Hey, thanks for checking out my blog.
I’m Dave Soucy, body transformation coach, instructor, author, head fitness guy and owner of Perfect Fit Fitness Bootcamps, former corporate desk jockey and former fat guy.
I’m certified as a Personal Trainer through both the American Council on Exercise and the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and as a Food Psychology Coach through the Spencer Institute. That and about $7 can get me a coffee at Starbucks.
The real deal is that I spend my time teaching my clients and readers that real health, fitness, and weight loss is achieved through a lifestyle of clean nutrition and simple, consistent exercise. And yes, it is that basic. Too often we try to make things harder than they are. I prefer simple.
I also consider it my mission to expose all of the scams, fads, myths, and misconceptions in the weight loss industry that do nothing but keep people fat. Whether it is with diet pills, worthless infomercial gadgets, the latest ab exercisers, or some new Hollywood diet, there are a million scumbag marketers out there who want nothing more than to steal your money, and I enjoy nothing more than exposing scumbags whenever I can.
Like I said, I’m a former fat guy and like many of you, I know what it’s like to battle with weight, having spent the majority of my childhood and adult years fighting that battle.
Every so often through the years, I’d get on the exercise wagon, couple that with the latest extreme or fad diet, and would lose weight, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. And like clockwork, whatever weight that was lost, and usually a little more, ended up coming back as soon as the diet or exercise routine became unmanageable. Add in a high pressure job that required way too much travel and late night room service food, and by the time I was 35 I was fat, unhealthy, tired all the time, and a heart attack waiting to happen. Good times.
When an opportunity came up to leave the high pressure career (and psycho bosses. You know who you are.) behind, I jumped at the chance and have never looked back. I decided I was done slowly killing myself in the corporate world. I had done pretty well climbing the corporate ladder, only to find out the ladder was leaning against the wrong freaking wall. What good was another title or promotion going to do me if it killed me in the process?
I decided I was never going to have another J-O-B again, and threw all of my efforts into educating myself on health, nutrition, and fitness. In the process I discovered why my exercise programs of the past never produced the results I wanted and why all of those diets actually ended up making me fatter!
Now, I figure the least I can do is do my best to teach you the same.
Sometimes I’m funny (intentionally or not), sometimes serious, sometimes off the subject. And occasionally I’ll drop the F-bomb (sorry Mom) or use similarly colorful language. If you’re easily offended, well, you’ve been forewarned.
And, in case you’re curious, I’m a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, and currently reside in Hooksett, NH with my awesome wife and two really freaking cute daughters.
