Seal of Approval

"December 28th, 2011"

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Well, I met Wilton Rogers, my new trainer for the first time last night. What a really nice, great, kind, inspiring guy! I feel super jazzed and super honored that he chose me. Also, we started filming last night. It was a little weird talking about my life while someone was filming it all, but the actor in me was super excited... Also, those of you who have been following me from far back probably remember that I had auditioned for The Biggest Loser. So, filming a transformation experience isn't something that I've never thought of.


By they way, to any one else reading out there, if you ever decide to audition for The Biggest Loser, save yourself the trouble of going to the live audition. It was seriously such a waste of time to talk to someone in a room full of other people who want exactly the same thing you do and have a producer of the show just ask you 2 questions and base your whole personality off of that. Then they tell you to please still submit a video. Just submit the video.


I got the seal of approval from my new doc today, Dr. Brad (who is also totally awesome by the way!) to fully participate in the lifestyle program. So now we are just counting down the days.


I know that the biggest thing that will be changing in  my life will be my eating habits. They are going to be giving me shopping lists and meals to prepare. No more eating out for every meal for me. Knowing this, the last few weeks I've been saying good-bye to meals after I've finished eating them knowing that at the very least it will be a LONG time before I get to eat them again. And it's funny, the more I think about saying good bye to these foods that have made up my diet for the last decade of my life, I'm happy to report that I really don't think I'm going to miss them that much. I know a few years ago when I was trying to eat healthy I would complain and be a baby about not getting to drink a Sprite with dinner or whatever. I think I am finally actually in a place where, I'm done. I'm ready for someone to point me in the right direction and wave good-bye to these things that have quite literally been weighing me down.


The other weird thing so far is how much my readership of this blog has jumped recently. I know part of it is that I've been posting more often, but after Wilton posted a link to my blog he said that he had about 20 people come talk to him about it. Besides myself getting healthy, the most I can ask for out of this experience is to get others inspired and motivated to do the same. What an amazing gift to give to someone else.


Thank you so much to all of you who have been following and supporting me for so long. Your friendship and love have always meant a lot to me and I look forward to sharing this journey with all of you.


All my love,
Kristin

Hitting the Stands

This is the press release that is going out this week about my upcoming journey/transformation/revolution. I hope the story will be picked up as "my team" and I hope to inspire others on their weight loss journeys!

eVOLV Fitness

7900 San Pedro Dr. NE, Suite C1, Albuquerque NM, 87109

Monday, January 2, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Grandiose personal commitments and wanton goal-setting have long been a hallmark of the New Year’s holiday.  Unfortunately, most end up evaporating prematurely in the form of a cancelled gym membership or an exercise equipment-themed garage sale come springtime.

But one deserving Albuquerque woman will be getting some extra help keeping her New Year’s resolution this year, and the timing couldn’t be better.

Kristin Berg, co-founder of The Box Performance Space and the Cardboard Playhouse children’s theater company, is getting what one could call a “resolution evolution” from a group of fitness freaks looking to make their mark on the Albuquerque gym scene.

This is no diet journal and a couple of weekly weigh-ins, one-size-fits-all approach, however.  A team of trainers, nutritionists, psychologists, and other health professionals, led by certified personal trainer and eVOLV co-founder Wilton Rogers, will create and execute a complete 12-month long lifestyle overhaul for Berg, who has battled obesity since middle school and who currently weighs 280 pounds.

“In elementary school, I looked like a regular little kid,” says Berg, now 30.  “But by the time I got to high school, I was wearing baggy boys clothing and trying my best to blend into the background.”

But blending in doesn’t seem to suit her.  Berg, who has performed in front of live audiences for more than half of her life, credits the performing arts with helping her battle severe bouts of depression throughout her high school years and early adulthood. 

“Theater is a chance to separate yourself from yourself, to live the life of someone else for a few hours,” says Berg, who wrote and produced a painfully autobiographical full-length play in college entitled “The Weight of the World.”  “It helps you become whoever you want to be, if only for a short time.”

While Berg has learned to love herself and to be comfortable in her own skin, she admits that her weight issues continue to have negative effects on her health and general quality of life.

“Chronic insomnia and acid-reflux are par for the course,” says Berg.  “It’s hard to focus during the day, and I don’t have much energy to do things.”

Energy is something Berg is in desperate need of, however.  In addition to running her theater and producing children’s shows with co-founder Doug Montoya, Berg works part-time at an event planning firm to help make ends meet.

“When we have shows, 55-hour work weeks are pretty standard,” she admits.

So with limited resources, limited time, and a string of broken promises to herself, Berg had planned to spend this New Year’s reflecting on yet another year spent getting no closer to her goal.

Berg didn’t just need a change.  She needed someone to help her make a change.  And that’s where the eVOLV Fitness team came in.

To help her make this change, she will get the support not only of Rogers’ team at eVOLV Fitness, but of an entire network of health professionals.  From an intense fitness regimen including personal and group fitness training, to comprehensive nutrition counseling and lifestyle coaching, the team will work with Berg to instill habits and rituals that she can integrate into her hectic lifestyle, ensuring that her success will not be short-lived. 

And in return for a year’s worth of life-changing?  Berg will blog, Facebook, and tweet daily about all aspects of her journey, the good, the bad and the ugly, in the hope that she can inspire others like her to make changes in their own lives. Berg admits, “embarking in this journey is really for my kids at the theater, I want them to know they can do anything they set their minds to.”

“There will be days she does not like me,” laughs Rogers.  “But she knows that everything we’ll do will come from the heart, because we care.”

Berg will embark on her journey with eVOLV Fitness beginning January 2^nd.  You can follow her transformation at any of the following:

Blog:  HYPERLINK "http://www.kristinkberg.blogspot.com" kristinkberg.blogspot.com

Twitter: @kkberg

Website:  HYPERLINK "http://www.evolvfitnessnm.com" www.evolvfitnessnm.com

ABOUT eVOLV FITNESS:

eVOLV Fitness is a community where all can feel inspired to better themselves and others mentally, physically, and emotionally.  eVOLV offers a variety of group fitness classes including Body Pump, Body Combat, Cardioboxing, PAINE, Pure Muscles and much more as well as both traditional and hot yoga, pilates, and personal training.

Media Contact:

Jennifer McMath

Kesselman-Jones, Inc.

(505) 234-1570

jenny@kessjones.com

Most Liberating Thing

Things are happening, wheels are turning and there is so much to talk about, but I need to make some stuff solid before I go off talking about it all. So in the meantime let's share a photo and a quote from my most favorite actress/who I'd want to play me in a movie Drew Barrymore. She and I are the same height, so I've got that going for me! :)

All the love,
Kristin

The Most Amazing Gift

So, here I was thinking that today I would be posting a rather depressing blog about how it has been a year since I made these commitments to the universe and didn't uphold my end of the bargain... and while this still may be true I got an amazing gift today from a friend.

My awesome friend Jenny is a personal trainer. She and I are co-workers at my day job and we've always talked casually about me wanting to hire her to be my trainer. Monday night I finally emailed her with what I really wanted to learn and what help I needed from her to be healthy.

Today when I rolled into work she told me she had very exciting news but that I'd have to wait until 5pm. Of course I'm thinking, "Cool, she got me a diet journal or something." But when in reality she was going to make me an offer I couldn't refuse. The chance to change my life.

Jenny is very aware of my crazy lifestyle. When I'm not at our day job, I'm at the theatre, and when I'm at neither of those places I'm usually home asleep. She knew that I need much more help than she as a friend can give me, but she knew of some people who can hold me accountable and move me forward. She passed on my story to some other trainer friends of hers and lo and behold they are willing to work with me for a whole year.

Now, I don't know all of the particulars yet, but I know that I will be meeting soon with the trainers from Evolv Fitness of NM to create a plan to improve my lifestyle.

I felt so incredibly moved and grateful that this woman has faith and cares about me so much to make a strong decision for me. Moved that these people who I don't even know are willing to push me. Moved that so many of you reading this blog have stuck with me through all of my pitfalls and triumphs. So thank you to all of you.

I know I have a huge, overwhelming and difficult road ahead of me. One of the most difficult things I've ever had to do, yet I've never felt so hopeful in my life.

Here's to the Eighth of Onward 2012!

All my love,
Kristin