If their house looks like what you’ll see below, chances are good that they like to keep up on their own version of continuing ed.

I fear that my local library thinks I try to wipe them out every time I go there. I went to the library this week to innocently return two books and pick up two that I had on hold.

I may or may not have needed a ‘shopping basket’. (They actually have baskets like the kind you carry around in the grocery store.  And yes, I used one.  That Gary Null book is 1146 pages and HEAVY.)

This pile was heavy enough that my car’s passenger seat sensor thought I had an unbelted passenger along for the ride and beeped at me all the way home.

I used to say I became a personal trainer simply so that I could start DEDUCTING the cost of all my health/fitness books as business expenses.  :)   (OK, that and maybe I like the “uniform” of Nike shoes and baseball caps!)

Just kidding…

In reality, you will notice that in the “About Shari” section of my blog I have a sentence that reads, “If there is a fitness and nutrition book out there, chances are it’s sitting on my bookshelf right now!” Let me present to you the proof.

My home office:

The kitchen nook:

The coat closet (yes, the coat closet):

By my bed (I spy a THRIVE book..Brendan Brazier I hope you feel special) – my Kindle is also there and that counts for a good 50 books  ;)

Spare bedroom closet:

By the couch:

(I won’t even show you a picture of the clear plastic bins of books in the crawl space:  partly because I’m scared of the crawl space, and partly because the number of books down there is embarrassing.  Perhaps a bit less embarrassing than having just told you that I am scared of my own crawl space.)  :D

The moral of this blog post?  (Well aside from the very obvious fact that I need to turn our guest bedroom into a library.  Or the even more obvious fact that I might have a bit of an addiction to healthy living books.)

It’s that I am a student of nutrition as it relates to disease prevention, healthy living and fitness.  I study it in some way, shape or form EVERY day.  So when you come to FitFeat and read that you should add a green smoothie to your day, or cut back on cow’s dairy, or try a certain type of exercise, you know you can trust that I’m telling you to do the same things that I do to care for my own body and the bodies of my clients.

Continuing education isn’t just about maintaining the required number of annual credits.  I LIVE this lifestyle about which I coach.  I have a PASSION for it and a THIRST for making sure I stay informed on current knowledge as well as varying viewpoints.  My main coaching priority for clients is that they aim for health first, before the weight loss or muscle building part.

All that said, I better scoot!  It seems I have a little ‘light’ reading to do!

Have a GREAT day, friends!

– Shari B. =)

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Shari Becht is a Fit Living Coach and an ACE Certified Personal Trainer offering coaching services to people across the U.S.  She is extremely passionate about teaching her clients how to start making small changes every day to their own lives, built around steps customized to fit their needs.

If you or someone you know could benefit from Shari’s coaching, please feel free to email her at shari [at] fitfeat [dot] com.  For more information, click here.

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