Our guest are Lori Tintari and Michelle May

Lori Tintari developed an eating disorder as a teen to deal with emotional circumstances, and this led to chronic emotional overeating and health problems.  She had no energy, was on medication for high blood pressure, and faced the prospect of type 2 diabetes because of the amount of sugar she ate and a history of it in her family.  Her doctor suggested Michelle May’s program on instinctive eating, which proved to be the lifesaver Lori was looking for.

She learned in Michelle’s Am I Hungry? workshop the difference between instinctive eating and overeating for reasons other than hunger.  She also learned how to eat when she was hungry, rather than to fulfill an emotional need – something she continues to work on.  Since taking the workshop, Lori has kept up her new eating practices and now a year later she has lost 50 pounds.  She feels better not over eating and she has more energy, which increases her interest in being even more active. 

Michelle May is a physician who learned how to eat instinctively after battling her own roller coaster of dieting and overeating.  She has taken her experience and insights about a non-diet approach to eating and developed Am I Hungry? weight management programs to change the way people think about eating and exercise.

To hear her story, see Catch Our Shows for October 8, 2007.

Our guest is Therese Slechta
Featured in Fitness Magazine’s “I Did It” May 2007

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.

Our guest is Mary Foley

Mary Foley moved up the corporate ladder from service rep to head of corporate training, but it took its toll.  Along the way, she survived six layoffs, a collapsed marriage, office politics and career disappointments that ended when she hit the glass ceiling.  She was worn out from a “decade of adrenaline”.  She found stress, time and age can make you revaluate if what you’re doing is working.  It wasn’t working for her.  She spent the next six months recuperating and getting back her strength.  She promised herself never to let herself get that exhausted to feel that way again.  Since then she has committed to being in charge of her life and that includes a healthy lifestyle. 

Mary learned that being healthy is more than just vitamins, better eating and exercise.  She also learned that she needed help to learn new approaches and keep at it.  To address her sinus infections, she worked with a nutritionist who helped her understand she had a dairy allergy and also gave her ways to boost her immune system.  Without dairy in her system, she got back her energy and time lost to sinus infections.  This has enabled her to workout more consistently and motivates her to avoid dairy products.  As she gets older she feels more aches and pains, and the truth becomes very clear – staying healthy matters, because as she says “I’m the only me I’ve got.”  Mary has succeeded to choose again and again a healthy lifestyle, enabling her to be a bodacious woman in charge of her life.

Our guest is Sharon Lund

Sharon Lund was getting married to the man she loved, but he was keeping a secret from her.  He was infected with AIDS.   Even after he married her in 1983, he did not disclose this information and willingly infected Sharon. She has had to learn forgiveness and been living as a “positive” with HIV/AIDS for 24 years.  She has also had to overcome anorexia.  She will be sharing with us her story and how she used integration of mind-body-spirit healing techniques to be healthy, well balanced and gain a sense of inner peace.  These techniques have also kept her alive.

Her story is featured in this month’s issue of Oprah Magazine.