Meet Sarah Robbins, a chef from Louisville, Kentucky. Amid her active assignment schedule that generally requires her to aftertaste aliment on the job, and accustomed life, Sarah stays on clue with her fettle and diet goals application the 8fit app.
Her 8fit drillmaster offers approved afflatus and tips to accumulate Sarah aggressive and motivated. Back subscribing to 8fit in October 2015, Sarah has absent 13 pounds and counting!
We bent up with Sarah to acquisition out added about her adventure against a convalescent lifestyle.
8fit: What aggressive you to use 8fit?
Sarah: My job requires me to eat a lot (which is good, because I adulation to eat!), but I had been on back-to-back “eating” accelerated trips aftermost October. One of the chefs I was traveling with was commenting on all the aliment we had captivated and he said, “I accept got to accomplish some activity changes aback we get back.” He was partially joking, but it absolutely addled a ambit with me. Aback I got home, I noticed an ad for the 8fit app. One footfall led to addition and I was off and active with the affairs that day.
8fit: What were your goals back you started?
Sarah: I capital to re-energize my workouts to start. I had been alive with a claimed trainer (loved her!) but afresh stopped. I was continuing on my own, but my workouts were appealing bruised and alone accident about three times a week. I capital to feel able afresh and accept added energy. In agreement of diet goals, I capital to eat bigger and amount out a way to antithesis the demands of my job/my business with a advantageous affairs and diet.
8fit: Call your antecedent acquaintance with 8fit.
Sarah: I did the appraisal on day 1, active up for a program, and again paid the fee for the coach. I did not apperceive what to expect, but anticipation I had absolutely spent that aforementioned bulk of money on article asinine like a new top that I ability alone abrasion a few times, so why not see what the drillmaster affection got me.
The easiest allotment about the aboriginal weeks (and still today) is that I can be on autopilot—not that I don’t assignment hard, I do—but I don’t accept to anticipate about what to do next. I aloof go for it and alone focus on what is appropriate in advanced of me, not apprehensive what to do for the blow of the workout. The best arduous allotment was authoritative myself use it about every day.
What after-effects accept you apparent in agreement of bloom and nutrition?
Sarah: Aboriginal and foremost, I feel better. I accept absent about 12-13 pounds and my clothes fit so abundant better. I didn’t booty measurements, but already you see clothes applicable bigger (no abominable amplitude in places you don’t want!), you apperceive you are accomplishing article right. I accept additionally cut aback on the bulk of amoroso I accept in my diet. It is still too much. But it is better. I am absorption on that.
When I accept a anniversary that is a attempt (too abundant food, not abundant workouts) I focus not on what didn’t appear (or did happen) in the past, but on what I am activity to do in the future.
The 8fit aggregation has additionally helped me change my mindset. If I charge to try a agglomeration of new airheaded items, I accept 2-3 bites instead of 10. My ambition is 1-2…working on it!. She told me, “Sarah, you apparently apperceive all you charge to apperceive in the aboriginal brace of bites, right?” She was correct!
8fit: What are your admired appearance of the app?
Sarah: My 8fit Coach! Easily down. She is fantastic, a abundant anchorperson and a acceptable adviser and actual supportive, too. Our 4-6 anniversary analysis ins advice for all-embracing accountability, but I adulation the quick letters on the app. I like accepting a abundant accomplice in this.
In accession to the easy, apple-pie design, the videos are fantastic. I can analysis how I attending in the mirror vs. how I am declared to look! I like the emails/blog posts as well. I apprehend all of the diet articles, which are an accomplished resource. I use the app aboriginal affair back I get up. I like the warmups, which eases both my anatomy and apperception into the workouts, and I I almanac all 8fit workouts and any added cogent types of exercises, such as hiking and continued walks, on the app.
8fit: How has 8 fit impacted your activity so far?
Sarah: I am now consistently alive out 5-6 times a anniversary and am added alert of what I am putting in my body, after acceptable a crazy freak. I adulation food. And I still adulation food. But the antithesis is better. I am stronger and accept added activity than I did before. I am additionally bubbler less. It never was a problem, but I’m blessed to see burning decline. As my drillmaster says, “Enjoy it, but accomplish abiding you aftertaste it.”
8fit: Any departing words of wisdom?
Sarah: Go for it! The best allotment about 8fit is that by the time you deathwatch up abundant to apperceive you are alive hard, the conditioning is about over!