My husband and I began using VitalityforLife.com when my baby was just over a year old. I was struggling to get the last of my pregnancy weight off (you know, the last 5 pounds that just refuse to go away), and my husband had 30 pounds that had been accumulating over several years that he decided it was time to lose.
We had tried “healthy eating” several times, but had decided that we were not very good at it and honestly did not think it would be any different with an online diet program. Boy, were we wrong. In retrospect, I wish we would have taken before and after pictures because the impact it had was amazing. It is hard to believe that the pants in this picture used to fit my husband!
From the beginning, we determined that we were going to give this a sincere effort for at least one month (just like you do every time you start a diet, right?). But this was different than any other effort we had put forth before. Unlike before, we could see each day how we were doing. We weren’t simply guessing that what we were eating was healthy or in the right proportions, we could see in advance that what we had on our menu was going to meet the nutrition goals we needed to meet. And it was flexible, so I could create menus that worked for our family. Being a working mother of two small children, that was important to me. I wanted to be able to make one meal that our children and ourselves would all eat rather than having to make a separate meal for my children because Mom and Dad are eating “diet food.” Additionally, using the Exercise Program recommendations as a starting point, we were each able to build a personal exercise regimen that helped produce results. By logging our exercise after each workout, we were able to see how that workout was going to help us achieve our goals.
Well, after the first four weeks, we had already begun to see results that were better than expected, so we had additional incentive to continue. Within 10 weeks, we had both reached our weight loss goals! And with the help of VitalityforLife.com, we have been able to maintain our target weights. More importantly, we are much healthier because of our new awareness of proper nutrition!
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