The Journey is newest fitness center in Ringgold

Rhonda Swaney is a believer in people's abilities to get healthy.

After all, she did it herself. Eighteen months ago she weighed in at 270 pounds. "I had tried everything, literally everything to get the weight off," she said at her new facility, The Journey Weight Loss Fitness Center in Ringgold.

Working with trainer Rob Hatch in East Ridge, Tenn., and using diet and exercise, she lost 120 pounds in that timeframe.

She became so caught up in the program she started teaching classes herself and then decided that her hometown of Ringgold needed a fitness center that could truly help people.

A mother of three, Swaney says the new project is like her fourth baby.

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