Monday, November 3, 2014

Blowing off the Body Transformation Challenge (Herbal Life)

Our weigh in is the 13th.  We've both made significant progress, though not to "loose weight" per se, in a two month period, but as a motivator to get moving in the right direction.  We both feel we have lost weight that we are happy with, not as an end point, but as a life change movement.

We were NOT impressed with the Fairfield Nutrition store, which is translated to: Herbal Life.  The Body Transformation Challenge, which we thought was part of the Fairfield Park and Rec, as well as something called Fairfield Nutrition, is really just the Herbal Life trying to get new customers.  What rubbish.  Neither of us liked the man and woman on duty at the store, and neither of us thought their method of determining fat vice muscle was scientific. I still want to do some further research on that, to give them some benefit of the doubt, but it sure sounded like BS.  And both of us are used to getting weighed and measured with the US Army.

The entire tone of voice of both the man and woman working at Herbal Life was also just too nasal and lacking in critical thinking.

So, the nasal voice called asking for a final weigh in.  Dave scheduled it for the 13th.  We talked.  We decided to blow it off.  It's not that we are intimidated.  It's not that we haven't lost the weight.  I got into a size 4, admittedly, a skirt with a billowy bottom, but still, no elastic waist, and this is down from a 10.  (AND THEY SAID I WAS OBESE, AT 5'7" and a size 10.)  I could have out-hiked, out-run (distance), out-biked probably EVERYONE in this little contest and all the Herbal Life customers in the little shitty town of Fairfield, IA.  Really.

The good news is that we are losing weight, getting thinner, staying active.  And we are in our late 50's.