Mark Baker is the founder of the Baker Lifestyle Change Program, a weight loss initiative that helps people lose 10-20 pounds in 30 days, without exercise.
Growing up, Mark moved around a lot.
From the time he was born until he was ten, he lived in Louisville, Kentucky.
Then from ten to fourteen, he and his mom lived in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans, but when she later got transferred at work, they moved to Walnut Creek, California, a city that is approximately 15 miles from Oakland.
Through it all, Mark developed into an athletic and academic prodigy, lettering in five different varsity sports in high school while also graduating with a 3.8 GPA.
“I was in mostly AP classes,” notes Mark, who after high school could have done practically anything.
That’s how gifted and diligent he is.
With an array of options to choose from, Mark opted to enroll at the prestigious Stanford University, where he would study Biology and walk-on to the football team.
Right away, Mark threw himself into his studies and progressed on the football field, to the point where he was slated to earn a scholarship that would wipe out his student loans and grant him essentially a free education.
“But then I hurt my hip, and things changed,” Mark says.
Once he injured his hip, that limited his ability to stand out on the gridiron, and receiving an athletic scholarship never materialized.
Realizing that without a scholarship his student loans would be sizeable, Mark left Stanford and transferred to the University of Louisville, where he eventually graduated.
He still had ambitions of becoming a doctor, so he went to U of L School of Medicine. After passing USMLE boards one and two, a slew of unexpected events led to him leaving medical school one rotation shy of graduating.
For many, not becoming a medical professional would cause severe duress, but the affable and charismatic Mark simply recalibrated, landing in pharmaceutical sales, an industry he has thrived in for the last 25 years while also establishing an impressive real estate portfolio.
“Sales fit my background and personality,” Mark humbly informs me.
Throughout his quarter-century of experience in pharmaceutical sales, Mark accrued a depth of knowledge about human interactions, but given his medical background, it’s no surprise that he also absorbed valuable insights regarding ways people can effectively manage their health.
At the same time, due to several sports injuries he sustained over the years, Mark underwent surgeries to repair his rotator cuff, back, and Achilles tendon.
“Most people don’t know that even when you have elective surgery, there’s still trauma to your body,” the Louisville grad says, adding that these procedures cause an individual’s metabolism to increase, which results in most people consuming extra food that, if not monitored, can lead to significant weight gain.
For the cerebral Mark, he took a proactive approach and easily shed any excess weight accrued during the periods he had surgery, and now, armed with that firsthand experience and knowledge, Mark helps others, whether they’re going under the knife or not, lose weight and feel good.
Much of what Mark does today with his lifestyle change program is assess how much food people are consuming, a straightforward process that also yields relatively straightforward answers.
“In most cases, we learn that with clients, their caloric intake and output are off,” Mark says.
“Essentially, people are consuming too many calories for the amount that they are burning.”
In other words, clients are overeating.
“For a lot of people, they eat based on emotions and how they feel, and that’s not healthy,” Mark mentions.
“Food is fuel, and just like with a car, you have to put the right fuel in your body in order to allow it to function properly.”
In that way, Mark advises his clients not to eat for pleasure, but purpose.
“We take medicine because we need to stay healthy, and not necessarily because we like the taste of it or the process of consuming pills,” Mark says.
“It’s the same thing with food. When people start looking at how food makes them feel versus how it tastes, that’s when they will see breakthroughs, provided they stick to their dietary regimen.”
And what makes Mark’s lifestyle change program effective is that his methodology is not complicated, so much so that in 30 days Mark is confident his clients can rewire their habits and achieve modest success.
“That’s if you really buy into the process though,” he emphasizes.
“My program has worked for me and it has worked for my clients, but if a potential client doesn’t want to alter their habits or put in the work, they won’t benefit from my program.”
Mark, who is also the author of Baker’s Guide to the Chess Game of Life, says that his ideal client is 30-50 pounds overweight, because at that point he can help them lose 10-20 pounds in 30 days, without exercise.
“It’s actually fairly easy to lose 10-20 pounds in 30 days, but what most people won’t tell you is that to lose the next 10 or 20 pounds over the course of 60 or 90 days, that’s where the real challenge lies, and that’s where my program can help get people to the next level,” Mark explains.
Recently, Mark had a client who lost 40 pounds, but after 45 days, she hit a wall, which ironically can be considered a good thing, because like all worthwhile ventures in life, to achieve ideal outcomes, one must be willing to push themselves further than most are willing to go.
“For that client, she had become more fit, so once she dropped the 40 pounds, she had to work much harder in order to continue to lose additional weight,” Mark says.
It’s clear that Mark’s program produces results, which is why clients elect to invest in his program.
At present, he has three different tiers that he offers clients, with prices that fluctuate depending on how much the products he gives clients cost in this temperamental economy.
His 30-day program currently runs at $747, and for a 90-day program his clients can expect to invest $1,997.
Mark acknowledges that it is often money that keeps people from investing in their health, and while he certainly doesn’t proclaim to be the most budget-friendly weight loss solution on the market, he stands by the efficacy of his program.
“Some people I have talked to believe that they don’t have to invest in my service because they could just go to the gym and get a $50 per month membership,” Mark says.
“That’s actually true, and I see where they’re coming from, but what most people don’t realize is if that route was sufficient, then they would’ve already done it and they wouldn’t need to come to me. In that sense, a lot of people end up working with me because they need my guidance to help them accomplish their fitness goals.”
And again, what Mark is offering his clients is not a plan riddled with complex verbiage and intense food consumption techniques.
“With what I do, I’m tapping into the physical and the mental, because the two work in harmony,” Baker says.
“And by streamlining that relationship so that people aren’t overthinking, and are instead taking action, that’s what leads to my clients seeing the incredible results that they do.” QS
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