“Magazines, diet books and celebrities have brain washed women into believing that they aren’t good enough until they attain a certain size or body weight,” says Sandra Bueckert, fitness expert and event coordinator. “Sadly, many women succumb to the pressure. We spend our time obsessing about food, the scale and our weight.”
A 2008 Self magazine survey suggests that 6 in 10 women suffer from disordered eating. No wonder. Estimated at over 50 billion per year, the weight loss industry needs the consumer to continually lose and regain their weight. Consumers drift from diet plan to diet plan unaware of the long term impact. For example, low cal diets impact the metabolism. The metabolism slows down in order to conserve energy which makes weight management difficult. When normal eating resumes, women simply aren’t burning as many calories. Surplus calories become surplus pounds.
The W.O.M.A.N. Conference is an initiative to encourage, educate and inspire women to consciously look at their thinking, eating and exercises habits. The 2009 W.O.M.A.N. conference is a day long event that presents her message along with a dynamic and engaging group of speakers such as life coach Jamie Andersen, psychologist Candace Curry and health and fitness specialist Colleen Parsons.
Slated to host 200 attendees, the event will be held on Saturday June 6, 2009 at the South Calgary Community Association.
For more information, please contact: Sandra Bueckert C/0 one on one Personal Fitness Instruction Inc 403 244-9059 or via email at oneononefitness@shaw.ca
Speakers
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Sandra Bueckert: Reformed fatty, wife, mother, AFLCA resistance leader, award winning bodybuilder, CTV Fitness expert, Dipl. Business Administration, Founder – One On One Personal Fitness Instruction Inc. |
It’s difficult to believe that trainer and award-winning body builder, Sandra Bueckert was once overweight. Putting her kids and husband first, she’d half-heartedly tried for years to drop the weight. As a well known trainer, the comments behind her back, was that she was fat and finished. She knew she had a decision to make. She could go into the abyss of obesity and not care any more or dig deep and reclaim herself. Sandra can rattle off many of the healthy reasons for losing weight. What was her true motivation? Revenge. She knows what it’s like to be written off and not taken seriously by friends and family. Her client’s connect with her because she understands. You’ve seen Sandra on the X weighted series, attended her fit 40+ sessions or you might recognize her from a number of local media articles. As creator of the W.O.M.A.N. Conference, Sandra has spent over 20 years in the trenches working with women as a fitness trainer. She has witnessed the damage that the preoccupation with weight has had on women and young girls. She decided to fight back. The W.O.M.A.N. Conference is her initiative to encourage, educate, motivate and inspire women to consciously look at their thinking, eating, and exercises habits. |
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Candace Curry: is a registered
psychologist
in private practice in Calgary for 16 years.
She works in the areas of depression,
anxiety, relationship issues, and self-
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She is a mom of two adult children
and grandma to three fabulous grandchick
lets. She runs, reads, walks her large dog
Barley, loves the Habs and hockey, and
enjoys time spent with friends and family. |
You Are What You Think: What Are You Feeding Your Brain?
The core beliefs that we hold about ourselves and the world create how we feel and how we behave. In this session you will discover how identifying your unhelpful beliefs can sustain unhappiness in areas such as weight/body image, relationships, communication, and goal achievement. We will experiment with some strategies for changing and managing unhelpful beliefs. |
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Jamie Anderson: B.Com., ACC, is a Business and Personal Coach. She works with both individuals in transition and business owners and leaders. She is dedicated and highly motivated to facilitate personal growth and business development, |
focusing on assisting the client to discover potential, purpose, and passion, and get into action with them. Jamie's passion is to help people and businesses to get from where they are to where they want to be on their own terms and transformation by design.
Embracing Your Authenticity and Passion
The message we receive in our society is that we need to have what other people have (people perceived as successful), and that by doing (emulating) what they have done and having what they have, we will finally be happy. An example of this in action is our common desire to achieve the buff image of Hollywood celebrities and media personalities who are marketed as the standard of beauty to attain. As often is the case, if and when we actually achieve the goal, we realize that it does nothing for our happiness because we have not dealt with who we really are.
When we focus on who we are (awareness) and become who we are authentically, then we naturally do the things that bring us true happiness. We then come from a place of authenticity and passion and do what is right for us as individuals. Come away from this session with a new perspective of yourself and on success, as defined by you for yourself. |
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Colleen Parsons holds a M.Sc. in Health and Exercise Psychology, a B.Sc. Physical Education and a B.Sc. in Foods and Nutrition. She is presently the Director of the Health and Fitness Programs area of the Faculty of Kinesiology.
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| Colleen has had the opportunity to present nutritional information to a variety of groups but favours sport nutrition. To her credit she has presented information to Calgary Police Services, various marathon, triathlon, and swimming groups; University of Calgary Kinesiology undergraduate and graduate courses, Continuing Education, and a variety of U of C Campus Recreation non-credit courses. She also works individually with clients to assist them in developing healthy nutritional practices. |
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We are metabolic machines that require caloric energy and nutrients to stimulate growth, development, recovery from exercise, weight loss, gain, and maintenance. Metabolism is often thought to be the enemy, where, in fact, it is the ally. What is this metabolic engine and how can we maximize its potential? How can we stop fighting it and get it on board to get us where we want to go? This session will challenge you to think outside of the "caloric restriction box" and to gain some insight into turning your metabolic engine into a turbo-charged high performer. |
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