Online Fitness Training Client Loses 40 Pounds and Improves Half Marathon Time

Today’s transformation is Beckie from Tennessee. What a journey we have had together!! I’m so proud of this woman. So proud of how she handled obstacles in her life. A lot of times, when people are going through a tough time, they give in to the negative, they let it consume them and control their choices, and they don’t consider getting healthy, fit and positive until they are through the storm. Beckie did the opposite, she used Hitch Fit to help her through the storm. There’s that saying “It’s not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” I think Beckie learned to dance in the rain.

Beckie’s shed had an over 40 pound weight loss, going from 165.4 pounds down to 122.2. Her body fat went from 38.5% down to 20.6%, nearly 18% reduction. She did the Hitch Fit Online Fitness Training 16 Week Lose Weight Feel Great program to achieve her weight loss goals. Not only did she change on the outside, improve her health and increase confidence on the inside, she also SMASHED her Half Marathon Running Time goals! In 2013 Beckie ran a half marathon in 2:22:38 , at a 10:54 mile pace. She came in 157 out or 263 runners. One of her goals was to lose the body fat that was slowing her down, and improve running time. In 2014, she ran that same race, with 40 pounds less to carry for that distance, and DRASTICALLY improved. She ran the half in 2:09:29 at a pace of 9:54 per mile, and placed 89 out of 277!! Incredible!!

Beckie was inspired by Hitch Fit transformation Brandi Wisdom, so it was so awesome when she was able to fly up from Tennessee to do her after pictures, and have Brandi be the one to take them!

Beckie’s Stats: 

Starting weight: 165.4

Ending weight: 122.2

Starting body fat: 38.5%

Ending body fat: 20.64%

Beckie’s Story:

“I first started struggling with my weight out of high school, did some in high school but really notice when I began college.  I played sports most my life and that journey stopped senior year.  I would compensate with my off season of sports with eating very little, some days 1 meal a day.  Not the healthiest way!  Then college began and I remember having a very full schedule with school and then working 30+ hours and don’t forget the homework and projects.  That is when the eating out and even more unhealthy choices began.  I thought that just because I was always on the go that I couldn’t eat healthy not to mention the late nigh social hours indulging in grease and booze.  Junior year of college I started taking diet pills, I lost weight with them but I also couldn’t sit still and my heart rate was through the roof.  I stopped taking them when a friend of mine who was taking them went to the hospital because of heart issues, talk about scary.  After I got off them I gained all the weight back and some, talk about frustrating.  I joined a gym shortly after and started trying to lose the right way but still didn’t adjust my eating out or nightlife; I lost some but was still overweight for a 5’4 lady.  A prime example that sticks out for me is I went for a long run, training for a half marathon, and then after I got back I went to McDonalds and got a Large Extra Value meal.  In my mind I thought I just burned a 1000 calories I deserve it…. WOW not the way!

I continued with the ups and downs for about 5 years and then started really being unhappy with how I looked and felt at the first of the year.  I met Brandi Wisdom (Hitch Fit veteran) when she took our family pictures, shortly after her and I became friends and I started talking to her about her journey with Hitch Fit.  I really like that she had kept the weight off for 4 years.  I initially looked into the program in February immediately thought there is no way, I like my wine way too much to give it up and no eating out that is nuts.  So I continued to do it my way.  I reached my heaviest in May and at that point I came to realized I can’t do this alone, I’m doing something wrong and need help BAD!!  I contact Micah with some question first and he was great.  Got right back with me and was very precise with his answers.  I decided to sign up for 16 week Lose Weight Feel Great program online.  Diana emailed me shortly after with a nutrition plan, workout plan, maintenance plan and whole lot more.  I do have to say that I was a little overwhelmed at first.  I started checking in with Diana weekly to discuss progress, challenges.  It was strange when my transformation was over I missed chatting with her weekly, it was like losing a friend.  She has been such a great positive inspiration.  Not only was she there to help me with my weight loss but she was there for a lot more, family issues, stress.  She seems to genuinely care about her clients.

I have to say that it was tough, but not in the way I thought it would be.  I have a major sweet tooth and enjoyed the occasional soda so I thought I was doomed, oddly enough that was easy didn’t even crave it and still haven’t had a soda.  I’m an extremely picky eater, and it turned out that food that I thought that I didn’t like I now crave.  The hardest thing for me was wine, but I appreciate it even more now.  I wouldn’t say that the workouts were easy, I don’t feel like I struggled with them since I was use to going to the gym but I defiantly used muscles I didn’t know I had.  I had my mind set that I had to do only cardio to burn fat, so the lifting was foreign to me.  I now love going into the “Man Cave” what my friends and I have nicknamed the free weight area at our gym.  I think the hardest thing was toward the end of my transformation, friends were making comments about being too skinny and making assumptions that I was losing it the unhealthy way.  It hurt, but Diana helped me get through that as well she reminded me that it was their personal insecurities that were coming out.

I feel like Hitch Fit made me the women I wanted to be.  It has provided me with self confidence I never had before, I’m the healthiest I have been in a long time.  I wish I would have done this sooner.  I’ve notice that friends and family are making healthier choices because of my journey and results.  My mom has started exercising more and making healthier choices and has lost 13 pounds and she said it’s because I’ve inspired her.  I hope that I can do that for others like Brandi did for me.  A big Thank You to Diana for all her encouraging words, I honestly don’t know if I could have done as well without her help.  Another big Thanks to Brandi for being so encouraging and inspiring.  I’d like to thank my husband, he help stay accountable with workouts and food choices; he stood behind me 100% through my transformation.  I’d also like to thank my friends and family that encourage and help me through this journey.  The best thing is that I feel like I now have the tools to keep this lifestyle and never go back to the unhappy, unhealthy Beckie I was.  THANK YOU HITCH FIT!!!!”

Beckie’s Program Choice – Hitch Fit Online Fitness Training 16 Week Lose Weight Feel Great Program

Program Choice: Lose Weight