{"id":3441,"date":"2016-10-06T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2025-05-09T19:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:34:34","slug":"insight-2-health-fitness-challenge-three-weeks-in-and-im-getting-thin-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/2016\/10\/06\/insight-2-health-fitness-challenge-three-weeks-in-and-im-getting-thin-i-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Insight 2 Health Fitness Challenge: Three weeks in and I\u2019m getting\u2019 thin \u2026 I think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Harry Colbert, Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Managing Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know how much (and to be honest, if any) weight I\u2019ve lost since beginning the Insight-2-Health Fitness Challenge, but I know how I feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I feel lighter. Haven\u2019t stepped near a scale (for fear that I\u2019ll be discouraged by the results \u2026 or lack thereof), but I can feel a difference. I think I can see a difference, too. But I most definitely feel the difference. For starters, I haven\u2019t had to throw up during and after workouts like I did during the first week of the challenge. That\u2019s in large part because I have changed my eating habits as suggested by Julie McMahon, challenge nutritionist. It\u2019s been three weeks and I\u2019ve cut out all soda (or pop as you people up north say) and all caffeine as well. That\u2019s a huge change seeing as how the first thing I did in the mornings was make a pot of coffee. Also, I\u2019m drinking water, which I&nbsp;<em>never<\/em>&nbsp;used to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to the challenge I would wake up every morning with my back in pain, having to be up and moving for the pain to subside \u2013 though only a bit. Three weeks into the challenge and I can sincerely say I\u2019m not waking in the same pain. Not saying I\u2019m 100 percent pain free, but I\u2019m in far less pain than I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My stamina is up as well. Whereas before I was often sluggish, my endurance has improved greatly. During a recent workout at the F.I.T. Lab, Tyrone Minor, owner and lead trainer, put us through our paces with a form of circuit training and I\u2019m proud to say I held my own. I wasn\u2019t particularly out of breath. The dehydration headaches were gone and the belly is working on becoming a tummy. Eventually we\u2019ll get it to be a stomach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My greatest accomplishment thus far, on a weekend trip to Chicago I walked more than five miles and \u2026 in an impromptu challenge, I beat not one, but&nbsp;<em>two<\/em>&nbsp;people in a 60 meter (or so) sprint inside our hotel\u2019s hallway. Yes, I\u2019m 46-years-old and still challenging people to foot races. It\u2019s the kid in me. The kid that was almost lost before signing up for the Insight-2-Health Fitness Challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Harry Colbert, Jr. Managing Editor I don\u2019t know how much (and to be honest, if any) weight I\u2019ve lost since beginning the Insight-2-Health Fitness Challenge, but I know how I feel. I feel lighter. Haven\u2019t stepped near a scale (for fear that I\u2019ll be discouraged by the results \u2026 or lack thereof), but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2359,1116,2358],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-f-i-t-lab","tag-insight-2-health-fitness-challenge","tag-julie-mcmahon","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}