Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson
Judy S. of 6:15 Epsom fame, has learned “Just One Thing” does make a difference. I captured her on video and she revealed her secret to dropping weight, becoming healthier, and happier.
Judy has found the ability to change her life by changing how she thought. She doesn’t have to be all or nothing but making steady progress towards her goal.
Take a few minutes to listen to Judy’s secret. She is a shining example of “Making It Happen”
To Better Health,
Coach Nancy
What a great time we had last night!
The winning recipe at last night’s “A Smooth Way to Eat- Smoothie 101” came from Kathy, Helen, Donna, and Carolyn. They titled their entry ‘A Touch Of Summer’.
After learning basic nutrition facts and sampling a variety of choices they were given a category to choose from to create their own Meal in a Cup. Other entries were ‘The Fab 6 Smoothie’ and ‘All Veggies’. Each own had a unique taste but all were made from fresh whole foods.
While we covered a lot of information there is so much more to explore in the area of Fantastic Fast Food in a Cup. Just wait until you get a load of Protein Frosting and Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Pudding!
Stay tuned for the next “Smoothie 101” workshop, where we will pass along more Smoothie recipes, sample drinks like “The Green and The Blue”, and of course create some more award winning smoothies.
For now Helen, Donna, Carloyn, and Kathy hold the top place for favorite new smoothie recipe.
Try all three of these new smoothies and let us know what you think.
Touch of Summer (fruit and veggie)
1 canteloupe, cubed
3 sprigs of lemon mint
1/2 cucumber
1 scoop UMP vanilla
1/2 teaspoon flax seed
1 cup ice
8 ounces of almond milk
Mix all in a blender, enjoy.
Fab 6 Smoothie (all fruit)
1/2 banana
16 almonds
1/3 cup frozen raspberries
1/3 cup frozen blueberries
1/3 cup fresh strawberries
1 pear
1 scoop UMP vanilla
1 cup water
Mix all ingredients in a blender until smooth, enjoy.
All Veggie (as the name sounds, it only contains veggies so add several slices of your favorite lunch meat rolled up on the side to create a healthy meal or snack)
1 leaf cabbage
1 brocoli floweret
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
3 cups spinach
1 can tomatoe, add the liquid
1/2 cup water
1 cup ice
Mix in blender. Enjoy
It went a bit under the radar, but I wanted to make sure you all knew that some of the Get Fit NH Bootcamp family were recently honored by the American Heart Association!
The “Lifestyle Change Award” recognizes individuals who’ve made positive lifestyle changes to live longer, healthier lives (consistent with HF’s mission)—such as starting a regular exercise program, making healthier food/beverage choices, eating less junk food, and/or becoming tobacco free.
Finalists this year included our own Jeff Huckins, Karl and Jill Edelmann, and even Coach Dean!
If you don’t know their inspirational stories I would encourage you to take the time and find out what they have accomplished, and be confident you can do it too!
To your better health!
Coach Nancy
On June 25th Dean & I are heading down along with quite a few Get Fit NH Bootcamp clients to participate in the Warrior Dash New England in Amesbury MA. You absolutely must head the Warrior Dash Website and check it out!
It’s not too late to sign up to join us on this wild adventure – Registration closes on June 13 at 3PM. We are headed down on the 25th, but you can race the 26th as well.
Over the next couple of weeks you are going to see some activity going on at Get Fit NH Bootcamp Epsom, as we build our own obstacle course to not only help train for the event, but just have a blast any old time!
On Saturday June 11th we are going to do a “Warriors in Training” workout! You don’t have to be a participant to come as we climb, crawl, leap, duck and jump over and around the obstacle course being built – Don’t Miss It!
More details on the way, but put Saturday June 11th on your calendar now!
S3 2011 is a great success! We’ve seen fantastic results and awarded fabulous prizes to our winners. Jeff will continue to benefit from all his hard work using his new Precision Nutrition System, and I know he’ll love the massage from Chichester Massage and Body Works. Who knows what he did with all that cash!
Carol and Abby enjoyed their bonus cash prizes too. The 6:15 training time has designed their winning t-shirt and are anxiously waiting for the shirt to make its debut. But we have so many who created healthy habits over the course of S3 that we wanted to surprise them with an added prize.
For all those Perfect People Scores throughout all 8 weeks of our contest, Dean and I will cook dinner for you! Yes, you heard it right. We are inviting you and a guest to our house for a PPW Cookout! (Perfect People Win Cookout)
Here’s the details.
Date: Wednesday June 8th
Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm
Place: Get Fit NH Bootcamp Epsom
The eight weeks of Sizzlin’ Summer Slimdown may be officially over, but don’t to stop your progress. S3 was and is designed for you to practice good habits over the course of a length of time where results could be seen and felt. Keep the spirit of S3 alive and well by moving forward towards your individuals goals.
Now is not the time to rest on your laurels – Enjoy your success and take one more step today to getting better!
Please drop us a line on the contact form to let us know you are coming!
Coaches Dean and Nancy
Another member of the Get Fit NH Bootcamp family has arrived – Welcome Tessa!
“I had the privilege of going to Get Fit NH for most of my second pregnancy. Staying active and being healthy was VERY important to me because I wanted to be able to be able to keep up with my two year old and all my other responsibilities without being in pain at the end of the day.
Nancy was awesome about keeping tabs on me throughout the workouts and making sure that I didn’t do anything that would compromise my health or the baby. My labor and delivery was an hour from start to finish. My body was in great shape for delivering a baby!
It’s important to have someone who can make sure you are doing a workout that is safe for you and your baby and Get Fit NH is suited perfectly to the needs of a pregnant mom!” – Katie Uy
Thanks Katie, and congratulations to you and Andre!
Meghan, from the 6pm crew, is back this week after her six week break when Dexter was born.
Here’s what Meghan had to say about how training at Get Fit NH Bootcamp kept her healthy during her pregnancy, made for an easier delivery, and kept her at an ideal weight throughout her pregnancy (and apparently afterward 🙂
“Not only has bootcamp helped me to maintain a healthy weight throughout pregnancy but it also enable me to have a quick and easy delivery. I have no stretch marks, I fit into my pre-pregnancy jeans (yes, many of us are groaning right now – Coach Nancy) And I have a happy healthy baby! Thank-you Dean and Nancy”
Congratulations Meghan and Mike, and welcome Dexter!
I know it’s the weekend, but this inspirational letter was just too good to keep to ourselves! Thank-you so much to Paulette, Matt and the whole family for taking the time to share not only your results, but so clearly telling us what got you there. Please, please, please take the time to read and absorb what this letter has to share, and then take action. I know it will get to you like it did us! – Coaches Nancy and Dean
Coach Nancy,
I wanted to let you know how thankful I am for you, Get Fit NH Boot Camp and for the S3 contest. S3 couldn’t have come at a better time for our family. It was just the tool we needed to get our family’s health headed in a better direction. It was never about the points or the prizes of the contest for us – it was about helping us improve our family’s health.
Our daughter has been under the care of a doctor for nearly a year for her weight and we had tried everything we could think of to get her to improve her eating and exercise more, but nothing seemed to work. As the number on the scale climbed higher, her confidence and motivation plummeted. Her next doctor appointment was just days before her 13th birthday and I was expecting to go to that appointment, throw up my hands and ask the doctor where to send her for help because I couldn’t help her myself.
I felt just like any parent would feel – it broke my heart to see my child struggle with this and to watch her health and happiness decline as her weight increased.
Then we learned about Get Fit’s S3 Contest. The timing couldn’t have been better! I had gained some weight last summer and hadn’t been able to drop those pounds and Matt was getting frustrated because, although he wasn’t gaining weight, he wasn’t losing any either. We felt we had nothing to lose by following the S3 food plan.
Our family has a couple of mottos: “Go Big or Go Home” and “If You’re In, You’re All In”, so when we decided to commit to S3, we decided to go “All In” as a family.
Our new eating plan was certainly met with resistance from our 9 year old son (our “Carb King”) and my diabetic elderly mother (who lives with us and lives vicariously – sugar wise – through my children). But, I was surprised that our daughter was excited to start the plan.
We needed the structure that the S3 plan provided –it took the pressure off of us as her parents – we weren’t the bad guys anymore, we were just following the program.
The week before S3 started, I studied the eating plan (panicked more than a little as I focused on all the foods that weren’t on the plan) I peppered Nancy with questions that all began with “So, we can’t have . . . ?”).
But, once I stopped over-thinking the eating plan and started focusing on the foods that were approved instead of the foods that weren’t, things got so much easier for us.
My friend, Deb and I attended Nancy’s workshop on Meal Management and I began to feel like I could actually do this meal planning and food prep thing. PPW and eating every 2-3 hours became automatic after a while and we felt like it took the emotion out of eating. As an emotional eater, this was a HUGE help to me!
We kept track of our measurements as well as tracking our weight throughout the entire 8 weeks of S3, and the three of us lost a combined 42 pounds and over 24 inches overall. By tracking our measurements, I could see that even if I didn’t have a good weigh in, I was still losing inches. That definitely kept me motivated.
The success we all were experiencing began to perpetuate itself. The more weight (and inches) we lost, the better we felt and the more we wanted to stick to the program. Matt and I certainly experienced success, but it was all secondary to how proud we were of our daughter. We watched her literally transform before our eyes (both physically and emotionally) in just two short months!
We’re so proud of how well she’s done and all that she’s accomplished and her doctor is as well! And, even our “Carb King” son now enjoys lettuce wraps and more veggies than ever!
A few things that helped us succeed with S3:
We did it as a family: Our family made the commitment to the program, so it made meal prep easier because ¾ of our household was eating the same things. Our son ate what we were eating almost half the time.
We were “All In”: We tried to stay on plan all the time. There were no “cheat days” or “cheat meals”. Although not every single thing we ate was 100% compliant all the time, it was easier for us to stay on track if we aimed for 100% compliance.
We made Meal and Food Prep a priority: S3 was definitely an exercise in organization. If we had sufficient amounts of compliant food in the house and it was washed and prepped, then we knew had a better chance of success and we were less stressed over what we were going to eat and when.
We kept our food logs: We did our food logs every week. We only did the required 3 days per week, but we kept our food logs in mind the other four days. We didn’t want to eat anything that we would feel guilty about writing down and having Nancy see.
We ate at home: We found that eating out was too stressful (Nancy talks about not having control over your food when you eat out) and too expensive. For example, salads taste better (and are way cheaper) when they’re made at home.
We followed the PPW principle: We tried to make sure that every meal contained protein, produce and we drank lots of water.
We had Great Support: We had the support of each other, of our trainer (thank you, Nancy!) and our friends (thank you, Gretch and Deb!). Having people around us that were not only encouraging but were working toward the same goals we were was great motivation.
We didn’t stop when S3 ended: We’ve continued to stay on the S3 eating plan even though the contest is over because we have more work to do, more weight to lose and a lifetime of health and happiness to enjoy.
– Matt and Paulette Wolfe
There is no good reason you can’t Make This Happen too – Get Some!
I’m just about to head down to the South for my son Jeff’s wedding. I’ve been planning this trip for weeks (Ask the 5am, they’ve helped me pick my dress). I’ve organized all the kids clothing for that special day, the care of our animals, and hotel stays.
And believe it or not, one more big item I’ve planned for is my eating.
Now you may think I am crazy or wonder – “How do you plan for eating when you don’t know what is available?”
It’s not as hard as you may think!
I’ve been planning the meals I can control, so if the meals I am unable to control are a bit loose by PPW (Protein, Produce and Water) standards it minimizes the damage. Not that I plan on eating cupcakes, cookies, fudge, and other sweets for 4 days straight, but we will be eating in restaurants where I can’t control quite as much as I can at home.
Here are my three rules to easy eating while on vacation. (Thank you Michael Pollan for the fantastic ideas in your book “Food Rules”- great read for anyone!)
So that’s my plan. I’m going to eat fresh foods that are easy to recognize (before and after they are cooked) that my grandmother would enjoy.
That’s not so hard, is it?
Ask me how I did when I get back!
Make It Happen,
Coach Nancy
S3 has taught me some incredible things!!!
I now have a plan that works for the times I’m tired, surprises that mess up metabolism, can’t sleep because I’m hungry, etc. so I don’t go crazy/binge. I’m thinking a lot more like the thin person I used to be. Even when it’s a cheat meal I don’t eat anywhere near as much as before. I also hear/feel the little signs that 2 1/2 – 3 hours have passed so that I don’t totally forget to eat/keep my metabolism in order.
So thank you thank you thank you!!! Because of you, I’m well on my way to being a healthy weight again only I’ll be much stronger too – an added bene! Today I could do the step-ups without having to hold onto the wall at all to help step-up; I could do the front raises with 10lb weights the whole time (the 5lb just-in-case DB’s just sat!).
Judy Swain – Get Fit NH Bootcamp Epsom 6:15am
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