Client Success stories
Saye
It’s with great happiness that we report to you the success of Saye, daughter of long-time client Theresa Dean. Theresa sent her daughter to us after Saye had cancer removed from her and has been clear of it for over 3 years and was looking in the direction of health and fitness.
Saye is living proof of what I am constantly advising our clients – follow the principles of a fitness lifestyle and avoid high-intensity aerobic exercise if you have a damaged metabolism. Despite running three times a week for 1 hour early in the morning, all that huffing and puffing had brought Saye three results: exhaustion, an injured back, and even greater frustration about her weight.
I worked with Saye on critical point analysis to identify the key areas she needed to shift in order to lose weight. These included bringing her blood sugar back into balance, correcting her adrenal health, getting her inflammation under control, and taking more rest. James wrote an corrective exercise program that she could do at home to heal her aching back.
Result: Patsy has lost 18 pounds in 12 weeks.
How did you feel before you came to US? “I felt tired, discouraged and unhealthy. I basically felt like a lump on auto pilot.”
What had you tried before to achieve the weight loss you desired? “I have tried many diets on my own – the cabbage soup diet, diet for your blood type, Sugar Busters d iet, South Beach diet, Fit for Life program, using Metabolife, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, taking random diet pills, getting B-12 injections, taking prescription appetite suppressants, and taking the newest pill on the market Alli. I have also tried different exercise programs: I joined Gold’s Gym, LA Fitness, did Jazzercise and Pilates. I have had two personal trainers, joined a 6 a.m. morning boot camp 3 mornings a week. You name it, I have likely tried it!”
What are the key things you have learned through our work with us? “That everything that I had been doing for most of my adult life, as far as diet and exercise, was contributing to my weight problem, not solving it. I was trying to find the magic pill to solve my problems instead of using good, sound principles to get my weight under control. I have learned that I did not have to work as hard as I had been, I just needed to listen to my body, regain all my depleted energy through lots of rest, and eat clean, real food. I have also learned that I did not have to kill myself with high-intensity exercise programs.”
How did you feel after running in a boot camp 3 times per week and still not losing weight? “Defeated! I was miserable!! Getting up at 5 a.m., dressing as if I was going snow skiing, and driving to the outdoor parking lot, working out for 1 hour in the dark and then coming home and getting me and my family out the door for work and school was torture!! And for what? Nothing but a back injury after 12 weeks!!”
What advice would you give other women who are frustrated with their weight? “To stop trying to treat dieting as a game. I have heard it before, but thought there had to be a better way…you have to eat right and smart. Dieting is wrong, eating like a thin healthy person is the only way!!! I was addicted to sugar and carbs. I learned that this was wreaking havoc with my body!! I basically wanted someone to tell me I could eat anything I wanted and still lose weight. I did not think I could live or enjoy life without sugar and bad carbs in my diet. Thankfully I was wrong!! It is a huge perk to eat without guilt!! After all these years I know what I really want, not just to be thin, but to be healthy.
Chris has helped me identify my true needs, helped me get off medications that were contributing to my poor health, taught me how to eat correctly, and determined my food sensitivities. It’s also put me on a good exercise program that is helping to repair the damage I have done to my back at Boot Camp.
I have lost 18 pounds in the last 12 weeks! It has been fun watching the weight slip away. My hair and skin have never looked better! But the bottom line is I feel (and look) healthier! Plus, I know what I am doing is right for my body
Saye is living proof of what I am constantly advising our clients – follow the principles of a fitness lifestyle and avoid high-intensity aerobic exercise if you have a damaged metabolism. Despite running three times a week for 1 hour early in the morning, all that huffing and puffing had brought Saye three results: exhaustion, an injured back, and even greater frustration about her weight.
I worked with Saye on critical point analysis to identify the key areas she needed to shift in order to lose weight. These included bringing her blood sugar back into balance, correcting her adrenal health, getting her inflammation under control, and taking more rest. James wrote an corrective exercise program that she could do at home to heal her aching back.
Result: Patsy has lost 18 pounds in 12 weeks.
How did you feel before you came to US? “I felt tired, discouraged and unhealthy. I basically felt like a lump on auto pilot.”
What had you tried before to achieve the weight loss you desired? “I have tried many diets on my own – the cabbage soup diet, diet for your blood type, Sugar Busters d iet, South Beach diet, Fit for Life program, using Metabolife, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, taking random diet pills, getting B-12 injections, taking prescription appetite suppressants, and taking the newest pill on the market Alli. I have also tried different exercise programs: I joined Gold’s Gym, LA Fitness, did Jazzercise and Pilates. I have had two personal trainers, joined a 6 a.m. morning boot camp 3 mornings a week. You name it, I have likely tried it!”
What are the key things you have learned through our work with us? “That everything that I had been doing for most of my adult life, as far as diet and exercise, was contributing to my weight problem, not solving it. I was trying to find the magic pill to solve my problems instead of using good, sound principles to get my weight under control. I have learned that I did not have to work as hard as I had been, I just needed to listen to my body, regain all my depleted energy through lots of rest, and eat clean, real food. I have also learned that I did not have to kill myself with high-intensity exercise programs.”
How did you feel after running in a boot camp 3 times per week and still not losing weight? “Defeated! I was miserable!! Getting up at 5 a.m., dressing as if I was going snow skiing, and driving to the outdoor parking lot, working out for 1 hour in the dark and then coming home and getting me and my family out the door for work and school was torture!! And for what? Nothing but a back injury after 12 weeks!!”
What advice would you give other women who are frustrated with their weight? “To stop trying to treat dieting as a game. I have heard it before, but thought there had to be a better way…you have to eat right and smart. Dieting is wrong, eating like a thin healthy person is the only way!!! I was addicted to sugar and carbs. I learned that this was wreaking havoc with my body!! I basically wanted someone to tell me I could eat anything I wanted and still lose weight. I did not think I could live or enjoy life without sugar and bad carbs in my diet. Thankfully I was wrong!! It is a huge perk to eat without guilt!! After all these years I know what I really want, not just to be thin, but to be healthy.
Chris has helped me identify my true needs, helped me get off medications that were contributing to my poor health, taught me how to eat correctly, and determined my food sensitivities. It’s also put me on a good exercise program that is helping to repair the damage I have done to my back at Boot Camp.
I have lost 18 pounds in the last 12 weeks! It has been fun watching the weight slip away. My hair and skin have never looked better! But the bottom line is I feel (and look) healthier! Plus, I know what I am doing is right for my body
Addy
” Addy wrote me and said. “I realize more and more that I am so fortunate to be working with such intelligent and gifted individual. You know I talk/type too much, but I couldn’t help it! I want people to know how I really feel about Chris.”
“I felt as though I had nowhere to turn to. I felt that there were no more options, I had just taken an MRI for my migraines, blood tests for my complete exhaustion! I had been to so many doctors and tried so many medications and nothing seemed to be making me feel better.
“Worse, no doctor could find anything wrong with me except they could see I was exhausted, having trouble sleeping, having terribly upset stomach aches and feeling so low at times that tears were constantly just welling up in my eyes.
“I had lost interest in my hobbies, which for my whole life had been my way of relaxing. I had let friendships with people just wither away because I had no energy to deal with it. I had let my family go and do things without me because I just did not have the drive, interest or energy to do anything.
“I was very upset about this, I love my husband and I love to do things with him, but it’s hard to be upbeat and hard to go out when you just can’t get the energy to get dressed and feel enthusiastic about going out! My children were so worried about me.
“They tried to get me to go for walks at the river, to just get up and go out with them, but it was too much of an effort. Staying at home was just easier.
“The very first month of results, I think I cried six times.”
How do you feel now?
“I honestly feel like a new me! I have NOT felt this good physically and emotionally in YEARS! I have NOT had ONE migraine since starting! I feel as though I am taking positive and healthy steps to becoming a healthy person. It’s a learning process and a big change, I took it one day at a time. I am ready and willing to change for the better! I feel so grateful to Chris. He literally turned my life around in the most positive and INTERESTING way possible!
I am reading tons of books again (previously I did not have the ‘focus’ to finish a magazine over the last few years, let alone almost one book a day now!). I feel empowered by my meditation sessions! James taught me how to meditate the proper way, and it has become a daily ritual – not a religious ritual, but a personal ritual of treating and taking care of myself in the right way. At first I felt guilty taking so much time for myself now, but I am learning that I am only good to others if I am good to myself first.
“It feels wonderful to be looking after myself! In the process, without really even thinking about it, I have lost 7 pounds this month! I am thrilled. I am not concerned with the number on the scale, I am concerned with how I feel when I get dressed. So now when I put on my clothes and they’re not tight and pinching me……I AM THRILLED!!! This was an added bonus I had really not thought would happen for awhile! What a great surprise!”
“I felt as though I had nowhere to turn to. I felt that there were no more options, I had just taken an MRI for my migraines, blood tests for my complete exhaustion! I had been to so many doctors and tried so many medications and nothing seemed to be making me feel better.
“Worse, no doctor could find anything wrong with me except they could see I was exhausted, having trouble sleeping, having terribly upset stomach aches and feeling so low at times that tears were constantly just welling up in my eyes.
“I had lost interest in my hobbies, which for my whole life had been my way of relaxing. I had let friendships with people just wither away because I had no energy to deal with it. I had let my family go and do things without me because I just did not have the drive, interest or energy to do anything.
“I was very upset about this, I love my husband and I love to do things with him, but it’s hard to be upbeat and hard to go out when you just can’t get the energy to get dressed and feel enthusiastic about going out! My children were so worried about me.
“They tried to get me to go for walks at the river, to just get up and go out with them, but it was too much of an effort. Staying at home was just easier.
“The very first month of results, I think I cried six times.”
How do you feel now?
“I honestly feel like a new me! I have NOT felt this good physically and emotionally in YEARS! I have NOT had ONE migraine since starting! I feel as though I am taking positive and healthy steps to becoming a healthy person. It’s a learning process and a big change, I took it one day at a time. I am ready and willing to change for the better! I feel so grateful to Chris. He literally turned my life around in the most positive and INTERESTING way possible!
I am reading tons of books again (previously I did not have the ‘focus’ to finish a magazine over the last few years, let alone almost one book a day now!). I feel empowered by my meditation sessions! James taught me how to meditate the proper way, and it has become a daily ritual – not a religious ritual, but a personal ritual of treating and taking care of myself in the right way. At first I felt guilty taking so much time for myself now, but I am learning that I am only good to others if I am good to myself first.
“It feels wonderful to be looking after myself! In the process, without really even thinking about it, I have lost 7 pounds this month! I am thrilled. I am not concerned with the number on the scale, I am concerned with how I feel when I get dressed. So now when I put on my clothes and they’re not tight and pinching me……I AM THRILLED!!! This was an added bonus I had really not thought would happen for awhile! What a great surprise!”