I’ve been looking over some old pictures of me from just over two years ago (Dec 2014) and I’m amazed how things are changing for me. It just hurt. Thanks!
I help coaches who are tired of struggling to gain traction in their business by helping them get out of their own way and develop the strategy they need to locate and deeply connect with their ideal clients. The woman in this picture looks happy on the outside but is so sad inside. Because I believed I was never going to change my health and my weight. Deep down, I hated myself because I couldn’t
control my weight. I felt like a failure at this aspect of life and it bled over to so many other areas. My feet and legs hurt every day. And they didn’t hurt just a little, they hurt a ton, which really sucked since my job kept me on my feet 6 hours a day. Becoming a chef in my 40s seemed like a really bad idea with all of this pain and I was looking for a way out. And sucked for my new husband because I came home with legs that ached and asking him to massage my feet and legs every night. I was lucky that he is awesome and he did. I hated going up and down the stairs in our condo. And I was worried. I worried that the PCOS/Insulin Resistance would turn into full-fledged Type 2 Diabetes. I was scared that my cholesterol numbers were going up every year (would this be the year the doctor started pushing statins – which my brother had told me to never take). Dreading the doctor visits because every year the doctor would look at me, no matter what I asked him and say “you need to lose weight, losing weight will help with ___________” didn’t matter my question or concern. And I’d think, “Really, Doc? You think I haven’t tried multiple diets every year since I was 13?” But I wouldn’t say that because it wasn’t really polite. My weight was my secret shame that I carried around every day and it was my unconquerable mountain. I’m no longer that sad, angry, frustrated, feeling like a failure, secretly hating myself on the deepest levels possible. My osteoarthritis pain is radically diminished. My cholesterol is normal. My rosacea is massively improved. My PCOS/Insulin Resistance improving and it will be eventually gone. So what changed for me? It was two things. First, I found some new knowledge but that wasn’t actually the most important thing. The knowledge is that obesity is not a failure of self-control, but is a hormonal disease. There are actually hormonal shifts that happen when you are obese but there is a way to deal with it with dietary changes that might seem hard at first but honestly, after the first few times, it’s the easiest thing I’ve ever done. I started in May 2016 and I’ve lost 75 pounds to date. Secondly, about a month after I found this knowledge, I knew I wanted to help others find their way. I looked at going to get a Master’s in Nutrition, looked at going to Chiropractor school and other options, but settled on becoming a health coach. It was both faster and not as expensive. What I didn’t realize is that having a health coach was the crucial missing piece for me. As part of the program, we team up with a partner and we both coach and are coached. Because of the amazing coaching I received, I dealt with the reasons why I self-sabotaged, why I believed I didn’t deserve to lose the weight, why I believed I didn’t deserve to be successful. Health coaching brought me to experience a deep and lasting transformation because I shifted my beliefs and my thoughts in a powerful way. I now know that I deserve to be healthy both inside and out. My mindset has shifted and it’s manifesting in my body and my mindset month by month. Some of you look at my picture today and might even think, “You aren’t skinny yet.” “Who are you to coach me?” You are right; I’m not done losing the weight. My hope is to reach my goal in the next 6 months, it may take more time or less, but that doesn’t matter. I’ve recovered my health and my mindset. My success is inevitable. I know this might resonate with many of you reading this. If so, I invite you to have a complimentary Total Body Transformation Discovery Session with me. Click here for more info and to sign up for your free session. http://michaelacogswell.com/schedule If you’ve taken the time to read to the end but you are totally happy with your health and weight, congrats! You are a rare breed, my friend. I would like to help me out. My mission for the rest of my life is to find people like me who feel stuck in their weight or health issues or both. I know I can help them like I know I will take a breath in the next few seconds. Please, share this with them or point them to me. I would be so grateful for the chance to positively impact your life or one of your friend’s.
