Like many couples in their mid to late 30's, our bodies were starting to slide. As busy professionals we fell into a "routine". Wake up early, get the kids ready and off to school, work hard all day, rush home after work, get the kids to their activities, help with homework, get the kids to bed and finally, crash on the couch in front of the TV. Typical American adult family routine!

Oh, we forgot to mention, at some point during the routine we ate! In general, we ate whatever we wanted for meals and on many nights we frequented the kitchen pantry and snacked on junk food, or conveniently ordered in. When our clothes got tight, we tried one form of diet or another with only temporary success. As soon as we stopped the diet the weight came back fast, in fact much faster than it came off. The routine also left us with the ‘o’ so typical excuse of “we have little time to no time for exercise”. When we had time, we didn't have the energy to work out. Therefore, we rarely made any effort to fit exercise into our hectic routine. Despite our grueling daily routine, we were very happy. We had a great family; happy kids, many friends and we were both doing very well in our careers. Changing our diet and working out was not a priority to us at the time. That is, until David was about to turn 40.

One evening, before the big birthday, while sitting on the couch, we began to reflect. We reflected about the usual things that come to mind. Where did the years go, weren’t we just 18, the kids are getting so big etc.

After looking over some pictures in our family album and noticing how much thinner we were several years earlier, we both confessed that we felt and looked terrible. We both gained over 20 pounds during our 12 years of marriage. We continued to reflect further about this. How had we let this happen to our bodies? We wouldn't let this happen to any of our other responsibilities. The neglect and laziness we displayed in caring for our bodies wasn't how we approached other aspects of our lives. We were successful professionals, good parents and otherwise happy.

That moment of reflection led us to do something about it. But, what were we going to do? We tried diets in the past and we knew that alone wasn't a solution. We also didn't want to join a health club. Most of the good ones always appear over crowded and some require a long term commitment that we didn’t want to sign up for. It wasn't long after we started considering options before a good friend referred us to Schwartz Labs and their Fitness Coaching staff. Since we live in Cincinnati, where Schwartz is headquartered, we were able to actually go to their offices and see what all the hype was for ourselves. One of their consultants met with us and educated us on the principles of Power 3 Fitness Coaching. He explained to us how the program works and how results are achieved through proper nutrition and exercise. Surprisingly, the suggested nutrition and exercise program seemed quite reasonable for all of the information and training that was provided. Then we saw the amazing results others on the program had achieved in a relatively short period of time. It all looked and sounded so great. We wanted to do it, and we did!

After some juggling of our chaotic routine, we were able to find some time to commit to exercising. Forget the old excuse we use to give, we found the time and dove right in! Our personal fitness coach and trainer set us up on a complete well-rounded program. It wasn't long before we noticed significant changes and so did our friends and family. We felt great and very energized for the first time in forever.

Within 3 months, Karen went from wearing a size 8 to a size 2 and David went from a pant size 36 to 32! It was truly unbelievable, our age may have put us over the hill but we no longer felt like it.

We find it hard to believe that we accomplished so much in such a short period of time with schedules as busy as ours. With the knowledge we obtained from the Schwartz fitness coaching staff, we are highly confident we will be able to maintain the results we achieved and pass them along to others. They taught us that a healthy body and lifestyle was achievable by anyone and everyone and cleared the air of all the misconceptions about health, fitness and proper nutrition. We highly recommend Schwartz products. If we can get results with schedules like ours, so can anyone! Thank you again Schwartz Laboratories!

David and Karen Lefton