Michelle and I met at our anternal class in October 2005, our babies were both due in December. Each week we would meet for a coffee and biscuits and be 3lbs heavier! Eventually I’d put on 3 stone and Michelle 3 and half stone. Once we’d had our babies, we sat back and waited for the wait to fall off!! - Strangely, contrary to belief very little happened.
We started an 18 month cycle of diets. Weight watchers, slimming world, south beach, atkins, cabbage soup, detox, fasting, blood type, personal trainers (3 x per week). We gradually lost some of the weight, although 18 months later we were both still two stone overweight. In desperation one afternoon we scanned the internet for fasting retreats and stumbled across the FitFarms website….. After piling on a few more pounds over Christmas and a depressing (couldn’t fit into any clothes) New Years Eve we couldn’t procrastinate any longer. We booked to go to FitFarms in February 2008 and not wanting to be totally useless on arrival we started exercising in the 6 weeks leading up to our departure.
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FitFarms stands alone in the residential weight loss boot camp market by doing the opposite of the celebrity-backed military boot camp and carefully working with people to achieve sustainable weight loss and personal health goals.
Dee Kelly from Cornwall who went through the fitness and weight loss camp week long programme in November 2008 said ‘FitFarms has made me look at my health in a different, healthier way. As a teenager, I suffered from Bulimia so I have always had a bad attitude to food, whether for comfort or celebration, food was always my partner in life. Through sensitive support from FitFarms on nutrition, exercise and behaviour change I have now re-evaluated my relationship with food and my body. I now know that the way to sustainable weight loss and good health is about a new way of life - exercise and the 80/20 rule is the way forward.
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FitParks has opened in Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham.
The FitParks trainer is called Wendy and her first session was brilliant. Twenty of the women who arrived at the park for ‘the first session is free’ had an hour of Wendy’s intense but fun workout. All the women have signed up for the month where they will receive two one hour training sessions per week, nutritional advice from Julia FitzGerald the nutritional thereapist from The Daily Telegraph, exercise reminders and access to a forum where you can receive support from trainers and friends you meet in the park training session. The Sports Science boot camp approach creates a more caring enviroment than the military boot camp approach. The FitParks trainers will give you better results short and long term due to sports science that they have studied. Training sessions are fun, varied and results driven.
