Weight-loss
author offers workshops in Metcalfe
- The Villager, by David Gonczol
Weight loss specialist Roslyn Franken likes to joke that
she has "been there, done that and written the book." Not so long ago the
Ottawa author looked at herself in the mirror and felt depressed knowing she had to lose
weight - so she did!
After years working as a life coach, Franken challenged
herself to change, something she's asked clients to do on a a daily basis in her practice
as a life coach. The process of losing 40 pounds changed her life, her career and is
shared in her recently published book, The A List: 9 Guiding Principles for Healthy Eating
and Positive Living.
Franken is bringing her approach to Luvdragons in Metcalfe,
starting this Saturday with a three-week workshop. The workshop will be held each
successive Saturday for three weeks.
"I learned it by doing it," said Franken.
"I'm coaching people through a process because it's not just about the food they are
putting in their mouth, it's their whole relationship with food. Why do they eat the
way they eat and how do they change their attitude and their mindset around food,"
she said.
"It's almost like a behavioural psychological approach
as well."
She said most diets often don't work long term because
people revert back to bad habits once the weight loss is achieved and the diet is dropped.
She said many people don't want to commit to making the lifestyle changes
necessarily to get and stay slim. They just want someone to tell them what to eat
and how much.
"They need to learn to be accountable to
themselves," said Franken.
 Franken's journey of
discovery started when she was diagnosed with cancer at age 29. She successfully
overcame that and worked as a life coach for several years. At the age 40 she looked
in the mirror one day after years of steadily gaining weight.
"My mother had passed away the same year and it was
like, you sort of get on the scale one day and look at yourself and say - what am I doing?
Enough is enough!" Franken said.
She realized she had been coaching people for years how to
make positive changes in their own lives and yet she was faced with her own challenge.
"How do I take everything I've learned in my school
training, my masters program and my life coaching, helping people set goals and achieve
goals, if I can't do this one myself?"
She eventually realized that the only way to have stable
weight loss was to change her eating habits permanently. She said simply following a
diet for a while is often a temporary solution and that some diets are in fact dangerous.
Her book is set up as a workbook with exercises to teach a hands-on strategy to
change eating habits. The book also contains nutritional information, chapters about
understanding calories, how to approach a trip to the supermarket and it works to reduce
your chances of getting diabetes and other health problems.
Franken said response to the book has been good and she
enjoys her new life helping others lose weight. More information can be obtained at her
website at www.roslynfranken.com.
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