What is lacking from many people who desire to lose weight and live healthier? According to certified health coach Melody McClellan: commitment and exercise.
You cannot just think about exercise or buy exercise apps or watch exercise videos. You must actually make that investment in yourself to do the work to move your body to change old habits and improve your life. McClellan said she is surprised how many people get no exercise at all.
McClellan, founder, CEO and health coach of UnWrap You, LLC assists others in making those changes through group coaching. However, it takes time.
Sometimes I do believe that people want overnight outcomes, she said, and that is just not going to happen if you are doing it the correct way, which is improving your nutrition altering the foods that youre eating and moving more. Even if youre eating a little bit more vegetables, putting a can down a little bit more, getting rid of some of the processed foods.
Through group coaching and journaling, McClellan encourages clients to adopt healthier behaviors to lose and sustain weight loss through better nutrition, exercising more and identifying their personal triggers that can derail their health goals.
Working for many years as a diabetes and hypertension pharmaceutical representative, McClellan saw that people were taking a lot of medicine with little knowledge about nutrition.
After seeing so many people on medications and starting to realize a lot of people dont understand nutrition, and how really important and how much it effects their outcome, I went back to get my nutrition certification and then started UnWrap You, she said. Its not just weight loss, but mindset, how things trigger you just a whole holistic approach.
Her clients are mainly women and youth, and her business operates out of OFallon, Illinois.
Ultimately the adult is the one who is purchasing the food, she said, and therefore I have to get to moms or dads or whoever the decision-maker is in the home, because the kids dont buy anything.
Successfully overcoming her own weight struggles after having children is one of the reasons why she started UnWrap You.
I was doing what they told me to do work out three days a week, eat better, McClellan said. Eat better. What does that mean? So, when I started doing it for myself, I started learning so many things that we dont even know about.
McClellan has created community walks and wellness challenges in the metro area through partnerships with local organizations and on social media.
I live what I teach, she said. I practice what I teach until it has just become a lifestyle for me of being healthy.
McClellan has a bachelors degree in business with an emphasis in marketing from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She received certification in nutrition and health coaching from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
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