Emmie’s Story
“Due to abuse as a child, I developed struggles around food, body image and my weight at the very young age of 8. I battled emotional eating and yo-yo dieting for almost two decades. In 2004, I found myself over my “panic weight.” I had dieted my way UP the scale! I just knew that there was more to life than always worrying about food, my weight, or the scale, and letting those things dictate my happiness. This is when I started to understand my emotional eating issues and how to overcome them.
“In 2005, I discovered a love for nutrition and personal coaching while in college. I obtained extensive training on how to coach, I took certifications in Motivational Interviewing, and worked as a youth counselor with at-risk youth in shelters for almost three years. My passion for nutrition inspired me to pursue becoming certified as a weight loss coach. I took on that role at a major weight loss corporation where I became a Program & Center Director. Over the course of five years, I coached hundreds of clients on how to lose weight.
“It was at this point I had been struggling with chronic fatigue, migraines and ongoing GI distress for years. Doctors couldn’t tell me what was wrong and it was then I decided to take my health back! I adopted a whole foods lifestyle which made a HUGE difference! My migraines went away, my GI distress was gone, and fatigue was so much better. I had energy! Not to mention, I finally dropped the weight and really fast! I stayed committed to changing and overcoming emotional eating by taking a one-step- at-a- time, “wellness first” approach. I discovered tools that allowed me to let go of using food to cope with the stressors of life, so that I could actually stick with healthy eating. I started to no longer need the food and I started to accept myself.
“My transformation ended up inspiring me! I believed in the “wellness first” approach that I used to create my own transformation so much that in 2013 I opened up my own coaching practice and named it what the transformation result is: Blissfully Healthy! I am happy to say I am on the other side of emotional eating and truly enjoying living life! I have been blessed with a beautiful family and a supportive husband who I’ve been with for over 13 years. I am now free from the obsession around food and weight. I am happy with my weight, my body, my size and my relationship with food. I am comfortable in my own skin! My days are filled with living in the moment, enjoying life and all the little things that come with being a mother of three children between the ages of 4 to 17.
“Because of the feeling I have of overcoming personally, I have dedicated the rest of my career to helping women who are still struggling with a weight problem and emotional eating have this same transformation: Freedom!”
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