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Health & Fitness Weight Loss

Transform

Reclaim Your Body & Life From the Inside Out

by (author) Michelle Armstrong

Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Initial publish date
Aug 2015
Category
Weight Loss, General, Eating Disorders
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781630473747
    Publish Date
    Aug 2015
    List Price
    $57.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781630473723
    Publish Date
    Aug 2015
    List Price
    $28.99

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TRANSFORM. . .is not like any other book about weight loss that you’ve read. It’s more than a diet prescription and exercise routine. There are plenty of books that can help you with that. TRANSFORM offers something new and profound. A step by step approach that will empower you to transform your physical self AND your life by discovering how to tap into and modify the mental and emotional programming that is sabotaging your ability to create the results you want.

 

TRANSFORM teaches you how to make long-lasting change to your body and life by making powerful and profound modifications to your psychology and mindset. It’s more than just a meal plan and a workout---it’s a blueprint for living a more fulfilling, healthier life!

 

TRANSFORM doesn’t just tell you what to do---eat this, train that. Most people know they should exercise more and eat cleaner. Although TRANSFORM does provide this information too. It’s not what you already know that’s the issue. It’s what you don’t know about yourselves that is sabotaging your ability to act on what you know. TRANSFORM reveals to you through an experimential approach how to identify and remove the sabotaging blocks to your success.

 

TRANSFORM recognizes that we are more than just a body. We are made up of the mind, the body and the spiritual---we are mental, emotional, spiritual, energetic AND physical beings. For true transformation and total wellness to occur ALL of these facets of Self must be addressed. This is why TRANSFORM takes a holistic approach to physical transformation which is more than just diet and exercise---your mental program and emotional behaviors and programming must be explored, scrutinized and examined.

About the author

Michelle Armstrong is the Life Renovator and creator of the Renovate Your Life programs and retreats. Michelle is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Wellness Educator, Doctor-Endorsed Personal Trainer, Fitness Competitor, a published Fitness Model and Fitness Writer, NLP Trainer and Results Coach, and an internationally recognized Motivational Speaker, Intuitive and Mind-Body Coach. For the last decade Michelle has privately counseled hundreds of individuals and spoken to thousands worldwide empowering them with her unique philosophies, tools, and practices (The Armstrong Method) to living a better life. Michelle has spoken to audiences from Coca-Cola, KPMG and The American Cancer Society, and has been featured on numerous radio shows throughout Canada and the United States. Michelle is the author of "Manage your Mind Master your Life", is on the Advisory Board for STRONG Magazine (www.strongfitnessmag.com) as a mind-body expert, and is the fitness presenter on the TVCogeco television network for the Halton Insider in Toronto Canada. Originally from Australia, Michelle now lives and works in Ontario Canada.

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Excerpt: Transform: Reclaim Your Body & Life From the Inside Out (by (author) Michelle Armstrong)

When Rosemary walked into my fitness studio, she had about eighty pounds of unhealthy body weight. Her motivation (a common one, I might add) was to see those three-digit numbers on her bathroom scale plummet as quickly as possible. As I do with all new clients, I began by asking Rosemary to tell me her “story,” which revealed a wealth of valuable information as to why Rosemary was carrying the weight she had. Here is what Rosemary shared with me:

 

“I am a mother of three. I am married and I don’t work. My husband has a really good job and we do very well financially. My husband doesn’t notice I exist, and I pretty much do what he says to keep the peace. He often says mean things. I try to ignore them. I am 44 and soon I will 45. I used to have some friends and now I have none. Social interactions are difficult for me. I feel old and I’m tired all the time. Taking my kids for a walk in the evenings is exhausting. They want me to play with them more but lately I don’t feel much like playing. Nothing much interests me anymore. But I love my kids.

 

“As a family we normally go on vacation through my husband’s work two, sometimes three times a year. We always fly, which I really don’t like, as I’m claustrophobic and feel uncomfortable in the airplane seats. My body annoys and frustrates me. While I know I should be exercising more and probably eating differently, I don’t have the motivation to do so. My husband also buys my clothes. I hate wearing them. I think I look awful. My husband and I don’t have sex anymore. He’s probably having an affair, but I don’t care. I don’t care much about anything anymore actually, except, as I said, my kids.

 

“I’m originally from London, England. We moved to California several years ago because of my husband’s job. I have no family here, which isn’t a big deal, since I’m not close with my family anyway. I miss England sometimes, but mainly I try not to think about it. I’m here because I think if I don’t start doing something about my weight and my health I’ll probably get sick, and then there’ll be children who won’t have a mother. My husband’s a good father, I guess, but the kids aren’t close to him at all. They are much more comfortable with me.”

 

When I asked Rosemary about her childhood, she told me, “There’s not much to tell, really. I was the youngest of eight. Nobody noticed I existed. Everyone was always busy doing things. I mainly just hung out by myself. Had a few friends—nobody special. And that’s about it, I guess. I remain in contact with one of my sisters who now lives in Australia, but we’re not close. I was an awkward child. I’m still awkward, I guess. I take anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medication, and sometimes I feel as I though I can’t cope with my life anymore, and if nothing changes I won’t be here next year. I’d like to come off the medication. And that’s about it…my story.”

 

I thanked Rosemary for sharing her story with me. And I then asked her if she could see any relationships between her story about herself and her challenges with her weight. I also asked if she could intuitively identify anything from her childhood that may have influenced what she is currently experiencing with her weight and health today. I like to ask my clients to share their intuitive thoughts. In many cases, clients doubt their own intuition, yet I have found them to almost always be correct.

 

I asked the question about Rosemary’s childhood because our present experiences are always a reflection of our past experiences and the stories about ourselves that we have come to identify with. We bring all our stories, whether positive or negative, into every moment of our lives without being consciously aware of it. If we cannot tell ourselves a different story, then we will be forever locked inside one type of experience of life, and we are never free to show up in our lives any differently. We fail to recognize that there is more to us than the stories we repeatedly tell ourselves, and then we continue to repeat the story as though it’s the only story we could ever experience. But just like a library, where you get to choose one book one week, read it, experience it, and then return it for another, you, too, can choose new stories in life if at any point you feel that the current story you are living and experiencing is losing its appeal and fulfillment. Not only is your story not you, but you are a writer of your story, not merely an actor following a script.