Health Coaching: Empowering Your Journey to Wellness

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So my name is Rachel, and I'm from Sarasota, Florida. And two and a half years ago, I started on a journey that has truly transformed my entire life. And that journey is really focused on putting myself at the top of the list, making myself a priority, focusing on full body health, both inside and out. This journey started during the pandemic when I shot up over a hundred pounds. I was unhealthy. I was choosing unhealthy foods because of the work that I was in. I was working seven days a week, and I was really unable to choose a healthy lifestyle. The gym was closed. My trainer was unable to continue with his business. One day, went to an office to see my dentist and learned that I had won a basket for referrals. They asked to take a picture of me. Before I knew it, the picture was posted on Facebook, and I looked at the picture and did not recognize the person that I had become. I was nearly 260 pounds. I was pre-diabetic. Every joint in my body hurt when I got out of bed, and I just was absolutely at the end of my rope. I kept saying to myself, you're too young to feel this bad. And so I decided that it was time for me to truly take control of my life and my health. As we all know, we're only given one body and one life to live, and I didn't want the rest of my life to be miserable and to be uncomfortable and certainly unhealthy. This journey has really been a lot for me to relearn about making sure that I'm focused on activity, that I'm focused on looking at macros and looking at food as a source of energy and not comfort. So I've had to really relearn that food is to nourish your body, to make you healthy, to give you energy, to make you feel good, and not to make you feel like that it's something that you should be doing because you're happy or you're sad or you're lonely or you're anxious. This journey has been one where I've done a lot of self-discovery. I remember the first day I went into the gym at nearly 260 pounds. How am I going to do this? I felt so uncomfortable and so self-conscious. I looked around, I saw all these healthy, young individuals. Every mirror that was around me, I tried not to look at myself. It's been a slow progression of going from 30 minutes a day to just cardio to basically two and a half hours a day where I'm spending 40 minutes on cardio and nearly 90 minutes on lifting heavy weights. I'm actually in better shape now than I was in my 30s when I was running full marathons. I lost my only sibling. She was 44 years old. She was morbidly obese, hypertension, diabetes, everyone in my family, the diabetic, except for me. And I just didn't want to spend the rest of my life on a ton of medications and being unhealthy. You know, I've got the best years of my life coming up and why should I spend them feeling horrible? And I want to be able to keep up with grandchildren and be able to travel all over the world and walk everywhere and be active and not just sit around and be miserable. Because we're all different, we're all unique, it took a great deal of really understanding where my fuel was coming from and understanding what fuel I needed in terms of back rows from certain foods and not just looking at calories and not just looking at, oh, go take, you know, a medication to help you lose weight. I mean, it truly is a comprehensive system of things that individuals need that are not the same. There's not a one size fits all for everyone. And so for me, it's been really figuring out what it takes, what's that recipe, right? Or what do I need in my tool belt in order for me to maintain or to change, you know, the way I look and feel.

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If you're tired, frustrated, or feeling stuck when it comes to your weight, if all the things you used to do for weight loss just aren't working anymore, if the skinny shot left you feeling disappointed in your results or you've experienced weight regain, it's time that you change the way you approach weight loss. Aspect Wellness is not your typical diet clinic. I'm Rachel Smith. I'm a doctorally prepared nurse practitioner with 18 years of experience in women's health, family practice nursing, and obesity medicine. I have designed a program that covers everything. Our comprehensive program will walk you through a science-based seven-step process that will uncover root causes of weight gain and identify any underlying medical conditions. We conduct a thorough lab evaluation and body composition testing. We utilize FDA-approved medications to facilitate your weight loss. We help you identify any environmental or lifestyle factors contributing to weight gain, and with the help of our empathetic and highly skilled weight loss coaches, we will begin to craft a healthy approach to lifestyle that will support your weight loss for many years to come. I know you're tired of fads and gimmicks. It's time to try a plan that simply offers sustainable improvements in health. I promise you'll be sorry you didn't start sooner, so don't delay. Make your appointment for your initial consultation today.