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Hi, I’m Betty, the Old Lady in Training.
I’m Pushing 60 and in
Training to Become the Best
Old Lady I Can Possibly Be.
There is no finish line.
It’s me against myself.
My Goals: Stronger than Yesterday.
I’m in recovery from emotional/binge eating. I rehabbed my arthritic knees, started strength training and have lost 70 pounds.
But my story isn’t about what I’ve lost, it’s about what I’ve gained.
Strength, Mobility, Balance, Energy, Community and most of all, a new appreciation for my body and what it can do for me.
I still have a long way to go.
None of it is Finished.
Welcome to My Messy Middle. I’m Glad You’re Here.
When I weighed 260 pounds. My doctor said lose weight, do Physical Therapy.
My knee pain was too great, the cure seemed too hard, and too slow.
So I said no thanks and took the steroid injection instead. Three steroid injections over two years. The first one helped. The second one gave me a reaction. The third one hurt me.
I was heavier than ever, and in more pain than when I started.
I wasn’t a candidate for knee replacement. Too young. Not damaged enough. Just suffering. Waiting to get worse.
I had just watched my mom die, far too young, trapped in a nursing home because she’d lost her mobility. I decided I had to stop waiting.
I looked for help. I found out about knee decompression and made an appointment for a consult.
Twenty-one targeted physical therapy sessions. Decompression, red light therapy, TENS.
Seven weeks, three times a week, forty-five minutes from my home.
A huge commitment. But I had to try.
It worked. More space between my joints. A foundation to build on.
Then I did Keto. I lost forty-five pounds in about 6 months then stalled. I knew movement was my next step, but I couldn’t figure out how to start. I watched videos, I tried the things I learned in physical therapy. But I was just stuck and so discouraged.
In January 2025, fitness studio opened in my town, and I started strength training.
I had a slow start. It took about six months of trying things and working on foundational things at home for the habits to stick.
In the spring I started working closely with Tani, my trainer.
I took her Midlife Metabolic Reset and her Journey to Hormone Harmony class.
While I was learning to train my body, I was learning to reprogram my brain.
I literally had to detox from Keto.
I can only focus on one thing at a time. So I focused on strong, and let the weight be what it was for a minute. I ended up up a few pounds at the end of 2025, but down from 2X clothing being tight to 1X fitting comfortably.
Tani is amazing. I’ve learned so much from her about my body —
how it’s meant to move, and what happens when you stop using it the way it’s meant to be used.
I learned about behavior change, habit stacking.
We worked through emotional eating, identifying triggers, all-or-nothing thinking,
and every other mental roadblock women put in their own way.
I’ve been showing up to Tani’s weekly group coaching calls,
and they’ve been some of the most helpful hours of this whole process.
Community isn’t optional when you’re trying to change.
It’s the thing that makes change stick.
July 2026 marked one year of strength training consistently.
And here’s where I landed.
Seventy pounds gone. Forever.
Normal A1C.
LDL down 30 points.
Total cholesterol under 200 for the first time in decades.
NAFLD, healed.
Liver enzymes like a brand new liver.
My diet is protein forward. Clean. Limited sugar. No alcohol — I lost the desire for it. It just wasn’t helping me meet my goals.
I went back to the center where I had my original treatment for an updated evaluation.
I wanted to know if the space I’d built in that joint was still there.
It was better!
Losing the weight and strength training since then gave me even more room than the original treatment did.
My knees are still arthritic. But they’re not screaming anymore.
It took about six months to hit my stride. But somewhere along the way, exercise just became what I do.
At home. In the studio. In gyms across the country. Throughout the Caribbean.
There’s nowhere I go now where I can’t find a way to move.
I’ve changed more than my body. I’ve changed my mindset.
It’s not that I have to move my body anymore. It’s that I get to.
I get annoyed now when I have to skip a class.
I’m not going to fool you into thinking it was easy.
It wasn’t.
But that’s okay.
Because I can do hard things.
And you can too!
When you started asking, I listened.
I started posting because I wanted to document my own journey — the messy middle, no filter. I didn’t expect anyone beyond my friends to be watching.
But you were. And you started showing up in the comments with the same questions I used to ask myself: How do I even start? What do I do after PT? I’m 50 and my knees are just starting to hurt, how can I stop this progression?
I didn’t have all the answers. So I went to the person who’d been there for me — my trainer, Tani — and asked her one question:
“What can we do to help them?”
That conversation became The Next Step.
It’s the bridge we both wished existed — between “cleared” and “confident.” Between finishing PT and actually walking into a gym like you belong there. Because you do.
What’s inside The Next Step
Every week, you get one workout — built to progress gently, so your body has time to actually adapt, not just survive.
You’ll do each workout to mastery before moving on. No rushing, no guessing if you’re “ready.” When you’ve got it, the next one builds on exactly what you just learned — so your skills stack, week after week.
You’re not doing this alone. Every week, you’ll join a live group coaching call with Tani — real questions, real answers, real support from people who get it.
And around all of it, a community built just for this: resources, encouragement, and bonus content to keep you moving even on the weeks life gets in the way.
12 weeks, not 8.
We started at 8 — but we want you to actually succeed, not just finish. So we gave you more room: more weeks to build real strength, real confidence, and habits that stick long after the program ends.
Wherever you are in this — waiting, wondering, or still just watching — I see you.
Maybe you’ve been following along for a while, cheering from the comments. Maybe you just found me today.
Either way, I know that little voice that says maybe this isn’t for someone like me. I had that voice too. Loudly.
You don’t have to have it figured out. You don’t have to be “ready.” You just have to be willing to start where you are — the same place I started.
If you’re not quite ready to take the next step, I hope you’ll join us in the Old Ladies in Training group on Facebook — come cheer us on, ask questions, and see what’s possible before you decide. I’m not going anywhere. Tani’s not going anywhere. And when you’re ready to stop watching and start moving, we’ll be right here.
I invite you to follow my journey.
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