My phone call with the president!

I just got off the phone with Marcia Upson, the President of Naturally Slim!!

I had gotten an email from her the other day asking if it would be okay for her to call me. WHAT?! OF COURSE! HOLY COW! So we finally got in touch today.

I had no idea why she wanted to talk to me, but turns out she learned I was jealous that Brad (a Tivo friend) got to meet her when he filmed his testimonial last week! (He lives in Texas where NS is headquartered so he was able to go in to record his testimonial in person and ended up meeting and having lunch with Marcia.) So she said “Well I can call her!” 🙂

She also wanted to congratulate me on my success thus far, thank me for (in her words) my amazing testimonial (link coming as soon as they produce it), and just have a nice chat! It was all a bit of a blur, but according to my call log, we talked for 22 minutes—while she was on the treadmill, no less!—and she’s just as warm and gracious and lovely as you’d imagine her to be. What a pleasure.

We talked about the kids (she loves age 3!), hubby (she was excited for me when I said I now weigh less than him), my video testimonial (she really really loved it—said it felt very honest and heartfelt), the reason why the program price went up (since they are now affiliated with insurance companies, they have to do a yearly program with a cost per class and that’s how much it comes to), and the Tivo group (she loves that we have a spreadsheet—she’s amazed that we have so many people that have lost so much weight).

I told her they really need to find a celebrity spokesperson—like Oprah just did Weight Watchers and their stock went bananas and she thought that was a good idea. I told her I had a famous name but wasn’t famous so I wouldn’t be much help and she admitted that when she was first told about me, she did momentarily wonder. 🙂

She asked what videos I saw and I told her THE MARCIA VIDEOS and we talked a bit about that. I told her she was just SO much more relatable than a random doctor ever could be and I couldn’t imagine them without her. Like you were talking to a neighbor who’d been there instead of someone in a white coat telling you what has to happen. She basically said this is her baby…her life…and will NEVER let them force her out of the videos!

I admitted I was frustrated to have only lost 10# in two months (after losing that much in as little as three weeks before), but that it was still 10# and each week that I lost a tiny bit I envisioned her holding up the ounce or pound fat blob (the last pic is a 5# blob).

She said she knows I will have no problem losing the rest of my goal.

I told her to let me know if there’s anything I can ever do. She said I already have—the testimonial I did was amazing. She then told me to contact her if I ever need anything. 🙂

I told her today was a banner day for me—Onederland PLUS meeting and talking to her! She was very supportive and enthusiastic about Onderland and very gracious about my excitement to meet her.

Lastly I thanked her for saving my life with Naturally Slim and she was genuinely moved.

What an amazing person and a wonderful experience.