Professionally, I was a business leader struggling for years with the embarrassing contrast between my professional success and my inability to control myself around a cupcake.  I was flying around the country wining and dining clients, building teams and gaining weight year after year.

Then I found a book called “If I’m So Smart, Why Can’t I Lose Weight?” and thought “that’s me!”.  When I found out the book’s author, Brooke Castillo, was training weight loss coaches, I hired one on the spot.  I started losing weight working with my coach and following their simple food protocol, but when I learned the “Thought Model” to help understand and change my thoughts about food, that’s when the pounds really started coming off!