About Us
Lighten The Load provides unique, effective, interactive, and most of all, convenient healthy lifestyle programs for consumers, church organizations, fitness facilities and corporations.
Since 1992 the Lighten The Load mission has remained the same - to get - and keep people healthy on the road and on the go.
With the launch of the TeleFit-411 programs Lighten The Load has widened their reach with class participants throughout the country.
Lighten The Load utilizes trained and certified Lighten Up Lifestyle coaches and health professionals from the fields of science, nutrition, healthy cooking and weight management for their Lighten Up Lifestyle programs.
The Lighten The Load office is located in Kannapolis, NC.
Faith A. Lightfoot is an Exercise Physiologist (B.S.) author, speaker and entrepreneur. Faith’s passion for health and wellness spans more than two decades; first, as a teenager who was raised in a health conscious family, later as an Exercise Physiologist, and now as founder and president of Lighten The Load.net. Layering over 20 years of wellness experience in corporate America with such companies as IBM and Bally’s, with health and wellness businesses in Charlotte, North Carolina and Boca Raton Florida, has provided a solid foundation that Faith employs to support her wellness business and passion.
Since 1992 Faith has been writing and conducting her health and wellness programs. Having been raised by a mother who valued health and wellness inspired Faith to teach others how by simple yet effective changes creating a healthy and balanced life is possible-for a lifetime. Her passion for children’s weight issues is what led Lighten The Load to become a licensed provider for the Shapedown children’s programs.
In addition to overseeing the day to day operation of Lighten The Load, Faith shares her education, experience and passion by speaking to organizations and writing. Faith is author of the book “Getting Healthy In A 30-Minute World” co-author of “Cooking Healthy In A 30-Minute World” and is currently working on her third book,"Cooking For Diabetics In A 30-Minute World".
For speaking engagements contact Faith at at www.Questions@LightenTheLoad.net
Patty Davis serves as the Nutri-chef consultant for Lighten The Load, is president of Cook At Home.biz., and creator of Recipes To Flip Over. This North Carolina-based healthful cooking company provides personal training programs, cooking classes, and specialty cookbooks. Beginning with its roots of personal chef services in 2000 as The Good Life Food Company, Patty grew this small home-based catering company by serving such clients as NASCAR driver Tony Stewart, former Redskins coach Joe Gibbs, as well as hundreds of corporate executives, small business owners, and busy families. Her success lies in her consistent desire to teach others how to cook at home using fresh and healthy selections using the finest ingredients available.
Dr. Tim Lightfoot serves as the science consultant for Lighten The Load and is currently a Full Professor and former department chair of Kinesiology at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, as well as a faculty associate in the UNC Charlotte Motorsports Program. Dr. Lightfoot received his doctorate from the University of Tennessee, completed a research consultantship with NASA at Kennedy Space Center in the Biomedical Laboratory, and then a three year National Institute of Health postdoctoral research fellowship in the Division of Physiology at Johns Hopkins University.
He was an Assistant and Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University for 6 years, 2 years of which he was Chair of the department. Dr. Lightfoot has published over 30 scientific, peer-reviewed articles on the genetics of daily physical activity and exercise endurance, as well as the physiological response to high-G exposure and hemorrhage and is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health to conduct research on the genetics of physical activity and exercise.
Dr. Lightfoot is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, a Certified Exercise Specialist, a Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist, the Past-President of the Southeast Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the American College of Sports Medicine. He has been named Teacher of the Year twice at two different Universities and has been active in working in protection of human and animal subjects. In his spare time Tim is a bass playing worship musician at his church (la la la!) and races automobiles for fun (really!).
