Greg: Hi, this is Greg from the DVCC; I am joined today by Charly Brown. So Charly, how long have you been at the DVCC now?
Charly: I joined in March 2015.
Greg: This March, so 6 months. Can you recall what initially brought you to the DVCC?
Charly: I had an accident 4 years ago and I gained 3.5 stone in weight. It took me almost 2 years to get over the injury; I wore a cast for 6 months, I wasn’t able to exercise, I didn’t want to exercise. Then I got married in February of this year and I lost a bit of weight, but I wanted to get the rest of the weight off.
Greg: Can you expand more on what the accident was and what the injury was?
Charly: Yes I sleepwalked out of a first floor bedroom window!
Greg: Oh dear! And what was the injury caused?
Charly: The injury was a shattered wrist, completely shattered – ligaments, bones….
Greg: Since you’ve been at the DVCC, what results have you had?
Charly: I’ve gained 7 lbs of muscle and lost 4 lbs of fat.
Greg: And had a percentage change of 4% - awesome. So the specific problem that you first wanted to solve when you first came to see us, what was it?
I don’t feel like I am doing it on my own any more!
Charly: The weakness in my wrist.
Greg: So not being able to exercise due to your wrist?
Charly: Yes. No pushups, no weights, just a lot of restrictions; all I was really able to do was spinning.
Greg: So you wanted to get back into more variety of exercise in order to lose the weight that you had gained?
Charly: Yes, and obviously change my body shape.
Greg: What were your main obstacles that you had that prevented you from doing this before? Obviously you’ve mentioned your wrist already.
Charly: Yes, and confidence. I didn’t have the confidence to exercise because I had put on so much weight and changed. My fitness had gone down massively, I’d always been very active before, and I’d just lost my confidence completely.
Greg: Had you tried things like gyms and other options before?
Charly: Yes, I am a member at two gyms at the moment; one through just a golf membership and the other one was at the place I was spinning at; but I wouldn’t go to the gym, I would just go to the class and that was it.
Greg: Was that because of a lack of confidence?
Charly: Yes, I think the confidence and ability; I wasn’t sure what my wrist would tolerate and being on your own in a gym, you’re worried about causing yourself an injury again because you have got no-one to guide you as to what you should or shouldn’t be doing.
Greg: Obviously you mentioned spinning, but had you tried any nutritional strategies at all before?
Charly: No – I stopped eating, trying to lose weight!
Greg: So less eating and more spinning!
Charly: Yes!
Greg: What convinced you, when you came to see us, that the Real You transformation process™ would be different to those?
Charly: Because I had to eat, and eating was encouraged, as long as it was good eating. And I had seen results; I could see people here that have had great results and it gave me the boost that I needed.
Greg: Good. So Charly, how has your life changed since you started the Real You transformation process™?
Charly: Well my husband’s joined, so being able to eat the same foods and exercise together has been probably the best thing that’s happened so far. Also I don’t feel like I am doing it on my own any more. And with my husband getting results as well, it’s spurring me on because we’re so competitive!
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Greg: So it’s motivating both of you to push yourself even harder!
Charly: Completely!
Greg: Good. How has it affected your wrist since you started?
Charly: I can lift weights, I can do pushups; I’m not at the burpee stage yet, but I think that’s the ultimate goal for me.
Greg: So the ultimate goal is burpees!
Charly: I’ll be the first person to ever say that!
Greg: I’ll remember you said that! In terms of outside The DVCC environment, are there things you can do with your wrist that you couldn’t before?
Charly: Yes, actually. I can lift pans! Pans with water in, I could never do that before, I would have to lift them with with my right hand instead of my left hand. And I am overall a lot stronger.
Greg: In your day to day?
Charly: Yes, day to day things, things that I wasn’t sure I would be able to do with my left wrist, I would always over compensate with my right arm. But now it’s much better.
Greg: Awesome, good. Can you give me an example of something that’s happened after the transformation that you thought might not be possible before?
Charly: I do pushups!
Greg: Did you not see yourself doing one of those before?
Charly: No, no! I didn’t even have any range of motion in my wrist. But now I can do pushups!
Greg: I remember you saying to me that the surgeon or doctor told you that you wouldn’t be able to?
Charly: Yes, I think he said at the best I would have 15 degrees.
Greg: 15 degrees, which really isn’t very much.
Charly: No, I started at 8 after I came out of the cast and now I’m pretty much at 40, maybe?
Greg: Definately more than 40, I would say – almost full range. Any final words for me, Charly?
Charly: Don’t be shy, don’t be afraid – just do it.
