DEBFIT© Weight Loss Camp: Week #1 = 5 lbs Lost

I don't think I have ever seen such fierce, bull-dog determination in a client before. Adriana has left her home in Spain, her family and friends (who, from the sounds of it, aren't all together clear on what she's doing on this island) and dropped her life in order to drop the fat.

My first and foremost priority is to clean her body. I've put Adriana on a total-body cleanse and noooooo, this does not mean she's starving herself and drinking nothing but lemon water with cayenne pepper. Our bodies are so bogged down with toxins, preservatives, indigestible fats, a disgusting amount of sugars and, let's be honest here, probably too much alcohol and sometimes too many unnecessary meds ... and well, the list GOES ON. I can see by Adriana's dark, we're talking DARK circles under her eyes that she is toxic. The dullness of her skin is another tell-tale sign that she needs to clean house, as well, her on-the-edge agitation and last but not least the extra weight concentrated around her middle.

Safely started on the cleanse, my next project for this week is to establish Adriana's Weekly Fitness Schedule - this is going to be her bible. It consists of a minimum of 2-hours of physical activity every day, 5-days a week, in one-on-one coaching sessions with me. No blending into the background in a mediocor fitness class and getting a cookie-cutter workout at best. I don't care how wonderful the instructor is or how fantastic the workout may be - when you have let yourself go for this long and have test drove every single diet and fitness trend - from the cabbage soup diet to yogalates on the bosu at the barre with NOTHING working - a class dynamic is not what one needs.

Accountability, personal programming, custom workouts centered around Adriana's resting heart rate, her sleeping patterns, food cravings and emotional baggage... because let's face facts here, one does not get fat from food alone. Sometimes what one ingests emotionally can go right to your waistline.