Testimonials
 

Weight Loss:

Marsha MacDonald

12 Week Weight Loss Program and Weight Loss For Life Program (Administrative Manager G A MacDonald Associates)
"On November 5, 2008 my life as I knew it changed! I was not an active person I was overweight, had knee pain, back pain, always tired with no energy and always stressed.

November 5 was my first evening with KMBI my husband and I signed up for the 12 Week Weight Loss Program. Weekly weigh in's and lectures on healthy eating and the effects it has on your body.

I have never stuck with any program for more than a week or two. I have had memberships at fitness centers and the Y, been on every new diet that comes out and never had any lasting results. With KMBI I have the desire to continue, I have stuck with the program for 20 weeks I enjoy the lectures and the recipes are healthy and very taste. I have lost 20 pounds and 2 sizes and still going!

The week that Personal Training was discussed I wasn't really interested but my husband signed us up. Since I had joined the program to help him get healthy and loose weight I decided to go along with what he wanted to do (I actually thanked him one night after Personal Training for talking me into it)

We started our PT classes December 8th meeting on Mondays and Thursdays. It is the best thing that I have ever done for myself (or that my husband did for me) I think my success is due to the combination of the lectures, recipes and most of all the Personal Training. I never thought Personal Training was affordable but KMBI makes it affordable because they really care about helping us get healthy.

Thank you Kelly for the lectures, Jina & Geri for the Personal Training, Erin for all your encouragement and demonstrations and Katee for always being happy and helpful when we come in or call."

Sue Henry

12 Week Weight Loss Program (Office Manager / Concordia Lutheran Church)
"I spent the last few months of my 89 year old mother’s life assisting her, putting my health and needs aside. Spending those months in a nursing home made me realize that I now needed to take care of myself. I had gained a lot of weight and exercise was a thing of the past. My friend, Mary, told me about the new 12-Week Weight Loss Program starting at Kachmann Mind Body Institute and I signed up that day. I have never been so motivated, so fulfilled and so satisfied! Not only am I healthier and much thinner (90 pounds lighter than I was 30 years ago) but my son who joined in December, his family and my husband are also healthier because of KMBI. With Kelly’s inspiration I am now a part of personal training, yoga and strengthen and stretch classes and look forward to each one of them. What a stress relief! The support, love, care and compassion at KMBI is beyond compare!"

Marty Smith   

12 Week Weight Loss Program
"Please pass my appreciation onto Kelly. The Kachmann staff is great to work with and the information we are getting in the 12 weeks session is worth so much more than the fee. I've informed several friends about the upcoming 12 week program. It never fails that when I am with a group of friends the topic of healthy eating and taking better care of ourselves comes up. I've incorporated several of the tips we've learned into my life and know my overall health will benefit. Again, Thanks to all of you for putting together a wonderful program."

Chriss Miller   

12 Week Weight Loss Program
"Kelly, I attended your awesome session today you were so inspirational. My sisters and I started Dec. 12 and I was doing awesome, then our mom died Dec. 18th unexpectedly and amidst the sadness and pain, I've lost my "mojo". I am so motivated again because of YOU!!"

Cindy   

12 Week Weight Loss Program
"I want to tell you how much I enjoy the lectures and how I feel we are all gaining so much knowledge. I know my daughter and I are making wiser choices and trying new things. I feel like I have a good chance of finally learning how to eat healthier and getting to my goal weight with all the tools you and your staff are providing us with. It seemed like the more I read, the more confused I got regarding what to eat and what not to eat! Thanks for
all you do and have a great week! See you Saturday morning!"

Jen

Weight loss success story
"Training with Kelly helped me not only lose tons of weight (well not really tons but see picture and you kinda get the point) but also with her encouragement and my willpower, my self-esteem improved. With the personal training sessions I also got lots of nutritional information that helped me change my eating habits..."

Kelly

Weight loss success story
"My journey began years ago. I had been struggling to loose weight and never had the motivation to change my life. My daughter was 4 and I felt like I had given up on life. ..."

Ryan

Weight loss success story
"I've heard so many testimonies told over the TV and radio and I've always thought, "That couldn't happen to me!" and here I am no lie, no money, no fame...IT WORKS! Here is my story..."

Patty

Weight loss success story
"After winning an encounter against cancer I decided to get into shape. It has been a slow and gradual process, but worth every ounce of sweat. I have never felt better, looked better and been so healthy in my life...."

Jim

Weight loss success story
"I left college 10 years ago at weight of 145. Because of no exercise, And working behind a desk I hit 185, 2 years ago, I said enough. If put on any more pounds, it would be nearly impossible to go back to a fit level. I began running after work, starting slowly, just 10 minutes a day, up to my current weekly average of 60 miles. ..."

Matt

Weight loss success story
"I weighed 185 lbs. ever since I was 18 years old. I never had to do much to maintain that weight, but when I hit the end of my 20s, it started to catch up with me. In particular, when my wife became pregnant with the first of our two children, I gained almost as much weight as she did! Sympathy pounds, they call them. Only she lost hers. And then, she was pregnant again, and I gained even more pounds...

Pat

Weight loss success story
"About when I turned 50, I gave in mentally to what lies ahead-- that "middle age spread." I didn't like it, but I was resigned to having the figure my mom has(although I am so thankful to have all the rest of her traits!)..."

Terri

Weight loss success story
"Making exercise a DAILY part of my life has given me so many benefits, it would take pages to name them all. Not only has it given me my health and an outlet for stress, but I can't even begin to describe the boost in my self-confidence..."

Matt

Weight loss success story
"I think the big Inspirational thing in my case is my ability to not just run or go jogging again without pain but to become very competitive and consistently win my age group and place high the running races I have been doing in past few months. I went from a non-runner for the past 18 years to a regular on the running race circuit..."

Stacy

Weight loss success story
"Over the last 8 years I have been fairly successful at going to they gym on a regular basis and enjoyed the stress relief that it brought to my body. In my opinion, my eating habits weren't so bad either. It wasn't until my company held a health fair for their employees that I found out just how unhealthy I was..."

Tim

Weight loss success story
"I sought help with Kelly not as someone who was obese, but as someone who was always just a bit overweight. I was a lifelong yo-yo dieter and could never get over the hump to being in great shape. I was pretty physically active, but blessed with a lot of pudge I just couldn't get rid of..."

Ngozi

Weight loss success story
"I never weighed myself. I guess I accepted weight gain as something that just happened as you got older- like wrinkles. But when I hit my all time high of over 200 pounds I was stunned. The number fell on me like a bomb. That prompted me to join a gym and lose some weight..."

Yoga:

Greta Blackburn   

Editor, MS. Fitness Magazine / Television spokesperson
“The Kachmann Mind Body Institute is an oasis of calm and grooviness in the middle of the Midwest. I am constantly on the road traveling between NY and LA, but stop into the Fort whenever I can. The Kachmann Mind Body Institute is a must-stop location for me always! It is one of the nicest spaces for yoga in the country.”

Toni Kayumi

Director of Corporate Support & Marketing / PBS39 WFWA-DT/Studio 39 Productions"After a hectic day at work there is nothing like giving myself the gift of time, to focus on my own needs. I regularly attend Amber's Pilates class on Thursday evenings, and find it to be a great way to help me de-stress and stay fit. And working-out in the gallery at the Kachmann Mind Body Institute and being surrounded by all of that beautiful art certainly adds a unique atmospheric touch to the experience!"

Karen Shollenberger

AWS
“It took me a year to build up courage to call Kelly. I had fear that I couldn't "workout" and I was embarrassed about my size. I had not been active for quite awhile and when I started working out with Kelly I certainly felt the "pain." But what I also felt was renewed power and strength that I could do it. The more I lost and the stronger I became the better I felt. I had more flexibility, more strength to lift my 40 pound daughter, and more stamina. The most awesome bodily change for me is the shape it is taking. My arms have definition and my waist is really there. My metabolism actually "woke up" and I can eat some higher calorie items without gaining weight.

I am still in the middle of my journey but I feel like I have turned a corner and can really accomplish my goal of being fit and trim. My personal goal is to weigh 150-160 pounds. I have lost 45 pounds and many, many inches. I also like exercise! Kelly has such a positive outlook on life and health and she is so non judgmental. I feel supported and encouraged in my journey.”

Kristin S Davis

Wells Fargo Home Credit Solutions
"So the time had come...I started taking yoga classes. Something I always wanted to do...saw myself doing, but never really took the plunge. I've been to 4 classes so far....learning various types of yoga. With a society full of choices, yoga is not exempt. The Kachmann Mind, Body, Institute offers so many varieties of classes that to simply use the term "yoga" becomes a broad term for such a powerful experience.

I call it an "experience" because that's how it feels each time I go. After just a few classes, I can tell you - I'm hooked! Not just with the practice of yoga, but with the people I met there and the atmosphere of the studio itself. My goal as the New Year unfolds is to honor myself, my body and to take time on things that bring me joy and peace. Yoga has been that for me. I can honestly say this is something that has become a part of my life and is here to stay."

Terri Bruner

Participant Accident Claims Manager / K&K Insurance/Specialty Benefits Claims Department
"I was introduced to yoga and Pilates through classes being taught by Kelly Metzger at the fitness center where I work, K&K Insurance. I quickly became a member when Kelly opened her yoga studio, now known as the Kachmann Mind Body Institute. I quickly found that yoga was a good complement to the high energy cardio workouts that I was so familiar with. Those workouts, while beneficial for your heart and managing weight loss, were taking their toll on my body because I was not taking the time to stretch and lengthen the muscles that had worked so hard to propel me through them. Yoga classes have given me structured time to take care of those muscles and realignment of the spine. While I did notice that my flexibility improved through yoga, I will only be as flexible as my body structure allows, and that's not very much, but the most noticeable change that yoga has provided is strength as well as definition. I am not discounting the importance of weight training, but I have found that a consistent active yoga practice provides way more upper and lower body strength and will define your upper body and back much more than weight training. “