Are you a focused-dedicated-disciplined person who has been training in a sport or activity through the years? Then you are probably used to having people tell you how lucky you are! Right? Well that’s what motivated me to start my blog.

It all came together  one day at the gym when yet another person told me how lucky I am to be in my 60’s, still working out, and remaining trim. I thought about that as I left the gym and reflected how I wasn’t as trim a couple of years prior. Yes I was working out and eating I thought correctly. However I was no longer wearing a 32″ and finding the 34″ getting too tight and wondering will it ever stop. At the time I was already a TLS  Weight Loss Solutions coach and a nutraMetrix consultant in the business of helping HP’s who wanted to implement integrative wellness solutions in their practice. TLS is the weight management program that was offered..

So I knew about TLS and how realistic, effective, and proven it is  I decided that since I am educated on the system and able to educate HP’s on it then I should give it a try. Let me just say that even though I was gaining weight and inches it was more of a total body thickening. I didn’t have a big gut or anything like that. Actually some people didn’t understand my concern with my weight gain. The thing is I wasn’t happy.  Well I am a success story. I wanted to stop the slow thickening my body was doing over time and I did. What I didn’t expect is to trim down back to my size and weight of 20 years prior. So as I’m driving home and thinking about my conversation with a member which caused my trip down memory lane it all came together. Here I am thinking that if they only do what I did they would have positive results. It was my aah hah moment and I knew then that I wanted to help aging athletes like myself who still train and want to manage their weight as opposed to giving in to the aging myth.

With that rickspates.com started.