This…
is a 12 Kg bag of dog food and until 1st November 2015 I had been lugging it with me everywhere I went: on the train to London every day, across Waterloo Bridge twice a day every day, up to bed with me every night – even to the loo and back in the middle of the night!!
“Why would you do that?” I hear you ask – well any sensible person wouldn’t and despite what some may say I am quite sensible! But that is effectively what my body had been doing for the months (maybe years) until I started PT and eating ‘clean’ under the guidance of Ross Young.
I’ve done PT before, I’ve joined gyms, I’ve done spin classes before but this is the first time I have combined PT with nutritional guidance and the results are amazing! Less than 4 months later I’m no longer carting that wretched bag of dog food everywhere I go. No longer do I feel knackered climbing stairs, no longer is my medium frame skeleton groaning under that additional weight.
12 Kgs and 14 inches have been shed from my small build 5’8″ skeleton. Key to this has been combining the nutritional advice with the exercise under Ross’s guidance: the recipe book is simple even easy and it just needs a bit more planning on the shopping list. All of the meals we have had have been tasty and filling – give it the 20 mins or so after eating for the tummy to tell the brain and the craving for more soon dissipates and leaves you feeling you have had a proper “clean”meal.
For us, Ross has helped us make a lifestyle shift – not as radical as a change – but a significant shift towards a more thoughtful approach to eating better and cleaner foods – foods that are tasty, abundant in portion, filling but leave you wanting more and looking forward to the next meal with no need for snacks in between
Combine this with the ability to do PT sessions in the comfort of your own home with your partner (or maybe a friend) on cold winter nights using fairly rudimental gym equipment and the weight is coming off at an average of 1.5 lbs and 0.7″ per week – my partner is similar 1.25 lbs and 1″ per week lost over the last 16 weeks!
16 weeks!! That’s all it’s taken! And even that includes both our birthdays, Christmas and New Year!! Last weekend I threw out the 36″ trousers (I’m now 33″ and soon will fit into 32” – something not achieved for nearly 10 years!) and My girlfriend threw out the size 14s – now comfortably getting into size 10 clothes.
The next 16 weeks is likely to see the rate of weight loss slow slightly however we are confident the inches will come down as the remaining fat slowly becomes leaner and more muscular through the PT as our fitness improves.
We went with Ross because we wanted something different, something better – we wanted results and we have them in abundance. It’s taught me that if you want to see almost instant results you have to combine PT with nutritional advice – not just a faddy diet – proper nutritional advice; be strict, be determined and be positive and you will get the results you want.
Ross provides the advice, the tools, the enthusiasm, the guidance and support and without that I would still be lugging that bag of dog food everywhere I go and My girlfriend would have an 8 Kg kettle bell in her hand bag – go on ladies try it – why on earth would you want to carry that everywhere? Next stop is for My girlfriend to use the dog food bag analogy and me to consider what carrying two 8 kg kettle bells around with me was like! We’ll let you know how we get on – should be around end of April!
Until April….
