Josh: Hi, this is Josh from the DoubleVision Conditioning Centre and I am here today with Kerri Shaw, who has been a client at the DVCC now for over 7 years. I want to talk with Kerri to get some ideas about what has kept her consistent over the years and to find out why she is still training today.
So Kerri, what has motivated you to keep training for so long?
Kerri: I think it is all to do with the atmosphere at the DVCC, and the way that they are constantly striving to improve things for people and make their training harder. They change their format every 3 weeks, which is good, and they are always introducing new things, like the recent heart rate monitoring system, which has made me train a lot harder.
Josh: There is one thing I have noticed from you, that you have done very well with over the years, is your food, which has been very consistent. Would you mind taking us through a day in the life of Kerri Shaw?
Kerri: My food hasn’t always been consistent. When I first started here, I would say I was a ‘fad’ dieter. I would swap from one week to the next; I would do a week of Weight Watchers and then a couple of weeks of Slimming World, with a bad week in between. And when I did eat bad, I ate really bad! So if I had a bar of chocolate, I would want 5 or 6.
But, what the DVCC has taught me is that if I have something bad, then I should just have a very small amount of it. I also think that with the food habits that they teach you, it does help to regulate your blood sugar levels, so it stops you craving that food.
Josh: Good. Can you take me through what you had for breakfast this morning, for example?
Kerri: I always start the day off with eggs and spinach; this is easy for me, I can do it quickly whilst getting the children ready for school.
Josh: Do you snack throughout the day?
Kerri: If I do snack, then I will have a few nuts, or my favourite at the moment is the avocado and chocolate protein shake, which I am loving at this time.
Josh: Could you give us the recipe for that please?
Kerri: It is Emma Stone’s recipe so I can’t steal it! But it is half an avocado, with ice cubes, a small amount of water, chocolate protein and an espresso coffee, all whizzed up in a blender. It is like – dare I say the word McDonald’s? It is like a McDonald’s milk shake.
Josh: Ok! So what about lunch?
Kerri: I like something easy and I really cannot be bothered to cook at lunchtime, so I tend to make soup in advance – usually chicken and green vegetable – which is easy for me to grab out of the fridge and just heat up. If I don’t have that, then I tend to go for the DVCC burger, with a bit of rocket and salad on the side.
Josh: You have actually touched on something that I have found has helped me with my food a lot, which is batch cooking. What Kerri will do is make a big batch of soup which she can have over a number of days; so in the same time it has taken her to cook one meal she will have cooked 5 or 6.
And lastly Kerri, what about dinner?
Kerri: Dinner is quite easy for me because my husband tends to eat the same sort of food as I do, so we generally will just have a piece of DVCC meat again, with lots of green vegetables. Occasionally I will cook something like a chilli or a curry; that is the type of food we eat. My cheat at the moment is coconut yoghurt; I feel like I am giving myself a treat when I have this afterwards.
Josh: Nice. So you do all the basics very well and still obviously have the time to indulge on top of that, at strategic times.
That is a little bit of information from Kerri Shaw about what has kept her consistent over so many years and has allowed her to be in the great shape that she is in now.
This is Josh and Kerri from the DVCC and we will talk to you again soon! Bye…
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