Challenge Winners Circle Alumni

Carrie Sutherland - 3rd Place! 19 pounds and 10.5 inches GONE!

​Fourth time's a charm!
Spring 2016 was my 4th time joining Workout Like a Girl for a challenge.  Kendra is such a great trainer, her challenges provides amazing tools and encouragement and I love the arsenal of recipes and workouts I have now, the price is worth is just for the meal plans and workouts...Not to mention you get to choose a perk!

  I chose TRX as my perk and did 10 classes with Julie (and Kendra and Evan) on Thursday mornings.  There was such a huge difference in my strength from the first to the last.  What I laughed at first class thinking it was impossible (think pull up to swing through with a chest press) I was performing by the end of my perk sessions.

Before the challenge started I was the heaviest I had ever been (even more than when pregnant) and depressed and never felt well.  I sat down at a machine at the mall and found out I was overweight AND had high blood pressure.  I signed up for the challenge and decided this time I was not going to give up.  I also went to see Dr. Mowry at the Healing and Wellness Center and made a lot of changes to my diet that helped me feel better fast; the biggest (and hardest) change was giving up wheat and sugar.  I felt so great I was getting up in the morning, going to the gym, doing the workouts.  I work full time from home so I started getting up at 5 to get my work done so I could go go gym or class later in day with out feeling guilty.  

My biggest piece of advice is to keep your Challenge book somewhere you have to see it every day.  Don't wait until the end of the week...plan ahead and document.  Use your book or an app like My Fitness Pal to track your food and exercise, put your points in daily.  AND..as Kendra says, we all screw up.  Don't stop.  Don't let one weekend of eating and drinking deter you.   I thought I didn't have a chance of winning this challenge and then I realized I was almost 20 pounds down so I decided to turn in my book, I was shocked (and elated) when I got 3'rd place. Obviously the real win was 19 pounds down and 10.5 inches off my body that I plan on maintaining.  p.s. it is not easy to share the after pictures, I know I still have work to do.    Thank you WLG!

Carrie Sutherland

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