WELLNESS
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AMY SELBACH
STOP
WEIGHTING
Amy Selbach is the owner of Taut Body
Studio www.tautbody.com. She is a
holistic health-coach, personal trainer
and Pilates instructor and creator of
the Taut Body program that has helped
hundreds of her clients lose weight
and change their health completely.
She also leads life-design and
business-design incubator workshops
email [email protected].
Day in and day out, I hear success stories about how people’s weight loss has translated to
so much more than fitting into a smaller pair of jeans. Many of these stories tell how
motherhood has been enhanced by one’s fitness and weight loss journey. The feelings and
experiences that we can not measure on the scale include: feeling great in a bikini while
playing with kids on the beach, having more energy to play with kids, having more
confidence as a mother, and setting a good example for children with a healthy lifestyle.
With every small transformation
doors to bigger and better transformations are opened. Something
happens when women form a community and habits around health
and wellness that are actually good
for them. A powerful example for
the next generation is set. Major life
changes take place and people stop
“weighting” to feel the things they
want to feel and have the experiences they dream of having.
While working out may seem like
a superficial task at first glance,
the benefits reach your children at
monumental depths. Your workouts
are a metaphor for other areas in
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your life. Here is what I have seen:
1. Your workouts are confidence
builders, one of the most immediate and powerful tools around. The
goals you accomplish in your workouts translate to doing the same in
the outside world as well.
2. Pushing through a hard workout,
gives you the stamina and endurance
and courage to push through hard
times in life.
3. The “high” that you experience in
exercise alleviates the need to find
it elsewhere, i.e. from food, alcohol, drugs, overeating. Biologically
speaking exercise endorphins are
real and they can drive an entire day
to maximum potential and replace
the need for naughty cravings.
4. The more disciplined and consistent you are in the studio/gym, the
more you are outside the studio or
gym in your business, at work and at