Interviewer: I may now in a place where you have adaptation of being very successful having people loss weight the correct way. Is that true?
Female 1: Yes.
Interviewer: What is the name of your place.
Female 1: The name of office is called Weight No More Diet Center.
Interviewer: And when did it start?
Female 1: 16 ½ years ago but I have been in the Weight Loss Business for almost 25 years.
Interviewer: Well, let us look at this. You try to help people live a better life is that correct?
Female 2: That is cool when your life is changing (Voice overlap)
Interviewer: Okay, so that is obvious. Okay.
Female 2: Right.
Interviewer: What made you decide, this is what you want to get into. Is there anything that happen very long ago?
Female 1: Yes, something is specifically did happen.
Interviewer: Its like you share it with us?
Female 1: I was always a very slim woman and then about 46, 47, 48 in the Perimenopausal. I put on.
Interviewer: That is not in 1946, it is in, I mean you are more than 46 years old.
Female 1: Alright. I will be 74 years old.
Interviewer: I would never thought that far fidelity.
Female 1: And I started to gain a little weight. And I have been into the dance business and I.
Interviewer: Well, excuse me. You had a Dance Studio?
Female 1: I had two dance studios at children’s gymnastics performance. Goes to visit the vision
Interviewer: So, you went to a regimented exercise program.
Female 1: I was with a little physical fitness business and I thought I would be skinny forever and towards the late 40s, I started to put on some weight. But all professional dancers are 8 to 10 pounds on there weigh and I thought I never gain weight. And I did and then, I gain some more and they were starting to the first time of my life about 49 years old to diet. And I need more go way the weight watches over the reading.
Interviewer: What was available then? You are talking?
Female 1: There were very few places of available except weight watches and things like that. It was an ideal weight, it was not a business years ago.
Interviewer: But what was your negative thing to a problem like.
Female 1: I am a private person.
Interviewer: Also you did not go through?
Female 1: I really did not want to sit, in a large group of people that I did not care about and I knew that because of my tough personality. I needed something more precise. (Voice overlap)
Interviewer: All that this at piece of a person.
Female 1: No. I needed something one on one but the funny thing is, is my closes’ friend worked for a very, very, very big diet doctor in Brooklyn. I would not mention his name. I could have gone for free to had injections or pills and that was very.(Voice overlap)
Interviewer: Wait, wait, wait, what. In those days, no, no, no. no.(voice overlap)
Female 1: Very popular then.
Interviewer: In those days, no, no, no, no.
Female 1: Pills and injections.
Interviewer: Diet doctors mainly it came in. he did nothing, he will take the blood pressure maybe. He gave in some Infeminines.
Female 2: Right.
Female 1: Absolutely.
Interviewer: Maybe some Seconol because you could not sleep with infeminines.
Female 1: Definitely and my girl friend worked for this very nationally known doctor and I just saw he did.
Interviewer: Then it make sense to you?
Female 1: No, I was afraid. I did not agree and I knew if I was gaining weight. In my late 40s, and I could not gained weight before. I better learn how to eat if there was a chance in hell of me chipping weight off.
Interviewer: Okay, common.
Female 1: That I knew!
Interviewer: To rev the point, you had this idea. What did you do next?
Female 1: I went to a medical nutritionist recommended my colleagues of mine. At that time, I was in the personnel business of Santa Blanca and I went to this medical nutritionists. And I paid, a lot of money I was not covered and I saw him two-three a week. And not only did I loss the weight but for the first time of my life I was on a diet and then, I took a few courses, I got interested in nutrition, and I took a few courses at Brooklyn College on Nutrition, some Biology, some Science just to play around with it. Not interested in the curricula. I was making a lot of money as a headhunter and.
Interviewer: Why did you say each getting people jobs? (voice overlap)
Female 1: A lot of people thought that I was very successful at it and after getting involve with the nutrition, with my own weight problem losing all the weight. Seeing a nutritionist two-three times a week. Picking his brain, getting involve in that subject. I quit my job in that career and I took a job in the weight loss business at a minimum wage 25 years ago. It was $3.15 an hour and I left of $65,000.00 year job.
Interviewer: Which you find doubled today at (voice overlap)
Female 2: Right!
Female 1: Right! Because, yeah, and that was the time I always like to tell people. Juvy Carter was President and it was inflation was 18%, 19% there were no jobs and I was very successful that first year. And I got his Weight Loss Business.
Interviewer: Okay, so now you work for a particular company?
Female 1: I work for particular company that long since out.
Interviewer: Okay. Okay, okay, will still stop. Since you work here, what did you see your like and what did you see you did not like? Your fitness looks boast you a bit what we call a way of people losing weight. Whatever you want to call it. What they do, you did not like?
Female 1: I like the fact that they saw people, excuse me. Two, three times a week but it was private service but they also sold supplements and some food. And that I did not like but it was my first entry level job into the weight loss business and I could afford to do it besides the things (Voice overlap).
Interviewer: Okay, let us stop at that. Okay, the food. You did not like the food because you feel this is the way in making money for them and that.
Female 1: Right.
Female 2: Absolutely.
Female 1: I felt that people got hang up on it. There was some magic that was in the food that was getting thin. They did not work as hard at losing weight but I still was supporting myself. And I was learning the industry I like.
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