Weight Loss Program Shares Success Story

REDLANDS>> Adriana Quintanar went to the Herbivore Festival with her husband looking for some healthy ideas. Then, something she heard at one of the booths caught her attention like nothing else had: “This will be the hardest thing you’ll ever do,” said the man at the booth in referencing their weight loss program. “What?,” thought Adriana. “How could a diet be hard? Aren’t they supposed to be simple and easy?” Simple. Easy. That is how the weight loss industry earns its $20 billion per year, by telling people what they want to hear. The result? More than 100 million dieters make four to five attempts per year at losing weight. The fact is we are equipped with reasoning and discerning power to make good choices, what we lack is knowledge and truth. Where do we find this knowledge and truth? It certainly is not through deceptive advertisements or marketing gimmicks. This was on Quintanar’s mind when she heard Sam Benavides, the man at the booth, at the Herbivore Festival in April 2016 talking about the truth about losing weight and making healthy food choices. “Something about what he said made me want to try it,” Quintanar said. The “it” she was referring to was The 20/40 Project, Better Life Fitness’s weight loss program. On August 7, 2016, Quintanar and her husband went to a free introductory seminar on this new weight loss program touted as “the hardest thing you’ll ever do,” and after listening to the truth about healthy, permanent and sustainable weight loss, and tired of trying those other “simple” and “easy” diets that failed to work long-term, she made the decision to enroll in the program. On Oct. 2, 2016, just seven weeks after starting the 20/40 Project, wherein overweight participants are guided to lose 20 pounds in 40 days, Quintanar went in for her final body fat scan. “I was so nervous,” she said, “I had tried so many other diets and never was able to get below 200 pounds. Then, while driving home after my final weigh-in that night, it hit me and I started crying – I lost the weight and got below 200 pounds.” During a recent holiday celebration potluck with Better Life Fitness owners Sam and Ashleigh Benavides, she revealed that in retrospect, the highlight of 2016 was going through the 20/40 Project. For Quintanar, the 20/40 Project is the last weight loss program she said she will ever do as she has been able to keep losing body fat even just two months after her final body scan. “This is proof positive of how overweight individuals need only to learn the truth about healthy weight maintenance and be given the chance to experience the power of good food choices and regular physical activity,” Benavides said. “For Better Life Fitness, this is encouraging in that it validates their belief there is only one way to healthy, permanent weight loss: honoring and respecting God’s law of inner health.” For more information on the 20/40 Project, go to www.blfhealth.com or attend a free introduction seminar on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017 at 394 Commercial Rd., San Bernardino, at 4 pm. To reserve your spot, go to Eventbrite.com and search “Obesity is not a disease” and click on “Register”.