How did this outspoken vegetarian get those gorgeous arms in less than six months?

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Let Shari tell you in her own words:

I started at the IC with Bootcamp Express. Then I signed up for another. Then I quit the YMCA altogether so that I could keep going to the IC. Now, I take 3 core classes/week and get tortured, I mean, train with Steve once/week for a half an hour. I also attempt to run 3 – 4 times/week, although it’s often hard to find the time to do even that. And when I don’t run, I burn calories by beating myself up for not running. Before I embarked on my refined-carb free experiment, I thought I ate pretty well.

My typical day was:

Breakfast: Kashi Go Lean cereal with fruit, skim milk and protein powder, green tea
Snack: apple, 1 slice of low fat cheese, a small handful of almonds
Lunch: baked tofu, steamed greens, 2 Ryvita crackers
Snack: cottage cheese, green tea
Dinner: Lentil soup, sour dough baguette, cheddar cheese, steamed greens, spinach salad, ½ glass wine
Snack: piece of fruit and a bit of chocolate

Sprinkled in there were little tastes of whatever I was preparing for my kid – a bite of pizza, a handful of corn chips, a chocolate chip cookie. Then, Maya outlawed refined carbs.

Now a typical day looks like this:

Breakfast: ¾ cups of egg whites scrambled with spinach and garlic
Snack: handful almonds, apple
Lunch: Seitan, steamed greens, apple, protein powder
Snack: baked tofu slices, green tea
Dinner: Salmon, steamed greens, spinach salad, clementines
Snack: apple with a little peanut butter, protein powder

No wine, no bread, no cereal, no snacking on my kids food. And no whining about it.

Here is Shari six months ago. The hard work appears to have paid off.

You rock Shari!