Get Vulnerable, GO Public: Kathy

Sometimes it's hard to put into words how proud I am of the people I work with. Kathy is one of those people. I see so many people who don't try because they don't believe they'll succeed. Kathy is someone who decided that she could change. Not only that, she has changed! If you're afraid that you don't have what it takes, stop believing that voice. You do have what it takes! Let Kathy's story inspire you today.

Why State of Slim/Extreme Weight Loss: Destination Boot Camp is Different

Kathy Taylor

January 24, 2015

Oct 2014, Starting EWL: DBC

Now

Kevin met me at the Denver airport on the second Sunday in October wearing his bright yellow Extreme Weight Loss Destination Boot Camp shirt. I was easy to spot too because I rode up to him in a wheelchair. Kevin looked politely shocked to see a crippled, nearly 400 pound, sixty year-old woman show up for a Boot Camp experience. I soon graduated to a cane and by Wednesday I was walking up the mountainside with the rest of our team. Now, four months later, I have lost 67 pounds, an average of four pounds per week! 

How could this program make such a huge difference in such a short time? It wasn’t by starving myself on pricey shakes and fake food like other diets I’ve tried. I trusted Dr. Holly Wyatt’s program, State of Slim. I trust her education, expertise, experience and wisdom, so I followed the plan very carefully. I prepared and ate real food in six small, delicious meals each day, drank ten glasses of water and wrote down every morsel that went in my mouth. I NEVER FELT PUNISHED or DEPRIVED like every other diet I’ve tried! Gradually I worked my way up to seventy minutes of exercise in the pool six days each week. Now I love it!

At Boot Camp we learned how to develop and keep a positive mind-set thanks to Dr. Denise McGuire’s workshops (and every employee at Anschutz Health and Wellness Center.) Dr. Holly is setting the example for all of us with her weekly blogs and positive encouragement.

Accountability is a huge component of my success! I meet face-to-face, with my dear coach, Peggy Willms and my team members every Monday evening via video-conference. We have worked together, sweat, and cried together, creating a bond of trust and understanding. I don’t want to disappoint my coach, my new friends or myself. When I goof up, as I’m prone to do, I call my teammates or my coach and get the boost I need to get right back on track. State of Slim is a LIFESTYLE not a diet and I WILL keep the weight off!