New You Resolution update
Week 5
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From left: Kimberley Everett, David Peck, Kathryn Burkholder, and Michael and Pam Kirkbride.
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What you can learn from our participants' progress, according to their trainers and health experts:
•Schedule early morning workouts -- Don't skip them.
•Mimic deep-frying foods by crunching up cornflakes, adding a tablespoon of olive oil and simmering in a skillet.
•Cut 100 calories a day and you can ward off the one or two pounds most people gain each year.
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(CNN) -- During the eight weeks of the New You Resolution program, CNN will check in with the participants and report on their progress, problems or any worries they might have. Below are updates for Week 5:
Kimberley Everett
As Kimberley Everett heads into week five of her New You Resolution, her days are even fuller, but she's also trimmer.
Melinda Gore, Kimberley's trainer, measured Kim's waist and found she'd lost five inches. Kim fits in workouts around two jobs -- six days a week, sometimes before the sun rises, sometimes as it sets.
And dietician Sonya Rusnak calls each day to see if Kim is entering every bite into her food diary, and forgoing fatty favorites like chicken fingers and mozzarella sticks.
Kim's new way of eating is revealed by comparing two lunches at her favorite lunch stop.
"Last time you had the baked potato soup. It was almost 200 calories and ten grams of fat," Sonya explains. "This time you've made a winning choice with the chicken noodle soup. Now you're talking about 100 calories and about 2 grams of fat."
Also, Cooking Light magazine editor and dietician Krista Montgomery showed Kim how to fry catfish in a batter of cornflakes and olive oil, in a light-breaded style. Each serving is only 320 calories and 11 grams of fat, but as Krista says, "it's good fat because it's from olive oil."
The hardest challenge for Kim so far?
"I miss fried foods," she says, "and it's the time. Two jobs. Working out. Packing lunch. I have no time."
But she says she knows this is just an adjustment period to make a lifetime of healthy habits.
Kathryn Burkholder
Kathryn Burkholder says she's starting to feel like a non-smoker now.
"I'm definitely more successful than I've ever been before and I'm more calm," she says.
Yoga at home helps her de-stress and she's walking daily, too.
"Even if I don't have time to really exercise, I still go out every day, even if it's just for 15 or 20 minutes."
At a home visit from her mentors at the stop smoking program Intervent, she learned how to cook some healthy, low-fat dishes, like chicken piccata and black bean chili. Kathryn found the low-fat dishes to be "surprisingly good."
It's all part of a plan to help Kathryn control her weight now that she's given up smoking.
"There are no foods which are completely forbidden," says registered dietician Kim Allen. "It's a matter of how much and how often."
David Peck
David Peck's kitchen is now a healthy haven after a visit from Cooking Light magazine to "de-fat" his family recipes, including a good-for-you version of chili cheese puffs for Super Bowl night.
It's all part of Dave's "New You" diet, which includes heart healthy helpings of Omega-3, unsaturated fats and soy protein.
"All three of them can help decrease his risk of heart disease," says Cooking Light's Krista Montgomery.
And he's inching closer to his college weight. Dave dropped two more pounds this week, for a total loss of seven pounds, and his workouts are up to almost six days a week.
Pam and Michael Kirkbride
Even between Michael's new job and sleep-training baby Olivia, the Kirkbrides are finding time to squeeze in their workouts.
"The stomach needs to start shrinking," explains Pam.
But making time for healthy meals is still an area to work on.
Lisa Bain, from Parenting magazine, gave them some quick and easy cooking tips.
"If you can do two chickens at once, you'll have enough leftovers for the rest of the week," Bain advised.
But have the Kirkbrides kept up the cooking?
"It's hard because we're hungry all the time," says Michael.
"Between this and the exercise, the meals kind of go to the wayside," says Pam.
