I am a thirty-something entrepreneur, wife and new mother of two (a 3 year old and an 6 month baby), who has a well versed background in the “weight loss industry” – and who finds herself struggling to stay motivated to lose the “baby weight” and “get my body back”.
(This should NOT be happening!!…)
I have personally been on over 60 diets since I was a teen (that equates to about 4 diets each year). From eating “strictly grapefruit” to cabbage soup, to basic starvation (frankly; what most of the diets would equate to – truthfully). I have taken the initiative to test nearly every gimmick out there as well. In fact, I spent ten years devoting about 100% of my attention (my friends and associates would argue this number to be actually 110%) – to this very industry (weight loss and improved health). I built a business around this very thing…. because it was fun and I was/am good at it, or maybe just obsessed. Thankfully, the verdict is still out on that…and whatever the case, I enjoyed many of the fringe benefits – sort of like an alcoholic getting paid to drink.
I owned a health and wellness product company for about seven years and had the amazing opportunity to work with some of the leading edge nutrition companies of our time. I am well read in this industry and can recite compelling statistics just as well as the next “guru”.
I have put myself through countless exercise experiments as well, including but not limited to, bouts of 2-hour-a-day (daily) hard-core routines, treadmill-running-binges, BMI indexing, and calorie calculations up the wazoo…just about every other (easy, extreme, you name it) “lose weight” or “get in shape” gimmick available (some, I have to say I would never publically admit to!). And yes, I have even done the “all Organic, yoga-fanatic” fad as well. I have to say “fad” here because none of these “best sellers” really changed me (long term anyway).
With over 15 years devoted to health and wellness…from exercise and nutrition, to personal experiments to improve my own health -I guess I could call myself an expert. And this very day, I find myself still…searching for “better solutions”….especially given my current scenario…
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