We’re weighing in, and it’s not always a good thing. When the scale says we haven’t lost weight, we cut calories.

In search of Mr. Quick Fix, we sometimes take such a restrictive approach that we feel lethargic, hungry, cranky, and weak. We fall off the wagon and feel even worse. Very subtly, we don’t even realize that we’ve learned to minimize the importance of our health. The barometer of success becomes the number on the scale. “Well, enough of that,” says Sandra Bueckert.

Enter the Fit & Fabulous video. Nutrition is more important than you think, and weight alone is not an accurate indication of your fitness. For example, did you know that anorexics are fat skinny people? While thin to the naked eye, anorexics can clock in at 33 per cent body fat, which is defined as obese. A truer indication of your fitness is how lean you are (muscle vs. fat).

If Bueckert’s name sounds familiar, it may be because you’ve seen her on the X-weighted television series, attended the W.O.M.A.N. Conference, her Fit 40+ workout sessions, or you might even recognize her from a number of local media articles that have been published on One On One Personal Fitness Instruction Inc. She has spent over 20 years in the trenches as a fitness trainer teaching clients about their thinking, eating, and exercise habits.

“I know firsthand that they’re intertwined,” she says. “My husband loved me whether I was heavy or thin. I used it as an excuse. For me, it was an excuse, because when I looked in the mirror, I knew in my heart that the person staring back wasn’t the real me.” Put more vividly, when she exercised, climbed the stairs, or lay down, she carried fifty extra pounds, the equivalent of a five-year-old child everywhere she went.

By far, the most fascinating, maddening, frustrating, and rewarding aspect of being a trainer is discovering what it takes to get a client to open up to new ways of thinking while becoming their best physical self. The Fit & Fabulous video will encourage you to reflect on your health and fitness. Bueckert’s hope is that it motivates you to become Fit & Fabulous too. She is grateful to her clients at One On One Personal Fitness Instruction and producer Aaron Moseson of Overextended Productions Inc. for helping to bring the project to life.