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Private and Group Fast Weight Loss Support Program for the Obese

My goal is to get you to the point where you do not need me to succeed!

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Since 2005, I have been helping the obese deal with their food addictions and losing large amounts of weight in a relatively short period of time.

I am a tough coach. I do not believe in coddling, I ask for explanations instead of excuses. I expect that no matter how hard you fall that you always get back up and try again. I insist that you learn what is right and wrong in your relationship with food (most of it is wrong!) and I hold you to the tenant that life is not stagnant and that each of us has the ability to change, the ability to stand up to ourselves when it comes to food, and the courage to shed our fat suits and live our lives as thin and healthy.

In June of 2005 I was a depressed obese woman contemplating my future without hope of ever beating obesity. By February of 2006, just 9 months later, I had lost 136 pounds without weight loss surgery, without drugs, and with such great health and vitality I barely knew what to do with myself. Under pressure from others, I started offering support to obese women for fast weight loss using the same raw foods diet I had used. After many years of supporting these women who wanted fast weight loss with a diet I considered the perfect diet for the obese, I learned many many things. The most important: it does not matter what diet an obese person chooses, if that person is not ready or willing to correct their relationship with food they will not/cannot lose weight and keep it off.

This was a big lesson for me and is the reason I wrote Fat Brain Lies and am now offering support to obese men and women outside the raw foods lifestyle. The techniques I use are not so much about the food eaten as they are about the responsibility taken and therefore are pertinent to all obese men and women regardless of their diet.

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I offer a variety of support programs for those looking to find peace with their relationship to food. My specialty / passion / expertise is in obesity. As a woman who has had to deal with obesity most of her life, I have now taken on the challenge of helping others, who are at that hopeless stage I was at in 2005, find a way to health, happiness and permanent weight loss.

This morning I saw someone found my website through the Google words, "Can I trust an obesity life coach." I smiled, because I know I never would have. I searched for someone who could help me for years, but they always gave me canned diets, never listened to what I felt I needed, and told me what I wanted just couldn't be done. Of course these counselors were always stick thin and had never spent a day of their life controlled by food. I never could have trusted them because there was no way they would ever understand the complexity of my love hate relationship to food. And I never could have shared with them the dirtiest of my eating habits or obesity based humiliations for fear of being judged.

So in answer to this Google question as it pertains to me. You can trust me to listen to you, to take into account who you are as a person, to understand that just because you don't want to eat that piece of chocolate doesn't mean you won't, to totally relate to the lazy gene that keeps you on the couch, believe you when you tell me you exercise for hours a day and never lost weight, and to have empathy and personal knowledge as to the hopelessness and depression your obesity has caused.

On the other hand, I don't coddle. I will tell you how I see it. I will guide you, offer you suggestions and even stories to prove you are not as unique in how dysfunctional you are when it comes to food. I will push you to get off that couch, to use those legs and get moving. I will show you how you can start making daily choices that will not only allow you to lose the weight, but allow you to keep it off.

I have been coaching obese men and women since I lost my weight in 2005. Through these years I have learned a lot about what works and what doesn't. I will give you the extent of my experience and knowledge. I will show you options you may never have tried, and I will teach you how to give up that roller coaster of extreme dieting/binging and move into a healthy relationship with food.

But you have to bring something to this relationship as well. You have to bring an open mind, and that trust we spoke of earlier. My programs are not like other diets you have been on. I have a backward approach that makes some shake their heads - even while they are doing it - thinking this could never work, and then two to three weeks later singing the praises of such a novel approach.

I will guide you through emotional eating, fat brain bad eating habits, and your own reluctance to give up the fat suit, but I can't do it alone. Our relationship must be one of give and take. You must be willing to work toward change, and you must be willing to look at the reality behind the foods you eat and the exercise you do.

Together we will design the perfect diet for you. Nothing canned. Nothing remotely generalized, one specific for who you are as a person. Sure I have my thoughts of what a good sound healthy diet is, but more importantly I understand that no diet is healthy if it isn't followed. My goal is to get you to find a diet and exercise program that you can happily do for life. One without deprivation, one where you aren't thinking every single day about how unfair life is when your skinny friend gets to eat whatever she wants and never gains a pound. I will teach you how to love your body for itself instead of always feeling like it has betrayed you.

To get a better idea of my coaching style, do the Free Learning Hungry and Full Workshop. You don't have to sign up to do it. You don't even have join my mailing list. Check it out. Do it, and see if you think I am the person who just might help you beat your obesity.

• Private Support for the obese via phone and email
  $249 or $199 if you agree to share your photos with blurred face on my websites.

Private support is reserved for obese men and women. This is very intimate support with twice a week phone calls and daily emails. Together we work through my workbook Fat Brain Lies, and work on finding you the perfect diet for life. Then just like in the group program we start tweaking that diet for weight loss at the speed and work level that you can handle. This is my preferred method of coaching, not because it costs more but because you are less likely to disappear when you know I am going to call you twice a week. You are more apt to get up and try again.

• Group Support for anyone who is looking for weight loss
  $149 or $99 if you agree to share your photos with blurred face on my websites.

The first session, Finding Your Perfect Diet is a 4 week program with the following programs running 4 weeks each. There are daily audios that correlate with daily assignments that are done in a group setting. You also will maintain a daily log with me as we work on your diet and exercise program.

• Auditing Support for anyone who is looking for weight loss
  $39 per program. No photos are required.

You get to audit a group support program where you have read rights to full member logs. Even though you are auditing, you are considered a valuable member of this group and are expected to participate in the daily assignments. I do not offer diet or exercise support to audit members, but I do participate in the daily assignments and offer advice to everyone as it pertains to the subjects we are discussing. You do not have to have completed the first four week program to be eligible for the others, although it is highly recommended.

What Sets Me and My Obesity Weight Loss Programs Apart?

Good question. I mean really, doesn't every self-proclaimed diet guru promise they can help you beat obesity with fast weight loss? Of course they do. Weight loss is big business, just look at all the weight loss surgery commercials on TV.

I'm not going to offer you a magic pill or tell you that fast weight loss is effortless. Nor will I tell you that once you lose the weight that your battles are over. What I will do is make you face the reality of your obesity and work with you to find the solution that is right for you. This is different for each client and it takes an open mind and patience on your part.

Every diet out there gives you exact instructions. Step by step guidelines designed for Jane Q. Public. I don't believe that works. Instead you and I will spend time getting to understand your relationship with food, what you are honestly willing to give up to be thin and healthy, and find where to apply changes to your lifestyle that will accommodate not just weight loss but life time maintenance.

Every new client is required to do two to three weeks of discovery. This is tough because everyone wants fast weight loss to start this instant. Face it, you've done that a thousand times and yet here you are still looking for answers. You will need to trust me and the process that by taking this first step we can create a program that not only works for fast weight loss, but when you are done losing the weight you will have the ability to keep it off. How? That has never happened in the past right? It has always been that you lose the weight but the day you go off the diet the weight starts piling on, right? Not with this program. The reason is that during our time of discovery we will first develop a plan that you could live the rest of your life on and be happy.

When we enter weight loss mode, we will monitor not just your weight loss, but your level of satisfaction. If you start to feel deprived or overwhelmed, we will tweak things and make compromises to keep you in a mind set that you are not dieting but just living your life. This is so important for long term weight loss.

Extreme diets are great for fast weight loss for people who have 40 or 50 pounds to lose, but for those who have one, two or even three hundred pounds to lose, the ability to stick to the program long term becomes our top priority. No one can live in a state of deprivation long term. But what if you could live your life on foods you like in quantities that satisfy you? That is doable long term, and if done right can give you the same fast weight loss as extreme dieting. Now for the kicker, once the weight is gone the only difference in how you eat is that you can have more of the foods you like by increasing your calories, but by then you will have learned to eat healthier and how to make good choices each and every day when it comes to food and exercise.

While you are in my support program, we will work on all the food addictions that have kept you fat. I will work with you to cut the cord to emotional eating and tackle each and every bad food habit you have. I have been using these techniques for a while and those that apply them find they work better than all the years of therapy they paid for. Why? Because I believe in climbing around or over or even under obstacles. We won't be putting feelings in a balloon and wishing them away, instead we will recognize that they are part of your life and that regardless of their strength they do not need to be sated with food. The same goes for fat eating habits. We won't be substituting diet food for snack food, we will be blasting away snack time and filling it with life.

My approach is different and requires that you want to lose the weight and keep it off. You have to be honest with me and open to advice. If you have a bad day or even week, you have to fess up and get back on your feet (of course I will have hold of your shirt collar dragging you if I have to) and move forward. Most importantly you have to be open to change and have patience with the discovery process.

I have been helping the obese lose weight for years. I lived most of my life obese. I get what you are going through and I understand your desire to get the weight off quick. I will help you do that, but you have to give me those first few weeks so we do it right.

I hated being obese, and I know you do too. Take the time to learn to lose the weight the right way and be done with this constant battle. I don't want you in my program for life, I want to show you a nice straight path that you can manage on your own.

The Private Support Program is only $249.00, the 4-Week Finding Your Perfect Diet Group Support Program is only $149.00. If you agree to share your photos with your face blurred, you save $50.00.

The Private support program starts with an initial one hour phone call. If at the end of that call you feel we are not a good fit, all you have to do is email me within 24 hours and I will refund your full fee.

Who I Can't Help?

Within the obese community, there are still certain people my methods won't work for regardless of how much support I offer. Here is a list of traits that have kept people from succeeding in the past.

• Comes to program with set idea of what they want to do. If you aren't willing to experiment and see what really is the best program for you then we will butt heads. You may still have a nice weight loss, but you won't do well long term. That doesn't mean I won't listen to you. Even the initial discovery phase is based on your eating preferences, but you have to have an open mind.
  
  
• Refuses to exercise. Exercise is key for life long weight management and health. We will work a program that is right for you, but all programs require exercise.
  
  
• Are trying to please a fitness trainer's idea of what an obese person needs to do to lose weight. For years I have seen people run toward the weights, yoga, and pilates with little to no weight loss. Trainers always push for more muscle. For the obese duration is more important than strength to burn the fat. I will insist that you do daily cardio and leave the weight training for added fun instead of a method to lose weight.
  
  
• Gets too cocky too soon. Whenever anyone starts a program and immediately jumps into perfection and tons of exercise they always fail within a short period of time. That type of overdo always results in burnout, and then the minute they can't keep up the high level they showed in the beginning they disappear. I rather we start slow and build, and that requires patience not just with me, but with yourself.
  
  
• Start the program to make someone else happy. You cannot succeed unless you are ready to shed your fat suit. Do this for yourself. If you are doing it for anyone else you won't even make it through the first four weeks.
  
  
• Are unwilling to work on change. I have helped many lose lots of weight who refuse to change. What happens? They gain the weight back or they spend their lives in starve/binge mode. If you want to be successful, be willing to look at your shortcomings, be honest about your food addictive behaviors, and know that you did not become obese without overeating. Don't just come for fast weight loss, come to me for a life-time solution. That requires you to work on change.
  
  
• Be ready. If you treat your program as an inconvenience in your life you will not succeed. Make it a priority and do not think that anyone but you is responsible for your achievements. I have people who join who think that just because they are a client that there will not be tough times, that it won't take effort on their part. I offer guidance and accountability. In the end you are the one who does all the hard work. The only miracle that happens here is the one you bestow on yourself.