Healthy Living

A special message from Elaine

The LOA Healthy Living and Weight Reduction
Makeover Participant

Only two days until my big reveal! I'd like to share some thoughts on my experience with the Healthy Living and Weight Reduction sessions. I started the 12 week session in May in a completely different frame of mind than now. I am so honoured to be a part of this ground breaking approach to healthy living weight reduction.

I had been to one of Karen's LOA workshops about a year before and was noticing that many, many things in my life were going well but I was still struggling with my own health and weight. My belief was that everyone else in my life had to come first, but it seemed that everyone else's needs were endless. I found myself stuck in a pattern of hiding away from the world and eating secretly, trying not to feel my feelings of inadequacy and fear and unworthiness.

Karen had been, after the workshop, intermittently sending me notifications of events and workshops. I am so thankful for that. Luckily, when I received the notification for the Healthy Living and Weight Reduction Series I acted on it. The tools used by Karen are very effective and within the first two weeks I noticed that I wasn't hiding away anymore. Then the next progression came and I started to put myself and my well-being into my thoughts and actions, and you know that that benefitted me my family more than all of the self sacrificing that had become my trademark. After every session more and more positive things were coming to fruition, until my health started to become markedly improved, and with great ease, my weight started to reduce. I was eating what I wanted (but only when I was hungry) and I exercising for fun and to expend energy that was and is abounding. This was around the time that I started posting discussions on the Healthy Living and Weight Reduction Facebook group.

Every participant of the Healthy Living and Weight Reduction series will have a different wish list of health and weight reduction goals, and a different expectation of how they would like to achieve those goals. Karen facilitates and everyone learns how they can easily have what they desire.

In the beginning I had concerns that once I reduced my weight to my natural level, not quite there yet as my weight is still reducing steadily, that I would immediately gain it back. However, I am not on a diet I am eating intuitively and mindfully, my concerns no longer exist. As this is a concern for many people, I have arranged with Karen to continue to post on Facebook after the What Do Women Want event to track my progression to maintenance and an appearance at the next makeover event.

I am so grateful to have been chosen as the makeover for the first What Do Women Want event and I would love to answer any questions that you have. I hope to see you there!

Elaine J

Healthy Living and Weight Reduction

Karen's Healthy Living and Weight Reduction program will teach you how to use the power of the Law of Attraction to break the cycle of Yo-Yo dieting once and for all.

Karen Lee Stocker has maintained a 60lb weight reduction for the past eight years based on this programs principles.

Karen's weight reduction coaching has brought hundreds of participants to healthier living and their ideal weight through choosing healthy foods, increasing activity and most importantly changing their thoughts, attitudes and behaviours.

5 Keys to Success

1. Choose Healthy Foods

2. Become more active in every day life

3. Focus on positive thoughts, behaviours and attitudes

4. On-going support

5. A safe, healthy environment

By understanding the principles of the Law of Attraction and following the 3-steps to deliberate attraction you will soon realize how powerful your thoughts are in creating the results you get in every aspect of your life.

Clarity of your health goals is essential and surrounding yourself in a healthy living environment is key. This can be achieved by giving attention only to what you do want (as opposed to what you do not want) and understanding the concept of allowing, the removal of doubt.

Once you attend a Healthy Living and Weight Reduction seminar you will fully understand how to implement these tools and strategies into your own life. You will achieve your Healthy Living goals.

3-Hour Seminar
$49.00

One-on-One Coaching Available

Before After

Before After losing 60lbs

From the Hairdresser's Chair...

Does the word diet sometimes feel like the word DIE with a T? A lot of time we feel as if we are in jail when we are on a diet, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Many conversations in my chair are about the never ending topic of wanting to lose weight and having to go on yet another dreaded diet. As well as being a hairstylist, I have been a weight loss coach for the past seven years and have heard many stories about the dreaded "D" word.

The common denominator of all dieters is that most of them regain the weight back, sometimes plus more. Sound familiar? The problem isn't just the actual dieting, it's the words we use and the thoughts we think. If you are having negative thoughts, you will get a negative result.

I don't like being on a diet. I can't exercise. I don't like feeling deprived of my favourite foods. Instead of concentrating on what you don't like or don't want, simply ask yourself "What do I want?". I want a flexible eating plan. I want to feel fit and energized. I want to enjoy myself when dining out and make wise choices. When you change the words, you change from negative to positive thoughts.

My client Suzie has tried every possible diet out there and over the years I have seen her lose the weight and gain it back. But this time she was sure she was going to succeed! My concern was she was still using the word "diet". The word implies that you are on a certain eating regime for a pre-determined amount of time. I explained to her stop "dieting" and think of it as an actual lifestyle change. But Suzie had a better plan, and after a few months of a very restricted low calorie, no fat diet, her hair started falling out. She was losing weight very quickly, but she was also losing her hair. When I saw her at the next appointment I again explained to her that her body needs to lose weight in a safe, healthy way without being deprived of many food groups. But Suzie still knows best.

After 5 months on the restricted diet she finally blew it and had a piece of cheesecake and gained 6 pounds. I told her if I had a piece of cheesecake my weight would have stayed the same. I eat healthy and have treats in moderation so my body can maintain my ideal weight. I have lost 60 pounds, and kept it off for 7 years.

By the next haircut she had gained a total of 50 pounds back and there was no turning back. Most people feel like they are in jail, and when they get out of "jail" the weight usually comes back. There's no such thing as a get out of jail "free" card when it comes to restrictive dieting. Suzie always looks for the quick dieting fix, but ideally it's about a total lifestyle change. Combine positive thoughts with healthy eating and exercise. It's that simple.

Until the next haircut...

from Karen Lee Stocker's Column "From the Hairdresser's Chair"