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Kiona W. Leah

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Master T-Tapp Trainer – Certified in, Total, Floor, More and Ladybug, Senior Fit Workouts, YYC Intro and Cellulite Removal System

Professional Engineer – MD Registration # 29898

Or You Can Read My Story Here

As a professionally licensed engineer I have always lived a large part of my life driving for perfection to compete as a woman in a male-dominated field. This drive would show up in my private life when, I would stare into a mirror agonizing for hours over the bulges on my body, my stomach wasn’t flat, my saddlebags were disgusting and I felt like a COW! I wished I could be a smaller size and more toned like the fashion and movie icons of Hollywood.


	When I took the Body for Life Challenge at my gym, it was my first structured fitness program. I approached it like an analytical engineer would, giving up activities I loved such as water aerobics and dancing because, while they had brought me joy; they were no longer effective enough. Instead I worked out 2 to 3 hours a day, 6 days a week doing hardcore cardio and weight training and restricted everything I ate to high protein, no fat, and no carbs and even less taste. I would allow myself one cheat day every 10 days during which I would binge on restricted foods and then take harsh laxatives, fiber supplements, or do extra workouts to pay penance. I eventually dropped down to such a low weight that for 14 months I couldn’t maintain a female cycle. The thought of putting on even a single ounce terrified me because the only source of self esteem I had became tied to the fact that even a size 4 was becoming too big for my 5’-8” frame. All the other joy and pride in my life was over shadowed even though my future husband adored me and I had the courage to start my own personal training business in my 20’s. My world was lonely and desolate and I was so skinny friends started to worry and whisper. A place I hope no one ever has to go, but too many of us DO.

	Under crushing stress trying to make ends meet my binging on those off days was getting worse and I was gaining as much as 9-lbs in a single day. Eventually those days became more frequent and eventually overtook the anorexia/bulimia. Every day I pretended to eat the perfect diet and exercise because that’s what trainers do, but every night I went home to eat cakes, cookies, ice cream, and any other sugar I could find, too exhausted and depressed to work out. My life was a lie. In my desperation I tried liquid protein fasts, Ketosis, raw foods and every “Natural” weight loss supplement I could find. When I ballooned up past a size 16 I stopped looking at sizes but didn’t stop binging. The sizes kept piling on and I couldn’t lose them because my metabolism was destroyed; nothing worked. Until I found T-Tapp.

	Over the past 6 years with T-Tapp I have lost weight consistently, steadily, and evenly. I learned to love and appreciate the natural curves I am blessed with. I accepted that even though the goal of washboard abs for a short waist was unreasonable, I could still look fantastic. But I didn’t know how fabulous until one morning after a day of helping and participating in clinics I wandered into the bathroom to take a shower and caught a glimpse in the mirror of a FOUR PACK. I barely had one when I was starving to death, but THERE it WAS! I haven’t dieted in 2 years, I savor my food, I rarely eat until I’m stuffed (unless we’re talking pizza and popcorn at the movies with my hubby on Fri night) and I am NEVER deprived of chocolate! I rarely work out more than 20-minutes except when I teach my classes. I still work a 40-50 hour week in engineering, have T-Tapp clients and classes, my beloved dance classes, and chorus every night after work except Friday.

I have kept my promise I made to myself to heal from my eating disorders. I have learned to be consistent, usually that means 15-20 minutes 4 times a week but sometimes it’s just two moves a day. I eat smart and try to be healthy but never perfect. I focus on doing every workout to my maximum and being a Black Belt in my T-Tapp Basics. I believed in myself and never gave up and I never could have DREAMED that I could have washboard abs, KEEP my feminine figure AND never count a calorie… but I have more than the body I ever dreamed possible with JUST the workout and I hope everyone in the WORLD finds what I have found through T-Tapp!

Would YOUR Knee have Survived?

Keep in mind he’s 6’-4” tall so here I’m over 4’ off the ground . Well mine didn’t exactly either...You can see when I landed my left knee (on the right on the screen) wobbled and the foot is still facing forward. My meniscus, medial collateral ligament and patellar tendons were partially torn and several of the ligaments stretched and strained...however, watch the video I kept dancing for a while….because T-Tapp made me strong enough to minimize damage and be stable. Full recovery, without surgery...Yes I CAN!!!

What did I do to rebuild my knee?

I thought I would share with everyone what I did to rebuild my knee without surgery to show that YES YOU CAN! You can see from the pictures that my knee took quite a pounding, but I did not require nor did I get surgery, but here is a summary of what I DID do to re-build my knee, without surgery and how quickly the body can rebuild.

The final prognosis per Dr. Chad Blaker, Raquel Rosas, Hp and Heather Ruth LAc was that there were partial tears in the Medial Meniscus, the Patellar Tendon and the Tibial Collateral Ligament. Because I had lost my job 8 days prior to the accident my insurance was up in the air and by the time it was straightened out Dr. Chad advised that an MRI would not reveal the original damage and was not worth the time or money so none was taken, all exams were from external features and Ashii points in acupuncture.

But without surgery I was off two crutches in 6 days and a single crutch in 4 more days. Total time on crutches was 10 days. Then my doctor advised me to walk slowly on the leg instead to keep the body in better alignment and start to strengthen the joint.

A summary of my treatments is as follows:

Chiropractic adjustments from Dr. Chad Blaker—weekly for 6 weeks stretched to 10 days after that and 3 weeks after that, total treatments 7 to date

Homeopathic Lymphatic Drainage and Inflammation work by Raquel Rosas, Hp—Bi weekly ongoing total treatments 6 to date

Acupuncture with Heather Ruth LAc—biweekly for first treatments then extended to monthly and then to every 5 or 6 weeks, total treatments 3 for injury recovery

Massage with Amanda Parr– weekly once the joint was strong enough to handle a massage then extended to monthly for normal body maintenance, total treatments 2

Reflexology with Jae Sook Cohen—once per treatment thus far, additional treatments anticipated bimonthly, total treatments 1 to date

And I never would have been as lucky to sustain such MINOR injury if it weren’t for the T-Tapp workout. Prior to the injury I was doing the Basic Workout Plus some floor work for myself and teaching classes primarily consisting of the Basic Workout and occasional Floor work. So luckily I was VERY strong or I would have definitely torn things a LOT more than I did! After the injury my workouts changed a bit and have continued to evolve to evoke the exercises I NEED to continue my progress

A summary of my workouts each week is as follows:

Week 1—Floor work on my back consisting of awesome legs stretches and modified AL moves, also straddle stretches and ab work with legs up

Week 2—Chair workout of most of Basic Plus and continued work on the floor with Awesome Legs and Straddles

Week 3– Basic Plus except for T-Tapp Twist and Hoedowns, modified as necessary. Some work still on straddle stretches. Addition of 10 laps in the pool and water walking

Week 4—Basic Plus, entire workout including T-Tapp Twist and Hoedowns, addition of some Floor Moves Organs in Place, Half Frogs and Ladybug plus increase swimming to 12 laps and water walking

Week 5—Same as Week 4, excluding swimming because of allergic reaction to chlorine in the pool

Week 6—MORE workout to help really build strength in the leg, including Fencing Lunges and One-Legged Balance Move

Week 7—same as week 6 except added back in Floor exercises of Organs in Place, Half Frogs, Elevators, LadyBug and Craw Claws

Week 8—advised to do single legged squats on a balance ball by Dr. Chad so workout became more demanding focusing on Instructional 2 and included Primary Back Stretch, Plies, Lunges, all THREE sets, Balance, all FOUR sets, Air Planes, Thread the Needle and Runners Stretch, occasional addition of floor work from Week 7

Week 9—Continued regimen from Week 8

And of course the MOST important questions answered...when did I get my LIFE back...things like driving my stick shift car, walking, dancing, getting in and out of the car easily and moving around the house really became a challenge for a while. They taught me to appreciate how easily I moved before and those things returned as follows

Driving my Stick Shift—about 3 weeks getting in and out of a car easily about 4 weeks.

Walking—10 days

Dancing—Went to my first dance in 3 weeks, I danced the Hokey Pokey. My next dance was 10 days later, I danced 5 songs, 10 days later I danced 15 at a dance and 2 weeks following I returned to the dance floor for GOOD...total time off the dance floor 7weeks until I could enjoy a full night of dancing and I competed again in 8 weeks, made finals!

And just for good measure, the supplements I took were as follow. Note NONE are pain killers: Rotozyme (Homeopathic Anti Inflammatory and Protolytic Enzyme), Inflammenz (similar to Rotozyme), Nikken Joint Complex, LigaPlex I and II, T_Tapp Alfalfa, BioEnergetics Protolytic Enzyme, Melaluca Joint Complex. Topical—Nikken CM Cream, Arnica Prophen, Bio-Freeze, Muscle Mist, Magnesium Oil and Traumeel, Epsom Salts, Essential Oils, Pomegranate and Peroxide. Everything all natural or homeopathic!

Kiona's 60-day T-Tapp Challenge 2005

My biggest goal for the challenge was to keep my perspective and achieve results without dieting. In the first 14-days I did a boot camp of various workouts, sometimes a full hour, but sometimes all I could squeeze in was the 15-minute workout. By the 9^th day I had seen more results in my legs, hips and butt than in the first 6 WEEKS of my first challenge. In 11 days I could see the tone in my arms and shoulders that rivaled my weight training days. By the time I was done with the 14 days I had already lost nearly 6 inches without altering my diet in any way!

At the end of the 60- days am the most fit I have ever been in my life and I eat to enhance my health and enjoyment, instead of full of fear and anxiety over my weight. In 60 days I had MORE results with JUST T-Tapp than in 90-days of starving myself and working out intensely. I no longer worry about gaining anything because I KNOW it can disappear through T-Tapp without any feelings of deprivation. I have my life back, I have my joy back and I have a Better Body Basically!