Dedicating your time, effort and body to eating, being and promoting paleo and CrossFit is tough! It was worth it though! My total weight loss was 25 pounds exactly. Besides the weight loss, things have drastically changed for me health-wise. I've struggled with cronic anxiety since I was 21 and there has been nothing I can do to help it. The first few weeks of eating paleo were exhausting. My energy was down, I had a hard time making it to the Fort, and I was sleepy all the time. Once my body got rid of everything in my system, I had a complete change. I was full of energy, my anxiety was gone and I felt great. I learned that to feel good you need to put good things in your body. No sugar, no bad carbs, no processed foods. When I first started at CrossFit Fire, I had a really hard time going to the fort 3 times a week. Now I go 5 days and have never felt better.
I've also realized, that I need to give myself a little bit of credit for what I have accomplished. Eating healthy and exercise is a part of my life now. So is the Fort. I feel like I owe Jennie and Bill for everything they have taught me. They've helped me change my life forever!
90 day transformation
My total weight loss was 42 pounds. It really took seeing the pictures to see how far I’d come. The work is far from over. The diet was very tough to stick to at first; I guess I really didn’t notice how many carbs/grains/sugar I really ate during the day, until I gave them up cold turkey. I felt like someone had sucked the life out of me the first two weeks. But when you drop that initial weight/water or what ever it is the first couple weeks (20lbs for me) its real motivating when you see the scale. But more then the weight loss has been the way I feel free of (mostly) grains and carbs. I used to REQUIRE a nap after work every day, there was just no way around it. After a week or so on Paleo that nap BS was over and my energy was endless. I was amazed.
My general health as a whole is 100 times better. I had a reoccurring/chronic upper respiratory infection that surfaced every other month or so for as long as I can remember. Since I have gone Paleo it hasn’t returned. That in its self is worth the weird looks I get at the store buying 15 pounds of red meat every Saturday. Now that I have been at the Fort for a while and I get to compare work outs the benefits/results are undeniable. Pre BBC “Cindy” was 7 rounds with an assistance band for pull ups, last week I was able to get 12 with out the band, far from the Elites but a huge step in the right direction. This really has been a life style change for me and I plan to stick to it and see just what my body is like under all that jiggle HAHA.
90 day Transformation
Bender's testimonial will be posted shortly. His pictures do most of the speaking though. This is a 7 week transformation for him!
7 weeks of hard work!
I want to say thank you so much to Bill and Jennie for motivating and introducing me to CrossFit! As you both know, I basically never worked out in my life. I was never motivated enough to do it and I didn't like it. Now, I LOVE it, thanks to you two. I can't wait to be fit! I truly appreciate the opportunity you have given me to be a part of the Fort.
Bill- my back has held up, except for those days that I was traveling with the backpack for extended periods of time, on those days, I had some pretty bad episodes. I'm so happy I joined CrossFit before I left, I needed the strength, endurance, and agility To get me through. My other two girlfriends couldn't keep up at times and they both workout regularly.
I just want to thank the both of you for providing Crossfit as a tool. I've been seeing results but not to the magnitude as I did yesterday.
I got home and later on that evening I decided to recalculate the distance I had run because it seemed longer for some reason. Driving the route I thought at most I ran 5.3 miles. It turned out to actually to be 6.9 miles. I couldn't believe it!!!! The year 2000 was the last time I ran that distance!
To think that before I started CrossFit I had problems breathing during any type of strenuous activity (Sometimes even walking up stairs) and now I am as far as I have gotten is mind boggling to me! This has made me more motivated to keep improving myself than ever before!
Thank you both so much for helping people learn how to improve themselves and providing an environment that allows for it to happen! Yesterday was a huge turning point for me and it wouldn't have happened without your help!
I just love how you guys encourage and motivate me and everyone.......I told Bill that y'all inspire the uninspired.... I have made Crossfit Fire one of my top priorities. Thank you for everything and especially believing in me......believing in all of us!!!!!!
