The Cost of Obesity - Is There a Way to Win

Is there a solution that will change the lives of the obese and, eventually, stem the tide of weight related health care costs? Debra Hoogestraat, a Life Coach, Author, and Speaker once weighed 320 pounds and says there is a way. One without the waiting for drug approval, surgery, starvation, or the low-carb, low-fat jargon. To change your body, as well as any part of your life, she says a person needs to change their mind about who they are and want to be. This is the key to success.

(PRWEB) October 24, 2004 -- Emory University researchers reported yesterday that more than a quarter of the startling growth in health care spending over the past 15 years is attributable to obesity.

Is there a solution that will change the lives of the obese and, eventually, stem the tide of weight related health care costs?

Debra Hoogestraat, a Life Coach, Author, and Speaker once weighed 320 pounds and says there is a way. One without the waiting for drug approval, surgery, starvation, or the low-carb, low-fat jargon. To change your body, as well as any part of your life, she says a person needs to change their mind about who they are and want to be. This is the key to success.

From morbid obesity to a 180-pound lighter age group triathlete and Life Coach, Debra Hoogestraat embodies the life changing strategies she shares with clients.

The guiding principle of her practice, Enviable Life Coaching, is the belief that every individual has an image of what their enviable life would look like. Utilizing strategies she has learned from her own experience and the elite athletes she once worked with, Debra has fashioned a practice that is effective and fun. It is solely based upon discovering who the client was created to be and what in life makes them the most passionate.

About Enviable Life Coaching

Debra Hoogestraat, Owner of Enviable Life Coaching, provides cutting-edge strategies for developing a life that is as unique as the client. In addition to her coaching practice, she is a teacher at The Learning Annex in New York and is awaiting the publishing of her first book, Enviable Life: Strategies for Creating the Life You Would Envy.

Debras enviable life includes training for the Florida Half-Ironman race. In addition, she is busy with her volunteer work with the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and caring for her three furry children, Marius, Javert and Eponine ... her cats.

Debra is available for immediate interview regarding life and body transformation and can be reached at: debra@enviablelife.com or 914-666-0005/914-525-1382.

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