Give these elite fitness experts a month, and they can chisel almost anyone into a lean, mean, fighting machine.
Clare Phelps, a 27-year-old creamy-skinned, slim brunette dressed in black Donna Karan bicycle shorts and a bright-pink Nike sports bra is huffing and puffing on an elliptical trainer—and has been for the last fifty-five minutes. “I will wear that tiny Tracey Feith bikini on my Brazilian vacation if it kills me,” says the Boston-based real estate broker who’s enlisted the expertise of one of the city’s elite personal trainer-cum-nutritionists to help. Such eleventh-hour angst is all too common when it comes to losing weight, but for the very brave—or very desperate—there is hope. Continue reading »