No More Excuses For This Fit Yummy Mummy!

At age 63, Barbara found herself in the hospital just one week after starting her Fit Yummy Mummy Summer Slim Down Challenge.

Barbara is Jane Hale’s Mom – the grand prize winner of the New Year’s Transformation Challenge ~ Jane Hale Has Bikini Confidence Losing Over 21 lbs of fat, 21 inches and A Dress Size!

Jane’s amazing transformation inspired her mom to check out Fit Yummy Mummy and join her daughter in the Summer Transformation Challenge. Her reason for joining….”After having won the first leg of my battle against Lymphoma (becoming cancer free with chemotherapy), I feel that I need to do everything in my power to stay cancer free.”

Barbara also listed a number of very powerful goals in her ClubFYM progress journal – here is one that really stood out…

I am not going to take the rest of my life for granted. I am taking action to change in order to be the person I want to be. FYM is going to empower me to accomplish my goals and succeed!

Then this message is posted in the ClubFYM Forums…my heart dropped, but I was curious as to how this could lead too a “cool story”!

“Mom’s in the hospital, but here’s a cool story!”

So we’ve had a somewhat scary, suspenseful last few days. My mom, Barby Linnard, who just joined ClubFYM for the Summer Transformation Challenge, and who just last October was declared cancer-free after a serious battle with lymphoma… was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday with complications from the chemotherapy that ended over six months ago!

She’s doing GREAT, though (she’s a SERIOUS fighter!) and she’s bound and determined to get well… but I just had to share something COOL with you!

Mom had been following Fit Yummy Mummy for ONE week before this happened.

Now this could have totally derailed her…. but instead, here’s what happened:

When she was finally admitted to a room at Mass General Hospital in Boston (one of the biggest and most well-respected hospitals in the world) she took one look at the menu and couldn’t find more than ONE vegetable on the menu… so she announced to her nurse and me, “I can’t eat this way.”

The nurse looked confused, and tried to coach her on how to order from the menu… to which she replied, “I need two servings of produce… and without CHEESE! I just beat cancer and I am NOT going to let this menu derail my plans to get my body back!”

She caused such a stir that she got several perplexed calls from the dietary team, a personal visit from a dietician, and finally a personal visit from the head dietitian for the hospital!

She refused to eat the unsupportive JUNK that they were serving up!

The head dietitian told her that she was embarrassed, and that MOST people don’t want to eat healthfully when they are in the hospital and most people don’t know HOW to eat healthfully, so the hospital doesn’t provide that many healthy options. My mom told her about how she’s choosing to eat… and WHY she’s doing it (to support her body’s healing process) and not only did the head dietitian commit to designing her meals according to the Fit Yummy Mummy guidelines, but she’s changing the menus for the whole hospital!!!! GO Fit Yummy Mummy!!! GO MOM!!!

The other thing Mom is doing?

Walking intervals in laps around the hallway circuit! And she brought her Fit Yummy Mummy workouts to do in her hospital room!!! All the nurses are asking what she’s doing… and now she has the staff cheering her on as she does her “laps!” They are all AMAZED and inspired!

They still aren’t letting her go home for a while… but she’s bound and determined NOT to get derailed by what’s happening!

She’s certainly not falling into the “poor me” victim mentality. She’s advocating for her own health… and she’s succeeding!!!

Just wanted to share! I’m SO PROUD of my mom, and I know that you all will be too! See how Fit Yummy Mummy changes lives?

Lots of love to everyone!”

xoxo
-Jane

This Just In….

Barby was able to log in from the hospital and share an update with us at ClubFYM!

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“I’ve just logged in here for the first time since I’ve been in the hospital and have just read Janie’s blog about my current situation! I was so worried that my new Club FYM family would think that I had left the fold when no one heard from me after my I joined the night before the summer challenge started.

Thank you Janie for letting everyone know where I was and why they hadn’t heard from me. I have indeed been successful at having my perfect Fit Yummy Mummy meals. In fact it turns out that being in the hospital in a controlled environment and having gained the full support of Mass General’s diet and nutrition services, every meal every day has been a perfect Fit Yummy Mummy meal.

As soon as I was able to walk I began my laps around the hospital floor. I have only missed one day of my exercise plan, although I had to started up more slowly after that day, but I am nearly back to where I was before the trip to the emergency room,

I feel that my joining Fit Yummy Mummy because of Janie’s enthusiasm for, and success with the program was providential because it put me back on a healthful and sensible way of eating just in time to support my body through this unexpected health challenge.

Thank you all for your wonderful messages to me, which have lifted my spirits greatly. When I get home from the hospital, I will answer each and every one.

I will be well again and I look forward to going forward with all my Fit Yummy Mummy friends. I am so lucky!

Until then I send warm wishes to all. “

~ Barby

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There are many lessons to take away from Barby’s experience.

The main one I want YOU to embrace – stop putting your life on hold. Excuses get you no where. Take each day as an opportunity to make a better choice than the day before.

If Barby can do it ~ YOU can do it!

Take Inspired Action Today….You are Worth it!

Your Friend and Coach,

Author FitYummyMummy
Founder ClubFYM.com

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