The Smile Effect Podcast

12: Sandra Elia: Overcoming food addiction

Sandra Elia is one of the world’s first Certified Food Addiction Counselors. Sandra knows first hand the pain of living with morbid obesity and has developed a proven program to overcome addictive eating and achieving a healthy body size. Sandra is also influencing the way doctors treat obesity, doing away with unhealthy and unhelpful calorie-counting myths. In this episode, Sandra talks about her struggle with food which began in childhood, how she took control of her life and how she used her pain to make a difference in the lives of others.

11: How to stop body shaming and get off the yo-yo diet train

Emily is not your 'typical' trainer or nutrition professional. As a child, she was never involved in sports and typically felt like a chubby outsider. It took a long time for her to find motivation and the drive to become mentally and physically healthier. See, Emily is a real person with real struggles and her own story. On this episode, Emily walks us through how she stopped the body shaming and jumped off the yo-yo diet train. As a gym owner and health coach, Emily has spent countless hours inside and outside of the gym helping others reach their physical aspirations and potential. But where she has felt the biggest reward and sense of accomplishment is teaching people how they can build better lives one step at a time.