Lifetime La Grange Park resident and LTHS grad Megan Sandilands has gone from facing obesity-related health risks to being a fitness role-model and inspiration at Oasis Women's Fitness & Spa.
Lifetime La Grange Park resident and LTHS grad Megan Sandilands has gone from facing obesity-related health risks to being a fitness role-model and inspiration at Oasis Women's Fitness & Spa.
Megan Sandilands' wake-up call during a track-and-field physical her junior year at Lyons Township High School: The doctor informed her that, due to her weight, she was in the 99th percentile for risk of developing Type II diabetes. Sandilands didn’t want diabetes, and she didn’t want to be overweight anymore. Joining her hometown La Grange Park’s Oasis Women’s Fitness & Spa while going on Jenny Craig, she began a program that would eventually help her shed the weight of a small adult—110 lbs—and lead to a job as Oasis’ newest personal trainer. “It definitely has come full-circle,” Sandilands marveled. “People use my workouts as motivation. … It seems unbelievable that I’m considered one of the fit friends. My life has completely changed…
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Nikki Randa
5:33 pm on Saturday, February 2, 2013
I wish I had a trainer like Megan!!! And she is right how anybody can do anything as long as they believe in themselves and try. I once heard I wise man, ShayCarl (he vloggs on Youtube) say something like this: "The secret to success is hidden behind cliches." All the things you hear like "Don't stop till it is done", "You will feel better once you put it behind you", "The only thing holding you … more ›