09/03/2021
Long post warning. 🙏🏻✨😅
I’d like to share a little bit about why coaching is so cool to me…
It’s a story I haven’t shared as much as I should, but the REASON I am passionate about Integrative Nutrition Coaching is the impact it had on my personal life, and the transformations in provoked in the way I look at better health and achieving it.
My weight gain started around 15, it would kind of, jump and plateau, happened again around 23, and around 30… at think at my heaviest I clocked in at 273, and I’m 5’7”.
At 35, I finally quit a particularly stressful, consuming, unhealthy job, and started what would be an annual tradition, but set a “big goal” for myself for the year.
I thought my weight was just “who I was”, I was “built that way”, but felt so unhealthy and drained from the previous 7 years at that job, and I wanted to feel healthy again. I decided that was my goal, and that I didn’t care if everything else stayed the same or got worse even in the year, I wanted to try and help that one thing better and see how it would make me feel and impact the rest of my life.
Enter the IIN coaching program.
I found this program that just really sounded up my alley on health approach. It was designed for training people to coach others, but I had less than zero interest in that, I just wanted to heal my own body, so I took the leap and enrolled, took mindless, moderately active, fun work for the year, and gave it a listen.
I was NOT a good student, nor did I feel guilty, I was there for me, and I would listen to about 90% of the material, squeak through quizzes, and never take a note, just listening to these incredible lectures laying in the sun poolside, or taking a walk… in and out of paying attention sometimes.
There was so much information that was transformative to my even educated brain, so many incredible humans sharing their knowledge, and several things that kind of “spoke” to my person, and I just let that information absorb naturally. However it translated into my body.
I was in month 5 before I really noticed the weight loss. I weighed myself frequently, but still had attributed the down numbers to regular fluctuation… not thought of it as a real marker of change… but in month 5, when I got on the scale, I was down 50 pounds!! I checked my weight tracking app entries… and like clockwork, I had lost 10 pounds per month! This continued in clock-like fashion through month 8, then tapered off to an again clock-like 5/month, and 15 months later, I had lost 115lbs! In the neighborhood of 15yo weight and in smaller clothes!
Fun part; this all happened without EVER doing a single organized workout, counting a single thing of any kind, or any organized diet or dietary rules.
It was like someone returned my body like an overdue library book. 🙏🏻📚
I was almost nervous that it happened so easily… I was afraid if I didn’t know what made it happen, I might lose it… and I went through the list of things that had changed in my health… from dietary, to activity, to sleep, stress, caffeine, alcohol, joy…
All vital factors.
Since that year… I have had the two individually hardest, most stressful years of my personal life… ANYTHING I thought was a “factor” in better health, has went fully to hell in a hand basket at least once and the weight never returns. 🤷🏼♀️🤔✨
I still maybe DO need some of those workouts, could lose 30 pounds, am squishy in places that shouldn’t be and fluctuate over a range. But it’s a different “range”, stress or not… it’s like I have my own body to carry around through my choices… not all the extra physical burdens that felt like they weren’t mine I hauled around for those years.
It feels kind of like a magic secret, sustainable weight loss and better health, that DOESN’T involve winning a fight with yourself, or some life restriction or program?? Just a sustained happier, healthier you and it’s easy??
Fast forward a couple years… I found myself constantly wanting to spread the magic… but remember I was a bad student? I also dropped out of the 12 month program at month 10, because of a job I took and a city move… and the Education Board requires you do all 12 months consecutively, so there’s no… finishing up…🙄😣
I re-enrolled, and did all 12 months again. This time with the sole purpose, of learning to help others. 🙏🏻✨
Now I have the sweet blessing of being able to help other people have the experience I did, for a fraction of the price and with no tests!! 😅🤣💖📚 As one of my advisors said, “Your coach on the side, for your wild ride”.
Along the 6 year journey, I have also found a passion for movement and meditation, clinical holistic herbalism and certified extensively in Reiki, and here I am. A toolbox of goods, here to help the people. 🙏🏻💖✨
Weight ends up being an outsized marker of health and humanity in our society, but is often also an external symptom of other health struggles and something so many of us fight with; 30 pounds or 230. Nutrition coaching isn’t just for weight loss, but any sustainable positive health change, whether anxiety and depression, gut health, anti-inflammatory disease, or just anything in the hosts of hundreds of things we learn to “manage” in our health. 🙏🏻💖✨
This flyer is for a great opportunity to save some money (and help me out🙄😅🙏🏻✨) while I sort the details of how everything goes together.
If this story speaks to you at all; schedule a time on my website (totally free; zero obligation) and let’s talk just about your goals and how coaching could maybe help heal you, so you know your options.🙏🏻
Pass it on to friends and family, spread the word, schedule an appointment (I’d love to chat with you!). Bring me your tired, sick, broken, and weary… I’m here to help. 🙏🏻💖
Also… I don’t a lot of pictures… apologies🙄😅🤣🙏🏻
