LOSE THE COCKTAIL BELLY WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND – Yes. It’s possible.
For most of my life I had an on / off relationship with taking care of my body. Can you call that a relationship Maybe a really dysfunctional one, at best. I would work out - then not. I would “diet” – then not. As long as my weight stayed in “an acceptable” range, I was fine. I cared but didn’t necessarily do the right things.
One day out of the blue, I received terrible news. My mother was gravely ill and I needed to come home right away. She passed away the same day. Over the next several months I tried to pickup the pieces. I tried to keep up with my exercise and eating healthy food. I tried. Until I didn’t.
For the next two years, I ate and drank whatever… whenever. I was terrible to my body. I had gained 20 pounds, had no energy and in general felt like I was just going through the motions of life. One night, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I had HAD it. I was SO OVER IT. Over the over drinking to cover up how bad I felt. Over eating crap. Over feeling terrible about, and in my body. I was done. As I sat in my bed watching TV with my husband something snapped. My lifestyle and how I took care of myself had to change. Right then.
And it did. I signed up for a national weight loss program, began to go to the gym, hired a personal trainer, started running, bicycling and boxing. I was ALL IN. I learned about food and healthy cooking, and nutrition. I got in the best shape of my life. I even drastically reduced the amount of alcohol I drank. I got in the best shape of my life.
Fast forward a few years. Remember I mentioned my on/off relationship? Add a kid, change jobs and locations and decrease gym and exercise time. What happened? The weight slowly came creeping back.
I would have spurts of consistent exercise but would eventually give up after having lost, maybe, 5 pounds. I would rationalize that I was just too busy to exercise the way I did when I had previously lost weight. I just resigned myself that it happens when you get older and the best that could be done was to try to maintain status quo.
Deep down, I felt that the real reason I wasn’t losing had to be my nightly wine habit. It was true that I had cut back before, but….at the end of the day, I wanted my wine. However, it nagged at me… “If you would just quit drinking, you would lose the weight.”. I would have a few days of not drinking and then, NOPE. SORRY - NOT SORRY. I’ having a glass of wine.
Once again, I found myself in a place of wanting my life to change – wanting the weight off and to feel better. I knew I had to be missing something. I had no clue what that was or how to fix it.
I was also at a point in my life where I found myself in another transition. My husband and I had sold our company that we had spent the previous 8 years building. I knew I wanted to do something to help people. I also knew I felt amazing when I had lost my weight after my mom passed. I began to research how I could help others with what I had struggled with - and had come to struggle with again.
This is whereI discovered life coaching through The Life Coach School. This was drastically different. This was not a willpower, or exercise-until-you-drop-approach and it certainly was NOT a magic pill program. Using knowledge gained from psychology, studying hormones and our own brains, I have learned how to coach myself to lose weight and cut back drinking.I was able to get to the root of the problem and solve for WHY I ate and drank too much.
The best part of this, is I learned how to maintain my ideal weight, permanently. Which means…no more dieting. Seriously.
I have gotten over my own B.S. stories and beliefs to create a result that I had believed impossible for myself. My weight is back down, and I feel amazing!
This work is so amazing it will truly change your life! It certainly has mine. I can teach you how you can have this in your life too!