Friday, April 26, 2013
Hayley Martin has lost more than 60 pounds but says that the weight loss is just an added bonus of creating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Sponsored by Post Grape-Nuts.
About this sponsorship: In honor of the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's historic ascent of Mount Everest, Patch and Grape-Nuts are teaming up to highlight those who inspire people around them to climb their own mountains. Facing the Challenge Hayley Martin has gone from a size 26 to a size 14 since July of last year. But even though her shrinkage is what people immediately see and certainly what they comment on first, her biggest challenge is not about losing the weight. "One of of the biggest challenges is getting people to understand this is more than just weight loss," Martin said. "I see so many people that have followed me on Facebook and my blog and total strangers at the gym that tell me they wish they could lose weight …
Friday, August 12, 2011
A former NFL player reflects on his weight loss journey.
Getting healthy and maintaining it takes some work. I know, because I lost 100 pounds. To get my head around that, I need to do some comparison. Do you know what weighs 100 pounds? A baby hippo, a full-sized wolf and one of the largest pmpkins in the world. The weight fell off in chunks during two distinct periods during the course of six years. One of those periods was a 6-month timeframe after I completed five seasons in the National Football League as a 310-pound offensive lineman for the Chicago Bears and Baltimore Ravens. The second period was a 6-month journey that included fasting in the Arizona desert—where I was living at the time—and lifestyle adjustments. Dozens of former teammates asked me how I did it. Many of them have gone …
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Fitness has a way of seeing people disappoint themselves. If you understand some of the pitfalls that people deal with you will be able in a better position to achieve your major goals.
Have you ever set a big goal for yourself and tried your absolute hardest to achieve it….and failed? I speak to people all of the time about their goals and about their successes and failures. I have seen some correlations that may be helpful to you when you set out to achieve your next great life goal. I am going to keep this focused on fitness but many of these topics have strong ties to goals in all walks of your life. 1. Overtraining the wrong movements: I see kids and adults come in and talk about wanting badly to improve one aspect of their fitness ability. A big one I hear is when somebody wants to improve their running speed. Most people believe that they need to run every day in order to get faster. Instead of running you …
Emmett Zitelli
12:47 pm on Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Elaine - Thank you so much for the note and blessings! Hope you're doing great. Bob - Glad you liked the piece. I'd love to share some of this with the guys. In my estimation, there are some points that would be useful...Peace, EZ more ›