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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