meet their results, and relatively quickly!!! AND 100% of those folks who don't follow the program, don't meet their results. Well, let me tell you that today, Barbara met her goal.

When she started with me in January, she had about 40% bodyfat. She had crash-dieted in the past and had gotten slim, but knew it wasn't healthy and had never done it the right way. Afterward she didn't feel healthy and knew she had lost a lot of her muscle. She committed, in January, to become healthy and lean. Well, through the process let me tell you she has put me through it!! She would literally demand me to tell her why she wasn't any leaner time and time again. I could see that she was changing, but she couldn't see it. She would literally get in my face and tell me "I am paying you $$$$! I expect to be leaner than this!!!!" And at one plateau point I got so frustrated that I asked her if she wanted her money back. This is to show you that the journey isn't always easy, but the journey is the important part of this effort. Let me note here, too, that it was once Barbara committed fully to eating correctly that she left her plateau and began changing again.

Then people started taking notice of her body's changes. She was literally getting jaws dropping everywhere, but indicated to me that she wouldn't be happy until people started asking her why in the world she worked out, because to look at her she obviously didn't need to! She wasn't happy being the size 10 that she had been before. She wanted to look totally-fit.

Well, last week, somebody asked her why she worked out. They commented on how fit and slim she is and today, just 6 months later, Barbara is at 19% body fat and her size 8's are either comfortable or loose!!!!!! I am so proud of her. My job is to establish the program, provide accountability, deliver the encouragement, and try to maintain my composure when you hit that dreaded in-between stage where you've worked hard and don't see what you want to see (yet), but it is YOU that DOES THE WORK!!!

As a result of Barbara's efforts, she has become one of my many "poster-children" as she exemplifies what a 50-something female can do, given the right program, ambition and dedication -- EVEN IN A HOME PROGRAM WITHOUT ANY EQUIPMENT AT HOME!!

Congratulations, Barbara, and thanks for proving, yet again, what can be done. I am so proud of you! : )