Find Your Best Self at Healthy Inspirations Elanora

TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS = 2,981 KGs

Come on in and get our team to help you achieve your weight loss and fitness goals today by simply calling 1800 80 90 49.

Join Healthy Inspirations at Elanora and enjoy a new you with No Minimum Contract.  

Much more than fitness!

It's the perfect blend of all of these things you need to get into great shape... to ensure that you can achieve your weight loss goals... the healthy lasting way. The Healthy Inspirations program is unique as it focuses on the key elements for successful weight loss:

• Individualised eating plan using REAL FOOD
• REAL SUPPORT from high-frequency one-on-one coaching
• REAL EXERCISE with an effective supervised 30 minute program
• REAL 'Me Time' with weekly relaxing massage sessions

If it's weight loss you're after, the Elanora team are here to help!

Wednesday
7.00 am - Circuit
9.00 am - Circuit
10.30 am - Lift for Life program
5.00 pm - Circuit

Thursday
7.00 am - Circuit

Friday
7.00 am - Circuit
9.00 am - Circuit
10.30 am - Lift for Life program

All classes are 60 minutes, but you can join in at any stage.  If you use the circuit at this time and do not want to participate then you can still do your normal workout.

There is a maximum of 12 per class.

What to Bring? All you need is a good pair of shoes, comfortable clothing, a towel and a full water bottle.

For lasting weight control we suggest that you make exercise one of you daily rituals.
Set aside some time & enjoy the healthy benefits of our new fitness classes.

Hi, my name is Cathy B.  I am 40 years old.  I have been married to my husband Paul for 17 years and have two children, Bec and Nath aged 14 and 12….

October 2008,
I’m unpacking the car…I’ve just been to the pool shop.  I struggle to lift the bag of salt out of the car, so I call for my son to come and help me.  As he goes to lift the bag out of the car I notice the weight on the bag…20 kilograms… and realise, oh my god  this is how much weight I’ve just lost.  No wonder I struggled walking up that hill every morning carrying that extra weight… how did my legs carry me…..

April 2008 – The Beginning
Each day I'd wake up and feel the same, depressed, exhausted, no energy, no motivation!  My day starts… I get out of bed, organise the kids, go to work, come home, run everyone around to their sports/appointments, come home, cook dinner, do the washing, finally sit down and fall asleep!  There must be more to life than this!  My clothes size just keeps going up.  I was now a tight size 16. 

I need to make some drastic change in my life, but I’m not sure how to turn this all around!

I had seen the ad in the local paper for Healthy Inspirations and had even ripped it out.  It sat on the bench for a few weeks.  I kept thinking this is probably what I need.  To lose some weight and get fit, but how was I going to fit this into my already hectic schedule.  I woke up one Saturday and thought enough was enough and called Healthy Inspirations and made an appointment to go and see them.

This was the beginning of my life changing experience!

I joined the eating and exercise program at Healthy Inspirations and decided this was it…I needed to do this for me.  I already suffered with high blood pressure and really I was time bomb waiting to go off!

I set my weight loss goal, which was to lose 20 kilos by Christmas!  I also gave myself two affirmations which I regularly recited in my head…
“Just do it”
And
“I’ve tasted it before, I’ll taste it again, but just not right now!”

I knew there would be times where I was going to feel weak and could easily revert back to my old ways so I needed something to remind me constantly of what I was doing until it became habit.

I set an exercise program of walking every morning and attending Healthy Inspirations three times per week.

If there were times I was feeling weak and it was just easier not to do this… I reminded myself… “Just do it”… there were no excuses anymore.
I was tempted many times at work with birthday cake, as I work as a Teachers Aide in two Prep classrooms (that’s 50 cakes per year).  Again, I reminded myself … “I’ve tasted it before, I’ll taste it again, but just not right now!”.

My weight loss journey began…a couple of weeks into the program the kilos started to drop off.  This is a great feeling when this happens.  I started to feel like I was in charge of my life again.

I started getting used to the new way of eating, (less carbs), and the good feeling I was getting out of exercising.  I religiously filled out my daily eating journal, and was honest in my journal even when I was naughty.  I found that by being honest with myself about what I was eating was half my problem.  By writing down the things I shouldn’t be having, I was acknowledging that I’m not perfect, but this is OK every now and again and I was able to easily get back on the program the next day.

Don’t get me wrong… during my journey there’s been lots of ups and downs.  There were times where I could easily have just gone home and polished off a bottle of wine…but, with the help and guidance of the girls at HI I was able to avoid and take control of certain situations which arose.  Let’s face it … this is life… we are always going to be dealt with difficult situations in life, but I now know that food and alcohol don’t fix those problems.

July 2008 – Half Way There!
My 20% goals were now flying by… the kilos just kept coming off.   I had reached my 60% goal already.  People were starting to comment that I was looking good… which just made me more motivated and excited to continue with my weight loss journey.  It’s hard to believe but I am now actually enjoying this and I can see the end in sight.  I continue to journal all my food intake and exercising every day.

October 2008 – My Goal is Reached!
I can’t believe it!!! 20 kilos lighter!
It is Friday the 3rd of October 2008 and I have just weighed in…the scales read 63.6 kg… I am 20.4 kilos lighter and have lost a total of 83.5 cm.  I am sooo excited…This is the best feeling ever and worth every bit of blood, sweat and tears over the last 6 months.

I can now buy nice clothes and feel good in them.  I will enjoy going to the beach this summer and not having to hide and be embarrassed about how I look.  Being overweight makes you feel very self conscious and causes you to lack confidence.  I am amazed at the comments I get from friends and family as to “how good I look”. 

A recent visit to my doctor also revealed that I may be able to stop taking my blood pressure medication which I have been on for about 8 years now.

The Future!
My journey is not over and never will be.  Being conscious about what you are doing, like eating and looking after yourself is a life long commitment, but the more you do it the easier it gets to become habit in your life.

I’ve come to realise that as busy as your life gets you still need to respect yourself and take care of your body by regularly exercising and making sure you are eating the right things most of the time.

I have been really lucky to have a supportive husband and family around me.  During my journey, I would come home from the gym and my kids would say “how did you go today mum?”  I know they are proud of me for taking control of my life, not to mention the example I am now setting for them in their lives.

I believe my keys to success have been:
• Be organised;
• Be determined;
• Look to the future;
• Completing a daily journal of food intake (and being honest to yourself);
• No more excuses;
• Remind yourself of your affirmations regularly,
“I’ve tasted it before, I’ll taste it again, but just not right now!”
And lastly,
“JUST DO IT”.

I can truly say that the feeling I am experiencing now of being fit and healthy is worth every bit of the blood, sweat and tears it took to get here.  I can now look in the mirror and be happy with what I see!

~ Cathy

Hi my name is Carol and this is a short story of my journey with Healthy Inspirations.

In February 2007 I noticed an ad in the local paper stating that I could achieve fitness in just three 30-minute workouts per week.  I knew I needed much more than this fitness so I decided to ring and make an appointment to find out about the weight loss and fitness package available. 

After the initial consultation I had a holiday of 2 weeks and this gave me time to realise I wanted what this programme could help me achieve, I was worth this, I could afford this time for myself and I wanted to know what made me put on weight, besides overeating.

I signed up in February 2007 and was asked to nominate my goal weight.  Statistics were taken, photos and my goals noted.  I was ready to commence my journey.  I have been helped and encouraged by the greatest motivators and cheer squad you could imagine at The Pines Healthy Inspirations.

  I kept my diary religiously as I believe this helps me to know what and when I need advice, what to change if things become static or, even if I become bored, there are different ways to achieve the same goal.

The staff can look at the diary and advise what might be changed and ask questions relevant to my circumstances and offer suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong.

I live with my daughter and her two teenage children and I explained that all the meals had to be eaten by my husband, daughter and family.  All the food is off the supermarket shelf and if I want anything special without the additives they may want, I dish up mine before theirs and we have all gotten along fine without any special meals needed.  I think they have eaten healthier because nothing unhealthy is in the cupboard, as I do not need temptations. 

The team at the centre vary the exercise routine in small ways and challenge us all.  This makes us realise we can do things we didn’t think we could and I find that I keep on doing these challenges each time I go to the gym.

This February I achieved my goal weight, having pretty regular losses each week for the past year.  I look forward to maintaining this lifestyle for my own health and well being and I feel up to meeting challenges that may come my way.

I must also comment on the girls who are on this journey with me as they are all supportive of each other and myself, their encouragement means a lot and I am sure that they feel the same.

I believe that the most important thing that I have learned is that stress puts on weight in my case, not with overeating, but it seems to tell all my internal organs to shut down for a while, so I feel that relaxation is my next goal so I can just say goodbye to stress.  After all we have to cope with stress and not put on weight don’t we?  I look forward to the challenge of maintaining my weight with guidance and advice from the team.  If anyone is thinking of losing weight and gaining fitness I believe you can achieve what you want,

“You will never know until you have a go….”

~ Carol

After 20 yrs of yo-yo dieting and then having 2 children, it was time to get ‘Mel back’!
My biggest fear was being the fat mum at the school gate when my eldest son started school in January 2008.

Then Healthy Inspirations called out to me! I heard radio adverts and saw newspaper articles too and 3 days later after telling my husband ‘that’s where I’m going!’ I joined Healthy Inspirations at The Pines Elanora. It was June 2007 and I weighed in at 94.1 kg.

I felt sad, lonely, uncomfortable and scared of the journey ahead with the aim of losing 24 kg. My goal in my daily journal was to be 70 kg by May 2008 (my 37th birthday).  I embraced the Healthy eating plan. Making it work for me and my family by learning to understand food and how to make good choices. To my surprise I actually began to love the exercise routine and even began to run at the weekends.

Previously an exercise hater, I was amazed how much difference exercise made to my weight loss and my body shape. The weight steadily disappeared and I reached my initial goal of 70 kg 5 months later in November 2007 having lost 24.1 kg.

Now a few months further on, I have lost 30kg and am 100% fitter and in training for my first 10km Gold Coast Marathon. It truly feels like somebody has unzipped the old, overweight, frumpy me and let the real me out! I finally feel in control and feel great at the school gate!

~ Mel

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