May 7, 2007
Focus on Making Changes One Step at a Time
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Our guest is Anne Via Zakielarz
Featured in Fitness Magazine’s “I Did It” April 2007 |
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Anne Via Zakielarz is someone who has found she has much more determination in her than she ever thought she had, and now at almost 40 she is healthier then she was at 18. Anne went from what seemed like a healthy lifestyle and healthy diet to a journey with gradual tweaks and small increment changes. By doing so she was able to lose 105 pounds and maintain that weight loss for over 8 years. She has learned more about herself through the process and found that if she wanted something badly enough and had a plan she could achieve it by taking one step at a time.
Part of Anne’s challenge was not to get overwhelmed with the big picture of losing 100 pounds and not let her goal deter her from the day to day things she knew she had to do. She realized she couldn’t stress about dropping ‘this much weight, or this much body fat.’ All Anne could do for herself was to focus on what needed to be done today, to set a small goal of what she wanted to achieve to and give it all she could that day. With each passing day, week, month and year she has achieved more than she set out to do. She now passes as a sister of one of her daughters who is 18. |
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May 14, 2007
You Are Never Too Old to Feel Young Again
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Our guest is Rebecca Staton-Reinstein
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Rebecca Staton-Reinstein was 65 and had given up on slimming down from her 180 pounds. She believed that her lifestyle behaviors were working as they always had, and led a busy life traveling all over the country as a consultant feeling quite healthy. But then she was told by her doctors during a check up that she was at risk for serious health problems. As a trained scientist, she understood the severity of the numbers they were showing her and responded immediately with changes in her behavior. This was the first time she realized that her habits were making her sick.
Rebecca found a way to balance her health needs (which now come first) with the practical realities of living on the road and eating out a lot. She also had learned to analyze when she is eating based on emotion rather than hunger and tries to watch those kinds of triggers for herself. Rebecca states, “perhaps the most important thing is that, like every thing else, the real 'problem' was always between my ears. I was ready to face reality, do what I had to do and also work on my emotional health so that I was in a better space mentally about caring about myself.” |
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May 21, 2007
Facing the Emotional Issues to Reach Success
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Our guests are Mary Jane Medlock and Linda Spangle |
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Mary Jane Medlock was at her highest weight of 320 pounds and struggling with walking, breathing and depression. She tried every diet from drugs to weight loss clinics to fad diets with no success. This led her to feel like a failure and that she would never be at a healthy weight again. She started using food as her "drug" and became addicted to food; every time she would eat candy it soothed her. Later she realized that she was feeding her depression.
Mary Jane realized that there isn't a program, product or a pill on the market that will work unless you are ready to make the commitment. She should know she spent over $20,000 in a four-year period trying to lose weight. Over the course of one year she finally lost 155 pounds and went from a size 56 to a size 10. What she discovered was a way to gain control over her portions and to address the emotions that were triggering her eating behaviors. She has now maintained her new weight for over five years and has a business supporting others to succeed and address their emotional eating issues.
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Linda Spangle is a nutritionist and leading expert on emotional eating and other psychological issues that make losing weight so difficult. She knows what it takes to be successful with any type of weight loss program and has worked with thousands of people to help them succeed when nothing else has worked. |
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May 28, 2007
It is the Little Things that Add Up to Wellness
(This program was originally aired on April 23rd)
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Our guest is Sandra Garth |
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Sandra Garth found herself responding to an ad looking for individuals that wanted a Lifestyle Makeover. She was then selected to do CNNA’s New You Revolution with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. She learned how to give herself permission to be fit and well and over came her biggest obstacle, managing arthritis without prescribed medication. She learned she could trust herself, relax and ask for what she needed from others. Sandra now says with conviction, “This life is not a dress rehearsal and it is short, make the most of it. Most importantly that the little things you do for wellness add up in the long run.” |
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