{"id":2324,"date":"2025-07-14T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personaltrainerfoodblog.com\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2026-02-02T23:38:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:38:41","slug":"ptf-ceo-inspired-by-walk-the-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/ptf-ceo-inspired-by-walk-the-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Would your CEO post a shirtless selfie? Here’s why ours did!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By:\u00a0Gunner Shroy<\/strong>
\nCustomer Support,\u00a0Personal Trainer Food<\/em><\/p>\n

Personal Trainer Food CEO and Founder Mike Starks recently took off his shirt, snapped a selfie, and immediately sent it to the CEOs of Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem, Medifast, and Jenny Craig.<\/p>\n

What for? Inspired by our Walk the Walk challenge, Mike is challenging the CEOs of those companies to eat their own foods for 90 days. He will do the same with Personal Trainer Food.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t been following our Walk the Walk challenge, click here to see how a group of PTF employees collectively lost 170 pounds in 28 days!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Mike is 52 and has been eating the Personal Trainer Food way for years.\u00a0This is what it’s done for him:<\/p>\n

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In 2005, Mike Starks lost 55 pounds the Personal Trainer Food way. Today, at age 52, Mike easily maintains a 6-7% bodyfat eating Personal Trainer Food every day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s a copy of the open letter from Mike addressed to the CEOs of those companies…<\/p>\n

\"PTF_LETTER\"Do you think the CEOs of those other weight-loss meal plans will take Mike up on his shirtless challenge? Could they follow their own plan for 90 days without cheating?<\/p>\n

We want to know, too! (Stay tuned: we\u2019ll be sure to keep you posted if they take him up on the dare.)<\/p>\n

Personal Trainer Food is founded on the idea of walking the walk\u2014Mike wouldn\u2019t ask you do to something he wouldn\u2019t do himself. In fact, the whole idea for Personal Trainer Food came about when Mike used these exact principle and guidelines to help his wife lose over 55 pounds.<\/p>\n

As the idea for Personal Trainer Food came together, one of the most important things that Mike and his wife found is that in order for clients to be successful, the food must be easy to prepare and, more importantly, it MUST be something you can stick to and that teaches you how to eat right for the long term.<\/p>\n

Who wants to eat boxed TV dinners, bland dehydrated food, or chalky shakes every day? Certainly not Mike!<\/p>\n

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We stand behind our foods so much that we eat them here every day. If you have chatted or emailed anyone on our team, you are talking to someone who eats the very same Personal Trainer Food you do. Personal Trainer Food provides breakfast and lunch for employees during their shifts, and many of us also order the meal plans to eat and home and share with our families!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we are always working to bring you a wide selection of great tasting foods, pre-cooked and flash frozen to keep all the flavor and nutrients, in every meal plan we offer\u2014we want you to enjoy your meals while you develop healthy, lifelong habits.<\/p>\n

We want you to be successful and keep the weight off for good.<\/p>\n

P.S. Do you have a selfie you want to share with us? \u00a0We would love to see what Personal Trainer Food has done for you too! Email your photo to\u00a0WeightLossCoach@PersonalTrainerFood.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Be like Mike! Get your 6-pack abs today eating great food!<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"About the Writer<\/strong>
\nGunner has long had an interest in healthy eating and nutrition. As a professional Yoga Teacher and Ski Instructor, he had to find a way of eating that made it easy to maintain his weight and keep his energy sustained when engaged in these demanding activities for long periods of time. Through experimenting with his own eating habits and different dietary plans, Gunner found that eating along the Personal Trainer Food guidelines helped him to meet these goals.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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