June 4, 2007
From a Walk to the Ironman
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Our guest is Therese Slechta
Featured in Fitness Magazine’s “I Did It” May 2007 |
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Therese Slechta was a couch potato and in her words, a lazy butt. She lost 50 pounds 3 times before losing it for good. The last time turned out to be a totally different experience from the times before. She was able to change her attitude, recognize her sabotaging habits, and make the necessary changes that would help her maintain the 50 pound weight loss as a way of life. That was four years ago.
Therese will share with you how she has learned to set daily, weekly, and monthly goals and why she loves to reach them all! She will describe how she went from being a couch potato to doing triathlons in just over a year. The biggest lesson she learned was “most things in life are mental. If you decide to make a change it really comes from within.
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June 11
Finding True North inside the Model
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Our guest is Maureen Whitehouse |
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Maureen Whitehouse was a model in New York City, competing for jobs along with hundreds of others. She did what the industry demanded. She starved herself to maintain her perfect figure and obsessed about food, needing it to fulfill her in a way that food just can’t do. She was living a superficial life and feeling disconnected. Where she did feel a connection were the times she took refuge in a church, and this was the beginning of her spiritual journey that included a soulful connection with food.
She was drawn to spiritual study, and experienced a profound shift in herself and her relationship with food. She discovered that she had been feeding her need for approval instead of her soul, and that her struggle with food was driven by a superficial lifestyle that wasn’t fulfilling. She reconnected with herself and created a way of eating that was satisfying and in alignment with self love.
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June 18
Changing a Mindset after Gastric Bypass Surgery
Re-airing show from March 19th
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Our guest is Judy Wright |
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Judy Wright underwent gastric bypass surgery nearly five years ago. Afterwards was determined to take better care of herself and to learn from the lessons that the surgery offered her. She didn’t get the support she needed from her doctor or the many groups that tended to focus more on why they were different than how to move on and become part of mainstream. She turned to herself and found the answers she needed to understand her weight and to create a new mindset about food, her body and her self. |
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June 25
Getting a Wake Up Call from Illness
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Our guest is Marian Baker |
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Marian Baker lived a glamorous life as a highly successful advertising executive. But the outer image didn’t match how she was feeling inside. She felt trapped, confused and unhappy, but she didn’t see a way to change her situation or recognize that she had other choices. Her high-stress demanding work life was also taking a toll on her physically. She was exhausted, nauseas, dealing with pelvic pain and struggled with mood swings.
She was diagnosed with endometriosis and felt angry that this chronic illness was interfering with her life. Then she read a book by Dr Christiane Northrup that described endometriosis as the illness of competition and a way for the body to draw attention to the problem. She realized that her health, career, lifestyle habits and spiritual health were interrelated, and that she need to heal her mind, body and spirit at one time. The illness proved to be a wake up call and a gift that changed the way she lived her life. |
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