Andrea Metcalf is a nationally recognized fitness expert and a popular media personality. For more than 25 years Andrea has inspired people from all walks of life to feel better and move.

As a leader in the fitness industry, Andrea has excited media widely, resulting in appearances on CNN Headline Newsmakers, CLTV and WGN-TV Chicago and weekly on NBC 5 Chicago as a member of the NBC5 Fitness Team. Most recent national appearances include the NBC TODAY SHOW, Better TV and In the Loop with iVillage and national magazine exposure in MORE magainze, Woman's Day, Woman's World, Travel Connections among many others.

What started out as a New Year’s resolution has resulted in an extraordinary lifestyle transformation.  On January 17, 2006 Dave Mellish weighed 363 pounds and was 43% body fat.  At only 34 years old and severely obese, he realized that if changes were not made his life was already more than half over.  He was recently married and entertaining the idea of starting a family.  For himself and for the future of his family, he enrolled in a weight loss class. 

He implemented simple changes in his diet and began exercising every single day.  It began as a fifteen minute walk and culminated on October 7, 2007 by running the Chicago Marathon.  In the past eighteen months he has lost nearly 150 pounds and dropped his body fat to 9.1%. 

After teaching, he entered the world of mortgages.  It was during these days when the weight began to pile on.  A lifestyle of entertaining clients and neglecting exercise really took its toll on the body.  The only way he knew that he would never put the weight back on was to leave his life in financing and enter the world of health and wellness.

Now Dave is a personal trainer at MBC Fitness and a certified SPIN instructor.  In addition, he is now one of the instructors for the “Well Centered” weight loss class that he was once a student of and looks to help others achieve the weight loss and personal gratification that he experiences everyday. 

On April 1, 2000 Joanne Rusch tipped the scale at 217 when she gave birth to her first and only child. Six months later, struggling to lose the maternity weight she had gained, Joanne was cast as a member of Good Morning America's first Lock the Door, Lose the Weight series, which aired throughout November of that year. By the fall of 2001, she had traded her size 16 closet in for a new and improved size 8.

Joanne created an inspirational website, Scaleitdown.com, to share her GMA experience,  self-published a series of cookbooks, coached weight management strategies,and penned her own column, “Find your Fit”, for Chicago Wellness Magazine, of which she is now the editor.  In Joanne’s other role as “Food Cop” she explores new products and time-saving cooking tips for NBC 5 Chicago News.

A 2 time gold medalist in World Martial Arts Championships, the recipient of the 2007 "Making A Difference". Hustle up the Hancock award from the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago. Fitness and Martial Arts instructor with over 20 years of experience.