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On Feb 1st I opened up my Healthy Living Program for $1, not knowing who would show up and what the response would be.

Boy, was I nicely surprised! Eighteen amazingly brave and supportive women showed up, and they have been a sheer pleasure to work with. Really. And I just love hearing all the feedback. Here’s what Trish Flanders of Victoria had to say. 

It’s been 3 weeks since joining (the HLP) and this is the best I’ve felt in a very long time! Yep, I’ve been sore after each workout but that’s okay – and I realize that I do have muscles!! I feel energized and happy that I’m on my way to a healthy lifestyle.  There’s so much to learn from you…

I feel very positive about the new direction and changes I’m making.  I want to take charge of my health, body, mind and spirit – and through your program I know I can do it.  In the two short weeks of lifting weights, coupled with the cleanest eating I have ever done in my life, I love how I feel!”

Many thanks to all who took a leap of faith and joined us on our healthy living bandwagon journey!

Now, onward, ladies….

Karen

Only 24 hours left to grab your spot in my $1 for one month of the Healthy Living Program! Spring has sprung!! Are you spring-ready??

I remember when I decided I didn’t like my shape

It happened about 3 or 4 years ago. I was walking my dog along our country road and it was a sunny, warm day. I love the sun, always have, and this day was particularly inviting.

Then I looked down at the ground and saw my shadow….and it caught me off guard.

My hips were wider than my shoulders, and my waist was thick, thicker than I had ever known before. But it was the narrow shoulders that really got me…forget the pair shape…I looked like an apple with a pear bottom.

Hmmm…seems the last 5 years of not doing anything had taken hold of my shape and left me with, well, no real shape. I was 48 and not liking my shadow shape.

That was when I decided to get back to the gym, after a long hiatus due to anxiety and depression, (my son’s diagnosis which knocked the steam out of me) and I just lost sight, really. I lost my spirit, my gumption, my ‘inner grrr’ as I call it.

It was time. I knew what to do. I went into action.

Fast-forward a few years and I’m happy to say that my shadow has rearranged itself! My shoulders are now wider than my hips and my waist has a taper to it. All that time and effort paid off, and continues to every day. That’s what I love about weight training…you are the sculptor and you can rearrange your body in whatever way you want! You can’t do that with walking, running, cycling, hiking and all the cardio in the world.

So if you don’t like your shadow, make the choice to change it! It just takes consistency and energy.

And weight training, of course! 🙂

karen

PS – I’ll be closing out my special $1 for one month of the Healthy Living Program! If you want to check it out, please do so now! It ends in 6 days! Come join us! Your shadow will love you for it!

As I prepare for my seminar on weight loss supplements tonight in Sidney, I find myself struggling with the whole concept of ‘weight loss’.

In our culture, we’re so focused on weight loss, but it needs to shift: we need to focus less on weight loss and more on fat-loss. That’s what we’re really after, right?

Because when we strive to lose weight and to see the scale, counting calories and reading labels as our guide, we will lose weight, sure….right along with our metabolism.

However, if we lose fat, we actually increase our metabolism!

Why is that? Because when we diet, do cardio, cut calories, cut carbs, we will lose our muscle (and that’s our metabolism). And losing muscle happens at an exponential rate after 40 years of age! 

But most gym goers are too fixated on looking between their toes, at the scale, that number, to tell them their worth.

But once you get your eating in line (no, really in line…do you know your macronutrient profile and what you should be eating to lose bodyfat?), and once you get exercising (sorry, walking isn’t exercise), then we can start talking fat loss supplements.

Which ones do I use? Few, and in limited quantity, but I’ll be going over that tonight at my Weight Loss Supplements Seminar at Hemp & Co. To me, it’s a step by step process that you can do to help teach your body how to do what it was intended to do – burn fat and keep your metabolism stoked as you age. Me and my Inner Circle of gals are living proof of that, and we work at it every day.

I’ll also have my fitness and lifestlye book – One Rep at a Time – at the seminar.

See you tonight!…

Karen

PS – I’ll be closing out my special $1 for one month of the Healthy Living Program! If you want to check it out, please do so now…I’ve had great sign up so far, but the promo ends at the end of February!! We’d love to have you join us!

Someone asked me the other day what my ‘branding’ was.

I had to think about that one.  If you look on the surface, I guess you could say I create training and nutrition programs for women. That’s what people think. But that’s surface stuff, and that’s why it’s hard to explain, really. Because my inner circle of ladies, my ‘tribe’ so to speak, are living it from the inside out. Quietly, and with purpose and conviction.

So my branding…hmm…. Well, I’ve often thought of myself as a warrior, given all the setbacks I’ve experienced, and I know each and every woman out there has gone through similar hardships, and when we share space with other women, we know that we’re not alone. We all struggle together, and we support each other in that journey. 

It’s no different with training and eating, really. It’s woven into our fabric, becasue to get healthy and stay there requires that we honour that weave. We simply cannot separate our lives out from our gym time. That’s what the media, allopathic medicine and government agencies do, and that’s the problem. We are compartmentalized, dismembered, and that causes dysfunction in our bodies and our spirits.

As Warrior Women, we use training and clean eating to reclaim our power because it connects us to our core.  We strive for excellence, not perfection. We are strong but soft at the same time. We respect other people’s values and beliefs. And when others fall, we help pick them up because that’s what women in community do.

We live our lives one step at a time, with grace and gratitude.  We stay open to the possiblities and allow others to live as they please. We live in a different place, this place, this community. That’s the root of all my programs – the Healthy Living Program and my Best Shape Challenges. Always has been.

So when people ask me to explain my online programs, I send them to the web site with videos and documents to explain the nuts and bolts of it all.

But the real deal is behind the scenes, in the journey, and in the many women scattered all over the map who partake in that journey, and who all are working to better their bodies and their lives with a program that puts them at the heart of it, and honours their journey to wholeness by helping support them on the path in any way we can.  And we all walk together, as one. 

Karen

Check out my $1 for one month of the Healthy Living Program! Women supporting women.

Today I took a walk down memory lane at all my old blogs. I’ve been blogging since 2006, and we’ve covered a lot of ground….

There’s some that made you mad, sad, stirred up controversy (remember the one about a client on her hunting trip, and the vegan that I had to get a restraining order agiainst because he was so incensed about it?).

And this one caused quite a stir too – still does….Enjoy!

https://mccoyfitness.ca/get-motivated/cut-the-cardio/

PS Don’t forget my Feb special, the HLP for $1. Our February HLP Workout is out…a perfect time for you to get your body in gear! CHECK IT OUT…..

$1 for one month of the Healthy Living Program!

Fifteen brave women have joined us so far….why not be next? Limited seats! (So I can give you the support you need!)

If you’re not seeing the results from your weight training program (and as a woman over 35, you should be weight training…’cause things shift, they get looser, we lose our shape, the fat accumulates more easily, then there’s the hormone thing…) then ladies, simply ramp it up!

If you’re doing mostly cardio, stop. If you’re doing bootcamp but it’s not changing how you look, stop. If you’re doing more than 12 reps and less than, say, 15 pounds for a dumbell curl, or 15 pounds for a dumbell kickback (for those nasty arm flaps), then you gotta ramp it up! (No, you will NOT look like a bodybuilder….can we put that one to rest, please??).

If all you’ve been focussed on is losing the weight, stop that too. We naturally will lose the weight when we train properly, but are you getting firmer, tighter, and more shapely? You want to, don’t you?

If you think you’re eating well but you still look soft, ramp that up too. See, what I know is that most women think they’re eating right, but just because you don’t indulge in McDonald’s and you count calories doesn’t mean you’re eating right. And no, age has nothing to do with it. Honest. So don’t buy into the myth that you naturally gain weight (or it’s harder to lose) as you age. Not true. You’re just not dialing in your training and eating.

Or join me and all my gals on my Healthy Living Program. It’s on sale for the next 2 weeks only. And I’m only taking on 20 gals, so I can be there, leading, teaching, supporting and educating them on the real way to train, eat and live in today’s world. Our method is different, real, open. You’ll see. And yes, you can unsubscribe at any time. It really is easy.

If you’re not seeing results, then you simply must change. Father Time marches on…..

There is no obligation, no gimmicks, and you can unsubscribe at any time…but I am only taking 20 women. Our new February HLP Workout is out…a perfect time for you to get your feet wet! CHECK IT OUT…..

$1 for one month of the Healthy Living Program!

Move fast on this! It’s filling up as we speak!

karen

For 5 years, I’ve been running my on-line programs to women everywhere, and one thing I know for sure…this on-line stuff is a hard sell. Most people just don’t get it…is it a DVD you buy to follow along? Is it located in a gym? Is there a diet plan? How do you progress? How the heck can it really work if Karen isn’t there to teach you…

Oh boy, the life of a pioneer! I’m hard pressed to explain it because no one is doing what I’m doing! Really! And that’s why I created it, from the ground up, so I could offer an affordable, hands on progressive training and eating program(yes, hands on…lots of support from me…I don’t outsource to anyone) to women anywhere in the world. All they need is a computer and a gym to train in…I do the rest! But they have to have a  little bit of motivation (if you want a Gillian Michaels approach to training where she holds your hand thru every move, and yells at you at the same time..well, I’m not it!).

And my current gals know that I’m always here, supporting thru email, a private Facebook Page and other means. My whole pledge when I started this thing was to be as hands on and supportive as I can be in this strange medium called the internet. And it’s working quite nicely…

My 10 Week Best Shape Challenge and my Advanced 12-Week Best Shape Challenge are proof of that…they always sell out. And the monthly Healthy Living Program is the goundwork of it all – my progressive, continuous training, eating and lifestyle program served up monthly to 100+ women in Canada, the US, Aruba, Mexico and Saudi Arabia. But no matter where they are, I’m there too.

So I’ve decided to offer a $1 trial run of my popular Healthy Living Program for February. But I’m not taking on as many women as possible. Why? Why don’t I want to make a million bucks? Well, to start, not that many people are making that kind of money…many of them lie to get you on board! I’ve learned this one! I’m only taking 20 women so I can service and support them, so I can be at the end of every email (yes, it is me at the end of every email, really!) and so I can help you on your way. Because learning a healthy lifestlye is NOT as simple as tearing a program out of a magazine and following along…if that were the truth, why don’t all those women have bodies like the women in the mags?

So, for the next few weeks, you’ll see my Healthy Living Program for $1 for 30 days. After that, the regular price of $23.99 applies. (I have never, ever had any woman tell me it wasn’t worth the price, in fact, I’ve been told by my long term gals that the price is too low! But I’m not budging…!).

There is no obligation, no gimmicks, and you can unsubscribe at any time…but I am only taking 20 women. Our new February HLP Workout is out…a perfect time for you to get your feet wet! CHECK IT OUT…..

$1 for one month of the Healthy Living Program!

Move fast on this! I’m pretty sure the seats will fill up fast!

karen