Spotlight: Andréa Albright

Spotlight: Andrea Albright Blog: Andrea's Healthy Weight Loss Blog Newsletter: Amazing Body Now Blogging since: February 2007 Work: I’m an Author, Yoga Instructor, Meditation Guide, Healthy Weight Loss Coach and former “chubby girl” Favorite vacation spot: Thailand – Love the fresh fruits and vegetables, the crystal-clear beaches, and the people that smile like the sunshine. Favorite food: Raspberries – they’re full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants and they burst and bubble in your mouth like champagne.

What led you down this career/career-path?
When I used to be fat, I tried all the famous diets to lose weight but nothing worked. Then I accidentally discovered a simple system that made the fat melt off my body. I wrote a book and started to put the idea out there because I wanted to help other people who were struggling to lose weight. Now this simple system has worked for thousands of other people too.

What was your motivation for getting involved in the health community?
There is a lot of bad, false information out there about weight loss. Once I discovered how to lose weight naturally and permanently, I wanted to share it with people confused about healthy weight loss and show them how to do it step by step.

What are some of your favorite treatment/weight loss methods?
First is "Count Chemicals Not Calories" - I call this my 3C Rule and it is one of the easiest and best things you can do to lose weight naturally. As it turns out, counting calories doesn’t work, but counting chemicals does. They put chemicals in food to keep it from spoiling and to make it taste better – but these chemicals destroy your health and your waistline and cause out-of-control cravings that make you eat way more food. This makes it impossible to lose weight. So Count Chemicals Not Calories. Read the ingredient label on everything you eat. If there are chemicals in it, don’t eat it.

Second, "Throw Away Your Scale" - The scale is the worst way to judge your health or weight loss progress (everyone uses the words “weight loss” but what you want is fat loss). As you get healthy by exercising and eating healthy foods without chemicals – you are going to be building muscle and bone density (your bones will get thicker and stronger – that’s a good thing!). You may gain weight because muscle and bone weigh more than fat cells. But your body will be getting smaller and tighter all over (that’s what you want!). If you throw your scale away, you will not be fooled by numbers. You will focus on more consistent and more reliable methods to judge your progress.

Lastly, "Tune In To Your Spirit To Stay Inspired" - When people tell me they need more motivation to lose weight, I say, "What you really need is inspiration". The word inspiration literally means, "to bring in the spirit" in Latin. By connecting to your spirit (or your greatest meaning and purpose for living), you will have an endless supply of motivation to continue because it will be connected to the greatest power you have available to you.

What are your long-term goals?
My mission is to change the way that women lose weight. False advertising, and weight loss gimmicks have lied to us for decades! I’m building a website that will give every woman the information and tools they need to lose excess body fat and live the healthiest life they can without being scammed by taking diet pills or buying bogus weight loss products. Everything that you need to heal your body and lose body fat is already inside of you. This simple, natural, and proven system for healthy fat loss will stop the diet industry, the food manufacturers, and the obesity epidemic from taking over the world.

What is your favorite health-related website?
My website http://www.AmazingBodyNow.com, I don’t sell any diet pills, weight loss gadgets, or gimmicks. Everything I teach is about how you can get healthy and lose your body fat all by yourself. And it works better this way because then you believe in yourself and your ability to heal your body and lose fat naturally.

What is your favorite health-related book?
My book, Andrea's Answer: How To Lose Weight By Feeding And Nourishing Your Spirit. It’s the complete system that I followed to lose the extra fat from my body. I explain how I went from a size 12 to a size 2 and continue to get healthier every year.

What inspires you?
My personal mission – to change the way women lose weight. So many women struggle and suffer because they hate their body and the way it looks. They are living in a prison inside their own body. I want to help them break free. Every woman who wants to get healthy and live a life without extra body fat can do it. I’ve seen it happen to so many different people all around the world. I know this system works and it’s so very simple. I just love teaching it and spreading the message.

What motivated you to start using the web (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, website, etc) as a way to share your thoughts/advice regarding a healthy lifestyle?
Though I solved my own body fat problems years ago, I still have to continue living a healthy lifestyle or I get fat very fast. When I first met my boyfriend, he said, "There's something different about you. Unlike all the other women who have to watch their weight and are angry about it, you seem to enjoy it. You should write a book about this."

So I learned everything I could about internet marketing and how to get my message out to millions of women. I put my website up and started making videos for YouTube. And it just blew up over night. When you speak the truth, you find that everyone wants to hear more. It’s been a great challenge and joy to keep up with all of it. I’m determined to take this message as far and wide as possible, and the internet is the best vehicle for communication and change.

What have been the benefits of using the web in this way?
You have the ability to connect with millions of people around the world and get immediate feedback on your writing, videos, blog posts, etc. You can truly listen to your audience because you are in a "real time" dialogue with what your audience wants, and you can give them exactly what they need to succeed every day.


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