Guest Interview
Jennie Black
Taking Shape for Life
We welcome Jennie Black to Hot as Health ! Tell us about yourself .
Jennie - Ok , so my name ’ s Jennie Black , and I live out here in Paradise . Been here for almost 3 years . Before that we lived in Providence . I ’ ve lived in Cache Valley for , oh gosh , 21 years now . I grew up in Davis County but I kind of feel like , I don ’ t know , maybe I ’ m from here now , because I ’ ve lived here longer than where I grew up . D - You ’ ve adopted it . J - Yeah . I am a Certified Health Coach . I have about twenty clients all over US . My passion is a nutritionally based program , focused on balancing blood sugars through diet ( i . e . consuming six small meals daily ), known as Take Shape for Life . I ’ ve done this for a year and a half now . D- Excellent . Looking forward to sharing this with our readers . What other passions do you have ? J - I am a cyclist , and have always been active . Take Shape for Life got the nutrition into the mix ! You can ’ t exercise away your problems . D – What is your design or vision ? J - Just keep helping people ! D – Simple and powerful . J - I ’ m married , have 3 kids – 3 boys , they are 18 , 16 , and 13 . We ’ re right in the thick of the teenage years and carrying them around and all their high school activities … they keep us pretty busy . D - I bet . Are they pretty athletic ? J - Yep , they are swimmers . My older 2 are on the Mountain Crest High School swim team , and then my younger one is on a club team . And in the off season my other boys also swim club . We travel quite a bit for those , for swim meets . I love it , I love the community , I love getting to know all the other parents and kids . They ’ re just a great group of kids anyway , hard workers , very dedicated . D - It ’ s nice to see that in the young people . J - It is , it gives you great hope for the future , because you know , we all worry . That ’ s a little bit about me . I ’ ve always been interested in health and exercise and nutrition and all of that good stuff . Definitely had the exercise part down . I ’ m an avid cyclist . I ’ ve done Lotoja . I love all aspects of cycling , a little bit of mountain biking . I also like weight lifting . That part I had all figured out , it ’ s just the nutrition component that I hadn ’ t really figured out , and so this definitely helped me get going in the right direction . D - For sure . So what ’ s your background as far as experience in the health arena – have you been officially schooled ? Have you done training courses ? Have you just learned as you go ? What ’ s your schooling or education for the health and wellness
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