Sold Out for Spring 2012. Stay tuned for a Fall Launch of Truce With Food as an e-Learning Course!
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Is your body decorated with crazy cravings, exhaustion and bloating?
Would you like to simplify your nutritional choices?
Do you want to be free of dieting, stress eating and those extra pounds?
Are you curious about the connection between lifestyle and metabolism?
Have you succeeded in life on paper but not on the scale?
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"The value of this program was learning a new way to eat and knowing there is a way to control our habits. This is not a plan but a life saving journey" Candace G.
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If successful weight-loss were a rational process that only involved counting calories, fifth grade math skills would enable successful weight-loss. And if being thin were the answer, yo-yo dieting wouldn’t be a chronic condition that results in feeling so awkward around food. For women, food has an emotional resonance beyond hunger.
For a trailor of the program, watch me on the NBC 10! Show.
By redesigning your plate and lifestyle, an ease around food, weight-loss and life follow. In other words, it's easy to (insert weight-loss tip known by heart but isn't followed) and not be tempted by the "bad foods".
For women who want confidence around their food, bodies and weight-loss issues, welcome home. I have developed a time-tested, systematic approach that creates a sophisticated freedom around food and a lifestyle that nourishes your tastes and your taste buds. In other words, food is no longer the centerpiece in your life. While each woman has unique emotional connections to food, all must start by reorganizing how they view food.
The Truce with Food group program is like the entryway into a home and my signature system. It’s my time-tested formula to de-clutter, simplify and clean up your relationship to food in 5-short weeks. Food will never look or feel the same way again.
I’ve taken the best lessons from my own 20-year weight-loss struggles and successful 30 pound weight-loss maintenance, three degrees (both holistic and Ivy League) and five years of client successes and wrapped the best into this program.
If you'd prefer to save yourself another three months at the ol’ college try at a diet that will bankrupt your wallet and more importantly your soul, or years of food struggle and procrastinating at your “real life” (that one that begins when you lose weight), join a wonderful community of women who are calling a truce with food and enjoying an elegance to their eating and lives (which they've started to really live!). And community facilitates weight-loss. People who join groups lose more weight than those who do it alone (in some cases, it's twice as much!)
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The Truce program appealed to me because I've gained and lost weight over and over for years; thus, I was not seeking a way to lose weight. I know how to do that - too well. What I was seeking in Truce was a more strategic inquiry into the underlying emotions, beliefs, and struggles with my weight.
Because of the group approach, I heard first-hand from others similar struggles. The program gave me the courage to share and thus not feel so alone with some of my issues. Another benefit was Ali! Ali, you have a rare ability to create a safe, judgment-free zone even on the phone! You are able to share from your own experiences without making the sessions about you. The third most valuable benefit was the content. I was enthralled in everything we talked about. I can't pick out just one thing that was most valuable because the value is in how it all works together. Well done. Kristin D, Baltimore
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Details
5 Tuesdays: March 6, 13, 20, 27, April 3
7-8:30 p.m., Telephone (your comfy home)
Price: $299
*Bonus meet and greet phone call Monday, March 5 from 7-9 p.m. EST
Space is limited to ensure individual attention. and this program consistently sells out. Please don't hesitate if this is something you want for yourself. To enroll, click the "Add to Cart" button.
Please note: Upon reservation, you'll receive the call-in details and information on how to access the online community and workbook via email. If you don't, please check your SPAM. It's there. All calls will be recorded in case you miss a class.
In addition to five group sessions, you will receive:
1. Quick, simple and delicious seasonal recipes
2. A meet and greet call to connect you with a community of wonderful women
3. Ongoing online support between sessions via a private Facebook group
4. A workbook with well-curated nutrition information and coaching questions that will dramatically change food’s role in your life.
The top 10 life-changers you’ll discover in this program:
1. New foods that work with versus against your body
2. How to balance your individual body
3. The 2 key body functions that must be in working order to lose weight (hint:calories are irrelevant)
4. Simplify your eating choices – no more analyzing a package or dessert tray for 15 minutes only to end in defeat
5. The food-mood and mood-food connection
6. How to dramatically and simply reduce your cravings
7. The emotions behind the 3 and 9 p.m. dark-chocolate deep dive and the entire weekend being “off-track”
8. The brilliance of a binge and using your emotions to your advantage
9. Tools to eliminate self-judgment and self-sabotage
10. Simple but dramatic lifestyle organization techniques that will increase metabolism
In five weeks, you will have a new elegance to your eating and life. You’ll greet the spring and summer without panic.
With this clarity and momentum, you’ll be able to move beyond the entryway and into other spaces in your life that need redesigned to support further weight-loss and wellness goals (more information on these programs coming soon! I'm working as fast as I can I'm so excited!).
If you have any questions not answered below, please call me at 215.279.7491 or email ali@alishapiro.com. I’m happy to answer anything. I’m so proud of this work and hope to share it with you.
FAQs
Q. Who benefits from this program?
A. The common group trait is a desire to learn about their bodies and themselves. They are beyond the weight-loss games. A weight-loss desire exists yet they want to rid themselves of the “on-track”/”off-track” mentality by understanding what derails them. This program doesn’t work for those looking to drop 20 pounds in a month, and those that are anorexic or purging. In general, my clients (private and in-group) are looking to lose zero to 50 pounds.
Q. What are the details of each week?
A. Week 1: Food-Mood Connection
Week 2: Balance Your Body
Week 3: Physical and Emotional Cravings: An action plan for each
Week 4: Ending Self-Sabotage
Week 5: Lifestyle Renovations for Sustainable Weight-loss
Q. What if I have to miss a week?
A. Once the group begins, everyone realizes how incredible each session is and rearranges their schedules to make this group a priority. However, life does happen. I will audio record a missed session. The group dynamic and discussion is one of the most valuable aspects of the group.
Q. What if I don’t know my schedule? I enroll and then have to cancel.
A. Because of the planning of this event, your money cannot be refunded. However, you are more than welcome to transfer your enrollment to a friend. Or, if there are people on the waiting list, you will be connected with them.
More praise for Truce with Food
I've struggled with eating (too much, too little) and weight for a long time; Ali's description of her journey resonated with me. Her whole approach was something I had not seen- I was very curious/excited to check it out.
I gained a LOT of insight into my eating patterns, daily habits and how I was allowing or creating negative energy in my life that I was trying to eat my way out of. The group support was wonderful (I miss our calls already) and we all really connected and were able to learn from one another. This sharing and the workbook questions helped me the most.
The questions you raise (which goes along with your approach) were excellent at making me analyze parts of my thought process that I had never questioned and beliefs that I hadn't even realized I was living by. I always knew I was an emotional eater but this program helped me see how that manifested in my life and why. And the program was then able to support me in taking corrective action.
Most importantly, I recently had an 'aha' moment (thanks, Oprah!) where I just realized that I didn't need to carry around all this extra stress and worry and was able to let a lot of it go. I'm still working on it each day, but I feel like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders and the way I look at food has changed even more dramatically than before. It doesn't hold all the power that it did before. Very grateful yours. D.D, Philadelphia
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I enrolled in Truce with Food to have a healthy relationship with food and take the stress out of eating. Through the program, I benefitted by understanding how the right breakfast sets you up for the rest of the day, what real hunger feels like, and what cravings mean and how to rearrange the rest of your life to take care of most of those cravings.
The workbook was the most valuable because it was concise, easy to use, and it worked. This really is a great program, I can't believe the progress I've made in the past few weeks compared to 10+ years of unnecessary dieting. It's great how it can help people with different issues (overeating, overexercising, over analyzing, or people who need more nutritional guidance and portion control) using the relatively the same method. On the other hand, there was no one size fits all approach (different breakfasts work for different people, etc.) and that was welcomed. I will definitely recommend to friends. Adrienne, Philadelphia
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I related to everything Ali said, as if she was speaking about my own experiences. It was really great to hear someone who has gone through literally the same dieting, body-hating experiences and has come out the other end much happier and healthier. Striving for perfection in the way I eat only led me to deprivation, feelings of guilt, and ultimately just hating my body. Truce with Food taught me how to stop being so hard on myself. - Kim B.
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What a wonderful journey of self-discovery Truce with Food has been with Ali as our guide. I’m having less cravings and feeling more empowered making a commitment to tend to myself in this new way. I am cooking 50% or more at home for myself – this is phenomenal! Patty Durkin
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Truce with Food gave me a better understanding of the food/mood connection, why we want certain things, and how to control and think more introspectively about binging. Monica
