RMOF: Melanie Murphy

July 2006

Hi! My name is Melanie Murphy and I was just crowned Miss Ohio 2006! I will proudly represent the state of Ohio in January in the 2007 Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas. It has been a fun, yet busy time, preparing for the Miss Ohio contest. I had some help along the way, especially from my fitness and nutrition coach, John Henry Creel.

I met John Henry about a year ago when I was a member of the 2005-2006 Cleveland Cavalier Dance Team. I have been a dancer and exercised most of my life. However, John Henry was the first trainer to teach me the critical role nutrition has in both mental and physical fitness. When he first took my body fat, it was 23% and I wore a size 4-6. After about four months of weight training 3-4 days per week, some dynamic cardio activity mixed in, and eating 5 meals per day, my body fat decreased to 17%. My weight pretty much stayed the same, but I dropped to a size 2-4! I couldn't believe it! I always thought, like I'm sure most people do, that muscle weighs more than fat and is bulky. However, I learned that this is false information. Muscle and fat weigh the same, and muscle actually takes up 8x less space in the body than fat. Who would have thought?

John Henry continued to educate me on what was occuring to my body as I continued to weight train and eat a lot more food than I was used to. His motivation and training gave me the confidence in who I am and in the way I look. This is very important when you are dancing in short skirts in front of millions of people on television and competing in the bathing suit contest (which I won first place in!) at the Miss Ohio competition.

Thank you John Henry for not only being the greatest fitness, nutrition and life coach, but for also being a great friend!

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