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Hi Jolene - TAKE A DEEP BREATHE! I, like you, am in the fitness industry. Two things I want you to look at teo things - You got into this to help others and you say your are very good at it! I am a certified personal trainer. I guess I am fortunate that the way my gym works I don't have that pressure but I have my own internal pressure going on to lose weight. I have had a comment made to me by another trainer but many of the young ones are narcisistic and immature.

I have lost over 130 lbs and still would like to lose another 30 or so. Starting a career as a trainer at 48 is not easy. My clients really like me and find my weight loss success inspiring I don't think they look at the other lbs I haven't lost but I am the one that has a tendencey to focus on them. I internally laugh at the guys that are whipping through reps quick trying to do huge amounts of weight. They just want to impress their friends they are not gettting in a good workout.

I see girls in the gym that have physiques I would like to have but here is the key - Fitness and physique change is 80% nutrition 10% training and 10% genetics. 10% I can't change. The rest I can.

IE is new to me and I admit a little scary because I want to lost that 30 lbs NOW! But I want to lose it and keep it off and get rid of this diet insanity brain in my head. I want to lose that 30 lbs next week but if I lose it fast I will lose my muscle tone, thus lowering my metabolism, then I get to regain it!

You need to get out of emergency mode or you are setting yourself up for failure. IE is about learning to listen to your body's signals. If you are mentally in emergency mode that is going to override the work to get healthy.

Who wants to be skinny I want to be fit and healthy!

Kathy Draper, CPT, RKB

Be the Change you would like to see in the world - Ghandi