FOREVER!

The first thing I want you to know is that I’ve been there.

…I know what it is like to feel unmotivated, unhappy and unsatisfied with the shape of your body and to have no idea where to begin to make it right.

…I know how frustrating it is to watch others making progress while you struggle just to lose a pound.

…I know how exasperating it is to work hard, starve yourself and say “no” to the things you love, only to find that nothing seems to give you the results you’re looking for.

… I know how maddening it is to lose weight only to gain it right back, plus more, once you go back to your usual lifestyle.

… I know the terrible disappointment of seeing all your hopes fade into oblivion when the slightest thing goes wrong.

… I know how gut-wrenching it is to think that it is too late to make real change or that, no matter how hard you try, nothing will ever turn back the hands of time.

… I know what it’s like when concerned family members and friends suggest that your weight problem is something you’ll just need to learn to live with.

What I wanted more than anything was to create an easy to follow, step-by-step system that people could use to become their healthiest, leanest and happiest - a program that would yield the best results possible without forcing you to spend long hours in the gym, give up your lifestyle, your friends, or the foods you love.

I wanted a program that would help people who couldn’t bear the thought of taking that first step into the gym, but I also wanted it to help all the people I saw spending half their lives working out and starving themselves, with little or nothing to show for it.

I wanted to create a simple solution – a way to get into great shape and STAY THERE. To do that, I knew it had to be livable, it had to be enjoyable, and it had to be a proven program that could be followed for life.

But, I’m getting ahead of myself...

Before we go any further, it’s important to tell you the story of how this program came about...

 Turn the clocks back to 1992. After the birth of my second child, Alex, I came out of the delivery room heavier than I’d ever been in my life: 198 pounds. 
I was devastated because the only way I had ever managed to lose weight in the past was by following an extremely low fat, low calorie, low everything diet. The prospect of starving myself sent me into a panic.

How was I ever going to get all this weight off?

And what if I still looked terrible once I finished?

What if it wouldn't come off? What then?

I spent the next 12 months watching every bite I ate, counting every ounce of fat, every gram of carbohydrates, every calorie.

I survived on a regimen of diet soda, coffee, and carrot sticks.

I worked out constantly, running miles on the treadmill, despite the fact that my knees where shot. In the end, I looked better, I suppose… in my clothes… but, in a swim suit? No way...

True to form, the weight slowly crept back and, by 1998, I was edging back to my post pregnancy weight of 200 lbs. When the scale hit 189, that was it… I was finished feeling frumpy. I hated everything about my body. Stepping on the scale one morning launched me into another desperate attempt to get back into my “skinny jeans” and I spent the next five months trying, once again, to force my body into compliance.

At one point I was spending a good 8 hours a week in the gym (running on the treadmill, biking for hours, attending group fitness classes) and eating very little food and managed to lose 27 pounds.

Little did I know that in my attempt to squeeze off the fat with lots and lots of cardio, and starve off the flab with as few calories as I could tolerate, I was squeezing and starving off a good deal of my lean muscle mass in the process. Five months earlier, before I began this crazy roller coaster ride to get skinny again, my body fat had tested out at 28%. Five months and 27 pounds later, my body fat was 31.8% – nearly 4% HIGHER! How was this possible? I couldn’t imagine what in the world could be happening to my body. Was it age? Was it my metabolism?

Then, I got my answer. The young man performing the body fat test explained to me that much of what I had lost on the scale was water and lean muscle, not body fat. This was due, he said, to a lack of calories, a lack of strength training and a lack of knowledge. He explained that in the process of working my body to death, I systematically gave it no choice but to shift into “survival mode.” All those months of hard work had actually forced my body to keep the fat and lose the easier-to-break-down muscle. It was a lesson I never forgot.

After all of my efforts to get “in shape,” starving and exercising harder than I’d ever exercised in my life, I finally understood that in order to change my body, I had to change my approach.

I decided right then and there I was going to find the solution. A few months later, I discovered a program that incorporated all of the elements I knew had to be present in order to truly reshape my body: proper nutrition, strength training, and short bouts of interval cardio.

Within 12 Weeks I Was A Completely Different Person Inside And Out

Not only did I really begin to change, this new way of working out and eating helped me recapture all those long hours I had previously spent in the gym doing way too much of the wrong stuff. I was absolutely amazed that I could actually cut my gym time in half, eat constantly and finally get the results I’d been dreaming of! I was able to go back to my “real” life, reconnected with my friends and family and, best of all, my confidence, my moods, everything about my life began to soar.

Even the way people noticed my weight loss changed. Before, when I was doing it the “wrong” way, people would say things like, “Oh, you are getting so skinny,” or “How did you get so thin?” Suddenly, they were using words like, “fit, strong, and toned” to describe what they were seeing.

Not long after that, the manager of the gym approached me to compliment me on my progress and asked if I would be willing to provide a picture and testimonial for their up and coming “Wall of Fame.” At the end of our conversation, she handed me a flyer about becoming a certified personal trainer. I’ll never forget the shock I felt when she said, "We could really use someone like you as a fitness professional here at the gym.”

I drove home in a daze - how had this happened?  How, in the course of nine short weeks, did I go from being a soft, sad, 44 year old soccer mom to a hard-body, happy, potential personal trainer? It was unbelievable really but, admittedly, from that point on I could think of nothing else.

After four months of intensive studying and training, I earned my IFPA personal trainer’s certification. Within three weeks of earning that first certification, I was so heavily booked that I was faced with the strangest and most wonderful decision of my life… turn my back on 32 new clients or quit my job of seven years, leave the security of my salary, my 401K and nice corner office and never look back. For me, the choice was crystal clear.

“But your clients barely even sweat!”

Fast forward six years to 2006. The program responsible for spinning my life in a whole new direction had became the staple protocol in my personal training business and I very quickly filled my portfolio to the brim with amazing stories of transformation. I was never without a waiting list and, while all of my clients were working less than anyone else in the gym and getting amazing results, my fellow colleagues, some of whom had been training for years, continued to shake their heads in doubt.

Year after year, I’d hear the same comment… “Your clients hardly look like they’re working… they don’t even sweat!” Still, I continued to watch their clients dragging themselves out of the gym week after week, soaked with sweat, barely able to walk, often injured, dreading the thought of their next session, yet few if any of these folks every changed. In fact, many of them got fatter!

In my 11 year career, working alongside hundreds of trainers in a half-dozen locations, I met only two who could produce even one picture of evidence that their training methods worked. Although my portfolio was stuffed with success stories, most of my fellow trainers continued to shake their heads in disbelief, despite the glaring evidence that the no-pain, no-gain mentality doesn’t work (either short term or long.) No one seemed to “get it.”

  

Even with the proof staring them right in the face, no one seemed to grasp the truth; that less work, more enjoyable work, actually worked better than the harder-faster-heavier-longer method.

What I have discovered is that all the old ideas of using diet, deprivation, and suffering as a means of getting stronger and healthier are so deeply etched in minds of most people (and in the minds of most trainers), that most everyone believes that, unless it hurts, it can’t possibly work.

After training thousands of men, women and young adults, here is what I have come to know as the absolute truth: Pain and suffering are, at best, temporary solutions and serve only to set the body up for rejection from day one!

So, if you’ve been working hard and getting nowhere…now you know why.

In fact, I am certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the entire “no pain – no gain” mentality is singlehandedly responsible for the wide spread obesity problem we are currently facing in today’s society. How else can you explain all the craziness that goes on every day, in gyms all around the world, and all the billions of dollars spent on diet aids, supplements and weight-loss clinics. Yet, obesity and the myriad of health problems that accompany it continue to spiral out of control.

But wait, the best news is still to come!

After years of training the “less is better” way, (the majority of my clients worked out a total of 4 hours per week) something amazing happened. Something that, to this day, still shocks and amazes me!

At the end of 2004, I was faced with a dilemma. With a few of my long standing clients planning to return in January and an additional line-up of new and current clients, plus a few folks sitting on a waiting list, I suddenly found myself with too many clients and not enough training hours in the week.

The only solution was to move everyone from their usual three sessions per week to twice a week, with the understanding that each client would commit to doing their third strength training session and all of their cardio on their own in order to continue to achieve the same great results.

By the end of March, we all realized something incredible. None of my clients were getting their third strength training session in and many confessed to being either too tired or too busy to fit it in as many cardio sessions as they’d like. Despite this fact, all of these folks were getting better results than ever! My long-standing clients were suddenly breaking through plateaus and my new clients were getting quicker, more noticeable drops in body fat than I’d ever witnessed before.

How could this be, we wondered? Was it possible that even less was better? Certainly no one I had ever met, trainer nor client, had ever been willing to test this “minimum” theory. It always appeared in the past that the best way to get better results was to add more work. Could it be that after all these years, the opposite was true? Was it possible that we’ve all been working out far too hard and, in answer to that, the body just refuses to acquiesce?

                                   

Three years later the proof was undeniable.

Then came the biggest surprise of all!

Better than 1-on-1 training?

How can that be???

 

The LivingFit Online revolutionary system delivers perfectly timed training modules, covering each important step in the transformation process:


Each step of the 16-week program is a proven system of perfectly timed INSTALLMENTS. Each filled with every trade secret I have ever used to deliver maximum results in minimum time

LivingFit Online provides a comprehensive, whole life plan - one that works not just now, but for the rest of
your life!

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Here is what people are saying about this amazing program.

“What is so great, remarkable about all of this is that it is effortless.  Really.  I don’t even think about things for the most part.  I just am doing.  I don’t feel deprived, that I can’t have something.  That I have to only eat this or that.  I don’t need to do anything else.  This is my life…the way I live."
Shanna F. - Billings Montana
Assistant Controller

"LIVING FIT has changed so many things for me – it’s not just about the pounds I have already dropped off the scale. If I were to lose not one single additional pound, I would consider this program a SUCCESS. I’ll say it again, the inner strength that I’m feeling, the ability to make choices without guilt and the knowledge that I have gained as to what those choices should be is much more than any amount of weight I’m losing."
Cathy C.
Executive Assistant

"I’ve had more contact and online interaction with Dianne than any other transformation coach and I can tell you that in the past 18 weeks there were times when I probably wouldn’t have finished without Dianne’s support. I want to thank her publicly for that!
Tray H.
Entrepreneur

"Living Fit" is exactly what I am trying to do physically, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. Not only does this program do for me what I haven't been able to do for myself before, but I know without a doubt that I will reach my goals because of my personal determination as well as the support of an incredible coach, Dianne Orwig."
Trudy S.
Educator

"The difference you are making in people is amazing, not just physically, but the change it makes in their attitude is equally as impressive!"
Mike Carr
Vice President – Merrill Lynch

"I stumbled along, lacking the magic key that would take me beyond my stumbling blocks until I found Dianne Orwig - and the rest shall be history. I'm happy to be menopausal with little to no real symptoms and some stubborn ab fat that might just be moving...I'm liking the way my body is changing: firmer, getting stronger, more capable of running around, bouncing off and crashing into the walls in a small glass room chasing a little blue ball with a short, fat racquet - HA! I found racquetball right before Christmas and LOVE it. My new muscles help me smack the crap outta that ball!"
Sally Y.
Homemaker

 

 

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