Being Inspired by Emily

Last December my friend Emily approached me and wanted to know more about how I'd lost all my weight. She'd seen on facebook what I was doing, she just wanted to hear more. We met at Starbucks, which is pretty routine for my local friends, and I just sat and listened to her. We talked about where she was in life, where she wanted to be. We talked about what things she struggled with when trying to get healthy and we began to create an individual plan for Emily. (by the way, I totally do this over the phone with long distance friends as well, in person is simply a 'perk' not a requirement by any means.) In January, Emily began her journey and a few weeks later, her husband Kory joined in as well. Kory, being a dude, reached his goal before Emily did. Emily assisted Kory through the transition program and into maintenance. Emily made healthy snacks for Kory, added fruit and grains into his diet and continued to plug along on her own journey. Yesterday, June 20, my sweet friend reached her goal. What an inspiration! Emily has done everything that I've told her to do. She's been 100% coachable. She's called me or emailed me whenever she was discouraged or had a question. For a while there she had a LOT of questions! LOL  But what joy is mine. I love talking to her, hearing how she's doing, encouraging her and when people reach their goals it propels me to continue to reach out to others and offer my help.

Emily has inspired me over and over again to just keep going. We're in this for the long haul. We are in this to make total life transformations. Emily now looks forward to adding food back into her plan, teaching her kids healthy habits for life and of course, shopping will be a total ball for her as well. I am going to publish the email she sent me yesterday here. Let me know if you would like to meet for coffee or on chat or something. I also have several opportunities this week where you can learn both about the healthy habits program, Take Shape for Life and the opportunity to become a health coach. Contact me if you'd like to know more! 503-936-9728  husk7736@comcast.net

Hey Charity,

I did it!!!  I reached my goal weight today!  I am at 120lbs!  I can't believe it's happened!  I am out of town right now, and our camera battery died, but I will take pictures when we get home.  I am so excited!!!  I lost 48lbs, and 41 inches total!!!  12 of the inches were from my waist.  I can't believe the transformation.  It truly is amazing.  A scary thought I had a couple of weeks ago, was that my starting weight was more than Kory weighs now!  That's crazy!  He's like, 9 inches taller than I am.  Anyway,  I'm so excited.  I haven't seen my parents or Kory's since the very beginning of this, like week 1 or 2, so it will be really fun to see them in July. 

Thank you so much for your encouragement and listening ear through all this.  Losing the weight was easy.  Now comes the tricky part.  The real test of lifestyle change.  I told my mom yesterday though, that one of the things I really like about the meal replacements, even more than the convenience (sp?) of them, is that they totally broke my addiction to all those foods that aren't healthy.  And as I transition, just like I did with Kory, the foods that we eat, are good for us and actually fuel our bodies. 

Okay, I need to get going.  I have little people telling me they are hungry.  :)

Talk soon,

Emily