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A brand new day

Today marks the celebration and one-year anniversary of my Fitness North experience. One year ago today, we were coming into the home stretch of our two week live-in experience, anticipating our final weight loss numbers (I lost 21 lbs while on campus) and considering what it would be like to live in the real world. Read more

The people side of the journey

I am swimming in blog topics this morning and finally chose this one after a Facebook message from my Mom and my experience at the gym yesterday inspired me. Read more

Nutritionally sound…healthy as a horse!

Where did the phrase ‘healthy as a horse” come from? Are horses really the healthiest of the animal species or how did they earn this reputation? I wonder this morning as I prepare to start another crazy, crazy busy and probably stressful business day and eat my healthy breakfast…after taking my daily multivitamin and Vitamin C&D supplement. Read more

I hate to exercise…really?!

This morning on the way to my workout, I was thinking back to pre-Fitness North days and remembering the very first time I was introduced to the elliptical by my trainer Julie at Balance for Life Fitness Center. She asked me to do two minutes on the frickin machine, and I struggled mightily. And I believe that it was level 1! Read more

What a difference a year makes

One year ago today, I was…

  • At my all-time heaviest weight ever (exactly 170 lbs more than I weigh today!)
  • Coming off a spell of working seven days a week, often 18 hours a day to build my business – sometimes going weeks with no more than 3-4 hours of sleep per night

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100% – All in!

These past couple of weeks have provided a life lesson in what it means to be “100% – all in.” To reach my health goals (or “Reach my potential,” as the master Leif would say), I am now on one of the strictest nutritional programs since my weight loss journey began and working out at the highest cardio level thus far since I left the Fitness North campus just shy of one year ago. Read more

Tears on the mountain – an epiphany

Today I climbed Oberg Mountain – my mountain. I set out early (before the tourists hit the trail) with the goal of experiencing fall peak in the Sawtooth Mountains for the very first time, and celebrating my 10-month FN anniversary and 150 lb weight loss. Read more

10 months…150 lbs lighter…goal in sight

I simply had to mark this point in the journey (yes, Rochelle, I called it a journey!). Ten months ago today — Nov. 28, 2010 — I officially started my Fitness North program at Surfside on Lake Superior and learned exactly what I am capable of — physically and emotionally. The answer is: Absolutely anything! Read more

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