"I gained and lost over 700 pounds before I discovered the one thing that changed everything."
You’ve been carrying the blame for too long.
The diets. The “quick fixes.”
The shame every time you fall off track.
The truth is, it was never your fault.
The system was designed to keep you stuck.
October 14th, we’re pulling back the curtain at the Why Diets Don't Work Virtual Workshop.
step into the truth, the tools, and the transformation you’ve been waiting for.
It's the #1 Thing No One Talks ABout
TO GET TO THE TRUTH,
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE LIES
Any of these sound familiar...
I've lost weight before. I've made changes before. I've even surprised myself with what I could accomplish when I put my mind to it. So why does making those changes stick feel like the hardest part?
I can get motivated to start, but I can't seem to hold onto that motivation once my everyday responsibilities start pulling at me again.
I spend so much of my day taking care of everyone and everything else. By the time I get to myself, I'm exhausted. Planning meals, exercising, or doing one more thing feels impossible.
I tell myself I'm only going to have a little, but one craving turns into another. Before long, I'm eating things I promised myself I wouldn't, wondering why I can't seem to get a grip.
I want to make healthier choices, but it's hard when everyone around me is doing something different. Sometimes it's easier to just go along than explain myself or feel like the odd one out.
I'll do well for days, sometimes even weeks. Then one bad day throws everything off. I feel like I've ruined my progress, so I give up and tell myself I'll start fresh on Monday.
I can create order, solve problems, and show up consistently for other people in so many areas of my life. So why does taking care of my own health feel like the one thing I just can't figure out?
There's a Reason for THAT
A reason why you’ve been confused for so long.
A reason the answers keep changing.
A reason it always feels like you’re starting over.
The truth is, there’s an industry that profits when you fail.
An environment that has traded your health for their money.
And a system that keeps you chasing answers they never planned to give you.
TRUTH #1: IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT
Food Confusion.
That’s not on you.
That’s the setup.
They want you unsure. They want you second-guessing. Because when you don’t feel confident, you’ll keep trying whatever they sell you next.
“Healthy” is just a marketing word to them.
If they can convince you chocolate makes you happy…
That ice cream heals a broken heart…
That food is how you cope, reward, celebrate, and escape…
Then they can profit from every single feeling you have.
Truth #2: Food’s Only Purpose Is Nutrition
You Don’t Have a Food Problem. You Have Thoughts That Have Been Programmed.
They keep you focused on:
What to eat.
How much to eat.
How to move.
Which diet to follow.
What you’re doing wrong.
They call it a behavior issue. An eating problem. A willpower problem.
But it’s not.
It’s a thinking problem.
Because before you eat anything—before the fast food, before the binge, before the snack, or before you “fall off”—you have a thought.
And that thought didn’t come out of nowhere.
It came from conditioning.
From repetition.
From being trained—by media, culture, trauma, and messaging—to respond in certain ways.
They sell you diets, pills, surgeries, challenges… all "solutions" focused on action and behavior.
But acting without thinking isn’t transformation—it’s entrapment.
Truth #3: Your Body Follows Your Brain
These truths are just the beginning. What they point to is a solution far bigger and more powerful than you’ve ever been told. One that...
Helps you uncover the real reasons you keep falling off track—reasons no diet or workout plan ever addresses.
Stops the endless cycle of “starting over” by fixing the belief that is underneath the behavior, not just the behavior itself.
Removes the confusion, guilt, and second-guessing around food so you can finally trust yourself again.
Breaks the emotional hooks and marketing traps that have been steering your choices without you realizing it.
Turns consistency into something natural, not a daily fight against willpower.
Gives you a foundation that makes any healthy habit easier to start—and even easier to keep.
For all these reasons—and so many more—I’m inviting you to read my story… so you can finally begin your own.
For all these reasons—and so many more—I’m inviting you to read my story… so you can finally begin your own.
Introducing
Leaving Large: Stories of a Food Addict Experience
This Experience is your complete first step toward lasting change—my personal story, the truths no one else is telling you, my 2-day live virtual workshop experience, guided workbook, replays, my 7 Secrets e-book guide, and special bonuses. Together, they give you the clarity, tools, and support to understand your story, rewrite your thinking, and finally break free for good.
WHEN YOU GET MY BOOK, YOU ALSO GET MY 2-DAY LIVE WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
You'll Get Instant Access to:
A Signed Copy of My Book, Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict ($29 Value). My raw, personal story of gaining and losing 700 lbs, the emotional wounds I had to heal, and the lies I had to unlearn. Written for every woman who’s ever believed she was the problem—you’re not. (
2-Day Why Diets Don’t Work Live Virtual Workshop ($297 Value): How to Finally Stay Consistent. Two transformative days to uncover what's keeping you stuck in the start-stop cycle, rethink consistency, and learn practical ways to make healthier choices stick—even when life gets in the way.
The Consistency Companion Workbook ($24 Value). Your practical guide to breaking the start-stop cycle, navigating setbacks, and building healthier habits you can return to again and again—lasting transformation doesn't require perfection.
Full Workshop Replay Access ($97). Revisit every session anytime—perfect if you miss a day or want to hear it again. Watch online or download to keep for life. Learn and reflect on your own schedule. Perfect for the reality of juggling work, family, and self-care.
🎁 BONUS 7 Secrets to Rewire Your Brain for Healthy Eating E-Book ($17). My foundational step-by-step guide to reset your mindset, uncover hidden patterns, and use writing as a daily tool for lasting change.
🎁 BONUS 8-Day Mind Over Meals Live Virtual Retreat Experience: Cracking the Consistency Code ($897). Eight powerful days where we unpack the lies, reveal the truth, and start building something new, together, in real time.
🎁 BONUS 8-Day Mind Over Meals Cracking the Consistency Code Digital Retreat Workbook ($24). Your personal space for breakthroughs, reflections, and action steps—guided prompts to help you shift your thinking and start your transformation.
TOTAL PACKAGE VALUE: $1,385
What’s the 2-Day Live Why Diets Don't Work Virtual Workshop Experience—And Why Did I Include It With the Book?
The book tells my story.
The live experience helps you start yours.
I didn’t want Leaving Large to just be something you read and put on the shelf. I wanted it to become a spark—something that helps you see your own life, your own patterns, and your own power in a new way.
That’s why I created the 2-Day Live Virtual Workshop Experience as a companion to the book. Each day, I walk you through the constricting lies we’ve been told about food, about health, about our worth, and the powerful truths that propel forward movement.
This isn’t about information. It’s about transformation.
And sometimes, hearing it said out loud… sitting with it in real time… that’s what finally makes it click.
So if you’ve ever read a book and thought, “This is powerful, but now what?” This experience is the “now what.”
We do it together.
I get it because I have been there too and found the truth!
Hey, I'm Michelle!
I am an award‑winning author, TEDx speaker, and Food Story coach who gained and lost over 700 pounds during my decades‑long journey of emotional overeating and obesity. I spent over four decades, balancing a high‑powered corporate career with companies such as Disney/ABC, NPR, and Radio One, and a secret, exhausting—battle with food and weight.
I realized that no amount of dieting, counting points, or logging apps would bring me lasting change. I finally found freedom when I started doing the deeper emotional and narrative work around my story—not just her food habits
Today, I guide women to uncover and rewrite the Food Stories that drive their behaviors—helping them lose weight by transforming how they think, feel, and show up for themselves. My approach is compassionate, story‑driven, and rooted in self‑trust—not restriction or perfection.
Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict—winner of the 2022 Memoir Award
Lost 100+ Over 60
Spoken or hosted workshops at more than 100 events, conferences, panels, etc.
I stayed stuck for over 40 years:
I believed the problem was my plate, not my past. My focus was always on what to eat, never why I was eating.
I had tried surface-level fixes, diets, fasts, pills, and programs never addressed the root so I kept gaining the weight back making me feel like I'm just meant to be overweight.
I was using food to control instead of expressing my feelings. Emotional literacy was missing, so food became my language for unspoken pain.
I was carrying emotional weight and didn't see food as a symptom. Grief, shame, and the pressure to be “the strong one” stayed buried and unprocessed.
I hadn’t told my truth yet. Healing didn’t begin until I gave voice to my story. Without tools for release, food became the only outlet.
I believed willpower was the missing piece. But the real missing piece was understanding.
I kept myself isolated in my struggle. Community, storytelling, and validation were crucial, but absent for years.
Break free at my 2-Day Why Diets Don't Work LIVE Virtual Workshop: How to Finally Stay Consistent and uncover the hidden forces that have kept you confused, inconsistent, and stuck.
The 2-Day Why Diets Don't Work Virtual Workshop gives you the truth, tools, and community to finally understand why change hasn’t lasted—and what to do differently so it does. You’ll leave with a clear mind, a stronger voice, and the first steps of your transformation already in motion. Just $97.
When is the Next Live Virtual Workshop?
October 13-14, 7-8:30 PM ET
Why Diets Don't Work 2-Day Live Virtual Workshop:
How to Finally Stay Consistent
Each day of the workshop challenges what you've been taught about consistency and reveals what's really keeping you stuck in the cycle of starting and stopping. You'll discover what it takes to keep choosing your health, even when life gets messy, others don't understand, or you fall off track. You'll learn how to move beyond motivation, navigate setbacks, and make consistency your new normal.
What You’ll Learn in 2 Powerful Days:
You will learn why motivation alone isn't enough to sustain weight loss and what it really takes to stay consistent when the excitement wears off.
You will learn what keeps you trapped in the start-stop cycle and how to break the pattern of repeatedly beginning again.
You will learn why consistency doesn't require perfection and how to navigate setbacks without abandoning your progress.
You will learn how your everyday routines and responsibilities influence your choices and how to make your health a priority even when life gets busy.
You will learn how the expectations of family, friends, and society can pull you away from your goals and how to confidently make different choices without guilt.
You will learn why discomfort is often part of transformation and how to keep moving forward when healthier choices feel unfamiliar.
You will learn how to make consistency your new normal.
What’s waiting for you inside the Book + Virtual Workshop dExperience:
2-Day Why Diets Don't Experience
Full Workshop Replay Access
Consistency Companion Workbook
Signed Copy of My Book, Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict
🎁 BONUS 7 Secrets to Rewire Your Brain for Healthy Eating
🎁 BONUS 8-Day Retreat Replays + Digital Retreat Workbook
Welcome To Mind Over Meals
Everything you need to break free from the lies that have kept you stuck—from uncovering your personal food stories to rewiring your mind for lasting change.
Questions You Might Be Asking Yourself Right Now
FAQs
Commonly Asked Questions
Who is this for?
This is for any woman who’s tired of feeling like she is the problem, frustrated with diets that don’t last, and ready to uncover the truth behind her eating habits so she can finally be free.What exactly is included in The Experience?
You’ll receive a signed copy of my book Leaving Large, access to the 2-Day Why Diets Don’t Work Live Virtual Workshop, The Consistency Companion Workbook, lifetime workshop replay access, plus the complete 8-Day Mind Over Meals: Cracking the Consistency Code Retreat replays, its accompanying digital workbook, and my bonus e-book 7 Secrets to Rewire Your Brain for Healthy Eating. It’s everything you need to start uncovering your food stories, shifting your mindset, and building lasting change.Do I have to attend the virtual workshop live to benefit from it?
No. You’ll get full, replay access to every single session. Whether you watch live or on your own time, you’ll still get the breakthroughs and tools to start your transformation.How is this different from other weight loss programs I’ve tried?
Most programs focus on what to eat and how to move—behaviors. This Experience focuses on transforming your thinking first, because your brain makes the decision before your body ever takes action. When your mind changes, your habits follow.Will this work for me if I’ve struggled with consistency?
Yes. In fact, that’s one of the main struggles we address. You’ll learn why you’ve struggled to stay consistent and how to finally break that cycle.I’ve tried so many things and always regain the weight. Why should I believe this will be different?
Because we’re not asking you to rely on willpower alone. You’ll uncover the hidden stories and beliefs that have been sabotaging your progress for years, and learn how to rewrite them so your changes stick. You will get a chance to meet women who have lost from 20 to 200+ pounds and are not worried about gaining any of it back.Do I need to share personal stories during the workshop?
Only if you want to. Many women find sharing helpful, but you can also keep your reflections private in the workbook and still get the full benefit.How much time will I need to commit?
The live virtual workshop sessions are about 90 minutes each, and you can watch replays at your own pace. The workbook exercises are short but powerful—you can complete them in as little as 10–15 minutes a day.
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