The Lose Weight, Love Your Food, Love Yourself Program™️
The Lose Weight, Love Your Food, Love Yourself Program™️ is a customized holistic health coaching and weight loss program designed to help you ditch dieting forever and attain 'weight happiness' for life.
This is the last weight loss program you will ever need to follow.
This is the last weight loss project you will ever need to start.
This is the last weight loss journey you will ever need to begin.
But what is Weight Happiness?
Characterized by:
- An absence of guilt, shame, and regret over what we eat, or think we 'should' be eating
- A sense of freedom over our food choices; not feeling controlled, punished, or at war with food
- Deriving pleasure in learning about and experimenting with new foods and movement practices
- Giving ourselves permission to eat when we're hungry, and stopping when our bodies don't need anymore
- Understanding - and embracing - the difference between 'restriction' and 'restraint' when it comes to making food choices
- Making decisions about what we eat and don't eat from a place of mindfulness, rather than mindlessness
- Feeling calm, at peace, and relaxed around food
It's time to stop the nonsense - no more diets, detoxes, cleanses, fasts, and chronic yo-yo-ing from one tracking mechanism to another.
It's time to build stability, sustainability, and steadfastness into your relationship with yourself, your health, your weight, and your food.
The Lose Weight, Love Your Food, Love Yourself Program™️
is a customized 6-month heart-centered weight loss program that helps you transform your life through weight loss, self-love, and a positive relationship with food.
Our purpose-driven and values-based approach helps you create a customized planning system and decision-support framework for your health, food, and movement choices, driven by what is truly important to you. With purpose and values as your foundation, you are finally able to take control of your health and weight from a place rooted in your identity, rather than whatever weight loss fad is currently being promoted by diet culture. Making the decisions we make because it's 'who we are' is stable, timeless, unshakeable, like a rock. Making decisions because it's the 'hot new diet' is shifty, shady, never sticky, and usually causes even more weight gain. The customized planning system and decision-support framework you create becomes your Weight Happiness Playbook & Toolkit™️, which you will use, evolve, and adapt in order to achieve and sustain permanent health gain, body transformation and weight loss, for life. You will finally be able to give back to yourself everything that food should be about: freedom, joy, peace, balance, nourishment, celebration, and connection with our world and the people we love.
What makes this program powerful and uniquely effective is that it teaches you how to identify and curate your unique health needs, and how to masterfully create solutions for your health and weight challenges, from a place of purpose, values, priorities, and life experience.
We don't count calories (unless you like to). We don't track macros (unless you like to). We don't intentionally waste opportunities to relish in beautiful meals for bars and shakes (unless you like to!). Our relationship with food isn't about learning how to master calculators and tracking apps. Rather, it is the journey of discovering a love affair with what nourishes us physically, emotionally, socially, spiritually, and mentally, and for that, we must dig deeper.
We must get re-reconnected with our purpose, redefine our values, and renew our commitment to the pursuit of our best health.
The Lose Weight, Love Your Food, Love Yourself Program™️ is a comprehensive weight loss program that
teaches you how to love real food, love yourself, and cultivate a life, health, body weight, and body image that brings you peace and joy in a permanent and sustainable way.
This program is NOT a diet, a detox, or a cleanse. This is a hybrid program that involves both training and holistic wellness coaching. We provide the education, planning frameworks, resources, and tools to help you design a weight loss system that is customized to your health and weight goals, and your lifestyle needs, and which feels simple, effortless, and energizing to use. You provide the creativity, the commitment, and the belief that you are fully whole, intact, and capable of achieving the goals you set. And we are with you 100% of the way to provide clarity, support, encouragement, accountability, and partnership so that you are set up for complete and long-lasting success.
Mindset change and self-love are THE keys to weight loss for life.
- You feel confused about what to eat.
- You're tired of yo-yo dieting.
- You're sick of counting and tracking.
- You need a plan that is simple and easy to use.
- You need a plan that is sustainable and permanent.
- You want long-term change.
- You want peace and balance in your relationship with food.
- You want to learn how to love real food.
- You want to learn how to conquer your sugar cravings.
- You want to feel comfortable in your own skin.
If you raised your hand to any of these,
you're in the right place.
- Define your purpose and values, and how they govern your food choices and movement practices.
- Create health goals and action steps that deliver the results you want.
- Develop a growth mindset oriented toward learning, opportunity, creativity and experimentation.
- Build sustainable habits that support your long-term health and weight goals.
- Develop love, compassion, grace, respect, and affirmation for self.
- Become passionate about real food, and how to create a purposeful role in your diet for sugar.
- Create balanced, satisfying meals you enjoy.
- Make intentional food choices that feel good in your body.
- Take your system of making food choices with you wherever you go so that you can practice them anywhere.
- Build permanence and sustainability into your system so that it works for you over the long-term.
Program Modules
BUILDING A STRONG IDENTITY
- Personal Health Inventory, Goal-Setting, and Needs Assessment
- Vision, Purpose and Values Definitions
- Habits Inventory and Assessment
- Creating Affirmations and your Master Pledge
BUILDING A STRONG FOOD FOUNDATION
- The Modern Food Landscape and Your Diet
- The Roles of Macro- and Micro-nutrition and the Strategic Importance of Protein
- Conquering Sugar
- Getting Food-Smart
DESIGNING WEIGHT HEALTH FOR LIFE
- Creating a joyful Diet-for-Life
- Mastering Meal Planning
- Developing Action Plans for Movement, Hydration, Sleep, Stress and Mindfulness
- Building long-term Sustainability Plans
What's Included
TRAINING + EDUCATION
Education and training videos for each stage (12), delivered bi-weekly
ASSIGNMENTS
Program assignments for each stage (12), delivered bi-weekly
COACHING
60-minute personalized, 1:1 Coaching Sessions for each stage (12)
RESOURCES + TOOLS
Private client access to digital portal containing all program videos, exercises, health plans, resources, and tools
EMAIL SUPPORT
Unlimited coach support by email throughout the duration of your program
WEIGHT-HAPPY RECIPES
Access to The Pura Vida Health Recipe Vault; blog-free and ad-free access to more than 200 of Angie's most popular whole-foods sweets, treats, and meals
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Access to The Pura Vida Health Clubhouse, our private Facebook community of PVH alumni, to keep you engaged, sustained, and supported both during, and following the completion of, your program
FOLLOW-UP
One post-program coaching session to check in on progress, and provide additional support for continued maintenance
It's time to get off the yo-yo diet train.
For good.
Learn how to build your custom Weight Happiness Playbook & Toolkit that works uniquely for you, so that you can reclaim the peace, joy, and confidence you deserve.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Program structured for individuals or groups?
What is the cost of the Program?
Can I use HSA and/or FSA dollars to pay for the Program?
How long does the Program last?
Is there an option to move through the Program in more or less time?
How much time will I need to complete each stage of the Program?
Are the program assignments required?
Who is this Program best suited for? Who is this Program not well suited for?
What Others Are Saying
Gina B., Raleigh, NC
"Working with Angie and completing the Lose Weight, Love Your Food, Love Yourself™️ program was life-changing for me. At 52 years old, I was on a trajectory of a sedentary life plagued with aches, pains, and failed attempts to be more fit and active. I did not lack the dietary knowledge, but I did lack the clarity and self-confidence to invest time, energy, and resources into myself. The identity work was particularly important to my journey.
Angie's program peeled me back like an onion and then rebuilt me with purpose driven goals and plans…lots of plans! She taught me to be deliberate and intentional and not reactionary, especially with food but also with my time and mental energy. Once I had a clear picture of my future self, I was able to make permanent and lasting lifestyle changes. Putting ME first was a new concept!
Having personally lost 100 pounds, Angie has firsthand experience with significant weight loss, and she understands the challenges and hurdles we face as women. The real life plans I made during the program allowed me to get where I wanted to go...physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Angie is great at guiding her clients to look within and realize what you want, then find the answers and solutions to be successful. She helped me discover my reasons for change and then develop new habits to obtain them. She kept me accountable with assignments and is incredibly detailed, kind and inspiring in her approach. Simply put, she gets it and knows the techniques and language to help you make real and honest positive change in your life.
Since completing the Lose Weight, Love Your Food, Love Yourself™️ program, I make choices every day to support my future self. I have lost over 20 pounds, I exercise a minimum of four times a week and I love my diet-for-life. It feels great to finally be in control."
Vickie A., Holland, MI
"Through the Lose Weight, Love Your Food, Love Yourself program, Angie helped me learn how to make myself a priority. She is an active listener, which made her very skilled at helping to build awareness about myself. Along the way, she gives support and pushes at just the right time. I was reminded of things I already knew, and have made so many new discoveries, too. I have lost 25 pounds, and I feel like my food, movement, and meditation habits are getting sticky. I am still working on water and sleep. I am losing weight and loving my diet-for-life!"
Lori J., East Grand Rapids, MI
"For the first time in forever, I was able to focus on myself, my identity, who I wanted to become, and create a plan for how to get there. The flow of the Lose Weight, Love Your Food, Love Yourself™️ program is ideal - first looking inward and building your purpose, so that your head is in the right place, then building healthy habits to help you make the changes you need to make, and then focusing on creating smart action plans to truly put all that you've learned into practice.
Angie is insightful, inspirational, and motivating. She is so easy to connect with, and she has the personal experience of having been down this road. She poured into me; I felt heard, and valued by her. She has such a capacity to listen, and knew how to really dig into issues that were holding me back. I learned so much from her and the program. Her advice helped me in all parts of my life, as this wasn't just about food - this was about healthy living. I deal with stress better, have less anxiety, my relationships are healthier (better communication and boundaries), and I have lost 40 pounds. I'm continuing to work with Pura Vida Health because I am amazed at the difference in my life, and I want to continue to grow and learn."
Jane N., Ada, MI
"I recently attended a Resilient Leader conference and we were talking about who is on our personal 'Board of Directors.' I identified Angie as someone who is on mine. Throughout the Lose Weight, Love Your Food, Love Yourself™️ program, she challenged me to think differently about myself, my health, and my relationship with food, and she is so supportive at the same time. I love Angie's coaching style, and I learn so much from her."
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- Transform your health, your relationship with food, and your relationship with yourself.
- Lose weight permanently, sustainably, and joyfully.
- Commit to yourself and your goals.
- Gain support and accountability to move your health agenda into action.
- Receive guidance and expertise from a Certified Integrative Health Coach - who knows what it takes to lose 100 pounds!
- Connect with like-minded people who are also on their weight happiness journeys.
Trust me, I get it.
I know what it’s like to feel out of control around food, to feel owned by it, trapped by it, and robbed of the very joy it’s supposed to create. I spent 20 years and carried 100 extra pounds there, and it’s not fun. Every social occasion, holiday, and trip is a bargaining-agenda, wrought with trade-offs about which indulgences we’re going to cave to, and which ones are worthy of guilt-free enjoyment (hint: there's not many).
We do so many things well. We invest into the health of our marriage, our children, our family and friendships, our careers… and yet the way we feed ourselves - physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually - it’s as if we’ve just shut the lights off.
It’s time to turn the lights back on, to apply the same level of care, energy, love, and attention that we pour into everyone and everything else, into ourselves. Our #1 job is to take care of ourselves, and it’s not until we accomplish that do we realize that we can actually do everything else BETTER because of it. When we take care of ourselves, we get to invest our time and energy into the people and the things that really matter. They get the best of us, AND we get the life we want. It's the ultimate win-win.
I designed The Lose Weight, Love Your Food, Love Yourself Program™️ to do just that - to help women design the life they want. Yes, it’s about the food. Yes, it’s about the weight loss. But it’s also bigger than that. It’s about becoming who you were meant to be. It's about bringing that version of you into reality. It's about figuring out how you want to show up - for YOU, and to the world around you.
The truth is, living a weight-happy life is simple, enjoyable, and so empowering when you have confidence in your thoughts, beliefs, goals, plans, actions, and in how you nourish and take care of your body. So, tell me: are you ready to learn how to pour into you?
Your future self is waiting.
