Weight Loss For Women: empowering health, strength and nourishment · Kitty Blomfield

#355 - How Kelly Lost 25 Lbs, Built Muscle + Transformed Her Confidence as a Single Mum of 3 (Without Giving Up Carbs or Pizza!) with Kelly Schlect

September 10, 2025·25 min·2 clips

Kelly, a single mom of three, lost 25 pounds and built muscle without cutting carbs or pizza.

1. Weight Loss for Women host Kitty Blankfield interviews client Kelly, a 38-year-old single mother of three, on her nine-month transformation using the New Strength and Saturay group coaching program. 2. Kelly had no prior strength training or macro tracking experience, and came to the program nine months after the birth of her third child when post-pregnancy weight was not coming off on its own as it had after her first two pregnancies. 3. Kelly weighed 160 lbs at approximately 33% body fat when she started in August of the prior year; at time of recording she weighed 135 lbs at 22% body fat — 25 lbs lost and 11% body fat reduction in nine months. 4. Her goal is 130 lbs at 20% body fat, meaning she was within five pounds of her weight goal and two percentage points of her body fat goal at the time of recording. 5. Kelly had followed Blankfield on social media for approximately a year and a half before joining, and entered through a free 28-day challenge that let her test the approach without a major financial commitment. 6. She began training exclusively with dumbbells at home — a set purchased for approximately $250-300 plus a weight bench — because going to a gym as a single mother of three was logistically difficult to schedule reliably. 7. Within one to two months of starting the program, Kelly noticed visible muscle development in her legs while sitting in shorts, describing it as seeing 'muscles I'd never had before.' 8. Three months before this recording, she purchased a barbell and weight rack after outgrowing the dumbbell program, and described her first barbell deadlift as an emotional milestone of athletic identity. 9. Kelly identified one of her most surprising initial findings: she had been significantly overconsumming fat — full-fat yogurt, heavy butter — relative to her macro targets, and adjusting this while increasing protein and carbohydrates produced consistent one-to-two pound weekly losses that felt 'not that hard.' 10. Daily step targets of 10,000 steps were the first change she noticed improving her energy, even in the context of broken sleep and three children. 11. Kelly tracked food using the program's app, which also contained instructional exercise videos she used when learning new movements; she describes the consistency of repeating the same monthly program as the key to building exercise proficiency quickly. 12. She did not follow the program perfectly — she took untracked days like Easter, had cinnamon rolls, still eats pizza and dessert in moderate portions — and describes this as compatible with continued progress. 13. Meal planning with three children was managed by making her own meals independently, often prepping two to three days at a time, with some overlap with the family's food and some divergence when children didn't like her options. 14. Kelly credits the group coaching calls hosted by Craig specifically for her emotional resilience during plateau periods: when the scale stopped moving, Craig told her to 'just keep going,' and she would often lose two to three pounds in the following week. 15. The most significant transformation Kelly describes is not physical: she reports a major boost in self-confidence from completing a structured program successfully, and improved emotional presence with her children from being nourished rather than running on whatever food she could grab. 16. Her son asked her how long she planned to keep lifting weights; she told him 'forever' and described intending to still be lifting at age 80. 17. The episode is conversational and testimonial-focused, with Blankfield prompting Kelly through key milestones and Kelly providing candid, specific before-and-after data throughout. 18. The tone is enthusiastic but grounded in concrete numbers — Kelly provides specific weights, body fat percentages, timelines, costs, and session durations rather than vague encouragement. 19. Single mothers or time-constrained women who have never started a structured nutrition and training program and need evidence that it is achievable at home with minimal equipment will find Kelly's story directly applicable. 20. Women with prior training experience or those already familiar with macro tracking and progressive overload will find little new technical content in this client testimonial format.

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A practical fat-loss story that treats muscle, consistency, and real life as part of the same picture.

Kelly's story stays grounded in the practical side of weight loss: a steady program, getting stronger week by week, and watching her body change without falling back on restrictive dieting.

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