In 2008, I went hiking with a dear friend into a spiritual mountain to meditate and relax (after the workout to get there of course!). One of the questions that had been swirling in my mind for YEARS was “what is MY book?” The passion project that represented ME?
Once we hit the vortex of the canyon and say for some refreshments, it hit me like a lightning bolt out of the sky!
The Wine, Cheese & Chocolate Diet:
How Pleasure is the Missing Ingredient in Lasting Weight Loss
Do you want to be fit, fabulous and enjoy your life? Me too!! That’s why I am writing this book! Enough of the STARVATION and KILL YOURSELF WORKOUTS!!
This is why America is FAT! We think of getting fit and healthy as being TIME CONSUMING, TASTELESS, HARD and PAINFUL. It doesn’t have to be that way.
I love living a healthy life that includes my three favorite
indulgences: wine, cheese and chocolate and I plan to share with you how youcan include these foods or other favorites that you have and still lose weight.
About half of the population is still “dieting”, still gaining weight and not working out. WHY? I believe it’s because of our mindset about health and exercise.
It has been reported that the world now has more people who are overweight than people who are hungry.(PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2007)
According to the World Health Organization, The US is the world’s fattest nation,with over half of adults overweight or obese. But China and India are growing fatter at a faster pace. By 2015, the number of overweight and obese adults in China and India will grow by 66% and 44% respectively
(PricewaterhouseCoopers 2007). It’s time to do something differently!
I have been calling myself “the wine, cheese and chocolate trainer” for about five years to let my clients know that I believe in a balanced, realistic approach to weight loss and health.
Many of my fitness counterparts on TV represent a style or mindset about exercise that I consider extreme. When you watch some of those very popular fitness shows—all you see is PAIN.
They dedicate hours and weeks to exercise and cutting back food so the American population has been brainwashed to think that you need to give up life as you know it in order to lose weight and stay that way. Not true!
Some of these “celebrity trainers” have programs that body build or do extreme sports and some that I call “boot camp” trainers promote a military style of pushing until you drop. The benefit of pushing someone that hard usually creates fast, dramatic results. America watches every week as contestants lose 5-20 pounds on reality TV shows!
What America doesn’t see or hear about are the risks involved with this dramatic lifestyle change. The risks are usually joint injuries and muscle strain—the body worked at a level it wasn’t prepared for.
The average person can’t realistically commit hours of time and energy every day towards exercise in the prime stages of life. If you have a job and a family, creating time for exercise can sometimes be challenging.
I believe your diet and exercise program should change as your life changes. At every stage, you need something different. At every stage, you may have a different lifestyle. If your program doesn’t fit into your life then it most likely will be temporary andtherefore ineffective over time.
I started this book in 2008/2009 and shelved it when I got the contract for Knack Absolute Abs- Routines for a Fit and Firm Core. But it’s always in my conversations and in my mind.
I have decided to beta test the Wine, Cheese and Chocolate Diet Program to test my theories in the book and prove that PLEASURE is the missing ingredient for lasting weight loss.
I will be unveiling it soon so stay tuned! And drop me a reply here and let me know what you think of this idea!
