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Member of The Month – Donna Taylor

Meet our member, and friend, Donna Taylor. She smashed her goal of losing 10 Kg in 10 weeks and went on to prove her fitness with an exceptional marathon run.

On 1st June 2009 Donna Taylor stepped on to the scales and was shocked to find that it read 70kg. Before having her three children Donna was only 49kg, but had let her fitness level slip with everything else going on in her life. It was at that moment she decided that she was going to do something for herself, and commit to losing that weight.

Donna decided that with 2010 rapidly approaching she wanted to set targets she could not only commit to, but were easy to remember and time sensitive. Picking up a $10 calorie counter book she set herself the goal of losing 10 kilograms in 10 weeks. When that 10 weeks were up she also wanted to be able to run a 10 kilometre marathon, an achievement which would confirm that she really had hit that new level of fitness and left her old ways behind.

Not only did Donna reach her goal, and lost an additional 8 kilograms since, but she got hooked on running and became a regular attendee of our Group Fitness classes. Donna told us that once she started living a healthy lifestyle it quickly became second nature: “I have found that I no longer need to count calories, I now eat more good food and less junk.”

Having hit her original fitness goals Donna started setting new goals for herself. She recently completed the Sydney Morning Herald Half Marathon 2010 which was held on the 16th May, her first attempt at a half marathon, and finishing in 1 hour 57 minutes and 25 seconds. “My goal was to run it under 2 hours, so I am very happy.”

Congratulations Donna from everyone here at Lifestyle Fitness Australia, it is an incredible transformation.