Trisch's T-Tapp Testimonial, June 2010:
I’m a 47 year-old homeschooling mama of 9 children, ages 3 to 23. I used to be able to eat everything I wanted, but that started changing about 10 years ago!
I found T-Tapp 3 years ago, in January 2007. I had been doing core strengthening exercises, some weight training with hand and ankle weights, an exercise ball and rebounding. This all would take me between 45 minutes to an hour a day! I would be wiped out 1-½ hours later and need a nap!
Right after the holidays of 2006, I was discouraged because in spite of all the above working out, and even watching my eating, I still weighed and looked like I did the day before I delivered my son 3 months earlier!!! I remember dejectedly telling my husband, “Well, I guess I’ll be fat, but at least I’m flexible!”
I hated exercise videos! But when a friend told me she had lost 15 inches in three weeks doing this workout called T-Tapp, I was all ears! She shared a little with me, and I got the book from the library right away!
I lost 15 inches in three weeks using just the book! It took me awhile to get it and of course it was longer than 15 minutes, but I was hooked! Another friend loaned me her BWO+ dvd while I saved my change to purchase my own workout.
And I was thrilled that I didn’t need a nap afterward!
I started with mainly BWO+ and SATI the first 6 months, although I did do a little of TWO here and there. I lost 4 sizes over that time! I was so elated! I was also feeling more stamina, and another bonus was a lump under my arm decreased in size, too!
The next 6 months I added in more workouts from T-Tapp, kept losing inches….but no sizes! It was a bit discouraging, but thanks to all the wonderful Tappers and Trainers on the forums, I kept going! (I am so very grateful for the forums!).
Amazingly, the next spring, I dropped two sizes within 2 months, with little inch loss! I guess my body was catching up to the inches lost in the fall!
I then was “stuck” for about a year before dropping yet another size. Again, the forums were such a wonderful source of encouragement and help!
I have attended several clinics, which I highly recommend because it really helps to have a trainer evaluate your form, plus you get new tips and new “a-ha’s”! (And you meet new friends!)
In the times when inch loss slowed down or I wasn’t losing sizes, I started writing down all the benefits you can’t “measure”. A very big one is the lump under my arm has disappeared! That is worth a size loss right there! I also went from seeing my chiropractor every other week to maybe every 3 months! That alone has more than paid for every dvd I own and every clinic I’ve been to!
I have continued to rebuild my health and stamina, my skin looks better than it has in 20+ years….and I have no loose hanging skin, thanks to body brushing and Teresa’s dead sea salt baths and masks!
I’ve lost 158 inches to date, but only 35 pounds—up until a month ago, that was only 25 pounds! It doesn’t “make sense”—except when you think about muscle density! I don’t really get too excited about the scales anymore—inches count! I started at a 22W and am now in size 10!
I love it that I have been able to slowly address my eating vs. having to “diet” to get those good results. In the last month I have made some major changes to my diet, especially cutting out sugar and dairy, but as an emotional eater, T-Tapp has helped me in so many ways to be ready to take this step.
Did I say I hated exercise videos?! I now have just about all of Teresa’s! The only other exercise I do is walk…the kids play with the weights, rebounder and exercise ball now!
I also take Teresa’s alfalfa, and it has helped my cycles regulate (even at 47!), and I really believe it feeds the skin-- last fall someone asked if I was my oldest daughter’s sister! I’ll take that!!!
Over the past 3+ years, 80% of my workouts have been shorter ones like BWO+, SATI, Basic Tempo and my all time favorite, MORE. In fact, MORE has been 40% of that 80%! MORE has saved me so many times—when I was having problems with my hip (which has since rehabbed and is why I hardly ever see the chiro), when I was feeling a little under the weather, and last summer when I had some adrenal fatigue, I could at least do MORE Chair!
On super time crunched days, MORE offers options—I love options! MORE Chair is 10 minutes, MORE Broom is 7 minutes (not counting doing PBS first) and MORE Step Away is just over 9 minutes—so I have NO excuse to not workout due to time!
But it really is also a “clinic in a box” as the trainers call it! The slower pace and fewer reps really help me focus on form, and I think the MORE instructional is the best!
I had the privilege of going to the Safety Harbor Retreat last fall—what a wonderful experience! The “ultimate” clinic! More than all the wonderful tips and tweaks I learned, I was impressed with the “sisterhood” as Teresa called it. T-Tappers are such a special bunch of people! And you feel it on the forums, too—we’re all excited about everyone’s successes—I’m so very grateful to have found T-Tapp!
T-Tapp has helped me lose inches and sizes, look better, be healthier and stronger, but even more —
I have made many new friends, and I’m grateful for them ALL!
And I am especially grateful for my family, who has supported, encouraged and rejoiced with me all the way!
Thank you SO much, Teresa, for your generous heart, and for sharing your gifts with us! I am forever grateful!
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