Summer Ready Results
You have seen the results the Fit Yummy Mummy’s can achieve during the Summer Slim Down Transformation Challenge! Just 12 short weeks to completely reshape your body , feel strong, beautiful and confident with Body Rockin’ Results!
It’s YOUR Turn!
Time to stop wishing, hoping and praying for results!
You now have the opportunity to not only participate in the Get Back To Fit Fall Transformation Challenge that begins August 3rd but you also can win bunches of Fit Yummy Mummy Workout DVDs and a membership to the best online support system for women at ClubFYM.com!
How?
By telling me in your own words what being a participant in a Transformation Challenge means to YOU and your ability to get results.
I held the same DVD contest prior to the Summer Slim Down Challenge ….the video below was made for the summer challenge but does a great job explaining the Contest How’s and Why’s – details of what to do to win are the same, just take note that that dates are different for they were for the Summer Challenge. For complete “Get Back To Fit” Fall Transformation Challenge details – begins August 3rd – click HERE.
Now for the Contest…..
Just Tell Me Why!
Leave a comment below answering…..
***** For a special Bonus be sure tell me about your goals! *****
Be sure your response is detailed and gets to the heart of why a challenge is essential to your success.
Imagine sitting down with me and having the chance to convince me as to why you should be chosen to win these awesome prizes and take part in this challenge.
**Prizes**
4 Grand Prizes Awarded!
2 Categories of Winners with 2 Crazy Cool Prize Packages
Category One: Newbies!
~ Those who are brand new to Fit Yummy Mummy- who do not even have Fit Yummy Mummy- and are yet to begin their transformation journey.
Top two entries will receive:
* Free Copy of Fit Yummy Mummy: The Complete 16 Week Fat Loss System for Busy Moms
* 6 Months of Fit Yummy Mummy Workout DVDs delivered to Your Door!
* A 6 Month Membership to ClubFYM.com the best online support system for moms
* A Personalized Coaching Call – Bonus call to help jump start your results and get a one on one call with Me to help outline your goals and step by step fat loss plan.
Category Two: Fit Yummy Mummy’s
~ Those of you who DO have Fit Yummy Mummy. Maybe you have been taking part in the challenges or just wishing that you did – now is your time to make it happen and get the most out of FYM!
Top two entries will receive:
* Free Copy of Fit Yummy Mummy Continuous Success Guide: Step by Step Tutorial on How to Keep Making Progress with your FYM Workout Plan with Bonus Downloadable Videos!
* 6 Months of Fit Yummy Mummy Workout DVDs delivered to Your Door!
* A 6 Month Membership to ClubFYM.com the best online support system for moms
* A Personalized Coaching Call – Bonus call to help jump start your results and get a one on one call with Me to help outline your goals and step by step fat loss plan.
All this for simply telling me Why – why a Transformation Challenge is so important to you and the results you will achieve.
HURRY!
***** For a special Bonus be sure tell me about your goals! *****
Now…..Put some thought, heart and effort into this and convince me why YOU should Win!
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What does it mean to you to be a part of a Transformation Challenge?
The “Get Back To Fit” Fall Challenge will be my fifth challenge and I can’t imagine not having these challenges available to me at this point in my journey.
To be a part of a Transformation Challenge means many things to me:
1. Receiving support – you get during the challenge from fellow challenge participants, other fymer’s and from Holly is unbelievable. Everyone is there for you in every way. You can’t find a better cheering section anywhere else. Not only are they there to help you out of your “oops” moments but also there for you during your successful moments. Thank you so much.
2. Giving support – I may feel like I’m just receiving support but I also know that I’m capable of supporting of others in some unique way and I really enjoy doing that. It may just be a pat on the back or supportive words or it may be having some knowledge about something someone needed more information about.
3. Motivation – I feel so motivated during challenges because it’s so exciting to see the changes that are happening to my body. I have been given so many resources to help me along this path so it’s difficult to become demotivated.
4. Consistency – having everything laid out for you (both food wise and exercise wise) and at your fingertips, it’s really much more difficult to be inconsistent than consistent with this program and these challenges.
5. Accountability – by writing down goals, writing out food and workout journals and talking either my Accountability Buddy or other Club Fymer’s, I feel that I have made a commitment where I can’t let myself or them down.
6. Excitement – how exiting it is to do this with other people from all over the world. We may live in different place and be different people, but we all share a very common aspect of our lives (getting healthy – whichever way we need to go to get there). I don’t feel alone here and Holly is always providing with so many new and exciting things to do to keep us going in the right direction.
Why is a challenge so important to getting results?
A challenge is so important to getting results because of the things I have mentioned above: support, motivation, consistency, accountability, excitement, personal fulfillment and success and learning to “stick with it”. This isn’t just a 12 week challenge, it’s a lifetime challenge and change. I find that if I’m just trying to do this on my own, I “might” stick to it for a while but during a challenge I stick to it a lot longer. 12 weeks is a good amount of time to form a foundation of good nutrition and exercise habits. And if I have to be away from the exercising for a short period of time, I know I can come back to it and I want to. I don’t give up anymore.
I’m not really sure there is a lot more to say other than that I know I have been truly blessed having found Holly Rigsby’s program and having seen other programs and experienced some of them, I know there is no other one out there like this one.
Thank you for reading and I look forward to my continued participation in this program!!!
Holly,
There is so much I could say to tell you why being in the transformation challenge is so vital to me. But, I think it all boils down to two things: accountability and self reflection. The challenge is a commitment to myself, a way to keep my self accountable to do what I say I want to do & will do. The last challenge was my first & it was 12 weeks of continuous revelations about myself! What ended up happening is that I learned things about myself that not only hinder my fitness success but that get in the way of being the wife and mother God has called me to be. The challenge made me see that I have been making all kinds of excuses as to why I hadn’t been successfully back in the size 2′s I could wear at one time. And, it is through this realization that I see it’s not that I can’t do it, it’s that I choose not to. I’ve been able to make positive changes in my lifestyle because of the reflecting the transformation challenge forced me to do.
Many of these realizations came through hearing what other women were saying and experiencing at ClubFYM; the community has been a vital part of my progress! I connected with a couple of other women who were taking part in the challenge and I have to tell you, if it were not for them, I don’t know if I would’ve made it. They were so supportive and encouraging and we forged a bond that, for me, was the push I needed to successfully finish the STC. It gave me real live people to be accountable to, people who were going through the same experiences and who understood me. I have made friends for life! I’m so grateful!
I’m looking toward this next challenge with great anticipation; with an excitement of what applying all that I have learned through the last one will bring. And, with expectancy that, just as the last challenge did, this one will enhance my growth as a whole person. I know there is the possibility to flourish through everything I receive with FYM, knowledge, friendship, encouragement, motivation, support and coaching, just to name a few! I can’t wait
Holly,
This challenge is so important to me because I need to get motivated. I am really looking forward to having the extra PUSH a challenge will give me! I find that when I am challenged in any aspect of my life, I tend to work harder and right now, I need that challenge. I am at a plateau in my workout and fat loss. I am finding that I have a hard time remembering what motivated me in the first place and want to get back to the roots. I definitely need to re-evaluate my goals and start with a clean slate. I believe that this commmitment will give me what I need to get moving again! I will be accountable to myself and learn more about myself in the process–and in return I become a better wife and mother. My goals (so far) are to accept me the way I am, To work to improve my eating habits and my family’s and to end the challenge as a woman with increased confidence.
Dear Holly,
I was a chubby kid, a “curvy” teenager, a plump twenty-something and now, with 4 months to go until my 30th birthday, I am, quite simply, fat.
My weight has relentlessly lumbered on up the scales over the years due to my habitual comfort eating and with the milestone birthday coming up in December I really feel that it is now or never for me.
What I do know is that what I have tried before hasn’t worked, so clearly it is time for me to try something completely different:
– I love the idea of a supportive community of women looking out for each other every step of the way.
– I love the idea of not being a time-slave to my workout routine.
– Most of all I love the idea of being slim, fit, sexy and confident for the first time in my life.
If I am given the opportunity to have the 6 months of guidance and support I will grab it with both hands and hold on for dear life!
Thank you for offering this great opportunity Holly. I am sure any one of us ladies who have submitted an entry would do you proud.
Holly,
I am a 51 year old mom of two and I have been struggling for the last two years to lose the last 10 to 15 pounds. I am also dealing with fluctuating hormones. I lost 40 pounds previously with weight watchers and have kept almost all of it off, but now nothing seems to work. I take spinning classes three to four days a week and do strength training two to three times a week. I am in the gym for hours and not getting anywhere. I have been reading about your method of training and seeing the great results members are getting. I feel a transformation challenge would give me the motivation and accountability I need to succeed. I really need to clean up my diet instead of just eating low fat processed foods.
Dear Holly,
I am a 38yo SAH-homeschooling mom of 4, an almost 10 yo, 7, 5, and 2 yo. I lead a busy life but not an “active” life. I am at least 100 pounds overweight. Over the years, I have lost a little, gain a little, but never truly kept it off. I was 90 pounds lighter when I got pregnant with my first child and have only gained more with each pregnancy. I am ready to get the weight and inches off! I’m sick and tired of feeling sick and tired! I don’t have the fit yummy mummy program BUT would LOVE to have it. I have been exercising off and on since about Feb. Starting with walking on the treadmill several times a week and even counting calories with no real results. So I drifted away… I also believe I have a fear of failure and perhaps a fear of success. I’m working to get past these.
I have been part of a challenge before and the support of the other participants is extrodinary. The is something to be said about people on a mission especially when it is a similiar mission- to be healthy and fit. A support system helps keep the motivation in place. I believe I am to the breaking point and ready to make some changes! I am ready to set some goals and work toward them.
Goals:
* being healthy and fit.
* lose at least 100 pounds (obviously over a period of time, ie. by 6/2011 or earlier)
* do it with a support system in place.
* engage my children in being fit and healthy.
* eat cleaner.
Thank you for all you do!
I just turned 50 years old and am finding it harder and harder to keep in shape and keep the weight off. I have every DVD and piece of exercise equipment at home (kettlebells, dumbbells, stability ball, steps, you name it), but the problem is motivation and accountability. I am slowly transitioning to a vegetarian diet but I know that won’t be enough. At this point, I think only a Challenge will help me lose some weight and tone up and get rid of the flabbiness! Since I workout at home, I have no support or accountability; it’s just as easy to go home and sit on the sofa and watch TV!
Holly, I need your support and motivation to reach my goals! I have already incorporated some of your exercises into my routine and can’t wait to see your kettlebell workout. I want to prove to myself and to others that it’s not too late to look and feel good after 50!
Thanks for your support and help!
Just reviewing some of the responses above, I can see that it’s going to be a hard decision to make to see who will receive the membership and DVDs. At times I have a problem with self worth, and this is one of those times. Even if I thought that I would not be picked– not responding would guarantee 100% that I wouldn’t be picked. I’m almost ashamed to say that I own Fit Yummy Mummy– because I purchased it– and never did anything with it. I feel that the membership and DVDs will help me to focus on my goals and guarantee success. I’ve tried other programs, and some have worked for a little while. I started watching what I eat and working out in January. So far I have lost 40lbs; however I have 36 to go to meet my goal weight.
It doesn’t really matter what the scale says– I want to be healthy, I want to be fit. I am always impressed by the videos here on Fit Yummy Mummy. This contest is what I need to get motivated and to get into shape.
Just reading through so many entries I realize that I am not unique to my needs and wants. I beleive that is the main reason that I €need to transform. To me watching the average person transform is the most inspiring story you can ever watch. My husband and I recently moved into our dream home, but with this new home comes many more bills. For this reason I have had to take a job outside our home. My time seems to be much more limited than ever before and I miss my workout time that I would often share with our 4 children. Using FYM in the past (early part of last year) I started losing weight and feeling better – then I lost track of myself. At this point I still feel very lost and afraid of the 30 lbs I have gained back. This is an amazing program that can often be shared with the entire family – having DVD’s to walk me through would mean that I have more to focus on and will make the difference between doing somethind or staying stagnent. Thank you, Holly, for letting this happen.
Well, I don’t even know where to begin with regards to what this last challenge has meant to me. It has basically meant EVERYTHING. Being a part of this last challenge and a part of FYM is just so much more than just a way to eat, or a way to exercise it is a way of being that is encompassed in my entire life for the entire day. This has changed my life. It has brought me back to the person I was so desiring to be. The person that feels good to look in the mirror, to walk down the street and the person who feels good when I am connecting with my husband. So much of my life was being effected by how I felt about myself. I was not as self-confident at work, I didn’t feel sexy, I was avoiding activities that would require a bathing suit or just to be in shorts since none of the ones I owned would fit. I am not the same weight as I was before but you know what, I am not ever going to be the same person. I am better. I am not going to be as “skinny” but I have NEVER been strong before. I have NEVER had muscles. Prior to having my delightful daughter, I was always considered very thin but weak. I was fragile and I never liked that. I am strong now, I have muscles, I can do things for myself. This effects me not only physically but also in my mindset about life and emotionally and mentally with the daily taks of living and problem-solving.
I am becoming the model I want to be for my daughter. She is 2 1/2 years old and knows what it means when Mommy exercises. She loves to do it with my or she just sits in the room and cheers me on. She will grow up with the expectation and understandng of being healthy inside and out. She will value her body as something that is to be taken care. I want to live a very long time for her and her children.
I learned so much from this challenge. I learn a lot from my first challenge, the NY challenge but I learned even more from this challenge. I really focused in on my nutrition and my resistance and I am AMAZED at how my body can change. I was frustrated after the first 4 weeks, thinking there were no changes so I reached out for support and I got it!! I followed Holly and other’s advice. I increased my calories, up my weights and ate clean. WOW that did make the difference. I have learned that nutrition really is the key. The healthier I can eat, the more definition I will see. It has been a real eye openener. I like many tohers thought that the low-fat stuff off th shelves was the way to go, I now know better. I hardly shop in “those” aisles anymore.
This is my new life, being a Fit Yummy Mummy and I LOVE this life and I am proud of this life. I am proud to treat my model like a temple and have no shame in putting my physical appearance as important. I know that is just a reflection of the postivie changes that are taking place on the inside.
Thank you STC challenge, FYM Mommies and Holly. I am inspired daily by all and can’t wait for the next challenge. I am excited to push this changing body and excited to see the other’s that are changing along next to me.
Hello Holly!
I am in my fourth week with the FYM lifestyle system, and it has given me a wonderful foundation for a meaningful and effective transformation challenge. There are two main reasons that a 12-week challenge would be vital to me at this point:
1) I understand and have practiced the principles of FYM, but a challenge would really give me an opportunity to prove to myself that this is the system that will work for me for life. Sometimes I admit that I am tempted to go back to some of my old ways when it comes to exercise; it is hard to part with the notion that “More is better” when it comes to gym time! If I competed wholeheartedly in this challenge, and saw the results that I know I would see by the end of 12 weeks, it would prove to me that I do not need to waste countless hours on the treadmill or training every single body part separately.
2) I need this challenge because I really need the support from seasoned veterans of the FYM system. I don’t really have many friends who are interested in fitness and clean eating in general, let alone friends who so perfectly understand what I am trying to do with this new information I am assimilating into my life! What a wonderful community of women I could be a part of, if I could partake in such a life-changing challenge! We would all be working together the same way, and that cohesiveness would be the ultimate motivator for me.
As my husband reminds me every once in a while, I am someone who starts things and doesn’t neccessarily finish them, why I’m not quite sure, maybe I then cannot be blamed or at fault for the end result, whether good or bad. This is something I’m hoping to learn about and find the answer to during this FTC. As far as getting results during the FTC I have no doubt I will. My biggest CHALLENGE is to keep going once I succeed. I must say I have always been able to physically see workout/fatloss results fairly quickly, BUT as soon as I do for some reason I go right back to where I started, I can create as many excuses as I want, the fact is I always end up going backwards once I’ve gotten to a certain point. It’s as though I figure I don’t have to work at it anymore to keep getting results. I am excited to start this Fall transformation challenge with much determination to keep myself organized, focused and most of all to create the healthy lifestyle I so want for myself, my husband and my children. I had posted pictures of my 4 weeks success following FYM and now have gained back pounds and inches along with some embarrassment for letting myself revert back to old habits, especially when there are such encouraging and wonderful women who support me at FYM. This is a pattern I WILL break as I take charge of the Fall Transformation Challenge a.k.a. the beginning of my happiest, healthiest ME!
Thank you Holly for FYM!
Hello! It is kind of hard to write down something that has not already been said here! But well, this is how I see it: Have you ever heard the question “how do you eat an elephant?” And the answer to that question is “one bite at a time! I´m an engineer (and a mother of three) and engineering is all about solving problems and improving things. How do you do this? By breaking them up into manageable pieces. That´s what this type of challenge represents to me. Getting “the perfect body” we all want is a huge project, but if you look at a smaller portion of it, it does not seem so impossible anymore. Plus, if you add the support of all the people going through the same effort, communicating and sharing best practices, you get the motivation to continue eating the elephant´s little pieces! If we look back in time, we will probably find lots of situations in which we have accomplished great things (like growing up your kids) taking one step at a time: getting the job you always wanted, deciding to stay home to take care of your children yourself, building a new house… they all probably represented great projects, and we may have felt as if we were not capable of doing them, but something motivated us to take the challenge, and our life would be completly different if we had not made it. So I think this challenge can make a great difference in life too! Why not take it?
I really believe I know all the principles and strategies required to loose fat and be the healthiest a person can be. But there is something blocking me. I am working hard at removing those blocks. I have undergone many life changes in the last few years. Job change, job loss, marriage, a move to a new province, extended unemployment, two new Husky puppies in the house – its like having twin toddlers! (I have a 15 year old boy in addition).
I really appreciate the FYM 15 min high intensity approach. I just don’t have time or the lifestyle to get myself to the gym for lunchtime workouts that I used to when I was working. I have to find and work a new alternative. I think FYM is the answer. I believe I found this program last Christmas as part of the 12 Days of
Fitness. Either that or Holly was mentioned in one of many other partner programs. (Holly is Awesome!) I have been following peripherally through free access as I have already committed (wasted?) so much money on other philosophies and programs. This is my chance to really be a part of a community.
My biggest downfall to my fitness goals is that I have never been able to commit to paper, my goals. It is SO very daunting to me! I am afraid to fail. I look back at having been 133.5 lbs and it wasn’t good enough. I still wanted more. And now I find myself at 150 lbs on my 5’ 4” frame – so very maddening! 133 wasn’t good enough then? Oh, how happy I would be to be there now and finding a program to get me to 127 lbs as my ideal. I have never committed to an on-line community as deeply as I should. I am realizing these two areas is why I have failed so many times in the past.
I long to be able to do whatever I want to do, whenever I want to do it because I have no physical limitations… Right now I don’t have the energy, I don’t have the motivation (?), I don’t have any clothes that I can be comfortable in to do the things I want to do. I have so many nice clothes that I want to get into again. It was devastating to realize I needed to go to job interviews – and I had no clothes that fit me! Absolutely awful!
I have decided a new deadline/goal for myself. I want to look really great and healthy for a family get-together in October for my father’s 70th birthday. Dad just had colon cancer surgery early in July. I am a middle child and I think I am the healthiest of all of us, sadly. Not so good. My older brother is shaping up to be just like dad and my younger sister looks older than me (I just turned 42)…I cannot preach to them. The best I can do is to live by example. I really trust and admire Holly and believe in this program. This is sound nutrition and exercise advice.
I’ve tried to follow along peripherally but I need to take it to the next level with coaching, real programming and community support. Thank you for this opportunity! – Jennifer
Having just completed my first challenge, I realise that it is a great motivator, and I don’t want to lose the momentum or rest on what I have achieved, I want to do better.
After reviewing my goals, I have decided that this time I am not just going to keep my own journal at home, I’m going to make sure that I keep an online journal as well. And this aspect of being in a challenge is so important because you learn from all the others who are in the challenge too.
The second reason I will be doing this is for accountability. For some reason, I have not been giving it my best on the workout side, and I’m sure that having to tell others that I missed a workout will ensure that I don’t keep making the same mistakes. I’m not afraid of hard exercise, in fact I enjoy it, I think the problem is that sometimes I found things too easy and instead of saying to myself “this won’t do, you need to make changes so that it’s challenging”, I subconsciously thought that missing a workout won’t matter that much because I was getting results anyway from eating much better.
I keep thinking of Holly’s coaching call with Yvette, when she told us about one of her “a-ha” moments – “this is going great but I wonder what will happen if I do the exercises too?”. I’m looking forward to this challenge so that I can find out what happens when I get more pieces of the puzzle fitting correctly too.
I have never been a fat girl but I have always been VERY soft. Once I was with two male friend talking about my love life and one of them said “you are cute not but if you lost some weight you would be hot” my other friend agreed. I am sure they have forgotten it but I never have. I used to spend 2hrs 4 days a week at the gym as well as leading an active lifestyle with no change to my body but I felt great so tried to ignore my shape. I told people I was happy but I never really was. Then I had my son and now I am even more soft. I have No time for excercise and because I have such a little amount of time I am not motivated to excercise.
My son is 18 months I am looking at a divorce. I want to go into being a single mom looking fantastic. I don’t want to be frumpy and depressed. I want to have lots of energy to play with my son.
So here I am I bought the fit yummy mummy system and have yet to dive in. I am the type pf person though that with the motivation of a timeline and accountability I can get there. If it is true that in 12 weeks I can change me then I want to be a part of this tranformation challenge
Dear Holly,
I have been getting up the courage to write this…I turned 39 this week. My goal is by next year (2010)the big 40 I want to compete in a mini triathalon. I have been inspired by some of my friends who compete, they are happy and healthy. I am inspired by my dad who has DM2 he has lost over 40 pounds is now healthy. In 2007 I had our 3rd daughter, started nursing school and have moved numerous times. I have lost 46 pounds in 2008 but it has been so difficult and I struggle to lose the same 15-20 pounds this year. I have to lose 100 pounds to be at a healthy weight. It is hard to be so open about my weight but I need the structure I need this challenge and I need your help. I want to be a nurse that walks the talk (I graduate 2010), I want to be a better mom and a sexy wife, I want to be healthy and full of energy for the first time in my life. This has been a lifetime battle for me. I want to live life not just watch others live a life I wish for. Thank you Holly for this opportunity. God Bless you for all the amazing work you are doing. I hope I too can be chosen to win the DVD and coaching. I need this transformation. I want this transformation.
Hi Holly.
It would be like winning the lottery to me! (to some, that may sound pathetic I know, but I am really serious about changing the way I look-it means so much to me) What I am doing isn’t giving me the results I want. Help me please. I am desparate. You can change my life for the better!
I joined a gym in mid May of this year. I worked out five days a week for six weeks for approximately 1.5 hrs each time. Then managed to go three times a week since school ended and the kids were home for the summer. I was shocked to see that all of my efforts weren’t making a difference. I had expected to see results much quicker and was disappointed to find out that I wasn’t getting any. I am driven to loose this weight and continue to go to the gym three times a week and finally are you ready….five pounds have been lost! that is it…five stinking pounds! And this was earlier this week when I got on the scale after taking a weeks vacation and didn’t go to the gym at all. On July 6th I stumbled across your blog and have implimented some of the exercises I see you perform, that is probably why I have lost the five pounds. I don’t want to be one of those people who workout regularly with barely any results a year from now. I know I am stronger, I see more muscle definition but I want FAT lose! I am dedicated and worthy of this gift you offer
I look forward to getting your email everyday. I guess I just need someone like you holding my hand, telling me exactly what to do and how to do it. I would truly benefit from your 16 Week Fat Loss System, 6 Months of your Workout DVDs, your coaching call etc. I know that If I were to have these things, I would be getting the results I see other woman in your program receiving.
Thank you so much for this opportunity!
I’d always been a skinny child with a big belly. When I was 27, I had a life threatening illness that left me 14 kilos heavier than I used to be. Most of it seemed to be lodged in my belly. I walked and danced away a lot of that weight but it never went away completely and it always kept coming back.
The skinny limbs and fat belly I’ve owned all my life had left me with a very fragile sense of self esteem. Then 3 years ago, I met a special somebody and that spurred me on my fitness trail. I took the conventional cardio route to lose 10 kilos (22 pounds) in nearly 10 months. I ran 5 kms on the treadmill every single day!! I fasted once a week (living only on fluids and fruits) and then went and ran 5 kms the next morning! In short, I abused my body in a misguided attempt to be slim.
Well, my love story lasted for less than a year. I was unceremoniously dumped last year. This shattered whatever was left
of my self esteem. I spent most of last year alternating between eating binges (my record was eating 8 cakes in a single day!), short spells of physical activities such as kickboxing, even a very brief spell of bulimia.
This May, I signed up for FYM a little after the STC had begun. I have had significant success with the workouts. However I still struggle with nutrition. Much of it has to do with emotional eating. Unfortunately, my ex is my colleague at work and I see him every single day, flirting and carrying on with other women. I turn to food for comfort. I do try to pack healthy snacks, but I end up eating
them and then devouring the junk food stored in the office pantry.
I remember thinking a few weeks ago, ‘How I wish I had signed up for FYM last year. I would have used up my energy in a positive way transforming my body and life style instead of weeping for a whole year for someone who wasn’t worth it.’ I deeply regret that I didn’t sign up earlier and I want to kick myself for it. But I tell myself, at least I’m in now.
I think being on a transformation challenge will motivate me better to cope on the nutrition front.
How we feel inside is usually determined by how we look outside, or at least how we perceive our looks to be. At present, I feel frumpy and fat. Conversely, I don’t think it is possible to make a transformation on the outside without having some changes in the inside.
I believe that a physical transformation will release a lot of pent up negativity I carry inside, I believe that it will liberate me from feeling inadequate and not-as-good-as-others all the time. I believe I am a good person and an outward transformation will only help share the beauty I carry inside (as does everyone) with all who cross my path. I believe that a transformation that sheds my belly fat can also shed my inhibitions and set me free…finally.
Dear Holly,
In the past, my weight concerns were all based on what prescriptions I was taking so naturally I would lean towards pills to solve my problems. In high school I took a prescription where even though I was exercising (I was in JROTC) there was nothing I could do to lose the weight until I got off of them. We ran every morning and everyone else was getting faster and in shape and I was gaining weight and was slowing down to the point I would struggle very early in the run. I was thirty pounds over weight at that time and even though it may not seem like a lot compare to some, it made a world of difference for me. It wasn’t until I was on another prescription that I lost the weight and put my old self behind me and block it out my mind.
Times have change. I am married and my husband and I are blessed with a baby boy. Our son’s smile could make any bad thing just disappear and give me motivations to do just about anything. For several years now I had been on hardly any medication and I have been doing so great that I even forgot what depression felt like. Lately, I have become bitter, angry, and an emotional eater which I don’t think I ever was before and I feel like I am going down hill very fast. I thought that I was pregnant again because of the mood swings and because my belly is getting bigger not smaller. I just realized that I am suffering from post partum depression. I know from the past that exercising, eating right, and taking care of yourself is something I can do to help me get better without having to go back on medication. I am actual really scared I might have too. If that is the case, it might make me have to stop breastfeeding our son which I really enjoy doing and he does also. My emotions are not only affecting me, but also my husband, my son as well and some random people I don’t even know.
The transformation challenge would help equip me with skills I need to prevent me to going back to that old lifestyle and mind set. I have always struggle at anything I did because I have never had the skills to stick it through. The Transformation Challenge would help me change many habits that are causing problems. Learning new habit would prevent my depression from resurfacing even after several years. I don’t want my son to end up like me and right now I just feel like a terrible mother and I want to change. My son deserves so much more than what I can give him right now. He is also getting big so fast and loves to be carried but I am not strong enough to carry him around like I want to. I have already started walking twice a week with my friend who also just had a baby, but I feel that may not be enough. I know I am not strong enough do this change alone and don’t want to fail again. I have a great, understanding husband and sweet baby boy who looks to his mother for not only food, but comfort and support. My husband deserves to have that friend he fell in love with and I want sweet, strong, supportive personality back as well. I can’t fail; they both need me to be health and strong and so do I.
Even though my husband thinks I am sexy no matter how I look, I want to go back to my pre-pregnancy weight and lose my belly so I can feel and look sexy. I want to tone and strengthen my body so I can carry and play with my son without any strain and for a longer period. I want to have a healthier mental state so I can give both my son and husband a fun environment to live in and be able to set a good example.
Thanks for listen,
Nancy
Just when I thought I will never break through this weighty issue, I came across FYM! After my son’s birth 10 years ago I gained 25 kg and ever since it became a struggle to lose weight. Apart from the health risk, being overweight has left me with severe emotional scars, such that I cannot run/play with my kids in the park without feeling self conscious about my weight! Invitations to weddings, ect were always turned down with excuses that I have other commitments, but it was merely because I am not comfortable in this body! With this challenge I believe I can correct the mistakes I made in the past that caused me to become overweight and become the HEALTHY, LEAN AND HAPPY mummy I was destined to be! But what I am most looking forward to with this challenge, is to give my two kids what they so much long for: PLAYING WITH MOMMY IN THE PARK AND DOING FUN STUFF WITH HER!
I think being part of the transformation contest would give me the edge that I need to really change my diet and stick to my workouts. I don’t have that much body fat to lose but I do have my problem areas and would like to generally tone up some areas and eat a better diet. All this would also not just be for me but I also want to set a good example for my 4 kids. I can’t ask them to eat good, healthy nutritious food if I don’t do it myself. I already started with the introductory workouts and really enjoy them and the intervals are great too. Up to now I’ve always gone on the treadmill but have left that behind now for skipping and jumping jacks. I’d also like to show my husband, who believes running is the only way to lose fat that steady state cardio is not the most effective method. As he doesn’t offer too much support in that respect I think being part of the contest and also club fym would be a huge bonus for me.
Holly,
this is just what I have been looking for.I think this challenge will work for me because of all the coaching
you give us and I do well when I know I have someone
watching me. the accountability is the key for me to
stick with it.
The Transformation Challenge is essential to my success, because wherever I have hard, fast time-lines in front of me, I accomplish what I set out to. The success of other women boosts my own ability and desire to challenge myself. The support system keeps me accountable in working out consistently and monitoring my eating honestly. I know this will be the case, because I have experienced it before. When my baby was 2 months old, my husband deployed for 3 months, and I got down to a serious workout and eating regimen. It was so encouraging to see my body change, although I switched workout programs three times because I could not find one I felt was working good enough. I worked out 60-90 minutes 6 days a week. Towards the end, I discovered FYM. I wish I had it at the beginning, because here I had poured so much time into fitness programs that were giving me very small, slow results for a lot of time. I watch Holly’s YouTube videos and love them.
My daughter is now 6-months old and I have not kept up the exercising. A challenge is important for my results because I know I must challenge my body with a definite timeline. Using FYM instead of a stepper and various DVDs, I know would see results and be encouraged to fight for my pre-baby body completely back. I am not afraid of hard work and I know that’s how I will see change that will last. I am willing to be honest, support other women, and work together for a goal we all want. I want my success to spur others on to knowing they don’t have to be Hollywood stars with trainers and nannys for their kids to get their pre-baby body back! If they use FYM they do it themselves!
Holly,
Being part of this transformation would mean I can’t make excuses anymore to give up on myself. I would have a place to come to every day for motivation, encouragement, and support. I’m hoping the accountability will keep me on track. I am a busy mom with three kids, and I often don’t find the time to take care of myself. One of my children has autism and the daily challenges often drive me to emotional eating. It’s easy to find any excuse during the day, to just give up and say life is too hard. Many days I’m just surviving, trying to make it through the day. But I am tired of having no energy, and feeling uncomfortable in my body. I want to be a positive, healthy model for my children. I don’t want them to see mom yo-yo dieting, and feeling overwhelmed and unhappy. As part of the challenge, my goals will be to consistently do the workouts, eat supportively, plan my meals, get 6-8 hours of sleep every night, and find different ways to deal with the stress. I’m excited about changing my life and getting rid of my bad habits. It’s important for my health and happiness, as well as my family’s.
Julie
As a mom of a 2 and 4 year old I am full of excuses for why I don’t eat the way I should to loose weight. I am 20 pounds over weight and intellectually, I know I should loose those pounds. My biggest problem is that I am really good at not seeing myself as fat. That is until I go to dress for a night out with my husband or to go to a skinny neighbor’s house for dinner, or to go to the pool with my kids (where I take my sun dress off real quick and jump in before anyone can get a good look). I have a lot of “fat clothes” that hide what I really look like and I hate that I can’t wear my beautiful “skinny clothes” that taunt me by hanging in my closet and remind me that I either can’t even put them on or am not comfortable enough in them to wear them in public.
I need to take a before picture and post it on my fridge and pantry. I need my husband to realize that I need this weight off and that it means he has to eat differently too. I need not to buy the foods I do “for the kids” so they are not in my house when I get hungry. And I need to stay true to the exercises that I know make me feel better. I know these things but I can’t seem to keep myself accountable. Holly, I know you can help and I know that am willing and able. So Lets Do It!
Dear Holly,
I am a 32 year old mom of 3,(16,15,5yrs of age), have been married to my wounderful husband for 16 yrs. I went through a hystorectomy and quit smoking after 10 yrs all at the same time. I went from a 5’6′ 145 lbs to a woping 192 lbs. I have tried every diet, starved myself. You name it I have tried it. Nothing that I have tried has worked. I am devoted to finding something that will work. I really need the help. I tell myself I am to fat and skip meals sometimes days at a time I will starve myself or stay on a liquid diet and I no that isnt health for me. I really need this for me and my family. I have been following your tips that you email. I would love the opportunity to do the Transformation Challange.
Sincerly Yours,
Nicole
Hi Holly
I am very excited about this new Transofrmation Challenge, and am looking forward to starting! I have never attempted a challenge before – I only joined FYM in March this year and since then have been following your program for the last 9 weeks with great success! However….. I am due to go on holiday next week for almost 4 weeks, and feel that I need a little extra motivation to keep me on the straight and narrow whilst I’m away. I will have access to a gym and to healthy food options, so to have a new program to give me that extra boost would be great. I am 49 years old and really didn’t think that I would be abee to change my shape – yes, I was a cardio bunny… I will be 50 years old in November and want to look hot!! Sandra
Holly,
I began my first diet at the age of 11 at a doctors recommendation. I am now 42 and have tried every diet that has come along. Putting it all together, eating healthy, cardio and weights was not easy, but I have done it. I now love it, but still need support and have several pounds and inches to go. With your help I hope to clean it all up and achieve goals I never thought possible. I would also like to learn how to share this with my family, as my 9 year old son would much rather eat the sweets and pasta and dig for bugs, rather than eat healthy and take a run around the block. My 6 year old daughter loves healthy eating, but could learn more about “moving”. Hopefully with your help my kids won’t have the problems I have faced throughout life and can be proud of their bodies and I am becoming of mine! Michelle
Hi Holly,
I am excited about your transfirmation kit! I just love your website and check it daily. I have 4 kids, ages7,6,4,and 7 months. I just had my fourth baby almost 7 months ago. Being pregnant with him was hard on my body. I retained water and swelled at the last few weeks of my pregnancy. I gained the most with him (51 lbs) and am having the hardest time loosing it. I lost the water weight in the hospital but now I am stuck with 38 pounds to loose. I have carried all my weight in my belly and now it looks like I am still pregnant. I am tired of people asking me “when are you due?”
I honestly don’t have much time for myself without any kids asking me for something. I have decided to take 20 min out of my busy day for working out. I love your workouts because they are 15 min and that leaves me extra time to stretch or take a quick shower. I also love how you explain everything on your website to help me loose my baby weight and mommy belly. I would love to win the transfirmation kit so I can have confidence back, fit cute in my jeans, and not look pregnant anymore. If I don’t win, that’s okay I am still going to be doing your workouts. I have been doing them for almost 3 weeks and I already see improvements, something nice I tell you! I have tried several other workouts that didn’t help me loose the weight or tone up fast enough for my patience. My goal is to loose all this baby weight and mommy belly in 5 months or before my baby turns 1.
Six months ago I started to try to exercise on regular basis and follow a balanced diet but everything I did failed. Why? Lack of motivation, monotony, lack of will power. The transformation kit is a challenge that will keep me focused on a specific goal, the DAILY MEAL PLAN will “order” me what to eat that day and nothing else!(this is the greatest part) and the variety of DVDs will keep motivated and excited about exercise. I have gained 30 lb in the last year and a half. This made me lose my confidence and self esteem. It also brought me physical and psychological problems. I know ALL these issues can be fixed with diet and exercise. I am sure the transformation kit will DRASTICALLY change my body, my health and my life.