Started at 245 lbs, now at 231 lbs – 6 weeks later. Going to 175 lbs. I was athlete in high school, professional career, behind a desk, high stress job. I had a car wreck in 2000 (rear ended), requiring back surgery. Gained a lot of weight in my 40’s & early 50’s. I need to make healthy food choice and learn to cook healthy meals and exercise regularly

Mark Stewart
Flower Mound, TX

Started trying to get healthy Jan 2012 and lost 40 lbs. by myself, put 10 back on and could not understand why the scales weren’t moving. This has helped me get past the plateau and lose weight in a healthier and long lasting way.

Kaydee Sloan
Dallas, TX

2nd time in HLS. (9/8 & 1/5)
Starting weight 163.5lbs
Ending weight….138.1lbs….lost 25.4lbs
Size 8 – 10….down to size 4 – 6
Huge improvement in the belly fat.
Measurements – 9/8….Chest 41 inches/Waist 37.5 inches/Hips 43.75 inches
Measurements – 2/16..Chest 37.5 inches/Waist 31.0 inches/Hips 38.75
I learned I can drink coffee black! No diet sodas!

Leslie Russell
Coppell, TX

I have not completed my journey but no longer feel like a stranger in my body. The bloating and muscle aches are gone and my clothes feel loose instead of like a sausage casing. I plan to continue to follow the program to achieve my goal body fat %. My BP and cholesterol are on the high side of normal so I want to control them without medication. I want to lower them using the program.

Ellen Diers
Coppell, TX

This class has changed over entire family. Over the course of the first 6 weeks our family of 6 has lost collectively 100 lbs. We are thinner, leaner, healthier, more energetic, and everyone’s moods have leveled out. We intend to take CE and bring our whole family back to learn firsthand what we have been sharing at home. This class has saved our health, our sanity and our lives.

Thank you!

Cynthia Hamsher
Dallas, TX

It appears that I am just starting my personal improvement journey. I have lost significant weight (approximately 25 lbs.) and hope to combine program to duplicate the results. I will have a medical physical next month and have to see measured significant in my cholesterol levels.

David Lawrence
Dallas, TX

Still on journey – 25 pounds down and happy!!

Catherine Collins
Dallas, TX

My name is Haley Harris and when I hit 200 lbs., I decided I need to make a change. My mom started Healthy Lifestyle Secrets and I started just following her. I did well and so we decided to do Healthy Lifestyles Secrets as a team at work. During this process I have learned a lot. I began taking calcium, multivitamins, pro-biotics and now I stopped taking Ampeih altogether. I am going to continue to do Healthy Life Styles Secrets and become healthier version of me!!

Haley Harris
Dallas, TX

I have yo-yo dieted all of my life and I have been on every diet out there. This class has taught me it’s not about drastic dieting, but eating healthy. I plan to continue with the tools I have learned. I am not able to take the next class (work issue) but I would like to come to the class after that if you come back to Coppell. I am getting cholesterol checked this week and I know I will see improvements.

Dana Chandler
Coppell, TX

I have struggles with my weight on and off though-out my life. I managed to lose 40 pounds in my early 20’s and 10 years later, woke up one day to discover it had all crept back somehow! I lost 10 pounds over 3 months counting PTS with Weight Watchers and then I started HLS. I lost 10 pounds during the class period and loved the personalized nutrition template because it makes it easy! It is easy to eat according to the profile. I just asked myself – did I already have my starch today? Starch is my down fall!
I plan to keep going using the same method. Thanks for the kick start!

Claire Odom
Dallas, TX

Back in June of 2014 – I started out horrible over weigh, out of shape and on meds for diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and acid reflux. 3 weeks into the first time I took the class, I was off acid reflux med, and reducing my diabetes medicine. By the end of the first time, I was down from 4 pills of Metformin to only 1. My blood sugar has evened out and is so much lower and about 3 weeks after the class, my blood work showed my cholesterol is great and my blood pressure is great and my A1C is down to 6.1. My doctor does not want to take me off the Statin or the pressure med, but I’m hoping to convince him otherwise soon. Now since June of last year, I’m down a total of 52.4 lbs., 4.3% fat and 31lbs of fat. I just feel great and look so much better.

Carol Freese
Coppell, TX

I am in still in the process of losing but know how to do it. I am excited to make
this a life plan and stop the yo-yoing.

Kathy McKenzie
Dallas, TX

When I started I had a pretty good base knowledge of what was healthy and what wasn’t. i used to be able to lose weight easily, but I’m now 38 and it is so much harder. This program was a jump start of me getting back into super shape! I lost 7.4 pounds and 6.2 of those were fat! I will continue to use the knowledge I learned from here forward.

Shannon O’Brien
Lantana, TX

Just because you’re ‘thin’ doesn’t mean you are healthy. For YEARS I have cycled on & off of various fat-burners. Not just for the appetite suppressant but for the energy. One thing I noticed when taking these supplements was that various knots in my body would grow when I was on them and would shrink when I stopped. Sure, all of the advertisements touted the ‘safety’ of these products, yada, yada, yada, but REALLY?! If you have cysts in your hands and wrists that grow when you’re on a certain product, something isn’t right. But still I continued…. Honestly I liked the ‘buzz’. I would zoom through my work, zoom through the gym, zoom through my days. And then take a sleep aid so I could get some rest.
After my recent mammogram/biopsy scare which thankfully came back as a benign fibroidadanoma, I was determined to get away from fat-burners especially when my doctor confirmed that most cysts/lumps, etc. are ‘fed’ by sugar & caffeine and a lot of the chemicals that make up those types of supplements.

I am happy to say that I was able to lose 8 lbs. and 2.8% body fat by sticking to my profile (most of the time). No fat-burners, no harmful chemicals. I feel so much more energetic these days. This program is not a quick-fix. It is an educational process that we can apply to our lives and use every single day.

Esther
Tulsa, OK

I have really enjoyed and learned so much the past 6 weeks. HLS has changed my life as well as my family in regards to food choices. We have lost our taste for sugar, bread & desserts. We drink water all day & our cabinets are stocked with vitamins & protein shakes instead of cookies & chips. I treasure the workbook & find myself reviewing it every night. I haven’t reached my goal yet but with Tammara & Jimmie’s encouragement I know I’ll get there. They have inspired me to stick with it. When I got stuck, they corrected me & pushed me on. They are great motivators & I highly recommend HLS.

Doreen Perez
Plano, TX

Went to the dr for my 6 month checkup. She was laughing at me because I was talking all about our nutrition class and was so enthusiastic about it. Then when she checked my weight she squealed. I had lost 16 pounds since the last time she saw me. I am off my acid reflux meds now and in another 6 months she may reduce or eliminate a blood pressure med. Whoo Hoo! I know this sounds weird but I am not talking about this for a pat on the back. I am talking about it because of the change in my way of looking at nutrition and how proud I am of all of us for even considering changing our habits. I want to prove that you can teach an old dog new tricks. Like my dr. said, she suggested healthy eating years ago but until I was ready to make a change it wasn’t going to happen. I like the fact that it is not a weight loss program. It is truly a life change program.

“I heard about ‘magical inches lost’ from a friend of mine who did the program through her school. We both had the same issue of never being overweight but always having a few inches to lose in fat to be lean. I had gained 20 lbs. after I got married and had kept it on for three years. I wanted to give the program a shot. My expectations were to learn a lot about nutrition and to hopefully lose weight/inches in my fat mass. I had tried many things to get the weight off, but this program was what I needed. I am smaller today than I was on my wedding day! I am thrilled and owe it all to the Healthy Lifestyle Secrets program. I continue to maintain with my meal plan and practice all the rules/guidelines now on my own. It is a lifelong commitment but is easy to adjust to in the right mind set. Thank you, Healthy Lifestyle Secrets, for the abundance of information and life lessons I have learned through your two courses. I will spread your praises for a lifetime!”

“In November of 2012 I weighed 297 pounds–my diet was unhealthy, my energy level was low and my body was starting to show the effects of a lifetime of poor eating habits. I grew used to fat jokes, having to hold my breath to tie my shoes and feeling uncomfortable in small seats in theaters and stadiums. I expected people to avoid sitting next to me on airplanes. I resigned to the fact that I would probably not live a long life and that I would likely have health issues related to my weight for many years. Sadly and selfishly I did not believe my situation could change no matter how hard I tried and I accepted my condition. Then one day when my wife inspired me. She was attending a nutrition class in a neighbor’s home and I began to notice that whatever she was learning and doing was working. I began to see the changes in her body and her demeanor. She was having real success. I asked her if she would help me and she began trying to relay the lessons she was learning at HLS. The next time the class was offered my wife and I agreed to host the class in our home. Immediately I started learning that it was possible to change my habits and in-turn improve my health. Equipped with the knowledge of how my body processes food and the proper way to eat, I was able to lose 110 pounds over the next ten months! I went from 297 pounds with a 48 inch waist to 187 pounds and a 34 inch waist. I reduced my body fat percentage from over 40% to 18%. My blood pressure dropped from dangerously-high levels to normal levels. My resting heart rate fell and my cholesterol numbers drastically improved. I never thought I could be where I am today. I am the fittest I have ever been and I no longer feel destined to poor health. HLS gave me the knowledge and the methods to change my life forever. I have a wife and three children whom I love. I want to spend many healthy years with them–now I can.”

“A FWISD teacher shared information with us in our Sunday School classroom. We wanted to be a part of a healthy lifestyle change. We wanted to learn the ‘secrets’. Our expectation was to lose weight in a healthy manner.” In June 2011, Leon weighed 227.51 lbs., and Karen weighed 186.81 lbs. By November, Leon was down to 189.61 lbs., and Karen weighed in at 166.21 lbs. “HLS is a program that helps you lose weight and fat mass by consuming proper food, drinking plenty of water, eating lots of vegetables, and watching intake of fats, carbs and sugar. The program helps us to stay mindful of nutritional facts on product labels, evaluating quickly the food choices that assist in reducing fat mass and body weight.”

My weight was out of control, and our company offered a program that sounded like it would be easy to follow. Also, there were a lot of people that signed up for it, so I knew it would be easier for me to stay on this program. My expectations are to lose at least 50 lbs. on this program. I have not completed all the steps yet but have made it halfway in my weight loss goal. I will continue on to meet my goals. It’s a GREAT program, and if you follow it, you can be very successful in your weight loss results.