A Personal Trainer Lost 50 Pounds on Jenny Craig — Then Built a Career Coaching Others
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Susan Niebergall lost about 50 pounds using Jenny Craig's pre-packaged meal and counseling program back in the 1980s. "At the time, Jenny Craig seemed to work," she has said. "At least for the time being."
The loss didn't hold: "what ultimately happened was my weight eventually came back, over time," she said, describing a yo-yo dieting cycle that followed. A friend once told her, "You will NEVER let that happen again," a comment she now views as counterproductive rather than motivating.
The lasting change came decades later, after she hired a personal coach and shifted her mindset around exercise from viewing it as punishment to treating it as consistent structure. She now works out four days a week with a focus on protein intake and calorie awareness, describing sustainable weight loss as requiring "hard work and consistency" rather than a quick-fix program.
Key takeaways
- ›Used the Jenny Craig program's pre-packaged meals and one-on-one counseling to lose roughly 50 pounds
- ›Continued the habits afterward with 4-day-a-week strength training and higher protein intake
- ›The weight loss became the starting point for a career as a fitness coach
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