My Personal Introduction ( A little late but here goes)

Introduction I am a Personal Trainer, Mom, wife and self-proclaimed health nut. After years of training “difficult” clients I married a Marine who was passing through (who yes, I met at the facility in which I was employed) and enlarged my family by two. So here I am, a self-proclaimed craft aficionado, (but master of none) stay at home mother of four beautiful children. For some reason clients that would hire me then argue with me about the level of difficulty of a workout, that they “had to pee” too often if they drank as much water as I said, that they couldn’t change their lives, that they were sore, they couldn’t resist the box of pop tarts and sometimes they wouldn’t show up for the damned sessions, even though they already paid for them! WHAT? Hey, if you have enough money to pay a personal trainer then not show up to the session, good for you! So, I decided to write this book for the people who truly seek to change their lifestyle. Being healthy, feeling great, looking better and living longer are going to happen when a healthy lifestyle is embraced. It does not happen because you jumped on some short bandwagon of ridiculous fad diets or because you starved yourself until you passed out (or came close to it). So, rather than just tell you to “do what I say” I wanted to take you through each component so you understand what the hell is going on in your body. Over the course of my career as a Personal Trainer, I have learned and witnessed first-hand what works and what does not. The intention is not to send you to the vitamin store to break the bank on pricey supplements but rather educate you on how to change your choices and your lifestyle. So, in between diaper changes, spilled milk, gardening, healthy living and trampoline play, I bring you my compilation of no nonsense, easy to follow, life changing information! Grab a water bottle and enjoy. In no way are my intentions to hurt anyone’s feelings or to offend anyone, the intent is to tell it like it is while staying true to my personality and hopefully spark enough interest to guide you toward a new trend and a new lifestyle – to get your ass healthy! The stuff I sharing in this book is not rocket science, people. But, sometimes a person must read something in black and white in order to make changes in their lives that count. Hopefully my former clients will catch a glimpse of this information and think “Wow, that’s shit she said when she was my trainer!” So, I f you picked up this book in the first place, then I you are curious… now read it, absorb it, live it and spread the health to your family and loved ones! And in case you haven’t noticed yet, I wanted the readers to feel as if they were in a room talking to me, any anyone who knows me knows I don’t use huge five dollar words, words that people don’t understand and while maintaining a well-educated mantra if you will, I am using “Gina” lingo. My hopes for those who read this are that you gain a sense of who I am as a person, what my passions are and how me and my family live our lives and ultimately to help reduce what I believe to be America’s number 1 epidemic – obesity through simple lifestyle changes in a format that is easy to understand and that won’t break the bank. It is not written in an attempt to persuade you into vegetarianism, veganism or any other ism out there but rather to help guide you toward a healthier lifestyle in general and share healthy alternatives to things you might want to change. I hope you enjoy this compilation of knowledge and know-how and share it with your family and friends. Health is wealth! One more thing, people: this book is not going to, nor should you even think that anything contained in it will diagnose, treat, prevent or even cure any disease, either mental or physical that you may have. It is here for informational purposes and to help guide you toward a healthier way of life that will ultimately lead to fat loss, higher self-esteem, more energy, higher libido and of course, improved health in general. It is also not written to bash what you have been eating, create guilt for the reader or slap your hand for the nutritional choices you have made in the past, but to steer you toward better and healthier choices from here out to start the beginning of a lifestyle change (but hand slapping will occur if you continue to make poor choices after you have this knowledge). Stay on the couch for this book, but you bet your ass, you are going to have to get off it as part of your new lifestyle! And remember, the “Shit Trainers Say” is not just smoke up the you-know-where… you must desire to change and therefor embrace the trainer’s advice (unless they are sending you to McFast Food Joint, then you need to fire your trainer!) Now let’s get going! Yours in good health, Gina